 Buriram PEA became the first Thai club to win a Treble in a season.In 2012, At the start of the 2012 season, the club was renamed Buriram United Football Club.In the first match of the group stages of the 2012 AFC Champions League, Buriram beat the 2011 J-League champion, Kashiwa Reysol, 3–2 and became "the first Thai and South East Asian club" to earn a victory against a J-League club in ACL since starting the Champions League system in 2003.