A Bhutanese Story...Creating A Local Legend

(Note: This will be the only long winded post, the information has been taken from Wikipedia, other posts will most likely be just short snippets)



Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia located at the eastern end of the Himalayas. It is bordered to the north by China and to the south, east and west by India. To the west, it is separated from Nepal by the Indian state of Sikkim, while further south it is separated from Bangladesh by the Indian states of Assam and West Bengal. Bhutan's capital and largest city is Thimphu.




Yeedzin Football Club is a football club from Thimphu, Bhutan. Founded in 2002, they were promoted from the B-Division in 2002 to the A-Division, where they have remained ever since. They won their first A-Division title in 2008 and have won a total of four A-Division chmpionships. In addition they have also qualified for the National League in 2012 and 2013, winning the inaugural national competition in 2012. They have been Bhutan's representative in the AFC President's Cup on four occasions, a feat matched only by Transport United in Bhutan. Unfortunately, their domestic success has not been replicated at a continental level. In each of their four appearances in the President's cup they have lost all three of their group games and have only managed to score a total of five goals in their twelve matches. It is one of the richer clubs in Bhutan.


After seeing a couple of Northern Mariana Islands stories go up I didn't want to be a 3rd person to make one there so I decided to go with Bhutan as I know nothing about them other they measure themselves based on happiness and not money and they won a game called 'The Other Final' 4-0 against Montserrat in 2002.

Just Bhutan loaded as playable, rest of the playable Asian league added as view-only.




A large database with all players based in South Asia (Bhutan's region) and all players available in Bhutan.




Me, with Yeedzin my favourite club and I was born in Thimphu (not actually).

Yeedzin are Bhutan's equivalent of a fallen giant, or Bhutan's Manchester United, they won the league 3 years in a row then last season they finished 6th, it's my job to get them back to the top of Bhutan, even with their new, bizarre league structure that I haven't quite worked out yet. They play in a stadium which holds 25,000 people and it is very beautiful to say the least!






We have good finances for the level we're at and we're amateur so we don't lose any money on wages.




This is our league, well the league we begin in, it get's a bit complicated so here are the rules:




The top 3 qualify for the National League (called Champions Playoff in FM) along with the 3 teams from the Districts Division.






We have a good squad although we are lacking in midfielders and I'll be looking to make a basic tactic as they're amateurs although it looks like a 4-4-2 may be off the cards with the players I have at my disposal so far.

And here are our best players:

Preseason 2013/14



We were predicted to be the best, so, how can we be the best?




We kept the squad together and lost no-one, more importantly we strengthened, a lot, and here's some evidence of that...






My squad makes up the ENTIRE national team!



And there is my squad (there are a few more players but I moved them into my U20 squad to fit it all onto one page.



A very good Pre-Season leaves me confident going into the actual season.

First League Game Of Eight





I'm very happy with an opening win, I was almost frustrated as we marginally outplayed them and they got an equalizer in the 76th minute but luckily Dorji got us the needed 3 points to start the campaign in the 89th minute.

Second League Game Of Eight





A good come from behind win where our first goal came directly from a throw in from the half way line that went past 3 of their defenders before meeting Subba.

Third League Game Of Eight







A bore draw, we had the better stats during the match but we couldn't do enough to get the win, that's the 1st month over with and we're 1st and unbeaten so far.

Bhutani Cup 2nd Round



A good 2nd half thrashing of non-league side Changangkha, we've drawn Bhutan Clearing in the 3rd Round.

Fourth League Game Of Eight





Not a lot of shots, but a great lack of discipline from Yeedzin but again, we got the 3 points!

Fifth League Game Of Eight





And with that we secure a play-off place! A massive 4-0 win over the team that were our closest competitors, even better is that it was at home and even better than that was it was a fan day that attracted 576 people!

Seventh League Game Of Eight





An action packed game which led to the resignation of the Druk Stars manager! we've clinched the title now and after the game against Dzongree we can look forward to the Champions Playoff and the rest of the FA Cup.

Eighth League Game Of Eight







And another close win to end the league, or as I've discovered, the qualifying league before the National League starts, we end up finishing unbeaten and 12 points ahead of 2nd after only 8 games!



And here's the National League, another 10 games for us.

Bhutani Cup 3rd Round



All the action happened in the 2nd half as we easily beat Bhutan Clearing 4-1, scoring 3 after we went down to 10 men, we face Thimphu Ravens in the Quarter Final.