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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
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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?
WP1
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Slide 2
WP1 Wasan Panyagaew, 2/07/2016
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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?
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LEGALIZING FOOTBALL GAMBLINGIN THAILAND?
Is Football gambling related to a social problem?
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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!
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TPL 2009, THE AFC AND TRANSFORMATION OF THAI SOCIETY ?
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THAI PREMIERE LEAGUE
THE RESURRECTION OF PROVINCIAL POWER
AND THE NEW CLASS?
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THAI LEAGUEWHO ARE THE FAN?
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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]
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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?
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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
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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
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GAMBLING EXPERIENCE AND BETTING ON THE GAME?
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Football game betting by age group
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FIRST TIME EXPERIENCE TO BET ON FOOTBALL GAME BY AGE GROUP
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FOOTBALL BETTING , THE URBAN EXPERIENCE?
Football bettors
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HOW THEY BET THE GAMES?
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What kinds of football game betting they love to play and consume?
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No ! Not for TPL, but EPL, probably
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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?
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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
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DEFINITELY THE GAMBLING IS STILL ROLLED ON
THAI FOOTBALL BECOMING MORE REGIONALIZED
AND IS INTERWOVEN WITH SPORT BETTING INDUSTRY, GLOBALLY!