RIHS FC
Bhutanese football club
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RIHS Football Club is a football club from Bhutan,[1] based at Changlimithang, who played in the Bhutan A-Division, then the top level of football in Bhutan, but since replaced by a full national league.[2] 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.
Thimphu, Bhutan
| Full name | Royal Institute of Health and Sciences Football Club |
|---|---|
| Ground | Changlimithang Thimphu, Bhutan |
| Capacity | 45,000 |
| League | Bhutan A-Division |
| 2007 | 7th[1] |
History
The first recorded instance of RIHS playing in the top flight of Bhutanese football was in 2006.[3] Details are lacking for this season and their final position is not known.[3] The only result that is known is a 4–1 loss to Yeedzin.[3] 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,[4] so were presumably not involved in the promotion playoffs that followed. They finished seventh in the 2007 season and were relegated.[1] 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:
Note: RIHS only fielded 9 players.
In the game between Transport United and RIHS FC, Passang Tshering 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 against SEK Ayios Athanasios in May 2007 and by Stephane Stanis for RC Strasbourg in the 1940s.[5] 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.[6]
