Thailand Premier League 2004/05

Infobox Football league season
season = 2004/05
competition = Thailand Premier League
winners = Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
relegated = TOT
Royal Thai Navy
continentalcup1 = AFC Champions League
continentalcup1 qualifiers = BEC Tero Sasana FC: Group Stage
Krung Thai Bank FC: Group Stage
continentalcup2 = ASEAN Club Championship
continentalcup2 qualifiers = Thailand Tobacco Monopoly FC: Group Stage
continentalcup3 =
continentalcup3 qualifiers =
league topscorer = flagicon|Thailand Supakit Jinajai (PEA)
flagicon|Thailand Sarayoot Chaikamdee
(Port Authority of Thailand) (10)
biggest home win = Bangkok Bank 4-0
Bangkok University
Osotsapa 5-1
Bangkok Bank
Thailand Tobacco Monopoly 4-0
Royal Thai Navy
Osotsapa M-150 4-0
Royal Thai Navy
biggest away win = Royal Thai Navy 0-3 Osotsapa
Royal Thai Navy 0-3 Bangkok Bank
TOT 0-3 Osotsapa
Port Authority of Thailand 0-3 TOT
BEC Tero Sasana 0-3
Port Authority of Thailand
Port Authority of Thailand 1-4 Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
highest scoring = TOT 3-4 Port Authority of Thailand (7 goals)
total goals =
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prevseason = 2003/04
nextseason = 2006

The 2004-05 Thailand Premier League had 10 teams. Two clubs would be relegated as the league would be expanded to 12 teams for the 2006 season. Two teams promoted from the rival Provincial League and two clubs from Thailand Division 1 League. The team that finished in 8th position would play in a relegation play-off.

Member clubs

* Bangkok Bank
* Bangkok University
* BEC Tero Sasana
* Krung Thai Bank
* Osotsapa M-150
* Port Authority of Thailand
* Provincial Electricity Authority ("promoted from Division 1")
* Royal Thai Navy
* Thailand Tobacco Monopoly
* TOT ("promoted from Division 1")

Final League table

* Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd head-to-head; 3rd goal difference; 4th goals scored

Kings Trophy

The King's Trophy was an end of season match between the two clubs that finished first and second in the final Premier League standings.

Thailand Tobacco Monopoly, who won the Premier League, beat league runners up Provincial Electricity Authority 4-1.

Queens Cup

The Queen's Cup was postponed because of lack of sponsorship, will be held next year but with reduced prize money.

Asian Representation

* In the Asian Champions League, a competition described as "competition restricted to 14 countries considered 'mature' in the so-called 'Vision Asia' paper of AFC President Mohamed Bin Hammam. The so-called 14 'developing' countries have their clubs relegated to the AFC Cup, while the clubs from the 'emerging' countries are dumped into the new Presidents Cup.

*BEC Tero Sasana and Krung Thai Bank would again be the Thai representivites and would yet agin fail to qualify for the knockout stages. Krung Thai once again came in second place in their group, but a full 9 points behind group winners Busan I'Park. BEC would once again slump to bottom position on 1 point.

*Thailand Tobacco Monopoly took part in the 2nd edition of ASEAN Club Championship this season but failed to make it out of the group stage, drawing one game and losing the other two games.

Awards of the Year

Coach of the Year

*flagicon|Brazil José Alves Berwis - Thailand Tobacco Monopoly

Player of the Year

*flagicon|Brazil José Carlos Dasilva - Thailand Tobacco Monopoly

Top Scorer

*flagicon|Thailand Supakit Jinajai - Provincial Electricity Authority
*flagicon|Thailand Sarayoot Chaikamdee - Port Authority of Thailand

References

* [http://www.rsssf.com/tablest/thai05.html Thailand 2004/05] RSSSF

External links

* [http://www.thaifootballleague.com/ Official Website]