2007 Bhutan A-Division

A-Division (Bhutan)
Season	2007
Champions	Transport United
AFC President's Cup	Transport United
	← 2006 2008 →

The 2007 season of the Bhutanese A-Division was the thirteenth recorded season of top-flight football in Bhutan. The league was won by Transport United, 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.^[1]

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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Qualification
1	Transport United (C)	0	0	0	0	Qualified for 2008 AFC President's Cup^[2]
2	Druk Pol	0	0	0	0
3	Druk Stars	0	0	0	0
4	Yeedzin	0	0	0	0
5	Royal Bhutan Army	0	0	0	0
6	Choden	0	0	0	0
7	RIHS	0	0	0	0	Qualified for relegation playoffs
8	Rigzung	14	1	13	3	Qualified for relegation playoffs

Updated to match(es) played on 11 July 2008. Source: ^[3]
Note:League table for 2007 is extremely fragmentary. Only the final positions and results for RIHS FC are known.
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions

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:

24 July 2007?

Yeedzin	15-0	RIHS
	Source^{[dead link]}

Note: RIHS only fielded 9 players.

3 August 2007

RIHS	0-20	Transport United
	Source^{[dead link]}	Tshering x17 (seventeen goals) Dorji Dorji Dhendup

In the game between Transport United 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 in the 1940s.^[4] 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.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Veterans (P)	3	3	0	9	promoted to 2008 A-Division
2	Rigzung	3	2	1	6	remained in 2008 A-Division
3	RIHS (R)	3	1	2	3	relegated to 2008 B-Division
4	Wolfland	3	0	3	0	remained in 2008 B-Division

Updated to match(es) played on 11 July 2008. Source: ^[3]
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play off matches

5 August 2007

RIHS	Beat	Wolfland
	Source^{[dead link]}

6 August 2007

Rigzung	Lost	Veterans
	Source^{[dead link]}

7/8 August 2007

Wolfland	Lost	Rigzung
	Source^{[dead link]}

7/8 August 2007

Veterans	Beat	RIHS
	Source^{[dead link]}

9 August 2007

Veterans	4-3	Wolfland
	Source^{[dead link]}

10 August 2007

Rigzung	4-0	RIHS
	Source^{[dead link]}

Topscorers

Best scorers	Team	Goals
Passang Tshering	Transport United	28^[3]

References

^ Schöggl, Hans; Abbink, Dinant (28 May 2014). "Bhutan - List of Champions". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^ "2008 AFC president's Cup Schedule and Results". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Schöggl, Hans (11 Jul 2008). "Bhutan 2007". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
^ Duffin, Claire; Lutz, Tom; Baldini, Paolo (9 May 2007). "The Knowledge - The highest scorer in one game of football". www.theguardian.com. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 27 June 2014.

[RSSSFChamp-1] Schöggl, Hans; Abbink, Dinant (28 May 2014). "Bhutan - List of Champions". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2014.

[2] "2008 AFC president's Cup Schedule and Results". the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

[RSSSF2007-3] Schöggl, Hans (11 Jul 2008). "Bhutan 2007". RSSSF. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 27 June 2014.

[4] Duffin, Claire; Lutz, Tom; Baldini, Paolo (9 May 2007). "The Knowledge - The highest scorer in one game of football". www.theguardian.com. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 27 June 2014.

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