King's Cup (Thailand)

King's Cup
ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ
Organiser(s)	Football Association of Thailand
Founded	1968
Region	International
Teams	4
Current champions	Iraq (2nd title)
Most championships	Thailand (16 titles)
	2025 King's Cup

The King's Cup is an international football tournament held in Thailand, organised by the Football Association of Thailand.^[1]^[2] The winner of the competition is given the royal trophy by the King of Thailand.^[3] The host, Thailand, is a participant in every edition.^[4] The tournament was founded in 1968, and has been held every year since, with the exception of 1983, 1985, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2020 and 2021.^[5]^[6]^[7]

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 Aymen Hussein, Cha Bum-kun, Sunil Chhetri, Peter Schmeichel, Jesper Olsen, Brian Laudrup, Cafu, Dida, Juninho, Rivaldo, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldinho, Henrik Larsson, Kamil Glik, Robert Lewandowski, Martin Škrtel, Martin Dúbravka, Milan Škriniar, Stanislav Lobotka, Cuco Martina and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.^[8]^[9] Since 2018, the King's Cup will only featured the senior national team.

Venues

Known venues for the King's Cup since the year 2000.

Stadium	Capacity	Location	Year(s)
Rajamangala National Stadium	49,722	Bangkok	2000, 2007, 2012, 2016–2018
Suphachalasai Stadium	19,793	Bangkok	2001–2004, 2006
Surakul Stadium	15,000	Phuket	2005, 2009
80th Birthday Stadium	24,641	Nakhon Ratchasima	2009, 2010, 2015
700th Anniversary Stadium	25,000	Chiang Mai	2013, 2022–2023
Chang Arena	32,600	Buriram	2019
Tinsulanon Stadium	30,000	Songkhla	2024^[10]
Kanchanaburi Province Stadium	13,000	Kanchanaburi	2025

Results

Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1	1968	Indonesia	1−0	Burma	Thailand	6−0	Malaysia
2	1969	South Korea	1−0	Indonesia	South Vietnam	7−0	Laos
3	1970	South Korea	1−0	Thailand	Malaysia	3−1	Indonesia
4	1971	South Korea	1−0	Thailand	South Vietnam	3−2	Indonesia
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
5	1972	Malaysia	1−0	Thailand	South Korea	0−0	Singapore
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
6	1973	South Korea	2−1	Malaysia	Thailand	1−0	Burma
7	1974	South Korea	3−1 (a.e.t.)	Thailand	Malaysia	3−0	Khmer Republic
8	1975	South Korea	1−0	Burma	Thailand	No playoffs	Malaysia
Edition	Year	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Third place	Score	Fourth place
9	1976	Thailand	1−1	Malaysia	South Korea	3−1	Thailand B
10	1977	South Korea B	1−1	Malaysia	India	No playoffs	Thailand
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
11	1978	Malaysia	3−2	Singapore	South Korea B	2−1	Thailand
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
12	1979	Thailand	1−0	South Korea B	Thailand B	2−2	Singapore
Edition	Year	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
13	1980	Thailand	0−0	South Korea Army	China	2−2	Thailand B
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
14	1981	Thailand	2−1 (a.e.t.)	North Korean Army	Polonia Warszawa	2−0	August 1
15	1982	Thailand	0−0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	South Korea	Thailand B	0−0 (3−2 p)	Singapore
—	1983	Not held
16	1984	Thailand	3−0	Indonesia	Western Australia	1−0	Liverpool Amateur
—	1985	Not held
17	1986	North Korea	2−1	AGF Aarhus	Thailand	1−0	August 1
18	1987	North Korea	1−0	POSCO Atoms	Thailand	3−2	Indonesia
19	1988	Denmark Olympics	1−0	Swarovski Tirol	Thailand	4−2	USSR XI
20	1989	Thailand	3−1	Rotor Volgograd	Lucky-Goldstar FC	2−1	China
21	1990	Thailand	2−1 (a.e.t.)	Rotor Volgograd	Yukong Elephants	0−0 (5−4 p)	Shanghai
22	1991	China PR Olympics	3−1	Rotor Volgograd	Thailand	0−0 (5−4 p)	Thailand Olympics
23	1992	Thailand	2−0	Berliner Dynamo	Thailand B	1−0	Tianjin
24	1993	China	4−0	Thailand	South Korea Semi-professional XI	0−0 (6−5 p)	Thailand Olympics
25	1994	Thailand B	4−0	Westfalia Amateurs	SC Rotor Volgograd	0−0 (5−3 p)	Thailand
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
26	1995	Rotor Volgograd	3−0	Japan XI	Thailand	No playoffs	Thailand B
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
27	1996	Romania	2−1	Denmark	Thailand	5−2	Finland
28	1997	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	2−0	Thailand	Japan XI	3−1	Romania
29	1998	South Korea	0−0 (6−5 p)	Egypt	Denmark B	3−0	Thailand
30	1999	Brazil U-20	7−1	North Korea	Thailand	3−1	Hungarian League XI
31	2000	Thailand	5−1	Finland	Brazil U-17	1−0	Estonia
32	2001	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	3−0	China	Thailand	2−0	Qatar
33	2002	North Korea	0−0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Thailand	Qatar	2−0	Singapore
34	2003	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	4−0	North Korea	Thailand	3−1	Qatar
35	2004	Slovakia	1−1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Thailand	Hungary	5−0	Estonia
36	2005	Latvia	2−1	North Korea	Thailand	No playoffs	Oman
37	2006	Thailand	3−1	Vietnam	Kazakhstan	No playoffs	Singapore
38	2007	Thailand	1−0	Iraq B^[11]	North Korea	No playoffs	Uzbekistan
—	2008	Not held
39	2009	Denmark League XI	2−2 (a.e.t.) (5–3 p)	Thailand	Lebanon	1−0	North Korea
40	2010	Denmark	No playoffs	Poland	Thailand	No playoffs	Singapore
—	2011	Not held
41	2012	South Korea U-23	No playoffs	Denmark League XI	Norway	No playoffs	Thailand
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
42	2013	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	3−0	Finland (Scandinavian leagues)	Thailand	2−2	North Korea
Edition	Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
—	2014	Not held
43	2015	South Korea U-23	No playoffs	Thailand	Uzbekistan U-23	No playoffs	Honduras U-20
44	2016	Thailand	2−0	Jordan	Syria	1−0	UAE
45	2017	Thailand	0−0 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Belarus B	Burkina Faso	3−3 (a.e.t.) (7–6 p)	North Korea
46	2018	Slovakia	3−2	Thailand	Gabon	1−0	United Arab Emirates
47	2019	Curaçao	1−1 (a.e.t.) (5−4 p)	Vietnam	India	1−0	Thailand
—	2020	Not held
—	2021	Not held
48	2022	Tajikistan	0−0 (3−0 p)	Malaysia	Thailand	2−1	Trinidad and Tobago
49	2023	Iraq	2−2 (5−4 p)	Thailand	Lebanon	1−0	India
50	2024	Thailand	2−1	Syria	Philippines	3−0	Tajikistan
51	2025	Iraq	1−0	Thailand	Hong Kong	8−0	Fiji

