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| Full name | Buriram United Football Club สโมสรฟุตบอลบุรีรัมย์ ยูไนเต็ด | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Thunder Castle (ปราสาทสายฟ้า) | ||
| Short name | BRUTD | ||
| Founded | 1970, as Provincial Electricity Authority Football Club 2010, as Buriram PEA Football Club 2012, as Buriram United Football Club | ||
| Ground | Chang Arena Buriram, Thailand | ||
| Capacity | 32,600 | ||
| Chairman | Newin Chidchob | ||
| Head coach | Osmar Loss | ||
| League | Thai League 1 | ||
| 2023–24 | Thai League 1, 1st (champion) | ||
| Website | http://www.buriramunited.com | ||
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Buriram United Football Club (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลบุรีรัมย์ ยูไนเต็ด) is a Thai professional football club based in Buriram. The club has played at the top level of Thai football for the majority of their existence and competes in the Thai League 1. The club was founded in 1970 as PEA Football Club (Provincial Electricity Authority Football Club) before being reformed as Buriram PEA and Buriram United in 2010 and 2012 respectively. Their home stadium is Chang Arena, which has a capacity of 32,600.[1]
Buriram United won their first Thai League 1 title in 2008 and the Kor Royal Cup in 1998, as PEA FC. The club was previously based in Ayutthaya before moving east to Buriram for the 2010 season. In the 2011 season, Buriram became the first team in Thailand football history to win all the domestic trophies, as the treble champions (2011 Thai Premier League, 2011 Thai FA Cup, and 2011 Thai League Cup). Buriram then went on to win five domestic treble in the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2021–22 and 2022–23 season where the club went undefeated in the league during the 2013 and 2015 season.
Buriram United is by far the most popular Thai football club, with fans from across the country. Polling shows that it is also the third most popular football club in terms of supporters in Thailand overall behind Premier League clubs Liverpool and Manchester United.[2]
- ^ "Buri Ram scores in sports tourism". ttrweekly. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
- ^ https://www.nationthailand.com/life/40018126