History
The club was formed in 1937 as the Royal Thai Navy Football Club and currently plays under the name of Siam Navy, locally known as Rajnavy. The club has also played under the names of Rajnavi and Rajnavy Rayong, Rayong being the town they played in and the main base of the Navy in general.
Since the inception of the Thai Premier League in 1996 the club played under the name of the Royal Thai Navy up until 2009, when all teams in Thailand had to become public limited companies. With this, many teams changed names and formed closer links with the communities they were based in. In this case the navy became known as Rajnavy Rayong. Rajnavy being the local Thai name for the Navy. In 2011, and with a dispute as to the ownership of the club, the club moved from their Rayong home and into the Chonburi province where they ground share with Pattaya United - another club playing outside of their original home town - albeit against league rules, where two sides in the TPL cannot ground share.
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