UDON THANI FC - The 2014-season

Post by **Svein66** » January 2, 2014, 7:19 pm

The new season is only 5-6 weeks away (date not confirmed yet). It looks like there will be only 14 teams in the North-Eastern region this year. Roi Et is promoted to D1 and Yasothon won`t play until 2015 because their pitch (or stadium?) won`t be ready in time.

Udon Thani FC
Ubon UMT FC
Nong Khai FT
Surin City
Loei City
Mahasarakham United
Kalasin FC
Sisaket United
Nakhon Phanom FC
Sakhon Nakhon FC
Amnat Town
Chaiyaphum United
Nong Bua Lamphu FC
Mukdahan City

Post by **Svein66** » January 7, 2014, 9:49 am

Pouya is back at UDFC after his new club Phang Nga didn`t have any money.

The team started training for the new season yesterday, with a few players on trial. Hopefully there will be some great new signings soon.

Post by **Svein66** » January 9, 2014, 5:21 pm

Division 2 is said to kick off the new season on the weekend of February 15/16, and the fixture list is expected within 2 weeks.

Post by **tkvicksson** » January 9, 2014, 10:02 pm

Keep up the info, Svein. Great.

Post by **Svein66** » January 13, 2014, 11:37 am

Svein66 wrote: Udon Thani FC
Ubon UMT FC
Nong Khai FT
Surin City (renamed Surin FC, I think)
Loei City
Mahasarakham United
Kalasin FC
Sisaket United
Nakhon Phanom FC
Sakhon Nakhon FC
Amnat Town
Chaiyaphum United
Nong Bua Lamphu FC
Mukdahan City

The clubs above are now confirmed by the organizer. As last season there are 6 leagues in Division 2, but this year there is 5x14 teams and 1x13 (south). The 2 best teams in each league qualifies for the promotion play-off.

Post by **Svein66** » January 20, 2014, 9:08 pm

UDFC has got a new Iranian model...eeeh...footballer.

The fixture list will be out on Friday this week.

Post by **Svein66** » January 23, 2014, 3:30 pm

The draw for the qualifying round in the League Cup was made today. UDFC will have to visit Sakhon Nakhon for the game that`s scheduled to be played on Feb 1 or 2.

Post by **Svein66** » January 24, 2014, 1:53 pm

Svein66 wrote:The draw for the qualifying round in the League Cup was made today. UDFC will have to visit Sakhon Nakhon for the game that`s scheduled to be played on Feb 1 or 2.

The winner of Sakhon Nakhon vs UDFC will play at home (I think) to the winner of Tak vs Petchabun on Feb 8 or 9. Tak and Petchabun was the 2 bottom teams in the Northern region last season.
Sakhon Nakhon vs UDFC will be played on Saturday February 1st at 4pm.

Post by **Svein66** » January 24, 2014, 3:16 pm

Draw for the opening day of the league:
Kalasin vs Udon Thani
Game to be played on Feb 15 or 16

If same as last season, this means we will play at home to Kalasin in the last game.

Post by **phen** » January 25, 2014, 8:06 am

Thanks Svein,

I hope that you can post the program of all the games this season.

Post by **Svein66** » January 25, 2014, 9:13 am

phen wrote:Thanks Svein,

I hope that you can post the program of all the games this season.

I will as soon as they are published. Only the opening day came yesterday.

Post by **Drunk Monkey** » January 25, 2014, 10:19 am

Went to sort out my sons Udon FC academy enrollment recently and spoke with supposedly the clubs owner (very nice chap) .... things look a bit grim on the Udon team selection front , as of now the squad is relatively small with only one "major" signing , many players from last year have moved on ... could be a long hard season if playing with limited small inexperienced squad .... fingers crossed may need some of the academy boys !!!

DM

Post by **Svein66** » January 27, 2014, 6:44 pm

Here`s the first half of the season:

1/2 Sakhon Nakhon vs Udon Thani (League Cup play-off)
16/2 Kalasin vs Udon Thani
23/2 Udon Thani vs Loei City
9/3 Nakhon Phanom vs Udon Thani
16/3 Udon Thani vs Amnat Charoen Town
22/3 Nong Bua Lamphu vs Udon Thani
30/3 Udon Thani vs Mahasarakham United
5/4 Sakhon Nakhon vs Udon Thani
26/4 Udon Thani vs Nong Bua Lamphu
3/5 Chaiyaphum United vs Udon Thani
10/5 Surin City vs Udon Thani
17/5 Udon Thani vs Ubon UMT
24/5 Sisaket United vs Udon Thani
31/5 Udon Thani vs Mukdahan City

Post by **Svein66** » January 27, 2014, 8:44 pm

An updated fixture list. Nong Khai was missing in my previous post.
All dates in the 2nd half are Saturdays, but about half of them will be played on Sundays. I will make changes when I get it translated.

