2009 Thai Division 1 League

Rules

• Teams play each other twice on a home and away basis
• 3 Points for a win
• 1 Point for a draw
• Teams finishing on same points at the end of the season use head-to-head record to determine finishing position.
• The top three teams will be promoted to Premier League.
• The top team as champions.
• The bottom three teams will be relegated to Division 2.

Prize money

• Champion : 700,000 Baht
• Runner-up : 300,000 Baht
• Third Place : 200,000 Baht
• Fourth Place : 100,000 Baht
• Fifth Place : 50,000 Baht
• Sixth Place : 40,000 Baht
• Seventh Place : 20,000 Baht

Member clubs

Stadia and locations

Customs Department FC

Rattana Bundit

Royal Thai Army

Police United

Thai Honda

Royal Thai Air Force}}

Bangkok Bank FC were relegated from the Thailand Premier League, but withdrew from the league and folded before the season began. The Thai FA decided that, in order to keep the league at 16 teams, they would run a pre-season competition featuring the four relegated clubs from the Thailand Division 1 League 2008 season: Thai Honda won the competition.

Pre Season Playoff

The winners of the Pre Season Playoff would fill the void left by Bangkok Bank FC, after they withdrew from the league after being relegated from the Thailand Premier League.

The four semi finalist's in the play-offs, are the four relegated clubs from the 2008 season of the Thailand Division 1 League.

Play-offs

Bracket

|25 January 2009 – Bangkok| Thai Honda| 1 | Raj Vithi| 0 |25 January 2009 – Phichit| Phitsanulok| 1 | Nakhon Sawan| 2 |1 February 2009 – Bangkok| Thai Honda| 4| Nakhon Sawan|0 |}}

Semi finals

Final

Chommanan Sookkaserm , Prasert Rookprailee

Final league table

Results

Top scorers

Last updated October 17, 2009

References

References

1. link
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3. "TPL Division 1 2009 fixtures".
4. [http://www.coreballthai.com/Div1striker.php TPL Division 1 2009 Top goalscorers] {{Webarchive. link. (19 October 2007 [http://www.coreballthai.com coreballthai] {{Webarchive). link. (3 October 2008)