Thika United Football Club is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club based in
Thika
Thika Thika (pronounced ˆÎ¸ika is an industrial town and a major commerce hub in Kiambu County, Kenya, lying on the A2 road 42 kilometres (26 mi) Northeast of Nairobi, near the confluence of the Thika and Chania Rivers. Although Thika town ...
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, which currently competes in the
Kenyan Super League
The Kenyan Premier League (KPL), officially known as the FKF Premier League and as the BetKing Premier League (BPL) for sponsorship reasons, is a professional league for men's association football clubs in Kenya. Standing at the top of the Kenyan ...
, the second tier of the
Kenyan football league system The Kenyan football league system is a series of several interconnected leagues for association football clubs in Kenya.
Structure
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. They play their home games at the Sea Joy Arena.
The club was formed in 2000 as ''Beirut FC''. The following year, after being promoted to the
Nationwide League (second level), it adopted new name, ''Medisca Thika'', after its then sponsors. The current name (Thika United FC) has been in use since 2003, which was also its first year in the top flight under the sponsorship of Brookside Dairies. Midfielder Matthew Dickinson hit the headlines of local and some national newspapers when he left local team Brislington Badgers in Bristol, England, to travel to Kenya to gain nationality and happened to earn himself a lengthy contract with Thika United.
History
Thika United made their top flight debut in 2002 and finished third in 2006 and 2009.
Thika United regained promotion to the
Kenya Premier League
The Kenyan Premier League (KPL), officially known as the FKF Premier League and as the BetKing Premier League (BPL) for sponsorship reasons, is a professional league for men's association football clubs in Kenya. Standing at the top of the Kenyan ...
after beating Ushuru F.C. 2-1 on aggregate in the 2017 Kenya Super League promotion playoffs.
They were relegated back to the Kenya Nationwide League after one season, finishing bottom of the
Kenyan Premier League in 2018.
Club Coaches/Officials
Current Squad (2017)
See also
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Thika Queens F.C.
References
External links
Kenya Premier League
Kenyan Premier League clubs
Football clubs in Kenya
Association football clubs established in 2000
Sport in Central Province (Kenya)
2000 establishments in Kenya
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