King's Cup

King's Cup
ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ

Organising body	FA Thailand
Founded	1968; 54 years ago (1968)
Region	International
Number of teams	4
Current champions	Curaçao (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Thailand (15 titles)

The King's Cup is an international football tournament organised in Thailand 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 and 2020. 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 Škrteľ, Milan Škriniar, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as well as notably, the Brazil national team in 1999 which included 2002 World Cup winners Ronaldinho, Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Rivaldo.^[1]

Venues[]

Tournaments[]

Year	Final			Third place match
	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 ()	South Korea	1–0	Thailand	South Vietnam	Unknown	Indonesia
Year	Final			Third place shared
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1979 ()	Thailand	1–0	South Korea B	Thailand B	2–2	Singapore
Year	Final (Trophy shared)			Third place shared
	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1980 ()	Thailand	0–0	South Korea Army	China PR	2–2	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1981 ()	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	North Korean Army	Polonia Warszawa	2–0	August 1
1982 (Details)	Thailand	0–0 (4–2 p)	South Korea	Thailand B	Unknown	Singapore
1983	Not held
1984 ()	Thailand	3–0	Indonesia	Western Australia	1–0	Liverpool Amateur
1985	Not held
1986 ()	North Korea	2–1	AGF Aarhus	Thailand	1–0	August 1
1987 ()	North Korea	1–0	POSCO Atoms	Thailand	3–2	Indonesia
1988 ()	Denmark Olympics	1–0	FC Swarovski Tirol	Thailand	4–2	USSR XI
1989 ()	Thailand	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Lucky-Goldstar FC	2–1	China PR
1990 ()	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	SC Rotor Volgograd	Yukong Elephants	5–4 (p)	Shanghai
1991 ()	China PR Olympics	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Thailand	5–4 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1992 ()	Thailand	2–0	FC Berlin	Thailand B	1–0	Tianjin
1993 ()	China PR	4–0	Thailand	South Korea Semi-professional XI	6–5 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1994 ()	Thailand B	4–0	Westfalia Amateurs	SC Rotor Volgograd	5–3 (p)	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place shared
	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1995 ()	SC Rotor Volgograd	3–0	Japan XI	Thailand	No playoffs	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1996 ()	Romania	2–1	Denmark	Thailand	5–2	Finland
1997 ()	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	2–0	Thailand	Japan XI	3–1	Romania
1998 ()	South Korea	6–5 (p)	Egypt	Denmark B	3–0	Thailand
1999 ()	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 PR	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[2]	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
	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
	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 League	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	Not held
2021	Not held
2022 ()

Teams' achievements[]

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

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

The map shows countries who have participated in King's Cup.

Medals by nations (1968–2019)[]

Update after 2019 King's Cup (47th).

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand (THA)	15	11	20	46
2	South Korea (KOR)	11	3	6	20
3	Malaysia (MAS)	4	1	2	7
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	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
12	Curaçao (CUR)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
15	Finland (FIN)	0	2	0	2
	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	0	2
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	2	0	2
19	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
20	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
22	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Iraq (IRQ)	0	1	0	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	0	1
27	India (IND)	0	0	2	2
	South Vietnam (VSO)	0	0	2	2
29	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
	Lebanon (LIB)	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 (38 nations)		50	44	52	146

• 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.

See also[]

• Thai football records and statistics
• LG Cup
• Dynasty Cup

Notes[]

External links[]

• King's Cup results RSSSF