Finance and Revenue Football Club (often shortened as F&R FC), currently known as Mountain Lion FC,
and formerly known as Rangoon Customs, is a Burmese professional
football
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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.
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
The MPT Myanmar National League ( my, မြန်မာ နေရှင်နယ် လိဂ်; abbreviated MNL) is the premier national professional football league of Myanmar. In 2009, the league replaced the Myanmar Premier League, which co ...
, 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
kyat
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The term ''kyat'' derives from th ...
s (US$97,000).
Name changed
Finance and Revenue changed their name to Mountain Lion FC.
History
Early year
Finance & Revenue team played in
Myanmar Premier League. In 2009, MFF changed Domestic league from non Professional League to Professional League.
2018
Finance & Revenue changed to Mountain Lion and play in
2018 National League 2.
2018 squad
Honours
Domestic
*Rangoon League Championship
**Champions: 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84
*
Myanmar Premier League
**Champions (9): 1996, 1997, 1999,
2000
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, 2002,
2003
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,
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
,
2005
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,
2006
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International
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IFA Shield
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**Champions (1): 2004
**Runners-up (1): 1929 (''as Rangoon Customs'')
References
External links
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MNL-2
The MNL-2 is the second-tier football league of Myanmar. The official name is MNL-2 League. The inaugural season began in 2013.
History
The MNL-2 was founded in 2013 as part of MFF's effort to extend competitiveness into the nation's football sys ...
*
2018 National League 2
Football clubs in Myanmar
Association football clubs established in 1924
Myanmar Premier League clubs
1924 establishments in Burma
Financial services association football clubs
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