Khon Kaen F.C.

{{Short description|Thai football club}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2014}}

{{more citations needed|date=October 2014}}

{{Infobox football club

| clubname = Khon Kaen
ขอนแก่น เอฟซี

| image = Khonkaen football club.png

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| fullname = Khon Kaen Football Club
สโมสรฟุตบอลจังหวัดขอนแก่น

| nickname = The T-Rexs
(ไดโนเสาร์พิฆาต)

| short name= KKFC

| founded = {{Start date and age|2005}}

| ground = Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organization Stadium
Khon Kaen, Thailand

| capacity = 7,000

| chairman = Kasom Chanawong

| mgrtitle = Head Coach

| manager = Apisak Asayut

| league = Thai League 3

| season = 2024–25

| position = Thai League 3, 2nd of 11 in the Northeastern region

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Khon Kaen Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลจังหวัดขอนแก่น) is a Thailand professional football club, based in Khon Kaen province, a city located in the heart of the North Eastern Region of Thailand. The club currently plays in Thai League 3. In 2011, they achieved promotion from Thai Division 1 League to the Thai League 1 for the first time in their history, by finishing runners-up in the Thai Division 1 League.

Khonkaen play their home games at the Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organization Stadium. They traditionally play in black and yellow, and their nickname is commonly known as The T-Rexs which came from the famous rich dinosaur fossil excavations of the province.

History

Khon Kaen Football Club was publicly formed on 21 June 2007, before that time the club played in the Provincial League which largely consist of regional football clubs, nonetheless, the league was not recognized by the Football Association of Thailand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.khonkaensusu.com/?p=3452|title = "ไอซ์ดูบอลและเชียร์ ตั้งแต่ทีมขอนแก่นอยู่ โปรลีก" สัมภาษณ์น้องไอซ์ "ไอรดา สุภาพันธ์"| date=26 October 2012 }}

In 2007 the league was merged into Thai Premier League and Thai Division 1 League and the club was registered to be professional football club in this year and was allocated into Thai Division 1 League Group A, the club was close to promotion by finishing at the fourth place that season.

In the 2008 season, Khon Kaen was not performing as well as the previous season as they could only finish the season in 8th place, nevertheless, the club proved themselves, being one of the favourites for promotion in the 2009 season, however, they lost the promotion spot to Sisaket in the last week of the season.

In 2010, the club was finally promoted to the Thai Premier League after finishing runners-up in the league table which was the first time for the club to participate in the top flight of Thai football.

However, their brief TPL tenure ended disappointingly as they finished bottom of the table. Any thoughts of yo-yoing straight back never emerged in 2012 with the T-Rex finishing in the bottom half of the first division.

In 2014, the Club got 17th of 2014 and relegated to 2015 Thai Division 2 League North Eastern Region into North-Eastern zone.{{Cite web|url=http://www.siamsport.co.th/football/thaileague2/view/52520|title = เดอะ ทีเร็กซ์ เปิดตัวสโมสรวาง 70 ล้าน พร้อมเผย 31 แข้งลุยไทยลีก 2|date = 4 February 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.siamturakij.com/news/9868-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%9C%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%B6%E0%B8%81-%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B5-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%87%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%88-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B5-%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%B0-%E0%B8%82%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%81%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%99-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B5-%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AA%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%A2%E0%B8%8A%E0%B8%99%E0%B9%8C%E0%B9%83%E0%B8%AB%E0%B9%89%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%B8%E0%B8%95%E0%B8%9A%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A5|title = บางจาก ผนึก บีจี-เชียงใหม่ เอฟซี และ ขอนแก่น เอฟซี มอบสิทธิประโยชน์ให้แฟนฟุตบอล}}

