Samtse Football Club was a football club from

Samtse Samtse is a town and the headquarers of the Samtse District in Bhutan. The population of the town was 5,396 as of 2017. The population of the Samtse district was 60,100 at the 2005 census. Samtse is close to the Bhutan–India border. Across the ...

, Bhutan,Samtse FC
at Soccerway based at the Samtse Dzongkhag Ground. They finished last in the

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season of

Bhutan National League The Bhutan Premier League, currently known as the Bank of Bhutan Premier League due to sponsorship reasons, is the men's highest division of professional football in Bhutan. It also provides Bhutan's entrant for continental competition, the AFC C ...

.Bhutan National League 2012–13
at Soccerway

History

A team named Samtse competed in the 2001 season of the A-Division, where they finished in second place, qualifying from their group stage section, but losing 3–0 to Druk Star in the final. It is unclear whether this is the same team however, as the

Bhutan Football Federation The Bhutan Football Federation ( Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྐང་རིལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ།) is the governing body of football in Bhutan, controlling Bhutan national football team, Bhutan women's national football team and B ...

website states that the club were founded in 2012. There is no record of a team from Samtse competing in the A-Division again, so presumably the two teams are separate and are merely representative teams from Samtse. The team competed in the

season of the

, representing

Samtse District Samtse District ( Dzongkha: བསམ་རྩེ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: ''Bsam-rtse rdzong-khag''; older spelling "Samchi") is one of the 20 dzongkhags (districts) comprising Bhutan. It comprises two subdistricts (''dungkhags''): ...

. their first season of competition was not a successful one, as they lost all ten of their games, and finished bottom of the league, with a −31 goal difference. Even though there was no relegation from the National League, they did not return to competition the following season.

References

Football clubs in Bhutan Samtse District {{Bhutan-footyclub-stub