Hallelujah FC - Queen's Cup Champions

Hallelujah Football Club won the 2009 edition of the Queen's Cup defeating BEC Tero Sasana 1-0 in the final, played in Vhonburi Province.

It is the first victory in the competition for the Korean outfit. BEC still haven't won the competition.

Halleljah entered the competition in the final stages, whereas BEC started right from the beginning, and with games being played every other day, they might just have run out of steam.

Congratulations to Hallelujah in winning the Queen's Cup, which previously was last seen in 2006. After a 3 year wait it's good to see it back, even if a Thai team couldn't lift the trophy!

Farewell KTB

KTB played their last competitive game today before bowing out of the Queen's Cup.

They were defeated by Hanyang Uni 2-1, played in Chonburi in the Final Group Phase.

Chonburi won the group defeating BEC 4-1 in the final match

BEC mak the semi-finals as runners up.

Tomorrow in Group B, Samut Songkhram play Royal Thai Army and Hallelujah play Pattaya Utd.

Pattaya made a great start in the 1st round of this competition, but at this stage they have drawn both games so far 0-0. All to play for in tomorrows final games

Bangkok Uni Name Change

Bangkok University have now officially changed their name to Bangkok United for the forthcoming season.

And the Queen's Cup Results for today:


BEC Tero Sasana 3–2 Hanyang University
Krung Thai Bank 1–1 Chonburi

For the full results and tables visit the Wiki page as created by myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Queen%27s_Cup

Queen's Cup - Group B

Group B - Matchday One Results


Hallelujah 1 – 1 Samut Songkhram
Pattaya United 0 – 0 Royal Thai Army

Queen's Cup - Group A Results

Today's Matchday One Results

Chonburi 2–1 Hanyang University
Krung Thai Bank 1–1 BEC Tero Sasana

Queen's Cup - Final Groups Draw

Two groups of four teams make up the final stages.

Top two qualify for semi-final stage

Group A:

Chonburi
BEC Tero Sasana
Krung Thai Bank
Hanyang

Group B:

Pattaya Utd
Samut Songkhram
Royal Thai Army
Hallelujah

Queen's Cup - Knockout Results

Results taken from the site http://thaileague.spaces.live.com/


Pattaya United 5-1 Air Force
Faifa Ayuttaya 2-3 Krung Thai
Samut Songkram 2-1 Suphanburi
Osotsapa (5) 1-1 (6) BEC Tero
Army 1-0 Sri Racha

Queen's Cup - My Observation

Why aren't all clubs invited to play in the Queen's Cup.

We have, probably one of the strongest teams next year, Muang United, not even show up.

They would rather play friendlies. This surely doesn't send out a good sign to the season opener. It's a nothing tournement really, if teams don't even enter.

We then have BG FC Sport, who are teaming up with Raj Vithi, what is this all about? Why can't they both field teams? The same goes for Haaka and Sriracha who are playing as one team. Can they not field teams themselves?

Krung Thai Bank, who have sold there TPL spot, are running well, but after the competition, where do they go? Surely all there players doing well at this moment will just take off and go elsewhere, but where? BG FC Sport maybe??

And then we have the final standings in the Groups.

Now i regulary update Wikipedia to show results and standings, and using a bit of math, you cna generally work out the final standings, but according to the official FAT site, some clubs who came 2nd did not make the knockout phase, yet clubs who came 3rd in the very same group did!!

A bit confusing. I'm not even sure that some games in the knockout phase should be happening.

For example, i think i made a bit of a mistake on Wiki with regards to winners and runners up spots being decided on goal difference and head to head. I was going to alter it, but it seems FAT have looked at my editing and decided that the standings i made will do! Never mind, i'll go along with dictating things for them.

All seems a bit amaturish really.

Queen's Cup - More Matchday 3 Results

Group D:
T.O.T 1–1 Suphanburi
Royal Thai Army 2–1 Bangkok University

Group E:
Raj Vithi-BG FC Sport 3–2 Nakhon Pathom
Haaka-Sriracha FC 2–1 Osotsapa M-150


Knockout Round Draw:

This is what i believe is the knockout round draw. But, as it's football Thailand style, it could well change.

Winners advance to the final stage with hosts Chonburi and two South Korean sides.

