Southern Myanmar Football Club is a Burmese football club, based at Yamanya Stadium in Mawlamyaing, Myanmar

Myanmar

Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....

. The club was a founding member of the Myanmar National League

Myanmar National League

The Myanmar National League is the premier national professional football league of Myanmar. In 2009, the league replaced the Myanmar Premier League, which consisted only of 14 Yangon-based football clubs, with eight professional clubs representing different regions across the nation...

 (MNL) in 2009. The club represents the Mon State

Mon State

Mon State is an administrative division of Myanmar. It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip. The land area is...

, Kayin State

Kayin State

Kayin State is a state of Burma . The capital city is Hpa-an.-History:The region that forms today's Kayin State was part of successive Burmese kingdoms since the formation of the Pagan Empire in mid-11th century...

 and Tanintharyi Division

Tanintharyi Division

Tanintharyi Region , is an administrative region of Myanmar, covering the long narrow southern part of the country on the Kra Isthmus. It borders with the Andaman Sea to the west and with the Tenasserim Hills, beyond which lies Thailand, to the east. To the north is the Mon State. The capital of...

 in southern coast of Myanmar. Although it plans to use the Kyaungtha Stadium in Mawlamyaing as its home field, it presently shares the Aung San Stadium in Yangon

Yangon

Yangon is a former capital of Burma and the capital of Yangon Region . Although the military government has officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw since March 2006, Yangon, with a population of over four million, continues to be the country's largest city and the most important commercial...

 as its home stadium with three other clubs, as the country lacks adequate facilities outside Yangon and Mandalay

Mandalay

Mandalay is the second-largest city and the last royal capital of Burma. Located north of Yangon on the east bank of the Irrawaddy River, the city has a population of one million, and is the capital of Mandalay Region ....

.

The club finished in the last place tie with Delta United FC

Delta United FC

Ayeyawady United Football Club is a burmese football club, based at Pathein Stadium in Pathein, Myanmar. The club was a founding member of the Myanmar National League in 2009, and represents the Ayeyarwady Division in lower Myanmar...

 in the league's inaugural cup competition, the MNL Cup 2009.

2009

The squad for the 2009 2nd Myanmar National League Cup in Mandalay.

Southern Myanmar United's Starting 11 in their 4-4-2 Diamond Formation

External links

• First Eleven Journal in Burmese
  Burmese language
  The Burmese language is the official language of Burma. Although the constitution officially recognizes it as the Myanmar language, most English speakers continue to refer to the language as Burmese. Burmese is the native language of the Bamar and related sub-ethnic groups of the Bamar, as well as...
  
  
• Soccer Myanmar in Burmese
• SMU unofficial fans' blog in Burmese