| Clubname: | Police Tero โปลิศ เทโร |
| Fullname: | Police Tero Football Club สโมสรฟุตบอลโปลิศ เทโร |
| Nickname: | The Silver Shield Dragons (มังกรโล่เงิน) |
| Founded: | as Sasana Witthaya School Football Team (Original) as BEC-Tero Sasana Football Club as Police Tero Football Club (Merged with Police United F.C.) |
| Ground: | Boonyachinda Stadium Lak Si, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Capacity: | 3,550 |
| Chrtitle: | President |
| Chairman: | Chaitad Chaijinda |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Thawatchai Damrong-Ongtrakul |
| League: | Thai League 2 |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Position: | Thai League 1, 15th of 16 (relegated) |
| Website: | http://sasana.bectero.com/en/ |
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| Current: | 2023–24 Police Tero F.C. season |
Police Tero Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลโปลิศ เทโร), formerly known as BEC-Tero Sasana, is a Thai professional football club based in Bangkok. The club finished runners-up in the inaugural AFC Champions League competition in 2003. BEC-Tero Sasana Football Club merged with Police United Football Club in the 2017 season and changed its official name to Police Tero Football Club in the 2018 season.[1]
The club has won 2 Thai League 1 titles, 1 Kor Royal Cup and 1 Thai League Cup. They were also the finalist in the 2002–03 AFC Champions League campaign.
The team was established in 1992. It was previously known as Sasana Witthaya School team and was founded by Worawi Makudi. The first football match the team entered was in Division 3 of the football royal cup in 1993. In 1994, the team played in Division 2 of the football royal cup. In 1995, the team played in Division 1 of the football royal cup and in 1996, the team entered the Thai League for the first time. It was during this year, that Mr. Worawi Makudi and Mr. Brian L. Marcar, managing director of BEC-TERO Entertainment Public Co. Ltd., joined hands and renamed the team as Tero Sasana Football Club. The team was placed in 12th position among 18 teams in the Thai League.[2]
In 1997, Tero Sasana Football Club also played in the Thai League and this time was placed in fifth place. Later in 1998, BEC World Public Company Limited supported the Tero Sasana Football Club and changed the team's name to BEC-Tero Sasana. The team won the third place when they played the Thai League. They were also one of the eight final teams to enter the final round of the Thai FA Cup.[3]
In 1999, the team entered the Thai League and again won third place. In the same year, they were among the final teams in the Thai FA Cup.
2000 was a very eventful year for BEC-Tero Sasana FC. The team won its first championship award by winning the Thai League. It also received the championship award for the King's Cup.
In 2001, BEC-Tero Sasana FC was able to keep its championship and won the Thai Premier League for the second consecutive year. This greatly increased the fan base. In that year, the club participated in POMIS Cup in Maldives.[4]
The club's success continued for a few years and culminated with finishing runner-up in the 2002–03 AFC Champions League. The team were put alongside Asian heavyweights Kashima Antlers, Daejeon Citizen, and Shanghai Shenhua in Group A of the 2002–03 AFC Champions League; a group which they would top with 7 points. BEC-Tero Sansana then faced Uzbekistan's Pakhtakor in the semi-final and defeated them 3–2 on aggregate, before losing to Al Ain in the two-legged Final, 2–1.[5] [6]
In 2012 the club appointed Robert Procureur, former general manager of Muangthong United, to be the new Director of Football and appointed Andrew Ord as the club manager. Them built up a great team by pushing up many young players such as Adisorn Promrak, Peerapat Notchaiya, Tanaboon Kesarat, Chanathip Songkrasin, Narubadin Weerawatnodom, Tristan Do, Chenrop Samphaodi, Jaturong Pimkoon and the fan called "Golden Generation"[7] and the club signed former Japan national team player Daiki Iwamasa that was the important to help the team win the Thai League Cup Trophy in 2014 from Daiki Iwamasa and Georgie Welcome's goals, its first trophy in 12 years.[8]
After the club was relegated in 2016 (Saraburi F.C. was out of the Thai league due to money problems so the club was placed in the place of Saraburi), club president Brian L. Marcar sold the team to Inspire Entertainment, the owner of Muangthong United.[9] Robert Procureur quit and star players such as Peerapat Notchaiya, Tanaboon Kesarat, Chanathip Songkrasin and Tristan Do joined various clubs, such as Muangthong United.[10] [11]
In 2017 the club were taken over by the Royal Thai Police, who merged them with their own club, Police United. The club name change was not recognized in 2017, so in 2018, the club changed their name to Police Tero Football Club.[12]
In October 2019, under head coach Rangsan Viwatchaichok, Police Tero were runners-up in the 2019 Thai League 2 and were promoted to the 2020 Thai League 1.
