List of Chonburi F.C. seasons
This is a list of seasons played by Chonburi Football Club in Thai football, from 2002, when the club founded. This list details the club's achievements in all major competitions, and the top scorers for each season.
Chonburi FC is a football club from city of Chonburi established from the football club of Assumption College Sriracha. They first participated in the Football Cup. Later, the club was cooperated with Sannibat-Samutprakan (Division 1 team) and named as Chonburi-Sannibat-Samutprakan FC.
In the year 2002, The club joined the Thailand Provincial League in the name of Chonburi FC after separated from Sannibart Samutprakarn FC. The club had the nickname as The Shark. (Template:Lang-th) In 2005 they won the Pro League title by beating Nakhon Ratchasima FC at the Central stadium, Nakhon Ratchasima, and moved to Thai Premier League in the season 2006 with the Pro League runners up, Suphanburi FC. The shark tribes finished 8th place in the Thai League 2006 season.
In 2006, they were invited to play in the Singapore Cup and reached the final, defeating local sides Home United FC, Albirex Niigata FC and Balestier Khalsa along the way. In the final they lost to Tampines Rovers FC 2-3 in the extra time after leading 2-0.
In 2007, they were again invited to participate in the Singapore Cup, but were defeated in the first round against Balestier Khalsa FC, in a replay of the previous season's semi-finals. Chonburi FC lost 3-2 in normal play. They have formed links with Manchester City FC.
On March the 20th 2008 the club achieved its second victory in the AFC Champions League against the highly fancied Melbourne Victory. The game was clouded by controversy when Melbourne Victory scored their only goal whilst a Chonburi FC player was down injured and his teammates were calling for the ball to be played off the park.[citation needed] It mattered little when Cameroonian striker Baga scored a goal from 35 yards out and then followed it up with a second goal in extra time to condemn the Melbourne Victory to their first loss in the competition 3-1.
Seasons
| Season | League | FA Cup | Queen's Cup |
Kor Royal Cup |
Asia | Top goalscorer | |||||||||
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| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | |||||
| 2002 | PRO | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 2nd | ||||||
| 2003 | PRO | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 62 | 30 | 41 | 3rd | ||||||
| 2004 | PRO | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 6th | ||||||
| 2005 | PRO | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 58 | 24 | 48 | 1st | ||||||
| 2006 | TPL | 22 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 29 | 28 | 27 | 8th | GR | Singapore Cup - RU | Pipob On-Mo | 7 | ||
| 2007 | TPL | 30 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 25 | 63 | 1st | W | AFC Champions League - GR | Pipob On-Mo | 16 | ||
| 2008 | TPL | 30 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 34 | 14 | 59 | 2nd | W | Tana Chanabut | 6 | |||
| 2009 | TPL | SF | AFC Cup | ||||||||||||
| Champions | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
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