Sukhothai Football Club (th|สโมสรฟุตบอลจังหวัดสุโขทัย) is a Thai professional association football club based in Sukhothai province. The club currently play in the Thai League 1. Sukhothai represents the Sukhothai Province mainly known for being the first Kingdom of Thailand.[1] Their main team colors are red and white and their away colors are black and green.
Sukhothai Football Club was established in 2009 and entered the Regional League Northern Division. They finished their first ever season in the Regional League Northern Division in 7th place out of 11 teams. In 2014, after 6 years in the third tier division, Sukhothai got the promotion to 2015 Thai Division 1 League.
In 2015, the newly promotion team Sukhothai had a successful campaign in Thai Division 1 League with the finishing in the unexpected third place of the final standing. Sukhothai has promoted to 2016 Thai League.
In 2019, Sukhothai academy's top prospect, Jasraj Sangha, was offered a contract with the first team, but declined the offer, later stating that it was a "late notice".
In 2016, In the club first year in the top league, Sukhothai created the overachieved run by finishing in the seventh place of the table. Sukhothai also qualified for 2017 AFC Champions League qualifying round after being one of co-winner of 2016 Thai FA Cup.[2] Sukhothai then faced off against Myanmar club Yadanarbon in the preliminary round 2 where they beat them 5–0 to advance to the play-off round. Sukhothai then met Chinese club Shanghai SIPG but lost 3–0 at the Shanghai Stadium.
Sukhothai then finished off the 2020–21 Thai League 1 season in 14th place needing two points away from Suphanburi who is sitting on top of the relegation zone. The club was then relegated to the 2021–22 Thai League 2 season. In the next season, Sukhothai then finished off as runner-ups in the Thai League 2 sitting one point below league champions, Lamphun Warriors. Sukhothai then returned to the top flight after spending one season in the second division.
Sukhothai's main neighboring rivals are with Phitsanulok and Kamphaengphet.
| Coordinates | Location | Stadium | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16.9751°N 99.7895°W | Sukhothai | Sukhothai Institute of Physical Education Stadium | 2009–2013 |
| 17.0618°N 99.7937°W | Sukhothai | Thalay Luang Stadium | 2014–present |
Chusak Sriphum Somchai Makmool Somchai Chuayboonchum Somchai Makmool Pairoj Borwonwatanadilok Yannawit Khantharat
| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | AFC Champions League | Yadanarbon | |||
 Shanghai SIPG | |||||
| Season | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Thailand Champions Cup | AFC Champions League | Top scorer | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | Name | Goals | ||||||
| 2009 | DIV 2 North | 20 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 29 | 24 | 7th | – | – | |||||
| 2010 | DIV 2 North | 30 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 44 | 51 | 42 | 9th | R1 | – | – | ||||
| 2011 | DIV 2 North | 30 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 23 | 41 | 26 | 14th | – | – | |||||
| 2012 | DIV 2 North | 30 | 9 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 37 | 37 | 14th | – | – | |||||
| 2013 | DIV 2 North | 30 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 50 | 28 | 60 | 3rd | – | – | |||||
| 2014 | DIV 2 North | 26 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 69 | 19 | 61 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | – | – | ||||
| 2015 | DIV 1 | 38 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 71 | 52 | 62 | 3rd | R3 | R1 | – | – | Felipe Ferreira | 25 | |
| 2016 | TL | 31 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 50 | 44 | 45 | 7th | bgcolor=gold | W | R3 | – | – | Renan Marques | 15 |
| 2017 | T1 | 34 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 54 | 66 | 36 | 15th | R2 | QF | RU | John Baggio | 9 | ||
| 2018 | T1 | 34 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 53 | 63 | 43 | 11th | R2 | R1 | – | – | Nelson Bonilla | 25 | |
| 2019 | T1 | 30 | 6 | 16 | 8 | 37 | 37 | 34 | 12th | R3 | R2 | – | – | John Baggio | 10 | |
| 2020–21 | T1 | 30 | 8 | 4 | 18 | 40 | 57 | 28 | 14th | R2 | – | – | – | John Baggio | 16 | |
| 2021–22 | T2 | 34 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 78 | 44 | 73 | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | R1 | QPR | – | – | Osman Sow | 16 |
| 2022–23 | T1 | 30 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 27 | 43 | 34 | 12th | R2 | R1 | – | – | Osman Sow | 7 | |
| 2023–24 | T1 | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 34 | 60 | 32 | 13th | QF | R2 | – | – | Nelson Bonilla | 8 | |
| 2024–25 | T1 | R1 | – | – | ||||||||||||
| bgcolor=gold | Champions | bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
