The 2007 season of the
Bhutanese A-Division was the thirteenth recorded season of top-flight football in
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
. The league was won by
Transport United
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, 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
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.
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
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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
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in the 1940s.
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
References
{{Thimphu League
Bhutan A-Division seasons
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountai ...
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