Useful chats for expats
IT Sports Pattaya
Volleyball, running, tournaments and anything active — we arrange it and go together
Sport appeared in the community the day after it was created: on 23 July 2023, even before the first beach Friday, people in the chat agreed to go running together. So the running club is formally older than the community as a brand. That autumn volleyball was added — on Saturdays at Pratamnak from 14 October 2023, led by Georgy Khoroshilov, one of the chat’s first members.
From then on, sport in the community went the way any amateur sport goes in a warm country: in waves. In spring 2024 running sessions in Jomtien were happening two or three times a week; that summer people watched EURO 2024 at Vodnik International and held a FIFA tournament; Saturday volleyball held on into late 2024, helped by Dongtan beach and a steady core of players.
Today IT Sports Pattaya is a chat where people get a group together for any activity. There’s no schedule set in stone: someone announces a run for tomorrow, someone looks for a fourth for volleyball, someone suggests a trip out. That format is more honest than a calendar nobody sticks to: Pattaya has a rainy season, a hot season and a season when everyone has left, and the chat adapts to all of that by itself.
The rule is simple — suggest, don’t ask “is anything happening?”. Write “I’m running tomorrow at seven from Jomtien, who’s in?” — and the session is on. That’s how, over three years, dozens of volleyball Saturdays and morning runs happened that never made it into a single announcement.
For gear, venues and what’s on right now, see the pinned post and the latest messages in the chat. The chat is in Russian.