On November 6, 2023, Police Tero Football Club held a press conference to launch a new investment group, a group of three Cambodian royal princes, with an investment of ฿200 million and a 49% stake in the club.[13] [14] [15] But in the end the takeover of the club was unsuccessful because the new owners were unable to declare the origin of the money and were unable to bring the money into the country.[16] [17]
| Coordinates | Location | Stadium | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13.8684°N 100.8471°W | Nong Chok, Bangkok | Nong Chok Sport Stadium | 2007–2009 |
| 13.7456°N 100.5276°W | Pathum Wan, Bangkok | Thephasadin Stadium | 2010–2012 |
| 13.8019°N 100.7908°W | Min Buri, Bangkok | 72nd Anniversary Stadium (Min Buri) | 2013–2016 |
| 13.8672°N 100.5774°W | Lak Si, Bangkok | Boonyachinda Stadium | 2017–present |
| Season | League[18] | FA Cup | Queen's Cup | League Cup | Kor Royal Cup | AFC Champions League | Top scorer | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||||||
| 1996–97 | TPL | 34 | 9 | 14 | 11 | 37 | 44 | 41 | 12th | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 1997 | TPL | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 32 | 26 | 31 | 5th | – | – | – | – | Worrawoot Srimaka | 17 | |||
| 1998 | TPL | 22 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 47 | 23 | 38 | 3rd | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 1999 | TPL | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 23 | 39 | 3rd | – | – | – | – | |||||
| 2000 | TPL | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 48 | 14 | 49 | bgcolor=gold | 1st[19] | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 2001–02 | TPL | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 41 | 11 | 50 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | – | – | bgcolor=gold | W | – | Worrawoot Srimaka | 12 | |
| 2002–03 | TPL | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 11 | 35 | 2nd | – | – | – | RU | RU | Worrawoot Srimaka | 10 | ||
| 2003–04 | TPL | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 33 | 22 | 34 | 2nd | – | – | – | – | GS | ||||
| 2004–05 | TPL | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 25 | 6th | – | – | – | RU | GS | Chakrit Buathong | 7 | ||
| 2006 | TPL | 22 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 32 | 14 | 36 | 3rd | – | GS | – | – | – | Pipat Thonkanya | 12 | ||
| 2007 | TPL | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 47 | 29 | 51 | 3rd | – | – | – | – | – | Anon Sangsanoi | 13 | ||
| 2008 | TPL | 30 | 16 | 7 | 7 | 50 | 31 | 55 | 3rd | – | – | – | – | – | Anon Sangsanoi | 20 | ||
| 2009 | TPL | 30 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 53 | 34 | 51 | 4th | RU | RU | – | – | – | Anon Sangsanoi | 18 | ||
| 2010 | TPL | 30 | 9 | 8 | 13 | 39 | 42 | 35 | 9th | R4 | QF | R2 | – | – | Anon Sangsanoi | 14 | ||
| 2011 | TPL | 30 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 39 | 35 | 45 | 8th | QF | – | QF | – | – | Ronnachai Rangsiyo | 15 | ||
| 2012 | TPL | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 53 | 43 | 57 | 3rd | QF | – | QF | – | – | Cleiton Silva | 24 | ||
| 2013 | TPL | 32 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 56 | 49 | 48 | 7th | R4 | – | R2 | – | – | Cleiton Silva | 20 | ||
| 2014 | TPL | 38 | 18 | 14 | 6 | 66 | 41 | 68 | 3rd | R3 | – | bgcolor=gold | W | – | – | Sho Shimoji | 17 | |
| 2015 | TPL | 34 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 42 | 51 | 35 | 16th | R2 | – | R3 | – | – | Adisak Kraisorn | 10 | ||
| 2016 | TL | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 42 | 52 | 41 | 9th | R2 | – | R3 | – | – | Sivakorn Tiatrakul | 9 | ||
| 2017 | T1 | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 57 | 39 | 14th | R3 | – | SF | – | – | Michaël N'dri | 15 | ||
| 2018 | T1 | 34 | 10 | 6 | 18 | 53 | 66 | 36 | 15th | R3 | – | R2 | – | – | Michaël N'dri | 16 | ||
| 2019 | T2 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 7 | 64 | 31 | 65 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | R3 | – | QF | – | – | Greg Houla | 11 | |
| 2020–21 | T1 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 14 | 32 | 50 | 36 | 11th | R2 | – | – | – | – | Dragan Bošković | 5 | ||
| 2021–22 | T1 | 30 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 33 | 39 | 37 | 11th | SF | – | R2 | – | – | Janepob Phokhi Evandro Paulista | 6 | ||
