Khonkaen Football Club (Thai \u0e2a\u0e42\u0e21\u0e2a\u0e23\u0e1f\u0e38\u0e15\u0e1a\u0e2d\u0e25\u0e08\u0e31\u0e07\u0e2b\u0e27\u0e31\u0e14\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e19\u0e41\u0e01\u0e48\u0e19 ) is a Thai professional football club, based in Khon Kaen Province, a city located in the heart of the North Eastern Region.The club currently plays in Thai Premier League. In 2011 they achieved promotion to the top flight of Thai football for the first time in their history, by finishing runners-up in the Thai Division 1 League.<\/P>
Khonkaen play their home games at the Khon Kaen Stadium. They traditionally play in black and yellow, and their nickname is commonly known as The T-Rexs which came from the famous rich dinosaur fossil excavations of the province.<\/P>
Khonkaen football club was publicly formed in 21 June 2007, before that time the club played in the Provincial League which largely consist of regional football clubs, nonetheless, the league was not recognized by the Thai Football Federation.<\/P>
In 2007 the league was merged into Thai Premier League and Thai Division 1 League and the club was registered to be professional football club in this year and was allocated into Thai Division 1 League Group A, the club was close to promotion by finishing at the fourth place that season.<\/P>
In 2008 season, Khonkaen was not performing well as the previous season as they could only finished the season in 8th place of final league table, nevertheless, the club prove themselves being one of the favourites for promotion in the 2009 season, unfortunately, they lost the promotion spot to Sisaket in the very last week of the season.<\/P>
In 2010, the club was finally promoted to the Thai Premier League after finishing runners-up in the league table which will be the first time for the club to participate in the top flight of Thai football.<\/P>","A0203E0DC6D21570517EAC290512B5EC":"107","0D38FD3F79E8DA6B":"","E630D11720E4B295":"1","51CF9836C3B39401FB9D324DD09EF7B5":"5,000","F7B425C4468C1ACD":"","8B339FAF24182859":"http:\/\/www.khonkaenfc.net","7BFCAC81BA3A2F91509A9E9BA49BB793CC283EF5765EDF97":"2007-6-21","D773F765997BBEBADD443658B59FE9EF":"","4C3BD0B49E7780EC":"","DCFA0F6214DA56A59A53EA5778815305":"0","F8A44A36F46FF4E4":"Khonkaen FC","DCFA0F6214DA56A5BD4BD4CF76FDDC2937B8E6BEADCA6D4E":"0","C94196B72475EBB6":"Khon Kaen","49B34DA36FF964E0":"","e_index":0};