Nong Chok National Football Center ( th, ศูนย์ฝึกฟุตบอลแห่งชาติ หนองจอก) is the

Football Association of Thailand The Football Association of Thailand under Patronage of His Majesty the King ( th, สมาคมกีฬาฟุตบอลแห่งประเทศไทย ในพระบรมราชูปถัมภ์), or FA Thailand for s ...

national football centre A national football centre (NFC) (or soccer institute) is the facilities that host an education base for a national football association. The Canadian Soccer Association has a series of "national training centres" in each province where prospec ...

. It rests on an site in Nong Chok,

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. The center officially opened on 16 September 2009 by

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, a former president of

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History

The Nong Chok National Football Center was built pursuant to the policy adopted by the

Fédération Internationale de Football Association FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

(FIFA) to provide a national football training center to the 11 countries of Southeast Asia, namely

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and

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, the Association's General Secretary at the time, offered to donate of land along the Mitrmitree Road in

Nong Chok District Nong Chok ( th, หนองจอก, ) is one of the Districts of Bangkok, 50 districts (''khet'') of Bangkok, Thailand. It is bounded by other districts (from north clockwise): Amphoe Lam Luk Ka of Pathum Thani province, Amphoe Bang Nam Priao a ...

to Vijit Ketkaew, the President of the Association at the time, and the land was subsequently designated. The proposed budget amounted to US $ 860,000 (26,797,035 THB) of FIFA funding. Construction was approved to begin in 2002 and last through 2006. Additional construction expenses were to be covered by the Football Association of Thailand. The first phase of construction included three office buildings, a football field, training rooms and classrooms. Later, in compliance with FIFA, the Football Association of Thailand installed an artificial turf football field. FIFA President

opened the training center on September 16, 2009.

Facilities

The Nong Chok building has approximately 50 rooms, includes 4 bedrooms, 5 training grounds,

Nong Chok Sport Stadium Nong Chok Sport Stadium ( th, สนามกีฬาหนองจอก) is a stadium in Nong Chok, Bangkok, Thailand. It is situated in Nong Chok, the biggest and the least populated district of Bangkok. It is currently used mostly for t ...

, a medical centre, a fitness centre, and a swimming pool (120 rooms were planned).

Use

Thai national football team squad Asian Games 2006

The Nong Chok National Football Center was used to train the

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and can be used to train teams from the

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References

{{National Football Centres Football in Thailand Association football training grounds in Thailand National football academies

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