FTA or the Football Association of Thailand organizes controls and administrator Football in Thailand. This is the most sought after sport in the Kingdom. Very recently Thailand has started its professional football league. The game was introduced way back on 1897. The local people love the sport and watch football at local TV channels and cable TV programs. They love to watch English Premier League, UEFA cup where all European club teams compete, Spanish La Liga and Italian soccer apart from watching the gala event of world cup football. Thai TV channels showed all the matches of 2006 World Cup soccer. In the year 2007, Asian Cup 2007 even was co-hosted by Thailand and that was one of the major soccer events till date in the Kingdom. First time Thailand hosted the Asian Cup in 1972 when the entire nation celebrated the event.
As we said, the game was introduced in the year 1997 and in 1916 the Football Association of Thailand or FAT was formed under the jurisdiction of His Majesty. Later FAT joined FIFA the world association of Football in 1925. FAT has also become a member of AFC in 1957. The national football team of Thailand also participated in Olympic Games in 1956 in Australia. Thailand is also having world class football stadium in the country by the name of Suphachalasai Stadium, which was built in the year 1935. The first football tournament was introduced in Thailand by the name of King’s Cup in 1968. Then in 1970 the Kingdom has introduced Queen’s Cup, which is their national soccer tournament. Youth Football is also famous in Thailand, where many competitions are held between clubs where only youths and juniors can participate. One of the major youth football tournaments is Bangkok Soccer League where international school children participate in the tournament.
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