Finance and Revenue Football Club (often shortened as F&R FC), currently known as Mountain Lion FC,[2] and formerly known as Rangoon Customs, is a Burmese professional football club operated by the Ministry of Finance and Revenue of Myanmar. The club is the most successful club in the history of the now defunct Burmese top-division football league. They won a total of 17 Burma First Division championships prior to 1996, and 9 Myanmar Premier League championships between 1996 and 2008. The club completed its dominance in the last edition of First Division football in 2009 by winning the Myanmar Premier League Cup 2009.[3]
| Full name | Myanmar Lion Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 1924[1] (as Rangoon Customs) | ||
| Ground | Aung San Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 40,000 | ||
| Manager | Zaw Zaw Myo | ||
| League | MNL-2 | ||
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F&R's long presence in top division Burmese football has come to an end in April 2009 as the country's first ever professional league, the Myanmar National League, does not include any football clubs run by government ministries. In April 2009, the club released 17 of its players to the MNL, for a transfer fee of 9.7 million kyats (US$97,000).[4]
Name changed
editFinance and Revenue changed their name to Mountain Lion FC.[5][2]
History
editEarly year
editFinance & Revenue team played in Myanmar Premier League. In 2009, MFF changed Domestic league from non Professional League to Professional League.
2018
editFinance & Revenue changed to Mountain Lion and play in 2018 National League 2.
Honours
editDomestic
edit- Rangoon League Championship[6]
- Champions: 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84
- Myanmar Premier League
International
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References
edit- ^ Saw Thiha and Ba Saing (May 3–9, 2004). "Finance team wrap up Myanmar Premier League". The Myanmar Times. Archived from the original on 2007-11-10. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ a b "name changed". MNL. 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-01-17.
- ^ "Finance/ Revenue Club won Myanmar League Knock-Out Cup". Myanmar Football Federation. 2009-04-01. Archived from the original on 2012-02-17. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ "Players Transferred to Pro League". soccermyanmar.com (in Burmese). 2009-04-28. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
- ^ "Burma Athletic Association Grounds (Aung San Stadium)". yangontimemachine.com. Yangon Time Machine. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Myanmar - List of Champions". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
- ^ Das Sharma, Amitabha (30 October 2004). "Kyaw Thu Ra does the star turn". sportstar.thehindu.com. Sportstar. Archived from the original on 7 March 2022. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ Sengupta, Somnath (8 March 2011). "The Glorious History Of IFA Shield". thehardtackle.com. The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ Chaudhuri, Arunava. "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield". indianfootball.de. Indian Football Network. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
External links
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