Overview

Team profile

Supreme Chonburi (THA)

Thailand's Supreme Volleyball Club are making their world debut in the 2018 FIVB Club World Championship, after winning the Asian Club Championship twice in a row, in 2017 and 2018.
In their first ever appearance in the continental competition Supreme Chonburi beat Japan's Hiasamitsu Springs 3-1 in the final of 2017. They followed up with back-to-bnack titles earlier this year after defeating Japan's NEC Red Rockets 3-2 in the 2018 final. Both competitions were held in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.
Founded in 2009 and based in Chonburi City, southeast of the Thai capital of Bangkok, Supreme Volleyball Club have are the reigning champions of Thailand, having won the League and Superleague titles also twice in a row in 2017 and 2018. 

Coach

Nataphon Srisamutnak

Nataphon Srisamutnak

Former international setter Nataphon Srisamutnak took on his first role of national coach for Thailand's teams in 1995, just two years after he retired as a player. That year he guided the Men's National Team to ninth place in the Asian Senior Men's Volleyball Championship in Korea and to the gold medal at the South East Asia Games in Thailand.
As a player he won gold with Thailand at the 1985 South East Asian Games in Bangkok.
Since the turn of the century he has worked with women's teams with clubs and National Teams in Thailand including as assistant coach on the Women's National Teams, most recently, at the inaugural 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League.
Earlier this year he led Supreme Chonburi to the title of the 2018 Asian Women's Club Championship in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.

Staff

  • Team Manager Thanadit Prasopnetr
  • Assistant coach Jamjang Nipon
  • Second Assistant Coach Kesapan Natapong
  • Physiotherapist Ratkamol Chiraamnouiphon

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