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Toyota League Cup

Thai League Cup
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Organising body Football Association of Thailand
Founded 1987; 30 years ago (1987) (1st era)
2010; 7 years ago (2010) (2nd era)
Region Thailand
Number of teams 92
Current champions Buriram United
Muangthong United (Title Shared)
Most successful club(s) Buriram United (5 titles)
Television broadcasters TrueVisions
2017 Thai League Cup


The League Cup (Thai: ไทยลีกคัพ) is a football cup competition in Thailand. It is also known as Toyota League Cup because Toyota company have sponsored the competition.

It was re-formed during the 2010 domestic football league season in Thailand and runs along the same lines as the Thai FA Cup except that the earlier rounds would be regional rather than an open draw.

Thai League Cup is open to all members of the Football Association of Thailand and Thai League 1 and is divided into eight rounds,; the remaining Thai League teams enter at the first round,Matches in all rounds are single-legged, except for the semi-finals, which have been two-legged since the competition began.In single-legged top division teams will plays as away team.The semi-finals were the exception to this,which the away goals rule and penalties were introduced.

For finals match that have finished level after extra time have been decided by penalty shoot-out.The winner also qualify for Mekong Club Championship and Toyota Premier Cup.



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