2007 Bhutan A-Division

A-Division (Bhutan)
Season2007
ChampionsTransport United
AFC President's CupTransport United
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The 2007 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the thirteenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Transport United, their fourth title in a row and only the second time a team had achieved such a feat since Druk Pol won their fourth title in a row in 1999.[1]

League table

Teams played each other on a home and away basis, with the bottom two teams qualifying for a relegation playoff against the top two teams from the B-Division.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Transport United (C) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualified for 2008 AFC President's Cup[2]
2 Druk Pol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Druk Stars 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Yeedzin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Royal Bhutan Army 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Choden 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 RIHS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Qualified for relegation playoffs
8 Rigzung 14 1 0 13 0 0 0 3
Updated to match(es) played on 11 July 2008. Source: [3]
Note:League table for 2007 is extremely fragmentary. Only the final positions and results for RIHS FC are known.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

Notable results

The league table for the season is incomplete and only a handful of results are known. However, there are a number of results which are notable due to their high scores, both involving very heavy defeats for the Royal Institute of Health and Sciences team:

Yeedzin15-0RIHS
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Note: RIHS only fielded 9 players.

RIHS0-20Transport United
Source[dead link‍] Tshering x17 (seventeen goals)
Dorji
Dorji
Dhendup

In the game between Transport United and RIHS FC, Passang Tshering scored seventeen goals. Sources indicate that the most goals scored by a single player in a game is 16, scored by Panagiotis Pontikos of Olympos Xylofagou against SEK Ayios Athanasios in May 2007 and by Stephane Stanis for RC Strasbourg in the 1940s.[4] It would appear therefore, that Pontikos, having equalled a record that had stood for over 60 years, saw it broken only a few days later.

Relegation playoffs

The top two teams from the B-Division and the bottom two from the A-Division competed in a round robin group to determine the remaining two spots for the 2008 A-Division.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Veterans (P) 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 promoted to 2008 A-Division
2 Rigzung 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 6 remained in 2008 A-Division
3 RIHS (R) 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 3 relegated to 2008 B-Division
4 Wolfland 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 remained in 2008 B-Division
Updated to match(es) played on 11 July 2008. Source: [3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play off matches

RIHSBeatWolfland
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RigzungLostVeterans
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WolflandLostRigzung
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VeteransBeatRIHS
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Veterans4-3Wolfland
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Rigzung4-0RIHS
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Topscorers

Best scorers Team Goals
Passang Tshering Transport United 28[3]

References

  1. ^ Schöggl, Hans; Abbink, Dinant (28 May 2014). "Bhutan - List of Champions". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  2. ^ "2008 AFC president's Cup Schedule and Results". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b c Schöggl, Hans (11 Jul 2008). "Bhutan 2007". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  4. ^ Duffin, Claire; Lutz, Tom; Baldini, Paolo (9 May 2007). "The Knowledge - The highest scorer in one game of football". www.theguardian.com. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 27 June 2014.