Football Siam

The ones that got away: four players, four answers to Thailand’s diaspora question

by Simon Causton | Oct 12, 2026 | Long Read, Thai National Team

Felix Paschke retired at 23 on Saturday without ever being asked to play for Thailand. Set him beside Erawan Garnier, Stipe Ukich and Eric Kahl, and his story says less about bad luck than about a federation that waits. On Saturday Borussia Dortmund announced, in the...

Pack one: a Thailand great, a treble winner and a striker banned for life

by Simon Causton | Oct 11, 2026 | Long Read

The Class of 2011: Breaking 50 · Pack 1 of 50 Fifty packs of 2011 Thai Premier League stickers, one opened every Sunday. The first holds five men from a single season, and the fifteen years since could hardly have treated them more differently. A football...

The State of Thai Football 2026: Part II – A new deal for Thai football, and what the USL can teach the Thai League

by Simon Causton | Oct 4, 2026 | Long Read, Opinion, Thai League 1 2026/27, Thai League 2 2026/27

The State of Thai Football 2026 · Part IIFootball Siam White Paper · October 2026In September the United Soccer League bound its club owners and its players into the same five-year plan. Thai football, where central money flows one way and wages sometimes do not flow...

The State of Thai Football 2026: Part I – The wrong medicine: Manchester City, England’s new financial rules, and why Thailand should copy neither

by Simon Causton | Oct 2, 2026 | Long Read, Opinion, Thai League 1 2026/27, Thai League 2 2026/27

The State of Thai Football 2026 · Part IFootball Siam White Paper · October 2026On 29 September an independent commission found Manchester City guilty of 114 of the 115 charges brought by the Premier League: nine seasons of sham sponsorships, disguised owner money and...

Five stars for a patch of mimosa: every Thai League stadium ranked by its Google reviews

by Simon Causton | Sep 29, 2026 | Long Read, Thai League 1 2026/27, Thai League 2 2026/27

The international break has left us with nothing to watch, so we have read 28,400 strangers' opinions of 34 football grounds. It went about as well as you would expect. Cabin fever (noun): the restlessness, irritability and creeping boredom that set in when a...

The Class 1996 – 30 Years Autopsy: What Happened to the Original 18 Clubs of the Thai League?

by Simon Causton | Sep 10, 2026 | Long Read, Thai League 1 2026/27

With the 2026-27 season now underway, it felt like the right moment to look back and reminisce about a different era — one before the shift to a Western calendar and the days when a starting XI might feature seven Brazilians. Thirty years ago, Thai football looked...