| 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.
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 | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transport United (C) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for 2008 AFC President's Cup |
| 2 | Druk Pol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Druk Stars | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Yeedzin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Royal Bhutan Army | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Choden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | RIHS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualified for relegation playoffs |
| 8 | Rigzung | 14 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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:
| Yeedzin | 15-0 | RIHS |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
Note: RIHS only fielded 9 players.
| RIHS | 0-20 | Transport United |
|---|---|---|
| Source | 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. 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 | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veterans (P) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | promoted to 2008 A-Division |
| 2 | Rigzung | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | remained in 2008 A-Division |
| 3 | RIHS (R) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | relegated to 2008 B-Division |
| 4 | Wolfland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | remained in 2008 B-Division |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Play off matches
| RIHS | Beat | Wolfland |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
| Rigzung | Lost | Veterans |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
| Wolfland | Lost | Rigzung |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
| Veterans | Beat | RIHS |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
| Veterans | 4-3 | Wolfland |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
| Rigzung | 4-0 | RIHS |
|---|---|---|
| Source |
Topscorers
| Best scorers | Team | Goals |
| Passang Tshering | Transport United | 28 |
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.
- ^ 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.