| Season | 2025–26 |
|---|---|
| Dates | 16 August 2025 – 2026 |
| Matches | 90 |
| Goals | 24 (0.27 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Kydavone Souvanny Luan Borges (3 goals) |
| Biggest home win | Young Elephants 6-0Army (23 August 2025) |
| Highest scoring | 6 goals total Young Elephants 5–1Savannakhet (16 August 2025) Young Elephants 6-0Army(23 August 2025) |
| Longest winless run | 2 matches Young Elephants |
| Longest losing run | 2 macthes Savannakhet |
| Highest attendance | 2,156 Salavan Unitef 2–2Namtha United (23 August 2025) |
| Lowest attendance | 500 Young Elephants 6-0Army (23 August 2025) |
| Average attendance | 4,911 |
2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 28 August 2025. | |
The2025–26 Lao League 1 will be the 37th season of theLao League 1, the top Laos professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1988. The season will begin in August 2025 and will conclude on 2026.[1][2][3]
As in previous seasons, all 8 teams will play a round robin, and this season, there are 2 more teams from League 2 Province.
Ezra is the defending champion and the club's first-time champion.
Promoted from theLao League 2 Province
A total of 10 teams participated in the 2025–26 Lao League 1 season.[4]
| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity | Previous season |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | Vientiane | Army Stadium Km5 | 1,500 | Lao League 1 (5th) |
| Bis Master | Vientiane | New Laos National Stadium (outside field) | 500 | Lao League 1 (8th) |
| Champasak Avenir | Champasak Province | Champasak Stadium | 8,000 | Lao League 1 (2nd) |
| Ezra | Vientiane | New Laos National Stadium (outside field) | 500 | Lao League 1 (3rd) |
| Luang Prabang | Luang Prabang Province | Luang Prabang Stadium | 7,000 | Lao League 1 (4th) |
| Mazda GB | Vientiane | New Laos National Stadium (outside field) | 500 | Lao League 1 (7th) |
| Namtha United | Luang Namtha Province | Luang Namtha Province Stadium | 1,000 | Lao League 1 (6th) |
| Salavan United | Salavan Province | Salavan Province Stadium | 3,000 | Lao League 2 (1th) |
| Savannakhet | Savannakhet Province | Savannakhet Stadium | 10,000 | Lao League 2 (1st) |
| Young Elephants | Vientiane | New Laos National Stadium (outside field) | 500 | Lao League 1 (1st) |
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Kit sponsor(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main | Other(s) | ||||
| Army |  Kovanh Namthavixay | Sisavath Dalavong | Life Football | None | List
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| Bis Master | Phouphet Sanouvong | Chitpasong Latthachak | Life Football | List
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| Champasak Avenir |  Kim Tae-young[5] | Ji-seong Ryu | Life Football | Fan Pick 11 | List
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| Ezra | Byung-soo Na | Phathana Phommathep | Life Football | SkyVision | List
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| Luang Prabang |  Wanchai Pakseelert |  Vacant | PAPON Sportswear | List
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| Mazda GB | Oley Bousaart | Soukaphone Vongchiengkham | PAPON Sportswear | Mazda | List
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| Namtha United | Viengsavanh Sayyaboun | Sengphachan Bounthisanh | Evo Store | Coca-Cola | List
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| Salavan United | Kittichai Wongsim[6] | Nalongsith Chanthasily | LAZA Sport | List
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| Savannakhet | Khamsay Chanthavong | Mitpaza Luangpaserth | Life Football | Fable Sports Consulting | List
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| Young Elephants | Bounlap Khenkitisack | Kittisak Phomvongsa | FBT | Phu Bia Mining | List
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Lao League 1 allows a maximum of 10 foreign players.
For the upcoming season, clubs will have three options for registering foreign players:
Route 1: AFC Only
Route 2: Intercontinental
Route 3: ASEAN Only
| Club | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 | Player 8 | AFC Player 9 | ASEAN Player 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army | ||||||||||
| Bis Master |  Cyrille Dissake |  Any Michael | Diarrassouba Amed Hassan |  | | | ||||
| Champasak Avenir |  Jin An | Lee Geon | Ji-seong Ryu | Shim-Yeong woo | Kim Dae-yeong | Sang-Hyung lee | Yoo Dong-woo | |||
| Ezra | Min-hyuk Lee | Ren Yoshioka | Sang-won Jeong | Yusei Shimomura | Reo Nakamura | Koki Narita | Thanprakorn Khemru | |||
| Luang Prabang |  Emmanuel Jugbe Doe | Tsukasa Watanabe |  Latif Ghazli |  Mohamad Abed | ||||||
| Mazda GB | Shian Kawasaki | Shogo Umazume | Toshinari Sato |  Asilbek Orifzhonov | Mukhammad Odilov | |||||
| Namtha United | Daiki Jahana | Mao Negishi | Yusuke Suzuki | Kim Min-seong | Hiroya Fujibayashi |  Judah Berry | ||||
| Salavan United | Kaisei Hara | Reiya Mutsuda | Takaya Tsugasawa | Takuya Watanabe | Soichi Kinoshita | Takuya Ogata | Tsukasa Shimomura | Nasu Okamoto | ||
| Savannakhet |  Cesar Gustavo | Carlos Javier | Seung-beom Kim | Taeh-wan Joo | Seung-yeon Cha | Hwang Tae-hyeon |  Irineo Sibal III | |||
| Young Elephants |  Luan Borges | Gabriel Carrera | Moon Chi-Sung | Taiga Fujikawa | |
| Foreign players by confederation | |
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ezra | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 2 | +31 | 27 | Qualification for theAFC Challenge League andASEAN Club Championship |
| 2 | Mazda GB | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 8 | +20 | 21 | |
| 3 | Young Elephants | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 5 | +16 | 19 | |
| 4 | Army | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 20 | −6 | 16 | |
| 5 | Namtha United | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 | −2 | 12 | |
| 6 | Champasak Avenir | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 9 | +3 | 10 | |
| 7 | Salavan United | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 14 | −1 | 10 | |
| 8 | Luang Prabang | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 19 | −8 | 8 | |
| 9 | Bis Master | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 28 | −25 | 4 | |
| 10 | Savannakhet | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 34 | −28 | 0 |
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kydavone Souvanny | Young Elephants | Savannakhet | 5–1 (A)[7] | 16 August 2025 |
| Luan Borges | Young Elephants | Army | 6–0 (A) | 23 August 2025 |
| 2024–25 season clubs | |
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| Former clubs | |
| Seasons | |
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