2007 Bhutan A-Division Explained

Competition:A-Division (Bhutan)
Season:2007
Winners:Transport United
Continentalcup1:AFC President's Cup
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Transport United
Prevseason:2006
Nextseason:2008

The 2007 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the thirteenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Transport United, their fourth title in a row and only the second time a team had achieved such a feat since Druk Pol won their fourth title in a row in 1999.[1]

League table

Teams played each other on a home and away basis, with the bottom two teams qualifying for a relegation playoff against the top two teams from the B-Division.

Notable results

The league table for the season is incomplete and only a handful of results are known. However, there are a number of results which are notable due to their high scores, both involving very heavy defeats for the Royal Institute of Health and Sciences team:

In the game between Transport United and RIHS FC, Passang Tshering scored seventeen goals. Sources indicate that the most goals scored by a single player in a game is 16, scored by Panagiotis Pontikos of Olympos Xylofagou against SEK Ayios Athanasios in May 2007 and by Stephane Stanis for RC Strasbourg in the 1940s.[2] It would appear therefore, that Pontikos, having equalled a record that had stood for over 60 years, saw it broken only a few days later.

Relegation playoffs

The top two teams from the B-Division and the bottom two from the A-Division competed in a round robin group to determine the remaining two spots for the 2008 A-Division.

Play off matches

Topscorers

Best scorersTeamGoals
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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bhutan - List of Champions . Schöggl . Hans . Abbink . Dinant . 28 May 2014 . . . 27 June 2014 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20140717020149/http://rsssf.com/tablesb/bhutanchamp.html . 17 July 2014 .
  2. Web site: The Knowledge - The highest scorer in one game of football. Duffin. Claire. Lutz. Tom. Baldini. Paolo. 9 May 2007. www.theguardian.com. Guardian Media Group. 27 June 2014.