From a humble start as a team made up of employees of the Thai Honda Manufacturing plant, Thai Honda FC has grown to become a professional football club with a Thai League 1 title and several Regional Bangkok Area Division wins.
A team of employees from Thai Honda Manufacturing first competed in Samutprakarn Cup in 1971 and 29 years later, in 2000, Thai Honda Football Club was founded under the management of the Phornprapha family.
Managed by staff certified by FIFA, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), Thai Honda FC operates on a philosophy of contributing to the progress of football in Thailand and the wider Asean region, creating opportunities for youth and promoting young talent. The club employs six youth development staff led by AFC coaches and FAT instructors.
Thai Honda FC won Thai League 1 in 2006 and is currently playing in Thai League 2. Key players include Tawin Butsombat who was the 2018 Thai Player Top Scorer, Valdomiro Soares Eggres and Leonardo Bartholo Prando, both Brazil Series B players, and Kento Nangasaki, S.League Star 2017. The team is based at 72 Anniversary Stadium in Minburi, which has a capacity of 12,000 people.
Being the only professional football club in industrial estates in Thailand, Thai Honda FC enjoys a fan base of more than 26,000 people. The club engages in a number of fan building activities with the 2019 calendar full of events, including Thai Honda FC Cheer Trips and factory visit in March, Thai Honda FC Dealer Tournament in May and industrial estate visit in August.
As part of its corporate responsibility projects, Thai Honda FC operates the Football Clinic, which invites children and youth from 10 to 18 to join in training sessions and workshops by the club’s professional coaches with the aim of promoting football as a recreational activity as well as nurturing up-coming talent.
The Sponsorship Experts, Paul Poole (South East Asia) Co., Ltd.
will be managing sponsorship and partnership marketing for Thai Honda FC 2019/2020. We have a number of commercial sponsorship and partnership opportunities available for brands and businesses wanting to integrate with this high profile football club as well as many other opportunities to create bespoke events for your brand or business.
Paul Poole (South East Asia) Co., Ltd. is an independent marketing consultancy based in Bangkok, Thailand specialising in sponsorship and partnership marketing, working with both rights holders and brands - acting as a catalyst by bringing them together and maximising the relationship.
We have packaged, sold and managed sponsorship and partnership opportunities for a wide range of rights holders and worked with many of the world’s leading brands to source and engage the right sponsorships and partnerships for them to maximise.
