King's Cup (Thailand)

King's Cup
ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ
Organising body	FA Thailand
Founded	1968; 56 years ago
Region	International
Number of teams	4
Current champions	Iraq (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Thailand (15 titles)
	2024 King's Cup

The King's Cup is an international football tournament held in Thailand, organized by the Football Association of Thailand. The host, Thailand, is a participant in every edition. The tournament was founded in 1968, and has been held every year since, with the exception of 1983, 1985, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021. In some years, the competition has featured club or invitational teams as well as international sides. Various prominent footballers have participated in this tournament, including Cha Bum-kun, Sunil Chhetri, Peter Schmeichel, Jesper Olsen, Brian Laudrup, Henrik Larsson, Robert Lewandowski, Martin Škrtel, Milan Škriniar, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Venues[edit]

Stadium	Capacity	Location	Year(s)
Rajamangala National Stadium	49,722	Bang Kapi, Bangkok	2000, 2007, 2012, 2016–2018
Suphachalasai Stadium	19,793	Pathum Wan, Bangkok	2001–2004, 2006
Surakul Stadium	15,000	Mueang, Phuket	2005, 2009
80th Birthday Stadium	24,641	Mueang, Nakhon Ratchasima	2009, 2010, 2015
700th Anniversary Stadium	25,000	Mueang, Chiang Mai	2013, 2022–2023
Chang Arena	32,600	Mueang, Buriram	2019

Tournaments[edit]

Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1968 (Details)	Indonesia	1–0	Burma	Thailand	6–0	Malaysia
1969 (Details)	South Korea	1–0	Indonesia	South Vietnam	7–0	Laos
1970 (Details)	South Korea	1–0	Thailand	Malaysia	3–1	Indonesia
1971 (Details)	South Korea	1–0	Thailand	South Vietnam	3–2	Indonesia
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1972 (Details)	Malaysia	1–0	Thailand	South Korea	0–0	Singapore
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1973 (Details)	South Korea	2–1	Malaysia	Thailand	1–0	Burma
1974 (Details)	South Korea	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Thailand	Malaysia	3–0	Khmer Republic
1975 (Details)	South Korea	1–0	Burma	Thailand	No playoffs	Malaysia
Year	Final (Trophy shared)			Third place match
Year	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1976 (Details)	Thailand	1–1	Malaysia	South Korea	3–1	Thailand B
1977 (Details)	South Korea B	1–1	Malaysia	India	No playoffs	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1978 (Details)	Malaysia	3–2	Singapore	South Korea B	2–1	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1979 (Details)	Thailand	1–0	South Korea B	Thailand B	2–2	Singapore
Year	Final (Trophy shared)			Third place shared
Year	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1980 (Details)	Thailand	0–0	South Korea Army	China	2–2	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1981 (Details)	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	North Korean Army	Polonia Warszawa	2–0	August 1
1982 (Details)	Thailand	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	South Korea	Thailand B	3–2 (p)	Singapore
1983	Not held
1984 (Details)	Thailand	3–0	Indonesia	Western Australia	1–0	Liverpool Amateur
1985	Not held
1986 (Details)	North Korea	2–1	AGF Aarhus	Thailand	1–0	August 1
1987 (Details)	North Korea	1–0	POSCO Atoms	Thailand	3–2	Indonesia
1988 (Details)	Denmark Olympics	1–0	FC Swarovski Tirol	Thailand	4–2	USSR XI
1989 (Details)	Thailand	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Lucky-Goldstar FC	2–1	China
1990 (Details)	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	SC Rotor Volgograd	Yukong Elephants	5–4 (p)	Shanghai
1991 (Details)	China PR Olympics	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Thailand	5–4 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1992 (Details)	Thailand	2–0	FC Berlin	Thailand B	1–0	Tianjin
1993 (Details)	China	4–0	Thailand	South Korea Semi-professional XI	6–5 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1994 (Details)	Thailand B	4–0	Westfalia Amateurs	SC Rotor Volgograd	5–3 (p)	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1995 (Details)	SC Rotor Volgograd	3–0	Japan XI	Thailand	No playoffs	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1996 (Details)	Romania	2–1	Denmark	Thailand	5–2	Finland
1997 (Details)	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	2–0	Thailand	Japan XI	3–1	Romania
1998 (Details)	South Korea	6–5 (p)	Egypt	Denmark B	3–0	Thailand
1999 (Details)	Brazil U-20	7–1	North Korea	Thailand	3–1	Hungarian League XI
2000 (Details)	Thailand	5–1	Finland	Brazil U-17	1–0	Estonia
2001 (Details)	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	3–0	China	Thailand	2–0	Qatar
2002 (Details)	North Korea	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Thailand	Qatar	2–0	Singapore
2003 (Details)	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	4–0	North Korea	Thailand	3–1	Qatar
2004 (Details)	Slovakia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Thailand	Hungary	5–0	Estonia
2005 (Details)	Latvia	2–1	North Korea	Thailand	No playoffs	Oman
2006 (Details)	Thailand	3–1	Vietnam	Kazakhstan	No playoffs	Singapore
2007 (Details)	Thailand	1–0	Iraq B^[1]	North Korea	No playoffs	Uzbekistan
2008	Not held
2009 (Details)	Denmark League XI	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p)	Thailand	Lebanon	1–0	North Korea
2010 (Details)	Denmark	No playoffs	Poland	Thailand	No playoffs	Singapore
2011	Not held
2012 (Details)	South Korea U-23	No playoffs	Denmark League XI	Norway	No playoffs	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
2013 (Details)	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	3–0	Finland (Scandinavian leagues)	Thailand	2–2	North Korea
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
2014	Not held
2015 (Details)	South Korea U-23	No playoffs	Thailand	Uzbekistan U-23	No playoffs	Honduras U-20
2016 (Details)	Thailand	2–0	Jordan	Syria	1–0	UAE
2017 (Details)	Thailand	0–0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Belarus B	Burkina Faso	3–3 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p)	North Korea
2018 (Details)	Slovakia	3–2	Thailand	Gabon	1–0	United Arab Emirates
2019 (Details)	Curaçao	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5−4 p)	Vietnam	India	1–0	Thailand
2020–2021	Not held
2022 (Details)	Tajikistan	0–0 (3−0 p)	Malaysia	Thailand	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago
2023 (Details)	Iraq	2–2 (5−4 p)	Thailand	Lebanon	1–0	India
2024 (Details)

