2016 Thai League T1

Ratchaburi Mitr Phol 6–0 Pattaya United
(22 May 2016)
Biggest away win	Pattaya 0–5 Sisaket; (28 May 2016)
Highest scoring	Muangthong 8–3 Super Power; (22 June 2016)
Longest winning run	14 matches; Muangthong United
Longest unbeaten run	20 matches; Bangkok United
Longest winless run	15 matches ; BBCU
Longest losing run	9 matches; BBCU
Highest attendance	32,600; Buriram 3–2 Chonburi; (15 April 2016)
Lowest attendance	289; Muangthong United 5–1 BBCU; (18 September 2016)
Total attendance	1,503,600
Average attendance	5,428
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The 2016

Thai League T1

(also known as the Toyota Thai League for sponsorship reasons) was the 20th season of the Thai League T1, the top Thai professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1996. A total of 18 teams competed in the league. The season started on 5 March 2016.

Buriram United are the defending champions, having won the Thai Premier League title the three consecutive seasons.

Following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the Football Association of Thailand cancelled the remaining league season on 14 October 2016, with three rounds remaining. Muangthong United were therefore crowned champions with BBCU, Chainat and Army United relegated.^[1]^[2]

The following day however (15 October), FAT appeared to do a U-turn and announced that further discussions with key stake holders would determine whether the league campaign would continue. These discussions were required as teams that were in the relegation places at the time of the original announcement were voicing their concerns.^[3]

On the 16 October, after a meeting of all top flight league clubs it was announced that the original decision to cancel the remaining games would stay in place, therefore crowning Muangthong United as champions for the 4th time.^[4]

Teams

Bangkok Glass
Bangkok United
BBCU
Muangthong United
Super Power Samut Prakan

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Locations of the 2016 Thai League teams

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Team	Province	Stadium	Capacity	Ref.
Army United	Bangkok	Thai Army Sports Stadium	20,000	^[6]
Bangkok Glass	Pathumthani	Leo Stadium	14,000	^[7]
Bangkok United	Pathumthani	Thammasat Stadium	25,000	^[8]
BBCU	Nonthaburi	Nonthaburi Youth Centre Stadium	6,000	^[9]
BEC Tero Sasana	Bangkok	72-years Anniversary Stadium	10,000	^[10]
Buriram United	Buriram	New I-Mobile Stadium	32,600	^[11]
Chainat Hornbill	Chainat	Khao Plong Stadium	12,000	^[12]
Chiangrai United	Chiangrai	United Stadium of Chiangrai	15,000	^[13]
Chonburi	Chonburi	Chonburi Stadium	8,500	^[14]
Muangthong United	Nonthaburi	SCG Stadium	15,000	^[15]
Nakhon Ratchasima	Nakhon Ratchasima	80th Birthday Stadium	28,000	^[16]
Navy	Chonburi	Sattahip Navy Stadium	12,500	^[17]
Pattaya United	Chonburi	Dolphins Stadium	5,000	^[18]
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	Ratchaburi	Mitr Phol Stadium	13,000	^[19]
Sisaket	Sisaket	Sri Nakhon Lamduan Stadium	10,000	^[20]
Sukhothai	Sukhothai	Thung Thalay Luang Stadium	8,000	^[21]
Super Power Samut Prakan	Samut Prakan	M-Power Stadium	4,100	^[22]
Suphanburi	Suphanburi	Suphanburi Municipality Stadium	25,000	^[23]

