RIHS is a football club from
Bhutan
Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...
,
based at
Changlimithang
Changlimithang Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Thimphu
Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ...
, who played in the
Bhutan A-Division, then the top level of football in Bhutan, but since replaced by a full
national league
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.
They spent two seasons in the top flight of Bhutanese football before being relegated following a season that included the record defeat for a football team in Bhutan.
History
The first recorded instance of RIHS playing in the top flight of Bhutanese football was in
2006
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.
Details are lacking for this season and their final position is not known.
The only result that is known is a 4–1 loss to
Yeedzin.
It is also not known how they came to be in the A-Division for that season. They were not involved in the final of the B-Division for 2005, which was contested between
Choden and Rookies,
so were presumably not involved in the promotion playoffs that followed. They finished seventh in the
2007
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season and were relegated.
The league table for the 2007 season is incomplete and only a handful of results are known. However, there are a number of results which are notable due to their high scores, both involving very heavy defeats for the Royal Institute of Health and Sciences team:
In the game between
Transport United
Transport United Football Club is a Bhutanese professional football club based in Thimphu that competes in the Bhutan Premier League, the top level of Bhutanese football. The club was founded in 2001 and plays at the Changlimithang Stadium. Tran ...
and RIHS FC,
Passang Tshering
Passang Tshering (born 16 July 1983) is a Bhutanese former professional footballer and coach. Passang played as a forward for Transport United, Druk Star and Thimphu City. He was also a member of Bhutan national futsal team.
In 2007, he won ...
scored seventeen goals. Sources indicate that the most goals scored by a single player in a game was 16, scored by
Panagiotis Pontikos of
Olympos Xylofagou
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against
SEK Ayios Athanasios in May 2007 and by
Stephane Stanis for
RC Strasbourg
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in the 1940s.
It would appear therefore, that Pontikos, having equalled a record that had stood for over 60 years, saw it broken only a few days later.
It is not known whether they competed again, and there is no record of them competing in any future season for which records exist.
References
Football clubs in Bhutan
Sport in Thimphu
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