King's Cup (Thailand)

King's Cup
ฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพ
Organising body	Football Association of Thailand
Founded	1968; 56 years ago
Region	International
Number of teams	4
Current champions	Iraq (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Thailand (15 titles)
	2024 King's Cup

The King's Cup is an international football tournament held in Thailand, organized 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, 2020 and 2021.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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 Škrtel, Milan Škriniar, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.^[4]^[5]

Venues

Stadium	Capacity	Location	Year(s)
Rajamangala National Stadium	49,722	Bang Kapi, Bangkok	2000, 2007, 2012, 2016–2018
Suphachalasai Stadium	19,793	Pathum Wan, Bangkok	2001–2004, 2006
Surakul Stadium	15,000	Mueang, Phuket	2005, 2009
80th Birthday Stadium	24,641	Mueang, Nakhon Ratchasima	2009, 2010, 2015
700th Anniversary Stadium	25,000	Mueang, Chiang Mai	2013, 2022–2023
Chang Arena	32,600	Mueang, Buriram	2019
Tinsulanon Stadium	30,000	Mueang, Songkhla	2024^[6]

Tournaments

Year	Final			Third place match
Year	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 (Details)	South Korea	1–0	Thailand	South Vietnam	3–2	Indonesia
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	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
Year	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
Year	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
Year	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
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1979 (Details)	Thailand	1–0	South Korea B	Thailand B	2–2	Singapore
Year	Final (Trophy shared)			Third place shared
Year	Co-Winner	Score	Co-Winner	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1980 (Details)	Thailand	0–0	South Korea Army	China	2–2	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1981 (Details)	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	North Korean Army	Polonia Warszawa	2–0	August 1
1982 (Details)	Thailand	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	South Korea	Thailand B	3–2 (p)	Singapore
1983	Not held
1984 (Details)	Thailand	3–0	Indonesia	Western Australia	1–0	Liverpool Amateur
1985	Not held
1986 (Details)	North Korea	2–1	AGF Aarhus	Thailand	1–0	August 1
1987 (Details)	North Korea	1–0	POSCO Atoms	Thailand	3–2	Indonesia
1988 (Details)	Denmark Olympics	1–0	FC Swarovski Tirol	Thailand	4–2	USSR XI
1989 (Details)	Thailand	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Lucky-Goldstar FC	2–1	China
1990 (Details)	Thailand	2–1 (a.e.t.)	SC Rotor Volgograd	Yukong Elephants	5–4 (p)	Shanghai
1991 (Details)	China PR Olympics	3–1	SC Rotor Volgograd	Thailand	5–4 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1992 (Details)	Thailand	2–0	FC Berlin	Thailand B	1–0	Tianjin
1993 (Details)	China	4–0	Thailand	South Korea Semi-professional XI	6–5 (p)	Thailand Olympics
1994 (Details)	Thailand B	4–0	Westfalia Amateurs	SC Rotor Volgograd	5–3 (p)	Thailand
Year	Final			Third place shared
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Co-Third place	Score	Co-Third place
1995 (Details)	SC Rotor Volgograd	3–0	Japan XI	Thailand	No playoffs	Thailand B
Year	Final			Third place match
Year	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place
1996 (Details)	Romania	2–1	Denmark	Thailand	5–2	Finland
1997 (Details)	Sweden (Scandinavian leagues)	2–0	Thailand	Japan XI	3–1	Romania
1998 (Details)	South Korea	6–5 (p)	Egypt	Denmark B	3–0	Thailand
1999 (Details)	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	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 B^[7]	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
Year	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
Year	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 B	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
2020–2021	Not held
2022 (Details)	Tajikistan	0–0 (3−0 p)	Malaysia	Thailand	2–1	Trinidad and Tobago
2023 (Details)	Iraq	2–2 (5−4 p)	Thailand	Lebanon	1–0	India
2024 (Details)

Teams' achievements

	Team	Winners	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
1	Thailand	*14 (1976^, 1979, 1980^, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017)*	12 (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2015, 2018, 2023)	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)
7	Slovakia	2 (2004, 2018)
8	FC Rotor Volgograd	1 (1995)	3 (1989, 1990, 1991)	1 (1994)
9	Indonesia	1 (1968)	2 (1969, 1984)		3 (1970, 1971, 1987)
10	China	1 (1993)	1 (2001)	1 (1980^**)	1 (1989)
11	South Korea B	*1 (1977^)**	1 (1979)	1 (1978)
12	Denmark	1 (2010)	1 (1996)	1 (1998) B
13	Denmark League XI	1 (2009)	1 (2012)
14	Thailand B	1 (1994)		5 (1979^, 1980^, 1982, 1992, 1995^**)	1 (1976)
15	Romania	1 (1996)			1 (1997)
16	South Korea Army	1 (1980)
17	Denmark Olympics	1 (1988)
18	China PR Olympics	1 (1991)
19	Brazil U-20	1 (1999)
20	Latvia	1 (2005)
21	Curaçao	1 (2019)
22	Tajikistan	1 (2022)
23	Iraq	1 (2023)
	Burma		2 (1968, 1975)		1 (1973)
	Finland¹		2 (2000, 2013)		1 (1996)
	Vietnam		2 (2006, 2019)
	Singapore		1 (1978)	2 (1972^, 1979^)	3 (1982, 2002, 2010)
	Japan XI		1 (1995)	1 (1997)
	North Korean Army		1 (1981)
	AGF Aarhus		1 (1986)
	POSCO Atoms		1 (1987)
	FC Swarovski Tirol		1 (1988)
	FC Berlin		1 (1992)
	Westfalia Amateurs		1 (1994)
	Egypt		1 (1998)
	Iraq B		1 (2007)
	Poland		1 (2010)
	Jordan		1 (2016)
	Belarus League		1 (2017)
	India			2 (1977, 2019)	1 (2023)
	South Vietnam			2 (1969, 1971)
	Lebanon			2 (2009, 2023)
	Qatar			1 (2002)	2 (2001, 2003)
	Polonia Warszawa			1 (1981)
	Western Australia			1 (1984)
	Lucky-Goldstar FC			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)
	August 1				2 (1981, 1986)
	Thailand Olympics				2 (1991, 1993)
	Estonia				2 (2000, 2004)
	United Arab Emirates				2 (2016, 2018)
	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)

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

Medals by nations (1968–2023)

Update after 2023 King's Cup (49th).


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Thailand (THA)	15	12	21	48
2	South Korea (KOR)	11	3	6	20
3	Malaysia (MAS)	4	2	2	8
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	Iraq (IRQ)	1	1	0	2
12	Brazil (BRA)	1	0	1	2
13	Curaçao (CUR)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
	Tajikistan (TJK)	1	0	0	1
17	Finland (FIN)	0	2	0	2
	Germany (GER)	0	2	0	2
	Myanmar (MYA)	0	2	0	2
	Vietnam (VIE)	0	2	0	2
21	Singapore (SIN)	0	1	2	3
22	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
22	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
24	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	Jordan (JOR)	0	1	0	1
28	India (IND)	0	0	2	2
	Lebanon (LIB)	0	0	2	2
	South Vietnam (VSO)	0	0	2	2
31	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
	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 (39 entries)		52	46	54	152