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main sponsor
Army United	Watcharakorn Antakhamphu	Chaiwat Nak-iem	Sakka Sport	Chang
Bangkok Glass	Aurelio Vidmar	Matt Smith	Nike	Leo Beer
Bangkok United	Alexandré Pölking	Wittaya Madlam	Ari Football	True
BBCU	Jatuporn Pramualban	Naruphon Putsorn	Ego Sports	3BB
BEC Tero Sasana	Surapong Kongthep	Apichet Puttan	FBT	FB Battery
Buriram United	Ranko Popović	Suchao Nutnum	Made by club	Chang
Chainat Hornbill	Worakorn Wichanarong	Pisan Dorkmaikaew	Warrix Sports	Wangkanai
Chiangrai United	Teerasak Po-on	Pichitphong Choeichiu	Made by club	Singha Park
Chonburi	Therdsak Chaiman	Chonlatit Jantakam	Nike	Chang
Muangthong United	Totchtawan Sripan	Teerasil Dangda	Grand Sport	SCG
Nakhon Ratchasima	Miloš Joksić	Chalermpong Kerdkaew	Grand Sport	Mazda
Navy	Stefano Cugurra	Nataporn Phanrit	Made by club	HR-Pro
Pattaya United	Kim Hak-chul	Tanasak Srisai	Tamudo	Nongnaka
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	Pacheta	Carlos	Ari Football	Mitr Phol
Sisaket	Masahiro Wada	Ekkapan Jandakorn	Made by club	Muang Thai
Sukhothai	Somchai Chuayboonchum	Yuttapong Srilakorn	Mawin	Chang
Super Power Samut Prakan	Pairoj Borwonwatanadilok	Jetsada Puanakunmee	Grand Sport	M-150
Suphanburi	Sérgio Farias	Rangsan Viwatchaichok	Warrix Sports	Chang

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Chonburi	Jadet Meelarp	End of Contract	14 December 2015	Pre-season	Therdsak Chaiman	21 December 2015^[24]
Super Power Samut Prakan	Kritsada Piandit				Somchai Subpherm	14 December 2015^[25]
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	Josep Ferré				Pacheta	5 January 2016^[26]
Sisaket	Chalermwoot Sa-Ngapol				Božidar Bandović	5 January 2016^[27]
Suphanburi	Worrawoot Srimaka	End of caretaker role			Sérgio Alexandre	6 January 2016^[28]
Muangthong United	Dragan Talajić	Sacked	19 January 2016		Totchtawan Sripan	20 January 2016^[29]
BEC Tero Sasana	Rangsan Viwatchaichok	End of caretaker role	27 January 2016		Branko Smiljanić	5 February 2016^[30]
Suphanburi	Sérgio Alexandre	Sacked	21 March 2016	4th	Ricardo Rodríguez	22 March 2016^[31]
BBCU	Koichi Sugiyama		25 April 2016	18th	Jatuporn Pramualban	23 May 2016^[32]
Chainat Hornbill	Issara Sritaro		25 April 2016	16th	Koichi Sugiyama	28 April 2016^[33]
Super Power Samut Prakan	Somchai Subpherm	Resigned	28 April 2016	16th	Pairoj Borwonwatanadilok	28 April 2016^[34]
BEC Tero Sasana	Branko Smiljanić	Sacked	11 May 2016	12th	Surapong Kongthep	12 May 2016^[35]
Nakhon Ratchasima	Sugao Kambe	Moved to technical director	12 May 2016	16th	Miloš Joksić	29 May 2016^[36]
Buriram United	Alexandre Gama	Sacked	22 May 2016	3rd	Afshin Ghotbi	24 May 2016^[37]
Pattaya United	Miloš Joksić	Signed by Nakhon Ratchasima	29 May 2016	12th	Kim Hak-chul	27 June 2016^[38]
Chainat Hornbill	Koichi Sugiyama	Resigned	20 June 2016	17th	Worakorn Wichanarong	20 June 2016^[39]
Bangkok Glass	Anurak Srikerd		23 June 2016	3rd	Aurelio Vidmar	1 August 2016^[40]
Suphanburi	Ricardo Rodríguez		28 June 2016	9th	Sérgio Farias	4 July 2016^[41]
Sisaket	Božidar Bandović	Sacked	12 August 2016	11th	Masahiro Wada	1 September 2016^[42]
Buriram United	Afshin Ghotbi	Sacked	20 August 2016	3rd	Ranko Popović	25 August 2016^[43]