In 2022, Khon Kaen competed in the Thai League 3 for the 2022–23 season. It is their 17th season in the professional league. The club started the season with a 3–0 away win over Nakhon Ratchasima United{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EFjl2lGe2TSL6z3-iRTCOyicXDg8MJy5/view |title=Full Time Summary Thai League 3 Northeastern region matchday 1 – Nakhon Ratchasima United v Khon Kaen |work=thaileague.co.th |publisher=Thaileague |format=PDF |date=10 September 2022}} and they ended the season with a 1–0 home win over Nakhon Ratchasima United.{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pnrUEtDGR790hFOWb9YRuBnlGqlq0Hf9/view |title=Full Time Summary Thai League 3 Northeastern region matchday 26 – Khon Kaen v Nakhon Ratchasima United |work=thaileague.co.th |publisher=Thaileague |format=PDF |date=18 March 2023}} The club has finished 4th place in the league of the Northeastern region. In addition, in the 2022–23 Thai FA Cup Khon Kaen was defeated 2–3 by Phrae United in the third round, causing them to be eliminated{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RWD9cAhw3ZTWuTD65_JGFlycG0jiI3b4/view |title=Full Time Summary Thai FA Cup third round – Phrae United v Khon Kaen |work=thaileague.co.th |publisher=Thaileague |format=PDF |date=30 November 2022}} and in the 2022–23 Thai League Cup Khon Kaen was defeated 0–1 by Khon Kaen Mordindang in the second qualification round, causing them to be eliminated too.{{cite web |url=https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n0ze9lZMyn_JUsuSJ72X471UWCRFAle1/view |title=Full Time Summary Thai League Cup second qualification round – Khon Kaen v Khon Kaen Mordindang |work=thaileague.co.th |publisher=Thaileague |format=PDF |date=4 September 2022}}

Stadium and locations

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Coordinates

! Location

! Stadium

! Capacity

! Year

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| Khonkaen

| Khon Kaen Province Stadium

(Khon Kaen PAO. Stadium)

| 10,000

| 2007–2015

{{coord|16.476767| 102.817386|format=dms|type:landmark_scale:3000}}

| Khon Kaen

| 50th Anniversary Stadium of Khon Kaen University

| 8,000

| 2016

{{coord|16.412905|102.827164|format=dms|type:landmark_scale:3000}}

| Khonkaen

| Khon Kaen Province Stadium

(Khon Kaen PAO. Stadium)

| 10,000

| 2017

Season by season record

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
rowspan=2|Season

!colspan=9|League

!rowspan=2|FA Cup

!rowspan=2|League Cup

!rowspan=2|T3 Cup

!colspan=2|Top goalscorer

Division

!P

!W

!D

!L

!F

!A

!Pts

!Pos

!Name

!Goals

2006

|Pro League

|30

|9

|8

|13

|

|

|35

|11th

|Opted out

|

|

|

|

2007

|DIV1 A

|22

|7

|8

|7

|25

|25

|29

|4th

|Opted out

|

|

|

|

2008

|DIV1

|30

|11

|8

|11

|32

|34

|41

|8th

|Opted out

|

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Issarapong Lilakorn

|11

2009

|DIV1

|30

|16

|7

|7

|49

|36

|55

|4th

|R4

|

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Sarawut Vichien

|12

2010

|bgcolor="#DDFFDD"|DIV1

|30

|15

|9

|6

|51

|35

|54

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|R3

|R2

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Surachat Singnhon

|10

2011

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|TPL

|34

|6

|9

|19

|33

|68

|27

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|18th

|R3

|R3

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|LAO}} Khampheng Sayavutthi

|4

2012

|DIV1

|34

|12

|6

|16

|35

|49

|42

|11th

|R3

|R2

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|ARG}} Matías Recio

|7

2013

|DIV1

|34

|8

|12

|14

|40

|54

|36

|16th

|R3

|R3

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|ARG}} Matías Recio

|20

2014

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|DIV1

|34

|6

|10

|18

|23

|45

|28

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|17th

|R3

|R1

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|JPN}} Junki Yokono

|8

2015

|DIV 2 Northeast

|34

|17

|10

|7

|54

|26

|61

|6th

|R2

|QR1

|

|

|

2016

|DIV 2 Northeast

|26

|12

|8

|6

|40

|26

|44

|4th

|R1

|R2

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Thanapol Srithong

|10

2017

|bgcolor="#DDFFDD"|T3 Upper

|26

|18

|5

|3

|53

|18

|59

|bgcolor=gold|1st

|R2

|QR1

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Thotsaphon Yotchan,
{{flagicon|MKD}} Darko Tasevski