| 2022–23 | T1 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 41 | 43 | 43 | 7th | SF | – | R1 | – | – | Jeong Woo-geun Marc Landry Babo | 7 | ||
| 2023–24 Police Tero F.C. season | 2023–24 | T1 | 30 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 38 | 67 | 28 | 15th | R1 | – | R1 | – | – | Jeong Woo-geun | 10 | |
| 2024–25 Police Tero F.C. season | 2024–25 | T2 | – | – | – | |||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998–99 | Asian Club Championship | First round |  Three Star Club | 6–1 | ||
| Second round |  Dalian Wanda | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | ||
| 2000–01 | Asian Cup Winners' Cup | First round |  KRL | 1–1 | 0–6 | 7–1 |
| Second round |  Pupuk Kaltim | 4–1 | 0–1 | 5–1 | ||
| Quarter-finals |  Shimizu S-Pulse | 2–2 | 3–1 | 4–5 | ||
| 2001–02 | Asian Club Championship | First round | Singapore Armed Force | 3–0 | 1–5 | 8–1 |
| Second round | Kashima Antlers | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | ||
| 2002–03 | AFC Champions League | Group stage | Kashima Antlers | 2–2 | 1st | |
| Daejeon Citizen | 2–0 | |||||
| Shanghai Shenhua | 2–1 | |||||
| Semi-finals |  Pakhtakor | 3–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | ||
| Final | Al Ain | 1–0 | 2–0 | Runner-up | ||
| 2003 | ASEAN Club Championship | Group stage |  Kingfisher East Bengal | 1–0 | 1st | |
 Philippine Army | 0–3 | |||||
| Quarter-finals | Hoàng Anh Gia Lai | 1–2 | ||||
| Semi-final | Perak FA | 1–3 | ||||
| Final | Kingfisher East Bengal | 3–1 | Runner-up | |||
| 2004 | AFC Champions League | Group E | Shanghai Shenhua | 4–1 | 1–0 | 4th |
| Júbilo Iwata | 2–3 | 3–0 | ||||
| Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | 0–4 | 4–0 | ||||
| 2005 | AFC Champions League | Group F | PSM Makassar | 0–1 | 2–2 | 4th |
| Shandong Luneng Taishan | 0–4 | 1–0 | ||||
| Yokohama F. Marinos | 1–2 | 2–0 |
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For details on former players, see .
| Position | Staff | |
|---|---|---|
| Head coach |  Thawatchai Damrong-Ongtrakul | |
| Assistant coach | Wichanchai Hasap | |
| Amorn Thammanarm | ||
| Fitness coach | Srisak Khetchantra | |
| Goalkeeper coach | Anukol Kanyayon | |
| Team officer | Kwanchai Boonyang | |
| Team Manager | Ashwith Chengklinchan | |
| Technical Director | Jatuporn Pramualban |
Head coaches by years (1996/97-present)
| Name | Nat | Year | Honours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Campbell | 1996–97 | ||
| Pongphan Wongsuwan | 1997 | ||
| Vorawan Chitavanich | 1998–99 | ||
| Jason Withe | 1999–00 | Thailand Premier League 2000 2000 Thai FA Cup | |
| Pichai Pituwong | 2001–02 | ||
| Attaphol Buspakom | 2002–04 | Runner-up AFC Champions League 2002–03 Runner-up ASEAN Club Championship 2003 Runner-up Thailand Premier League 2002–03 Runner-up Thailand Premier League 2003–04 | |
| Sasom Pobprasert | 2004–05 | ||
| Dave Booth | 2006 | ||
| Regis Laguesse | 2007 | ||
| Christophe Larrouilh | 2008 – June 2009 | Runner-up 2009 Queen's Cup | |
| Totchtawan Sripan | June 2009 – July 2010 | TSW Pegasus Cup winner Runner-up 2009 Thai FA Cup | |
| Jorge Enrique Amaya | July 2010 – October 2010 | ||
| Peter Butler | October 2010 – June 2011 | ||
| Phayong Khunnaen | June 2011 – December 2011 | ||
| Andrew Ord | January 2012 – August 2012 | ||
| Stéphane Demol | September 2012 – 31 March 2013 | ||
| René Desaeyere | 31 March 2013 – 11 July 2013 | ||
| Choketawee Promrut | 11 July 2013 – 10 August 2013 | ||
| Jose Alves Borges[20] | August 2013 – November 2014 | 2014 Thai League Cup | |
| Božidar Bandović | November 2014 – May 2015 | 2015 Toyota Premier Cup | |
| Kenny Shiels | May 2015 – August 2015 | ||
| Rangsan Viwatchaichok (interim) | 10 August 2015 – 27 August 2015 | ||
| Manuel Cajuda |  | August 2015 – December 2015 | |
| Rangsan Viwatchaichok (interim) | 1 December 2015 – 13 December 2015 | ||
| February 2016 – May 2016 | |||
| Surapong Kongthep (interim) | May 2016 – December 2016 | ||
| Feb 2017 – June 2017 | |||
| Mike Mulvey | June 2017 – November 2017 | ||
| Scott Cooper | January 2018 – March 2018 | ||
| Rangsan Viwatchaichok (interim) | March 2018 – June 2018 | ||
| Totchtawan Sripan | June 2018 – September 2018 | ||
| Rangsan Viwatchaichok | September 2018 – November 2023 | Runner-up Thai League 2 2019 | |
| Worrawoot Srimaka (interim) | November 2023 – February 2024 | ||
| Tan Cheng Hoe | February 2024 – June 2024 | ||
| Thawatchai Damrong-Ongtrakul | June 2024 – Present | ||