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	AFC Player	Former Player
Army United	Frauches	Josimar	Kai Hirano	Zdenko Kaprálik	Hassan Sunny	Raphael Botti
Bangkok Glass	Ariel Rodríguez	Romain Gasmi	Kalifa Cissé	Toti	Matt Smith	Darko Tasevski Lazarus Kaimbi
Bangkok United	Gilberto Macena	Leandro Tatu	Mario Gjurovski	Dragan Boškovic	Jaycee John	Kalifa Cissé
BBCU	Dooh Moukoko	Diarra Ali	Julius Oiboh	Ma Sang-hoon	Woo Geun-jeong
BEC Tero Sasana	Łukasz Gikiewicz	Miloš Bosančić	Milan Bubalo	Sreten Sretenović	Takahiro Kawamura	Kim Jung-Woo
Buriram United	Diogo	Kaio	Bruno Moreira	Andrés Túñez	Go Seul-ki	Weslley
Chainat Hornbill	Reis	Sinama Pongolle	Kazuto Kushida	Jo Tae-Keun	Sho Shimoji	Wesley Alex
Chiangrai United	Wellington Bruno	Hironori Saruta	Kazuki Murakami	Lazarus Kaimbi	Mark Bridge	Danilo Cirino Dennis Murillo
Chonburi	Anderson	Leandro	Rodrigo Vergilio	Prince Amponsah	Kim Jong-pil
Muangthong United	Xisco	Célio Santos	Lee Ho		Naoaki Aoyama	Mario
Nakhon Ratchasima	Björn Lindemann	Dominic Adiyiah	Marco Tagbajumi	Noah Chivuta	Satoshi Nagano
Navy	Addison	André Luís	Aron da Silva	Anggello Machuca	Victor Igbonefo	Felipe Ferreira
Pattaya United	Antonio Pina	Júnior Negrão	Yoo Jae-ho	Fran González	Soony Saad	Yukiya Sugita
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	Germán Pacheco	Marvin Ogunjimi	Carlos	Yannick Djaló	Takuya Murayama	Heberty Łukasz Gikiewicz
Sisaket	Chico	Victor Amaro	Adefolarin Durosinmi	Bojan Dubajić	Anton Zemlianukhin	Lyuben Nikolov Norbert Csiki
Sukhothai	Alex Rafael	Renan Marques	Bireme Diouf	Jhon Baggio	Hiromichi Katano
Super Power Samut Prakan	Dennis Murillo	Jeferson	Anthony Komenan	Sydney Urikhob	Lee Hyun-woong	Aron da Silva Ahn Jae-hoon
Suphanburi	Dellatorre	Márcio Rosário	Darko Tasevski	Kim Seung-yong	Jung Hoon	Tinga Carmelo González

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Muangthong United (C, Q)	31	26	2	3	73	24	+49	80	2017 AFC Champions League group stage
2	Bangkok United (Q)	31	23	6	2	72	36	+36	75	2017 AFC Champions League preliminary round 2
3	Bangkok Glass	31	18	3	10	62	41	+21	57
4	Buriram United	30	15	10	5	55	38	+17	55
5	Chonburi	31	14	9	8	52	33	+19	51
6	Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	30	14	7	9	52	35	+17	49
7	Sukhothai (Q)	31	13	6	12	50	44	+6	45	2017 AFC Champions League preliminary round 2^[a]
8	Chiangrai United	31	13	6	12	42	43	−1	45
9	BEC Tero Sasana	30	12	5	13	42	52	−10	41
10	Suphanburi	31	10	8	13	33	35	−2	38
11	Nakhon Ratchasima	31	10	5	16	30	44	−14	35
12	Pattaya United	31	9	7	15	46	66	−20	34
13	Sisaket	31	8	9	14	41	52	−11	33
14	Navy	31	7	10	14	25	40	−15	31
15	Super Power Samut Prakan	31	8	7	16	45	71	−26	31
16	Army United (R)	31	8	6	17	34	46	−12	30	Relegation to the 2017 League Division 1
17	Chainat Hornbill (R)	31	8	6	17	46	61	−15	30
18	BBCU (R)	30	3	4	23	32	69	−37	13

