MONGOLIAN FOOTBALL CENTRAL

Today Ulaanbaatar City FC announced that the club has signed national team defender Otgonbayar Oyunbaatar to a 5-year extension. The contract will run through the 2022 season. The contract guarantees the 24-year-old 5 million MNT per season. Oyunbaatar is at least the second high-profile player to sign a 5-year extension with the club this offseason, with defender Norjmoogiin Tsedenbal signing a 5-year deal worth 10 million MNT plus living expenses per season earlier this mon

This week Ulaanbaatar City FC founder Dashnyam Ganzorig traveled to Irkutsk, Russia, one of the largest cities in Siberia and a sister city of Ulaanbaatar. There he met with FC Zenit Irkutsk general director Vladimir Ivanovich Kurulinenko and manager Ilya Kungurov. FC Zenit Irkutsk currently plays in the Russian Professional Football League, the third tier of Russian football. Dashnyam stated that many things are being discussed and fans will be updated soon. Could an officia

With approximately three weeks until Mongolia hosts Group I of 2018 AFC U-19 Championship qualification, today Erchim FC and Under-19 coach Zorigtyn Battulga announced his 23-man squad for the tournament. The squad consists of players from clubs in the top two tiers of Mongolian football. Deren FC, a club that focuses heavily on youth development, is the greatest contributor to the squad with eleven players, in addition to A. Degurun who is a product of the club. Additionally

Serbian goalkeeper Milos Rnic of Deren FC topped the save percentage chart for the 2017 season. The player and club announced his departure from the club earlier this month citing the player's desire to return home to Serbia. Save Percentage (in Mongolian) 1. Милош Рнич (Дэрэн) – 82.3% 2. Мауро Боэркио (Улаанбаатар Сити) – 81.3% 3. Такүми Томизава (Гоёо Эф Си) – 78.4% 4. Остин Рожерс (Эф Си Улаанбаатар) – 78.0% 5. Б.Ариунболд (Эрчим) – 76.7% 6. Б.Сэр-Од (Хангарьд) – 73.4

For the second time in three years, Nyam-Osoryn Naranbold of Athletic 220 FC wins the Mongolian Premier League Golden Boot Award. He scored 15 league goals. He scored 23 goals during the 2015 season with Khoromkhon FC to also win the award. Oyunbaataryn Mijiddorj who was last year's top scorer with 29 goals did not rank among the top fourteen players this season. Several of the league's top goal scorers also ranked among the top in the league in assists, most notably Naranbol

Today the Mongolian Football Federation released the final assist tallies for the 2017 Mongolian Premier League Season. Assist Totals (Mongolian) 1. Шута Ишино (Эрчим) – 10 ассист 2. Таку Хишида (Сэлэнгэпресс) – 7 ассист 3. Милош Перишич (Эф Си Улаанбаатар) – 6 ассист 4. Владимир Ульдяков (Хангарьд) – 6 ассист 5. Н.Наранболд (Атлетик 220) – 5 ассист 6. Б.Төгсбилэг (Улаанбаатар Сити) – 5 ассист 7. Н.Цэдэнбал (Улаанбаатар Сити) – 5 ассист 8. А.Тэмүүжин (Дэрэн) – 5 ассист

Based upon a brief statement by the Mongolian Football Federation, it seems that the men's senior national team will participate in the preliminary round of qualification for the 2019 EAFF Championship in July 2018. The statement was made from the team's training camp in Okinawa, Japan. So far, neither the AFC nor EAFF has announced any details about the 2019 tournament: including specific dates, venues and locations, participants, or groupings. The final round of the 2017 ed

29-year-old assistant captain Norjmoogiin Tsedenbal has signed a 5-year contract extension with Ulaanbaatar City FC effective 13 October 2017. The deal would see the left-winger remain with the club through the 2022 season. The contract includes living expenses and up to 10 million MNT per season. Tsedenbal finished last season tied for fifth place in the league with five assists. The player, who will be 34 years old at the end of the contract, previously played for Ulaanbaat

On February 29, 2000 the Blue Wolves competed in their first official friendly match, and one of their first matches period, after joining FIFA almost two years earlier. That 1-8 defeat to Uzbekistan in Tashkent remained the team's only official friendly for nearly 18 years until Mongolia took on Taiwan in Taipei on October 5th. Although the match ended in a 2-4 defeat, the team performed respectably against an opponent ranked almost 50 places higher in the FIFA rankings. Mon

The 2017 Mongolian Premier League season concluded at the end of September with perennial powerhouse Erchim FC from Ulaanbaatar winning its third consecutive championship and qualifying for the 2018 AFC Cup. The club will enter in the first preliminary qualifying stage of the tournament. Last year Erchim became the first Mongolian club to qualify for the final round of the tournament, albeit only because Taiwan Power FC withdrew from the group stage and Tatung F.C. withdrew f