Results by teams

	Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
1	Thailand	16 (1976^, 1979, 1980^, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2024)	13 (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2023, 2025)	16 (1968, 1973, 1975, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1995^, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2013^, 2022)	6 (1977, 1978, 1994, 1998, 2012, 2019)
2	South Korea	7 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1998)	1 (1982)	2 (1972^**, 1976)
3	Malaysia	4 (1972, 1976^, 1977^, 1978)	2 (1973, 2022)	2 (1970, 1974)	2 (1968, 1975)
4	Sweden¹	4 (1997, 2001, 2003, 2013)
5	North Korea	3 (1986, 1987, 2002)	3 (1999, 2003, 2005)	2 (2007, 2013^**)	2 (2012, 2017)
6	South Korea U-23	2 (2012, 2015)
	Slovakia	2 (2004, 2018)
	Iraq	2 (2023, 2025)
9	Rotor Volgograd	1 (1995)	3 (1989, 1990, 1991)	1 (1994)
9	Indonesia	1 (1968)	2 (1969, 1984)		3 (1970, 1971, 1987)
111	China	1 (1993)	1 (2001)	1 (1980^**)	1 (1989)
12	South Korea B	1 (1977^*)	1 (1979)	1 (1978)
12	Denmark	1 (2010)	1 (1996)	1 (1998) B
14	Denmark League XI	1 (2009)	1 (2012)
15	Thailand B	1 (1994)		5 (1979^, 1980^, 1982, 1992, 1995^**)	1 (1976)
16	Romania	1 (1996)			1 (1997)
16	Tajikistan	1 (2022)			1 (2024)
18	South Korea Army	1 (1980)
	Denmark Olympics	1 (1988)
	China PR Olympics	1 (1991)
	Brazil U-20	1 (1999)
	Latvia	1 (2005)
	Curaçao	1 (2019)
24	Burma		2 (1968, 1975)		1 (1973)
24	Finland¹		2 (2000, 2013)		1 (1996)
25	Vietnam		2 (2006, 2019)
26	Singapore		1 (1978)	2 (1972^, 1979^)	3 (1982, 2002, 2010)
27	Japan XI		1 (1995)	1 (1997)
27	Syria		1 (2024)	1 (2016)
28	North Korean Army		1 (1981)
	AGF Aarhus		1 (1986)
	POSCO Atoms		1 (1987)
	Swarovski Tirol		1 (1988)
	Berliner Dynamo		1 (1992)
	Westfalia Amateurs		1 (1994)
	Egypt		1 (1998)
	Iraq B		1 (2007)
	Poland		1 (2010)
	Jordan		1 (2016)
	Belarus League		1 (2017)
39	India			2 (1977, 2019)	1 (2023)
40	South Vietnam			2 (1969, 1971)
40	Lebanon			2 (2009, 2023)
42	Qatar			1 (2002)	2 (2001, 2003)
43	Polonia Warszawa			1 (1981)
	Western Australia			1 (1984)
	Lucky-Goldstar			1 (1989)
	Yukong Elephants			1 (1990)
	South Korea Semi-professional XI			1 (1993)
	Brazil U-17			1 (2000)
	Hungary			1 (2004)
	Kazakhstan			1 (2006)
	Norway			1 (2012)
	Uzbekistan Olympics			1 (2015)
	Syria B			1 (2016)
	Burkina Faso			1 (2017)
	Gabon			1 (2018)
	Philippines			1 (2024)
	Hong Kong			1 (2025)
58	August 1				2 (1981, 1986)
	Thailand Olympics				2 (1991, 1993)
	Estonia				2 (2000, 2004)
	United Arab Emirates				2 (2016, 2018)
62	Laos				1 (1969)
	Khmer Republic				1 (1974)
	Liverpool Amateur				1 (1984)
	USSR XI				1 (1988)
	Shanghai				1 (1990)
	Tianjin				1 (1992)
	Hungarian League XI				1 (1999)
	Oman				1 (2005)
	Uzbekistan				1 (2007)
	Honduras U-20				1 (2015)
	Trinidad and Tobago				1 (2022)
	Fiji				1 (2025)

