Khon Kaen F.C.
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Khon Kaen Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลจังหวัดขอนแก่น) is a Thailand professional football club, based in Khon Kaen province, a city located in the heart of the North Eastern Region of Thailand. The club currently plays in Thai League 3. In 2011, they achieved promotion from Thai Division 1 League to the Thai League 1 for the first time in their history, by finishing runners-up in the Thai Division 1 League.
Khonkaen play their home games at the Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organization Stadium. They traditionally play in black and yellow, and their nickname is commonly known as The T-Rexs which came from the famous rich dinosaur fossil excavations of the province.
History
Khon Kaen Football Club was publicly formed on 21 June 2007, before that time the club played in the Provincial League which largely consist of regional football clubs, nonetheless, the league was not recognized by the Football Association of Thailand.[1]
In 2007 the league was merged into Thai Premier League and Thai Division 1 League and the club was registered to be professional football club in this year and was allocated into Thai Division 1 League Group A, the club was close to promotion by finishing at the fourth place that season.
In the 2008 season, Khon Kaen was not performing as well as the previous season as they could only finish the season in 8th place, nevertheless, the club proved themselves, being one of the favourites for promotion in the 2009 season, however, they lost the promotion spot to Sisaket in the last week of the season.
In 2010, the club was finally promoted to the Thai Premier League after finishing runners-up in the league table which was the first time for the club to participate in the top flight of Thai football.
However, their brief TPL tenure ended disappointingly as they finished bottom of the table. Any thoughts of yo-yoing straight back never emerged in 2012 with the T-Rex finishing in the bottom half of the first division.
In 2014, the Club got 17th of 2014 and relegated to 2015 Thai Division 2 League North Eastern Region into North-Eastern zone.[2][3]
In 2022, Khon Kaen competed in the Thai League 3 for the 2022–23 season. It is their 17th season in the professional league. The club started the season with a 3–0 away win over Nakhon Ratchasima United[4] and they ended the season with a 1–0 home win over Nakhon Ratchasima United.[5] The club has finished 4th place in the league of the Northeastern region. In addition, in the 2022–23 Thai FA Cup Khon Kaen was defeated 2–3 by Phrae United in the third round, causing them to be eliminated[6] and in the 2022–23 Thai League Cup Khon Kaen was defeated 0–1 by Khon Kaen Mordindang in the second qualification round, causing them to be eliminated too.[7]
Stadium and locations
| Coordinates | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Year |
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| Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Khonkaen | Khon Kaen Province Stadium
(Khon Kaen PAO. Stadium) |
10,000 | 2007–2015 |
| Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Khon Kaen | 50th Anniversary Stadium of Khon Kaen University | 8,000 | 2016 |
| Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | Khonkaen | Khon Kaen Province Stadium
(Khon Kaen PAO. Stadium) |
10,000 | 2017 |
Season by season record
| Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | T3 Cup | Top goalscorer | |||||||||
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| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||
| 2006 | Pro League | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 35 | 11th | Opted out | ||||||
| 2007 | DIV1 A | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 25 | 25 | 29 | 4th | Opted out | ||||
| 2008 | DIV1 | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 32 | 34 | 41 | 8th | Opted out | Template:Flagicon Issarapong Lilakorn | 11 | ||
| 2009 | DIV1 | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 49 | 36 | 55 | 4th | R4 | Template:Flagicon Sarawut Vichien | 12 | ||
| 2010 | DIV1 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 6 | 51 | 35 | 54 | 2nd | R3 | R2 | Template:Flagicon Surachat Singnhon | 10 | |
| 2011 | TPL | 34 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 33 | 68 | 27 | 18th | R3 | R3 | Template:Flagicon Khampheng Sayavutthi | 4 | |
| 2012 | DIV1 | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 35 | 49 | 42 | 11th | R3 | R2 | Template:Flagicon Matías Recio | 7 | |
| 2013 | DIV1 | 34 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 40 | 54 | 36 | 16th | R3 | R3 | Template:Flagicon Matías Recio | 20 | |
| 2014 | DIV1 | 34 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 23 | 45 | 28 | 17th | R3 | R1 | Template:Flagicon Junki Yokono | 8 | |
| 2015 | DIV 2 Northeast | 34 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 54 | 26 | 61 | 6th | R2 | QR1 | |||
| 2016 | DIV 2 Northeast | 26 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 40 | 26 | 44 | 4th | R1 | R2 | Template:Flagicon Thanapol Srithong | 10 | |
| 2017 | T3 Upper | 26 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 53 | 18 | 59 | 1st | R2 | QR1 | Template:Flagicon Thotsaphon Yotchan, Template:Flagicon Darko Tasevski |
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| 2018 | T2 | 28 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 52 | 30 | 49 | 4th | QF | R1 | Template:Flagicon Marc Landry Babo | 16 | |
| 2019 | T2 | 34 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 40 | 48 | 49 | 8th | R1 | R2 | Template:Flagicon Seiya Sugishita | 12 | |
| 2020–21 | T2 | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 34 | 38 | 41 | 10th | R1 | Opted out | Template:Flagicon Seiya Sugishita | 12 | |
| 2021–22 | T2 | 34 | 5 | 9 | 20 | 32 | 60 | 24 | 17th | R1 | QRP | Template:Flagicon Chakrit Rawanprakone | 7 | |
| 2022–23 | T3 Northeast | 24 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 36 | 21 | 41 | 4th | R3 | QR2 | Template:Flagicon Judivan | 12 | |
| 2023–24 | T3 Northeast | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 29 | 19 | 43 | 5th | QR | QR1 | QR2 | Template:Flagicon Alberto Moreira Gouvea | 8 |
| 2024–25 | T3 Northeast | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 40 | 2nd | R3 | QR2 | QF | Template:Flagicon | |
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
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Players
First Team squad
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Coaching staff
| Position | Name |
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| Head coach | Template:Flagicon Apisak Asayut |
| Assistant head coach | Template:Flagicon Pattanapong Sripramoj Template:Flagicon Nirut Surasieng Template:Flagicon Chakkrit Boonkham |
| Goalkeeper coach | Template:Flagicon Sthiti Phaengma |
| Fitness coach | Template:Flagicon Wattana Nuttat |
| Physiotherapist | Template:Flagicon Dr. Acira Hiruntrakul |
| Physiotherapist | Template:Flagicon Sittisak Sriwijarn |
| Team Officer | Template:Flagicon Veerasil Wongveerachai Template:Flagicon Noppadol Intako Template:Flagicon Kraisorn Supsin Template:Flagicon Nuengruthai Praikhet |
Honours
Domestic leagues
- Thai League 3
- Runners-up (1): 2017
- Thai League 3 Upper Region
- Champions (1): 2017
- Thai Division 1 League
- Runners-up (1): 2010
Affiliated clubs
References
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