2016 King's Cup Explained

Tourney Name:King's Cup
Year:2016
Size:325px
Dates:3–5 June 2016
Num Teams:4
Confederations:1
Venues:1
Cities:1
Champion:THA
Count:14
Second:JOR
Third:SYR
Fourth:UAE
Matches:4
Goals:11
Top Scorer: Kroekrit Thaweekarn (2 goal)
Prevseason:2015
Nextseason:2017

The 2016 King's Cup (also known as the 44th Annual King's Cup Football Tournament) (Thai:Thai: การแข่งขันฟุตบอลชิงถ้วยพระราชทานคิงส์คัพครั้งที่ 44) is an international football competition, and will be the 44th edition of the tournament. It was organised by the Football Association of Thailand or the FAT. The tournament is set to be a in knockout tournament format with all matches being held at the Rajamangala Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand on 3 and 5 June.

This edition will feature the host Thailand and three invited teams. The three teams that have been invited are Jordan,[1] United Arab Emirates,[2] and Syria.[3] Montenegro was expected to participate, but later declined, leaving the Thais to put Syria instead.

Participant teams

The 2016 King's Cup is included the following four teams[4]

TeamAssociationConfederationFinals
appearance
Previous best
performance
FIFA Ranking
June 2016
align= (Host)FA ThailandAFC44th Champions (1976, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2007)117 (4)
align=Jordan FAAFC1stDebut80 (2)
align=Syria FAAFC1stDebut101 (3)
align=UAE FAAFC1stDebut70 (1)

Squads

See main article: 2016 King's Cup squads.

Venue

Bangkok
Rajamangala Stadium
Capacity: 49,772
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Draw

The seeded teams which headed up each group was announced on May 10, 2016: United Arab Emirates and Jordan (Top Half), Thailand and Syria (Bottom Half).

This ceremony was drawn by Watchara Watcharapol, CEO of Thairath TV and Supasin Leelarit, Vice chairman of 2016 King's Cup Organizing Committee.

width=35%Top Halfwidth=35%Bottom Half

(Host)

Match officials

The following referees were chosen for the 2016 King's Cup.

Referees
Assistant referees

Knockout stage

All times are Thailand Standard Time .

In all matches in the knockout stage, if the score were level at the end of 90 minutes, If the score were still level after 90 minutes, the match was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Semi-finals

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Final

Goalscorers

2 goals
1 goal

Broadcasting rights

Territory ChannelRef
Sky Sport
Thairath TV
Dubai Sports
Sky Sport

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Participants for 2016 King's Cup confirmed . fathailand.org/ (TH) . 3 May 2016 . 3 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506082543/http://fathailand.org/archives/3133 . 6 May 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Participants for 2016 King's Cup confirmed . fathailand.org/ (TH) . 3 May 2016 . 3 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506082543/http://fathailand.org/archives/3133 . 6 May 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  3. Web site: Participants for 2016 King's Cup confirmed . fathailand.org/ (TH) . 3 May 2016 . 3 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506082543/http://fathailand.org/archives/3133 . 6 May 2016 . dead . dmy-all .
  4. Web site: Participants for 2016 King's Cup confirmed . Thailand FA (TH) . 3 May 2016 . 6 May 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506082543/http://fathailand.org/archives/3133 . 6 May 2016 . dead . dmy-all .