|11

2018

|T2

|28

|14

|7

|7

|52

|30

|49

|4th

|QF

|R1

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|CIV}} Marc Landry Babo

|16

2019

|T2

|34

|13

|10

|11

|40

|48

|49

|8th

|R1

|R2

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|JPN}} Seiya Sugishita

|12

2020–21

|T2

|34

|11

|8

|15

|34

|38

|41

|10th

|R1

|Opted out

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|JPN}} Seiya Sugishita

|12

2021–22

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|T2

|34

|5

|9

|20

|32

|60

|24

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|17th

|R1

|QRP

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|THA}} Chakrit Rawanprakone

|7

2022–23

||T3 Northeast

|24

|11

|8

|5

|36

|21

|41

|4th

|R3

|QR2

|

|align="left"|{{flagicon|BRA}} Judivan

|12

2023–24

|T3 Northeast

|24

|12

|7

|5

|29

|19

|43

|5th

|QR

|QR1

|QR2

|align="left"|{{flagicon|BRA}} Alberto Moreira Gouvea

|8

2024–25

|T3 Northeast

|20

|12

|4

|4

|32

|14

|40

|bgcolor=silver|2nd

|R3

|QR2

|QF

|align="left"|{{flagicon

}

|

|}

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|bgcolor=gold|Champions

|bgcolor=silver|Runners-up

|bgcolor=#deb678|Third place

|bgcolor="#DDFFDD"|Promoted

|bgcolor="#FFCCCC"|Relegated

{{Col-begin}}

{{Col-4}}

  • P = Played
  • W = Games won
  • D = Games drawn
  • L = Games lost
  • F = Goals for
  • A = Goals against
  • Pts = Points
  • Pos = Final position

{{Col-4}}

{{Col-4}}

  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
  • QR4 = Fourth Qualifying Round
  • RInt = Intermediate Round
  • R1 = Round 1
  • R2 = Round 2
  • R3 = Round 3

{{Col-4}}

  • R4 = Round 4
  • R5 = Round 5
  • R6 = Round 6
  • GR = Group stage
  • QF = Quarter-finals
  • SF = Semi-finals
  • RU = Runners-up
  • S = Shared
  • W = Winners

{{Col-end}}

Players

=First Team squad=

{{updated|20 September 2024.}}

{{Fs start}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=1|nat=THA|pos=GK|name=Teerasak Songklang}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=2|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Thanaphong Borikun}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=3|nat=BRA|pos=DF|name=Jonathan Monteiro}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=5|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Chakkaphat Phumnuan}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=6|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Sarawin Saengra}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=7|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Thanaphat Phutnok}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=8|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Tadsawat Sriwilot}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=9|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Charin Boodhad}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=10|nat=BRA|pos=MF|name=João Guimarães}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=11|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=Jhonata Santos}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=14|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Phommin Kaeosanga}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=15|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Taweesak Chanlee}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=17|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Kittichai Yomkhot}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=18|nat=THA|pos=GK|name=Thanandorn Pasri}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=19|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Ratthaphon Phoopharot}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=20|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Punyachotc Namjatturat}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=21|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Natthjawut Srimongkol}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=22|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Piyapong Srikaew}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=24|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Cholakran Chueaprasat}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=25|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Nutdanai Ketpaen}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=26|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Worawaran Pholuea}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=27|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Kitchaphum Monthianart}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=30|nat=THA|pos=GK|name=Bunditvicha Nongngok}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=31|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Chawit Daengsopa}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=32|nat=THA|pos=GK|name=Nattapumin Nongbua}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=33|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Kitsada Hemvipat}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=40|nat=THA|pos=DF|name=Ratchanon Khotchana}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=70|nat=THA|pos=MF|name=Amnawat Pasotiyang}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=80|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Suphakit Thongthawee}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=98|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Aphiwat Mitrak}}

{{Fs player|other=|no=99|nat=THA|pos=FW|name=Jakkrit Jitsabay}}

{{Fs end}}

=Out on loan=

{{Fs start}}

{{Fs mid}}

{{Fs end}}

Note: The official club website lists the supporters as player #12.

Coaching staff

class="wikitable"
Position

! Name

Head coach

| {{flagicon|THA}} Apisak Asayut

Assistant head coach

| {{flagicon|THA}} Pattanapong Sripramoj
{{flagicon|THA}} Nirut Surasieng
{{flagicon|THA}} Chakkrit Boonkham

Goalkeeper coach

| {{flagicon|THA}} Sthiti Phaengma

Fitness coach

| {{flagicon|THA}} Wattana Nuttat

Physiotherapist

| {{flagicon|THA}} Dr. Acira Hiruntrakul

Physiotherapist

| {{flagicon|THA}} Sittisak Sriwijarn

Team Officer

| {{flagicon|THA}} Veerasil Wongveerachai
{{flagicon|THA}} Noppadol Intako
{{flagicon|THA}} Kraisorn Supsin
{{flagicon|THA}} Nuengruthai Praikhet

Honours

=Domestic leagues=

Affiliated clubs

References

{{Reflist}}