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

Medal table

As of 2025 King's Cup


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand	16	13	21	50
2	South Korea	11	3	6	20
3	Malaysia	4	2	2	8
4	Sweden	4	0	0	4
5	North Korea	3	4	2	9
6	Denmark	3	3	1	7
7	China	2	1	1	4
8	Iraq	2	1	0	3
9	Slovakia	2	0	0	2
10	Russia	1	3	1	5
11	Indonesia	1	2	0	3
12	Brazil	1	0	1	2
13	Curaçao	1	0	0	1
	Latvia	1	0	0	1
	Romania	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan	1	0	0	1
17	Finland	0	2	0	2
	Germany	0	2	0	2
	Myanmar	0	2	0	2
	Vietnam	0	2	0	2
21	Singapore	0	1	2	3
22	Japan	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
	Syria	0	1	1	2
25	Austria	0	1	0	1
	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	Jordan	0	1	0	1
29	India	0	0	2	2
	Lebanon	0	0	2	2
	South Vietnam	0	0	2	2
32	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Burkina Faso	0	0	1	1
	Gabon	0	0	1	1
	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Philippines	0	0	1	1
	Qatar	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan	0	0	1	1
Totals (41 entries)		54	48	56	158

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.

Participated nations

Notable players

List of notable footballers to have played in the King's Cup

Players to scored a hat-trick in the King's Cup

Players to scored a hat-trick in the King's Cup since 2000
Player	Opponent	Score	Date
Anurak Srikerd	Finland	5–1	27 February 2000
Zhang Yuning	Thailand	1–5	14 February 2001

References

External links

King's Cup results RSSSF

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[2] รู้ไหมว่าในศึก King's Cup ครั้งที่ 46 เสียงเชียร์ที่มาจากแฟนบอลทุกคนที่อยู่นอกสนามนั้นมีมากมายแค่ไหน?

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[4] "อนุทิน" เปิดฟุตบอล “คิงส์คัพ” ครั้งที่ 50 ขอบคุณทุกภาคส่วนจังหวัดสงขลาจัดการแข่งขันรายการแห่งความภูมิใจของคนไทย ส่งเสริมความสามัคคี กระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจ ท่องเที่ยวในพื้นที่

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[7] 5 เรื่องน่ารู้ก่อนดู ฟุตบอลคิงส์คัพ ครั้งที่ 48

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King's Cup
Tournaments	1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2010 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023 2024 2025
Squads	... 2012 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2022 2023

International friendly association football tournaments in Asia
A considerable number of matches in the following competitions are recognised as international "A" matches.
Bangladesh	Bangabandhu Cup Bangladesh President's Gold Cup
China	China Cup Four Nations Tournament
Chinese Taipei	Long Teng Cup CTFA International Tournament
Hong Kong	Lunar New Year Cup
Indonesia	Indonesian Independence Cup Jakarta Anniversary Tournament
India	Nehru Cup Tri-Nation Series Intercontinental Cup
Iran	Iran Cup Cyrus Cup Tehran Friendship Cup
Japan	Kirin Cup Soccer
Malaysia	Merdeka Tournament
Pakistan	Quaid-e-Azam International Tournament President's Gold Cup International Tournament
Philippines	GoTyme Bank Cup Philippine Peace Cup
Singapore	Merlion Cup FAS Tri-Nations Series
South Korea	Korea Cup
Syria	Kuneitra Cup
Thailand	King's Cup
United Arab Emirates	Friendship Tournament Al Ain International Cup
Vietnam	South Vietnam Independence Cup VFF Cup
Collaboration	Dynasty Cup ECO Cup LG Cup Nowruz Cup