Teams' achievements[edit]

	Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
1	Thailand	*14 (1976^, 1979, 1980^, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017)*	12 (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2023)	16 (1968, 1973, 1975, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995^, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013^, 2022)	6 (1977, 1978, 1994, 1998, 2012, 2019)
2	South Korea	7 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1998)	1 (1982)	2 (1972^**, 1976)
3	Malaysia	*4 (1972, 1976^, 1977^, 1978)*	2 (1973, 2022)	2 (1970, 1974)	2 (1968, 1975)
4	Sweden¹	4 (1997, 2001, 2003, 2013)
5	North Korea	3 (1986, 1987, 2002)	3 (1999, 2003, 2005)	2 (2007, 2013^**)	2 (2012, 2017)
6	South Korea U-23	2 (2012, 2015)
7	Slovakia	2 (2004, 2018)
8	FC Rotor Volgograd	1 (1995)	3 (1989, 1990, 1991)	1 (1994)
9	Indonesia	1 (1968)	2 (1969, 1984)		3 (1970, 1971, 1987)
10	China	1 (1993)	1 (2001)	1 (1980^**)	1 (1989)
11	South Korea B	*1 (1977^)**	1 (1979)	1 (1978)
12	Denmark	1 (2010)	1 (1996)	1 (1998) B
13	Denmark League XI	1 (2009)	1 (2012)
14	Thailand B	1 (1994)		5 (1979^, 1980^, 1982, 1992, 1995^**)	1 (1976)
15	Romania	1 (1996)			1 (1997)
16	South Korea Army	1 (1980)
17	Denmark Olympics	1 (1988)
18	China PR Olympics	1 (1991)
19	Brazil U-20	1 (1999)
20	Latvia	1 (2005)
21	Curaçao	1 (2019)
22	Tajikistan	1 (2022)
23	Iraq	1 (2023)
	Burma		2 (1968, 1975)		1 (1973)
	Finland¹		2 (2000, 2013)		1 (1996)
	Vietnam		2 (2006, 2019)
	Singapore		1 (1978)	2 (1972^, 1979^)	3 (1982, 2002, 2010)
	Japan XI		1 (1995)	1 (1997)
	North Korean Army		1 (1981)
	AGF Aarhus		1 (1986)
	POSCO Atoms		1 (1987)
	FC Swarovski Tirol		1 (1988)
	FC Berlin		1 (1992)
	Westfalia Amateurs		1 (1994)
	Egypt		1 (1998)
	Iraq B		1 (2007)
	Poland		1 (2010)
	Jordan		1 (2016)
	Belarus League		1 (2017)
	India			2 (1977, 2019)	1 (2023)
	South Vietnam			2 (1969, 1971)
	Lebanon			2 (2009, 2023)
	Qatar			1 (2002)	2 (2001, 2003)
	Polonia Warszawa			1 (1981)
	Western Australia			1 (1984)
	Lucky-Goldstar FC			1 (1989)
	Yukong Elephants			1 (1990)
	South Korea Semi-professional XI			1 (1993)
	Brazil U-17			1 (2000)
	Hungary			1 (2004)
	Kazakhstan			1 (2006)
	Norway			1 (2012)
	Uzbekistan Olympics			1 (2015)
	Syria B			1 (2016)
	Burkina Faso			1 (2017)
	Gabon			1 (2018)
	August 1				2 (1981, 1986)
	Thailand Olympics				2 (1991, 1993)
	Estonia				2 (2000, 2004)
	United Arab Emirates				2 (2016, 2018)
	Laos				1 (1969)
	Khmer Republic				1 (1974)
	Liverpool Amateur				1 (1984)
	USSR XI				1 (1988)
	Shanghai				1 (1990)
	Tianjin				1 (1992)
	Hungarian League XI				1 (1999)
	Oman				1 (2005)
	Uzbekistan				1 (2007)
	Honduras U-20				1 (2015)
	Trinidad and Tobago				1 (2022)

