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GAMBLING AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE AMONG THAI LEAGUE‘S F FOOTBALL FANS
WASAN PANYAGAEWDEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITYPRESENTING AT INTERNATIONAL GAMBLING CONFERENCE 2018,
SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY, AUCKLAND
BACKGROUND: THAILAND MIDDLE - INCOME TRAP, THE COUP, AND THE AFC▸ rural transformation since late 1990
▸ Decentralisation - 1997, urbanisation, urban space - football field construction since 2009
▸ new middle class
▸ Or new class in Thailand provinces?
▸ Thai politicians/ the business groups and Football Club investment,
▸ Is this field a new politics, after the Coup?
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WP1 Wasan Panyagaew, 2/07/2016
TIMELINE▸ 2001-2007 - Semi professional (Thailand)
league
▸ Coup 2006, ousting Taksin and his govfrom power/Thailand
▸ 2007-2009 - Parties were dissolved
▸ 2009 FIFA regulation, leads to TPL
▸ privatization and professionalisation of Thai Football league)
▸ 2010-2015 - Yingluck and another Coup in May 2014
▸ 2016-The new President of FA Thailandelected - New Era?
▸ Note that, football game betting is illegal but is commonly known and practiced among young men in Thailand, since 1992
FROM SPORTING CITIZENS TO CONSUMING FANS: FORMATION OF THE NEW CLASS?
LEGALIZING FOOTBALL GAMBLINGIN THAILAND?
Is Football gambling related to a social problem?
BEFORE AND AFTER 2009
NUMBERS OF FC OWNED BYGOVERNMENT OFFICE, STATE ENTERPRISE, AND BANKS WERE FALLENBUT THOSE INVESTED BY PRIVATE COMPANY AND FORMER POLITICIANS ARE ON THE RISE!
TPL 2009, THE AFC AND TRANSFORMATION OF THAI SOCIETY ?
THAI PREMIERE LEAGUE
THE RESURRECTION OF PROVINCIAL POWER
AND THE NEW CLASS?
THAI LEAGUEWHO ARE THE FAN?
13%19
%25%
30%
13%
I-mobile stadium
SCG Stadium
United Stadium
Chiang Mai 700
PAT Stadium
121
101
765250
THE SURVEY: 400 SAMPLES IN 5 STADIUMS, IN BANGKOK [2], THE NORTH AND THE NORTHEAST[3]
FINDINGS
THAI FOOTBALL FAN' BACKGROUND
Ma…
Fe…
single75%
other
1%
married23%
divorce2%
elementary2%
pri-high school15%
high school23%
poly technic
19%
undergraduate41%
postgraduate0%
other3%
studying33%
wage labor5%
agriculture2%
employee
36%
gov/state
enterprise
11%
private/freelance
11%
Bangkok or the countryside does not matters?
TEXTAGE GROUP AND MONTHLY INCOME
>1000039%
10001-2000041%
20001-3000012%
30001-40000
5%40001>4%
15-2028%
21-2518%26-30
22%
31-3517%
36-4015%
age group
LEISURE PLACE AND LIFE ON THE WEEKEND
home48%
shopping centre14%
tourist site6%
park4%
pub and restauran
t6%
Football stadium
21%
religious place and
others2%
leisure place
0
10
20
30
40
50
alone couple peer group family football fc
Going to Football stadium with whom?
male female
GAMBLING EXPERIENCE AND BETTING ON THE GAME?
Football game betting by age group
FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE TO BET ON FOOTBALL GAME BY AGE GROUP
FOOTBALL BETTING , THE URBAN EXPERIENCE?
Football bettors
HOW THEY BET THE GAMES?
What kinds of football game betting they love to play and consume?
No ! Not for TPL, but EPL, probably
THAI FANS AND FOOTBALL CONSUMPTION
FROM TELEVISION VIEWERS TO STADIUM ATTENDANTS ANDFOOTBALL CLUB SUPPORTERS
FROM VIRTUAL TO REAL FANS?, FROM THE DISTANCE TO INTIMACYFROM THE BETTOR TO FOOTBALL LOVER?
THE SOCIAL MEANINGS OF THAI FOOTBALL CULTURE TODAY
IDOLS, GIRLS AND SEXUALITY, CONSUMING PRACTICEIN THE MASCULINE WORLD?
A KIND OF COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE AMONG THAIMEN
DEFINITELY THE GAMBLING IS STILL ROLLED ON
THAI FOOTBALL BECOMING MORE REGIONALIZED
AND IS INTERWOVEN WITH SPORT BETTING INDUSTRY, GLOBALLY!