2016 Thai League T1

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Name changes

Stadium changes

Personnel and sponsoring

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Results

League table

Positions by round

Result table

Season statistics

Top scorers

Top assists

Hat-tricks

Clean sheets

Awards

Monthly awards

Attendances

See also

References

Home \ Away	ARM	BKG	BKU	BBC	BEC	BRU	CHA	CRU	CHO	MTU	NAK	NAV	SPSP	PAT	RAT	SIS	SUK	SUP
Army United		0–0	3–4	2–0	2–3	1–2	2–4	1–0	0–2	0–1		2–0	2–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	1–1	0–1
Bangkok Glass	2–0		0–1	3–1	5–1	0–2		3–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	2–0	4–1		3–0	3–1	2–1	3–1
Bangkok United		4–2		1–0	3–0	3–5	3–2	2–0	1–1	3–3	2–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	2–1	6–1	4–2
BBCU	1–2		2–4			0–2	2–1	3–4	1–1	1–2	2–4	0–1	1–1	2–3	3–1	2–0	0–3	2–3
BEC Tero Sasana	1–2	1–4	2–3	1–0			2–1	1–2	1–3		2–1	1–0	4–1	1–2	0–4	2–1	1–0	2–0
Buriram United	0–1	2–1	0–0	4–0	3–3		0–0	2–1	3–2	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	4–2	0–1		5–2	2–2
Chainat Hornbill	1–1	2–3	1–2	3–1		4–4		2–1	1–4	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–3	1–3	2–2	1–0	3–2	1–1
Chiangrai United	2–1	1–3	0–3	2–2	4–2	0–0	1–0			0–3	1–2	2–1	2–0		1–0	3–1	2–0	1–0
Chonburi	1–1	2–1	0–1		1–0		7–2	2–1		0–3	1–1	4–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	4–2	2–2	1–2
Muangthong United		2–0	2–3	5–1	0–1	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–0		4–1	1–1	8–3	4–1	3–0	4–0	2–1	1–0
Nakhon Ratchasima	1–0	1–2	1–1		1–0	2–0	1–0	1–4	0–0	0–1		2–1		1–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	0–0
Navy	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	3–2	0–4	1–0			1–1	0–0	2–0		1–1
Super Power Samut Prakan	3–2	1–2	0–2	4–1	2–3	2–2	4–2	1–2	1–0		1–2	1–0		2–1	4–4	1–1	1–3	0–0
Pattaya United	2–2	2–1	1–2	3–2	2–2	1–3	2–4	3–3	0–2	1–2	4–1		2–0		1–1	0–5	2–4	3–1
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	3–1	4–3	0–1	2–0	2–0			1–1	0–0	3–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	6–0		4–0		2–1
Sisaket	2–0	3–3	2–4	0–0	0–2	2–2	2–1		1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	5–1	4–0	1–1		2–0
Sukhothai	1–0	0–1		4–1	2–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	0–1	1–0	2–2	5–2	1–0	2–0	1–1		1–0
Suphanburi	1–0	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	4–1	2–3	0–0		1–0	2–3

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Buriram United	248,760	32,600	8,857	15,547	−20.5%^†
2	Nakhon Ratchasima	173,041	32,159	5,543	11,536	−34.7%^†
3	Muangthong United	156,434	12,579	289	9,777	+6.6%^†
4	Suphanburi	143,693	17,512	4,232	8,980	−13.6%^†
5	Bangkok Glass	89,891	10,713	3,075	5,992	−12.5%^†
6	Sukhothai	91,232	7,950	4,012	5,702	+45.8%^†
7	Chiangrai United	81,171	15,550	1,761	5,411	−4.7%^†
8	Chonburi	75,319	8,463	3,155	5,021	−16.0%^†
9	Sisaket	72,261	11,200	2,216	4,817	−9.7%^†
10	Ratchaburi Mitr Phol	61,631	13,270	2,185	4,402	+8.0%^†
11	Bangkok United	49,818	11,666	1,121	3,321	+18.1%^†
12	Navy	46,185	5,319	2,228	3,079	−17.2%^†
13	Pattaya United	46,344	5,100	1,351	2,896	+24.1%^†
14	Chainat Hornbill	39,386	6,144	1,013	2,461	−48.0%^†
15	Super Power Samut Prakan	36,985	4,983	1,041	2,311	+11.8%^†
16	Army United	36,707	5,766	1,143	2,294	−12.6%^†
17	BEC Tero Sasana	29,335	3,461	1,087	1,955	−51.0%^†
18	BBCU	23,111	3,514	289	1,540	+61.3%^†
	League total	1,503,600	32,600	289	5,428	−13.8%^†