Sagaing United Football Club (also known as Mahar United; my, စစ်ကိုင်း ယူနိုက်တက် ဘောလုံးအသင်း əɡáɪ̯ɴ}) is a Burmese professional

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club, based at Monywa Stadium in

Monywa Monywa (; ) is the largest city in Sagaing Region, Myanmar, located north-west of Mandalay on the eastern bank of the River Chindwin. Monywa is one of the largest economic cities in Myanmar. It is also known as Neem city because many of the cit ...

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and represents the

Sagaing Region Sagaing Region ( my, စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Sagaing Division) is an administrative region of Myanmar, located in the north-western part of the country between latitude 21° 30' north and lon ...

. The club was founded in 2015 and played in the 2016 MNL-2 season. The team's first competitive season in the

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debuted in 2018. Due to a promotion in transition to the Myanmar National League, the team's name has changed from "Mahar United" to "Sagaing United".

Club history

In 2015, Phoe Chit founded Sagaing United F.C. and hired former Myanmar national football team defender,

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. ''Sagaing United'' based is

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Club trophies

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Domestic league

Squad

in Burmese

References

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External links

First Eleven Journal
in Burmese
Soccer Myanmar
in Burmese Association football clubs established in 2015 Myanmar National League clubs 2015 establishments in Myanmar Football clubs in Myanmar