*/** Trophy shared or place shared
¹ Sweden and Finland represented players from Scandinavian leagues only

Medals by nations (1968–2023)[edit]

Update after 2023 King's Cup (49th).


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand (THA)	15	12	21	48
2	South Korea (KOR)	11	3	6	20
3	Malaysia (MAS)	4	2	2	8
4	Sweden (SWE)	4	0	0	4
5	North Korea (PRK)	3	4	2	9
6	Denmark (DEN)	3	3	1	7
7	China (CHN)	2	1	1	4
8	Slovakia (SVK)	2	0	0	2
9	Russia (RUS)	1	3	1	5
10	Indonesia (INA)	1	2	0	3
11	Iraq (IRQ)	1	1	0	2
12	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
13	Curaçao (CUR)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
17	Finland (FIN)	0	2	0	2
	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	0	2
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	2	0	2
21	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
22	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
22	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
24	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	0	1
28	India (IND)	0	0	2	2
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	2	2
	South Vietnam (VSO)	0	0	2	2
31	Australia (AUS)	0	0	1	1
	Burkina Faso (BUR)	0	0	1	1
	Gabon (GAB)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	0	1	1
	Syria (SYR)	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (39 entries)		52	46	54	152

Note 1: Gold shared in 1976, 1977 and 1980 and not awarded silver in this years.
Note 2: Third place shared in 1972, 1979, 1980, 1995 and 2013.

Participated nations[edit]

Team Appearances[edit]

