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End of season transfers overview & squad stats



All of these were bought in from the last Youth Intake and I've done then same for the start of next season, poaching highly rated players from over Bhutan clubs, only 1 of the players brought in had under 4.5* PA.


Squad:




Key Players:

Asian President's Cup - First Group Stage





The first match against ABDB or MS Angkatan Bersenjata Diraja Brunei FC to give them their proper name! The shots were equal but the possession was not, and it saw us come out as 2-0 victors in the opening match.






Global FC got off to a flyer scoring within 60 seconds, but after we equalized in the 3rd minute everything went our way and we tore them to shreds, we could have scored so many more as we had 27 shots and a massive 15 of them were on target!






The Sri Lankan Army proved much tougher opposition, and not just with the length of their names, seriously, one of their strikers is called Manannalage Manjula Anushka Chathuranga for christ sake! it was a very even match and there weren't a lot of shots to see but we came out as 3-2 winners in the end!



We end up qualifying very easily with only Merw doing better than us in terms of results.






All of the squads have greyed out players and to me none of them prove any real threat when we face them in the new season.

Bhutani Cup - Final





WINNERS! And I'm more than happy with this result, why I hear you ask? Well, because before the match Samtse's manager tried playing mind games with me, and I told him I was going to beat him in the Cup Final and well...we did, and after the match he was saying how I was acting unprofessional and I told him he was only saying that because his mind games hadn't worked....he's now staying quiet although on my profile he is the #1 person who dislikes me.





Last year we got £10K for winning the cup, this year we got an eye watering £270K!!!!!

Bhutani Cup - Semi Final





Boom! And we're into the Cup Final, we were much better than Druk Yul and face Samtse in the Final.

February 26th 2015 - Youth Candidates









I have a very good feeling about Choki Yangzom, his physicals good make him the best player Bhutan has seen...

Asian Competition Rankings & President's Cup First Group Draw





It's great to see that the league has improved 6 places, from 118th to 112th, we're improving!





None of the clubs we face have any real players in their squad, fighting into the unknown again.

Bhutani Cup - Quarter Final





The stats say that this was a close game, and other than the scoreline, I can safely say that it was a tight game with Nio and Subbha forming a great partnership to see us into the Semi Final against non-league Druk Yul.

Bhutani National League - Games 9 & 10 of 10





Phuentsholing were woeful, just 2 shots all game and we capitalized by scoring 3, 2 of which from a youth academy graduate, Bhim Thempa.





Druk United provided little more in the way of competition other than they had more shots, they just couldn't finish, we record another 3-0 win to finish off the league for this season.

Bhutani National League - Games 7 & 8 of 10





Ugyen Academy were the better team but we got lucky thanks to an own goal and a late 92nd minute winner from one of our youth products.





We've won the league with 2 games left! Discipline was yet again thrown out the window but we've retained the title!

Bhutani National League - Games 5 & 6 of 10





A very close match against Dzongree where we were almost our own undoing as we gave them 3 penalties and Chichi Gift Agoha converted 2 of the 3 Birent Basnet got a quick fire brace by the 28th minute and that's where the scoring finished.





A bit of a boring game where we really should have gotten the 3 points, but I'll take the point as it's better than nowt.

Bhutani National League - Games 3 & 4 of 10





A very close fought game with both of us only having 5 shots so there wasn't an awful lot of action to write home about, but we managed a 2-1 win nonetheless.





A much better result at home to Phuentsholing, 13 shots with 7 on target gave us a much deserved 3-0 win and sees us 5 points clear after 4 games.

Bhutani National League - Games 1 & 2 of 10





The first game ended a bore draw but that's okay, because every other team drew as well, Nio's goal came from pretty close to the corner flag hence it being a lucky strike.





A Subba brace was enough to get the 3 points off of Druk United, Subba now has 14 in 13 games as well!

Bhutani Cup - 3rd Round





A massive 5-0 win, and yet I feel disappointed, why I here you ask? Well, we scored 5 in the first 21 minutes and didn't score for the next 70 odd minutes, just think how many we could have scored! We face Bhutan Clearing in the Quarter Final who we faced in last years 3rd Round.

Thimphu A Division - Game 7 and 8 of 8





And with that we retain the title! Equal possession but we were more clinical with our finishing taking a 4-2 victory in the end.






The sending off for Thimphu City's Gyalzin Khandu proved pivotal as after his sending off we went from 2-1 down to 4-2 winners!




We scored 6 more goals than season and finished with 21 points out of 24, not bad!


In other news, one of our youth players has been capped by the national team already!

Thimphu A Division - Game 5 and 6 of 8





Not exactly a shot fest against Dzongree but we managed to get 4 goals from our 4 shots on target!





A defeat to Druk United, and this was actually my first league loss as a manager! It's not dented our points though as we've already qualified for the National League.

Thimphu A Division - Game 3 and 4 of 8





A nice little win and 3 points against Druk Utd where we showed some superiority even though Karun Gurung got himself sent off right at the end...





A strong looking 3-1 win against Druk Stars puts us 4 points clear at the top.

Bhutani Cup - 2nd Round





We utterly demolished BMW and if anything we went easy on them, we were 5-1 up at half-time and we didn't score at all in the 2nd half. We face Druk Pol in the 3rd Round.

Asian President's Cup - Final








We've done it!!! Passang Tshering has given Yeedzin, and Bhutan's first continental recognition!

Thimphu A Division - Game 3 and 4 of 8





A nice little win and 3 points against Druk Utd where we showed some superiority even though Karun Gurung got himself sent off right at the end...





A strong looking 3-1 win against Druk Stars puts us 4 points clear at the top.

Asian President's Cup - Final Group Stage



We were 2-1 up until the 90th minute where it looked like we'd throw it away again as Merw made it 2-2, but then in the 92nd minute Basnet gave us the 3 points!



We outplayed the Laos Police Force as we battle to a 2-0 win and all but sealing our place in the Semi Final.



A last game defeat to Alga, we had the most shots but couldn't capitalise, would we have made it through?




Yes! But only just, 1 goal on goal difference saw us go through to the Semi Finals!


Asian President's Cup - Semi Final



And Tshering's 88th minute penalty has done it for us! Little Yeedzin from Bhutan have made it to the Final of the President's Cup!

Thimphu A Division - Game 1 of 8





A great start to the season with a 3-0 win and we injured 3 of their players (woops!)

2014/15 Pre-Season



A decent pre-season where we went a bit downhill towards the end but hopefully it won't have an affect on morale.

Asian President's Cup - Group Stage - Game 3





An awful loss, we were easily the better team yet we were 3-0 down until the 80th minute! This left us with a very close group table...





And I made a mistake in the last post, we don't qualify for the Semi Finals, we qualify for the Final Group Stage which takes place in September.

Asian President's Cup - Group Stage - Game 2







A lone goal from Chencho Nio gives us a needed 3 points to give us a good chance of qualifying for the Semi Final!