1/2 Sakhon Nakhon vs Udon Thani (League Cup play-off)
16/2 Kalasin vs Udon Thani
23/2 Udon Thani vs Loei City
9/3 Nakhon Phanom vs Udon Thani
16/3 Udon Thani vs Amnat Charoen Town
22/3 Nong Bua Lamphu vs Udon Thani
30/3 Udon Thani vs Mahasarakham United
5/4 Sakhon Nakhon vs Udon Thani
26/4 Udon Thani vs Nong Khai
3/5 Chaiyaphum United vs Udon Thani
10/5 Surin City vs Udon Thani
17/5 Udon Thani vs Ubon UMT
24/5 Sisaket United vs Udon Thani
31/5 Udon Thani vs Mukdahan City

28/6 Mukdahan City vs Udon Thani
5/7 Udon Thani vs Sisaket United
12/7 Ubon UMT vs Udon Thani
19/7 Udon Thani vs Surin City
26/7 Udon Thani vs Chaiyaphum United
2/8 Nong Khai vs Udon Thani
9/8 Udon Thani vs Sakhon Nakhon
16/8 Mahasarakham United vs Udon Thani
23/8 Udon Thani vs Nong Bua Lamphu
30/8 Amnat Charoen Town vs Udon Thani
6/9 Udon Thani vs Nakhon Phanom
13/9 Loei City vs Udon Thani
20/9 Udon Thani vs Kalasin

Post by **phen** » January 28, 2014, 9:15 am

Thanks again Svein looking forward to the first game at home.

Post by **tkvicksson** » January 28, 2014, 1:43 pm

5/7 home to Sisaket for me.

Post by **Brian Davis** » January 29, 2014, 1:54 pm

I don't think this has been mentioned to date. The father of the Phen Saturday market family who are absolute Udon FC 'nuts', told my wife that Udon played Nongbualamphu other day in a pre-season warm up game. Apparently, a small cup involved.
Udon won 2-1,if it really mattered. I didn't pick up any information about the game beforehand(if there was any!, although there seems to be something on Giant Gangster now on result), but would probably have gone to see how things were shaping up. As it is, I don't know if it took place at home or away, whether there were unlimited substitutes etc.

Post by **Brian Davis** » January 29, 2014, 2:11 pm

Drunk Monkey wrote:Went to sort out my sons Udon FC academy enrollment recently and spoke with supposedly the clubs owner (very nice chap) .... things look a bit grim on the Udon team selection front , as of now the squad is relatively small with only one "major" signing , many players from last year have moved on ... could be a long hard season if playing with limited small inexperienced squad .... fingers crossed may need some of the academy boys !!!

DM

Personally, I rather like the idea of developing local talent, as opposed to bringing in 'journeymen'. Of course, it's a long process. Perhaps I'm an old-fashioned romantic in hoping local lads will stay loyal and give their upmost for their home Club.

Post by **Svein66** » January 30, 2014, 12:09 pm

Good to see you here again, Brian!

I didn`t see anything either about a friendly last week, but as you say it looks like there`s something about the result on FB.
I agree with you about local talent. There are too many poor foreign players at clubs in Thailand. They need to develop their own. Foreigners are good if they are certain to be in the starting 11 every time, but to have them sitting on the bench game after game is a waste of money.

Pouya has left UDFC for the 2nd time, after returning from Phang Nga a few weeks back. He is now going to play for Customs United in D2 Bangkok.

New season only a couple of days away, with the cupgame at Sakhon Nakhon on Saturday. Hoping for a good cuprun this season too. I also would like to see them enter the FA-cup, which they didn`t do last season.

This season all leagues will have a mid-season break, which the 2 northern leagues didn`t have last season, and that might make the promotion play-offs more fair for those getting there.

Post by **phen** » January 30, 2014, 2:14 pm

It's better that he goes, because it looks like he really not want to play for UDFC