The team that make debut is showing in Bold

Year	Team Appearances
Year	Teams	No.	De.	Cum.
1968	Burma, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand	6	6	6
1969	Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand, Western Australia	8	3	9
1970	Hong Kong, Indonesia, Khmer Republic, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand	9	2	11
1971	Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand	5	0	11
1972	Indonesia B, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand	5	1	12
1973	Burma, Khmer Republic, Malaysia, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand	6	0	12
1974	PSM Makassar^[1], Khmer Republic, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, South Vietnam, Thailand	8	1	13
1975	Burma, Timnas Indonesia Wilayah II^[2], Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand	6	1	14
1976	Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Thailand B	6	2	16
1977	India, Persipura Jayapura^[3], Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea B, Thailand	6	3	19
1978	Persib Bandung^[4], Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea XI, Thailand A, Thailand B	6	3	22
1979	Shandong Taishan, Indonesia XI, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea B, Sri Lanka, Thailand A, Thailand B	8	3	25
1980	Brunei, China B^[5], Indonesia XI, Malaysia B, Singapore, South Korean Military, Västerås SK, Thailand A, Thailand B, Western Australia	10	5	30
1981	Wollongong Wolves, August 1st, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea Army, Pakistan, Polonia Warszawa, Singapore, South Korean Military, Thailand, Thailand B	12	5	35
1982	Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, NIAC Mitra^[6], Malaysia All-Stars^[7], Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Thailand B	9	5	40
1983	Not held
1984	August 1st, Liverpool Amateur, Indonesia Youth^[8], Sri Pahang, Philippines U-23, Singapore B, Kookmin Bank, Thailand A, Thailand B, Western Australia	10	5	45
1985	Not held
1986	August 1st, AGF Aarhus, Indonesia, North Korea, Singapore, South Korea U-23, Thailand, Thailand B	8	3	48
1987	Hubei, Galatama XI, Oman, North Korea, POSCO Atoms, Thailand, Thailand Youth, USSR XI	8	6	54
1988	FCS Innsbruck, Liaoning, Denmark Olympics, Indonesia, Malaysia, Oman, Daewoo Royals, Thailand, Thailand B, USSR XI	10	4	58
1989	China B, Denmark U-21, Indonesia, Malaysia, North Korea, Lucky-Goldstar, Grenchen, Thailand, Thailand B, SC Rotor Volgograd	10	4	62
1990	Shanghai Shenhua, Indonesia, Kenya, New Zealand, Pyongyang, Yukong Elephants, Thailand, SC Rotor Volgograd	8	5	67
1991	China Olympic, Dynamo Dresden (withdrew), Malaysia Olympic, North Korea, Lucky-Goldstar, Thailand, Thailand Olympic, SC Rotor Volgograd	7	3	70
1992	Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, FC Berlin, Thailand, Thailand B	4	1	71
1993	China, Indonesia B, Malaysia B, Wisla Kraków, SC Rotor Volgograd, South Korea B, Thailand A, Thailand Olympic^[9]	8	2	73
1994	China, Westfalia Amateurs, Japan Olympic, Malaysia Olympic, SC Rotor Volgograd, Industrial Bank, Thailand A, Thailand B	8	3	76
1995	China, Japan XI, Malaysia, SC Rotor Volgograd, South Korea XI, Thailand A, Thailand B	7	1	77
1996	Denmark, Finland, Romania, Thailand	4	3	80
1997	Japan, Romania, Scandinavian leagues, Thailand	4	2	82
1998	Denmark B, Egypt, South Korea, Thailand	4	2	84
1999	Brazil U-20, Hungarian League XI, North Korea, Thailand	4	2	86
2000	Brazil U-20^[10], Estonia, Finland, Thailand	4	1	87
2001	China, Qatar, Sweden, Thailand	4	2	89
2002	North Korea, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand	4	0	89
2003	North Korea, Qatar, Sweden, Thailand	4	0	89
2004	Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Thailand	4	2	91
2005	Latvia, Oman, North Korea, Thailand	4	1	92
2006	Kazakhstan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam	4	2	94
2007	Iraq B, North Korea, Thailand, Uzbekistan	4	2	96
2008	Not held
2009	Denmark, Lebanon, North Korea, Thailand	4	1	97
2010	Denmark League XI, Poland, Singapore, Thailand	4	2	99
2011	Not held
2012	Denmark League XI, Norway, South Korea U-23, Thailand	4	1	100
2013	Scandinavian leagues, Scandinavian leagues, North Korea, Thailand	4	1	101
2014	Not held
2015	Honduras U-20, South Korea U-23, Thailand, Uzbekistan U-23	4	2	103
2016	Jordan, Syria, Thailand, United Arab Emirates	4	3	106
2017	Belarus B, Burkina Faso, North Korea, Thailand	4	2	108
2018	Gabon, Slovakia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates	4	1	109
2019	Curaçao, India, Thailand, Vietnam	4	1	110
2020	Not held
2021	Not held
2022	Malaysia, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago	4	2	112
2023	Iraq, India, Lebanon, Thailand	4	1	113

1.^ Representatives of the Football Association of Indonesia.

2.^ Indonesian team mainly composed of players from Persib and Persija were the official representatives of the Football Association of Indonesia.

3.^ the Chinese team was the Guangdong provincial team, competing under the name "China B".

4.^ According to Thai sources Malaysia's team was reported as Kelantan.

5.^ Also listed as Thailand B

6.^ Brazil play Thailand with their full team, the other matches with the U-20 team.

7.^ the Iraqi team was Erbil SC team, competing under the name "Iraq B".

Notes[edit]

^ Arbil FC played as Iraq's B-Team

External links[edit]

King's Cup results RSSSF

[1] Arbil FC played as Iraq's B-Team

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