Football Club Chanthabouly, also known as FC Chanthabouly, previously known as Lao Toyota Football Club for sponsorship reasons, is a professional

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club based in

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, currently competing in the

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. The club has won 5 league titles and 1 Lao FF Cup.

History

Lao Toyota

The club was founded in 2013 as Lao Toyota Football Club by

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. The team debuted in the Vientiane Capital League 1 in 2013, where they finished third and earned promotion to the

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, the first division in the Laos division. In 2015, Lao Toyota won its first domestic championship. This was followed by four successive championship victories from 2017 to 2020. In 2019, the club won its first domestic treble winning the league title and the 2019 Lao FF Cup. Since 2015, the team has qualified for the

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every season. The best result that the team has achieved in this competition is fourth place in the group stage. On 24 February 2016, the club recorded its first ever win in their AFC Cup history in a 2–1 win over Indian club Bengalaru.

Chanthabouly

In 2021, the team adopted its current name, Football Club Chanthabouly.

Domestic history

Continental history

Current squad

Honours

Domestic leagues

** Champion (5): 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 ** Runners-up (2): 2014, 2016 * Lao FF Cup ** Champion (1): 2019 ** Runners-up (1): 2014 *

** Runners-up (1): 2023

Technical staff

Manager history

''Coaches by Years (2013–2020)'' * Somsack Keodala *

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* Bounlap Khenkitisack * Valakone Phomphakdy (Interim caretaker for the AFC Cup) * Jun Fukuda * Prajak Weangsong

Affiliated clubs

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(2022–present)

References

External links

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