Finance and Revenue Football Club (often shortened as F&R FC), currently known as Mountain Lion FC, and formerly known as Rangoon Customs, is a Burmese professional

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club operated by the Ministry of Finance and Revenue of Myanmar. The club is the most successful club in the history of the now defunct Burmese top-division football league. They won a total of 17 Burma First Division championships prior to 1996, and 9 Myanmar Premier League championships between 1996 and 2008. The club completed its dominance in the last edition of First Division football in 2009 by winning the Myanmar Premier League Cup 2009. F&R's long presence in top division Burmese football has come to an end in April 2009 as the country's first ever professional league, the

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, does not include any football clubs run by government ministries. In April 2009, the club released 17 of its players to the MNL, for a transfer fee of 9.7 million

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s (US$97,000).

Name changed

Finance and Revenue changed their name to Mountain Lion FC.

History

Early year

Finance & Revenue team played in Myanmar Premier League. In 2009, MFF changed Domestic league from non Professional League to Professional League.

2018

Finance & Revenue changed to Mountain Lion and play in 2018 National League 2.

Honours

Domestic

*Rangoon League Championship **: 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84 * Myanmar Premier League ** (9): 1996, 1997, 1999,

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, 2002,

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

International

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**Champions (1): 2004 **Runners-up (1): 1929 (''as Rangoon Customs'')

References

External links

* MNL-2 * 2018 National League 2 Football clubs in Myanmar Association football clubs established in 1924 Myanmar Premier League clubs 1924 establishments in Burma Financial services association football clubs {{Burma-footyclub-stub