BBCU Football Club, known fully as Big Bang Chula United Football Club (), is a Thai defunct professional

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club based in

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, owned by Montri Suwannoi. Founded as "Bangtoey Football Team" in 1976, the club changed its name many times, until finally, it became "BBCU" in 2011. BBCU was one of the most successful Thai football clubs of the late 1990s (under the name of "Sinthana Football Club"). The club has won a

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title, 2

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s and 1

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. Moreover, during the years in lower divisions, the club has also won a Division 2 title.

History

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, Thailand. They have played in the Chula–Thammasat Traditional Football Match since 1934. In 2004, "Chulalongkorn University FC" was combined with "Sinthana FC" and took the name, "Chula-Sinthana FC" which played in Division 2 in 2005 until Chula-Sinthana FC was promoted from Division 1 to

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in 2008. In August of the

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season, they changed their club name again from "Chula-Sinthana FC" to "Chula United". The Club Director was Kasiti Kamalanavin. Chula's return to the top flight, 2008 Thailand Premier League, ended with them finishing in a creditable 8th position. However, they could not build on their first season and were relegated from the

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. Despite having two of the three top goalscorers in the

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, Chula could not bounce back at the first attempt and slumped to a disappointing 10th-placed finish. Chula's striker

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topped the

goalscoring chart with an impressive 19 goals. Fellow frontman

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netted 15 times to be the 3rd top scorer in the league.

Big Bang Chula United

In January 2011, the club changed its name to "Big Bang Chula United" and relocated to play their home games at the

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. The club got off to a flying start and won promotion despite stuttering in the latter weeks of the season. The club's venture in the

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ended with them being relegated after only one season. Home games were played at the sparsely filled 65,000

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with an average home attendance of only 939. In April 2017, the club was dissolved, citing a lack of funds as the reason. This team is automatically banned for 2 years, If the team decides to come back they will relegated to the lowest tier of the professional league.

Stadium and locations

Season by season record

Amateur years (1976–1987)

Since Bangtoey Football team was founded in 1976 to compete in Bangkapi Cup tournament, the club had played 11 more years in amateur level before joining the first

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's competitions season in

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1998.

Royal Cups' years (1988–1995)

Football League years (1996–2010)

Season by season domestic record (2011–present)

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

*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 *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 Note *The list below shows the different names used to represent the same level of competition. **Level 1 : (Johny Walker) Thailand Soccer League, (Caltex)

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, (GSM)

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, and (Sponsor)

**Level 2 :

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and

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Performance in AFC competitions

Coaches

''Coaches by Years (2008–present)''

Honours

Domestic competitions

** Champions (1):

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

** Runner-up (1):

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

** Runner-up (1):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

** 3rd Place (1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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** Champions (1): 2006 *

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** Winners (1): 1997 *

** Winners (2): 1997, 1998 ** 3rd Place (1): 1995 *

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** Runner-up (3): 1999, 2000, 2002

International competitions

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** Quarter-final (1): 1999 *

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** Second round (1): 1998

References

External links

Official website
(archived)
BBCU
at Thai Premier League (archived) {{Thai football champions Defunct football clubs in Thailand Association football clubs established in 1976 Association football clubs disestablished in 2017 Thai League 1 clubs Thai FA Cup winners Football clubs in Bangkok 1976 establishments in Thailand 2017 disestablishments in Thailand