Pattaya United - Royal Thai Air Force
PEA - Krung Thai Bank
Samut Songkhram - Supanburi
Royal Thai Army - Haaka - Sriracha
Osotsapa - BEC Tero

Queen's Cup - Matchday 3 Results

Group A:
Thai Port 4 – 0 Raj Pracha
BEC Tero Sasana 0 – 0 Pattaya

Group B:
Chula Utd 3 – 4 Royal Thai Air Force
PEA 2 – 2 Rajnavy Rayong

Group C:
Tobacco 1 – 1 Royal Thai Police
Samut Songkhram 1 – 1 Krung Thai Bank

Full Results and Standings can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Queen%27s_Cup

Groups D and E play today

Queen's Cup - More Matchday 2 Results

Groups D and E

Group D:
Royal Thai Army 0–0 T.O.T
Bangkok University 0–0 Suphanburi

Group E:
Raj Vithi-BG FC Sport 1–6 Osotsapa M-150
Nakhon Pathom 0–2 Haaka-Sriracha FC

Final matchday for groups A to C tomorrow

2009 Queen's Cup - Matchday 2 Results

Groups A-C

Group A:
Pattaya United 2–1 Thai Port
Raj Pracha 0–5 BEC Tero Sasana

Group B:
Royal Thai Air Force 1–0 Rajnavy Rayong
Chula United 1–2 PEA

Group C:
Royal Thai Police 1–2 Krung Thai Bank
Tobacco Monopoly 1–2 Samut Songkhram

Groups D and E play tomorrow

Queen's Cup - Matchday One Results

Group A:
BEC Tero Sasana 0–0 Thai Port
Raj Pracha 0–5 Pattaya United

Group B:
Chula United 1–3 Rajnavy Rayong
Royal Thai Air Force 0–1 PEA

Group C:
Krung Thai Bank 3–2 Tobacco Monopoly
Royal Thai Police 0–2 Samut Songkhram

Group D:
Royal Thai Army 2 – 2 Suphanburi
T.O.T 0–0 Bangkok University

Group E:
Osotsapa M-150 1–0 Nakhon Pathom
Raj Vithi-BG FC Sport 2–1 Haaka-Sriracha FC

Queen's Cup - Opening Day Result

First result of the competition is in:

Group D:

Royal Thai Army 2 - 2 Suphanburi

The team finishing first and second in the group stages of the Queens Cup will play a knockout match on Sunday 8th February.
Winner Group A vs. Runner up Group B
Winner Group B vs. Runner up Group CWinner Group C vs. Runner up Group D
Winner Group D vs. Runner up Group E
Winner Group E vs. Runner up Group A

The winner will qualify for the final stage of the tournament held in Sirindhorn Stadium, Chonburi.

KTB to play in Queen's Cup

Although Krung Thai Bank have sold their TPL status to BG FC Sport, they will take part in the season opener Queen's Cup. This will be their last competitive football games.

Tournement opens tomorrow with Suphanburi hosting the Royal Thai Army.

Pattaya United start life against Raj Pracha.

All other opening round fixtures take part on 1st Feb:

Full Opening Fixtures:

Group A:

BEC - Thai Port
Raj Pracha - Pattaya United

Group B:

Chula - Rajnavy Rayong
Royal Thai Air Force - PEA

Group C:

KTB - Tobacco Monopoly
Royal Thai Police - Samut Songkhram

Group D:

Royal Thai Army - Suphanburi
T.O.T - Bangkok University

Group E:

Osotsapa M-150 - Nakhon Pathom
Raj Vithi - Haaka

Queens Cup Makes a Come Back

Queen's Cup is making a come back this year after a two year absence, thanks to the gossip going around the Thai Football forum.

Royal Thai Navy were the last winners of the tournement in 2006.

So the basics:

• 20 teams have been divided into 5 groups.
• All groups have a host team where the group games will be based around.
• Group winners enter the final phase
• Chonburi have a bye to the final phase
• First phase is played from 1st Feb - 8th Feb
• Final phase is played 13th Feb - 22nd Feb
• 3 foriegn sides will enter at the final phase

Group A: BEC, Port Authority, Raj Pracha, Pattaya United (Host)

Group B: Navy, Chula, Airforce, PEA (Host)

Group C: KTB, Tobacco Monopoly, Police, Samut Songkhram (Host)

Group D: TOT, Bangkok Uni, Army, Suphanburi (Host)

Group E: Ostsapa, Nakhon Pathom, Raj Vithi, Haaka (Host)

So a couple of questions after this draw:

What happens if PEA qualify for final phase and have clash with ACL?

Why have some clubs not bothered to enter? Is it just FAT selection, or do you have to register?

Who the hell are Haaka?

Why do we need foriegn sides to make the final phase at the expense of our Thai clubs? After all, clubs who will come over will more than likely be South Korean uni clubs

Other bits of gossip i've been picking up on the last few days are:

• PEA FC to change their name to Faifa-Ayutthaya (apparently already widely used amongest the Thais)
• Bangkok Bank to be bought out by Thai Gas