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Wikipedia / Szeto Man Chun

Szeto Man Chun (; born 5 June 1975) is a Hong Kong football coach and a former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is currently the head coach of Hong Kong Premier League club Rangers.

International career

Szeto has played for the Hong Kong national football team for more than 8 years. In his football career, he played a lot of games against various national teams around the world, such as Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and so on. He also played invitation matches with Liverpool and Real Madrid, etc.

Szeto retired from professional football after the 2008–09 season.

Managerial career

Szeto started his coaching career during his professional career. Since 2007, he was one of the coaches of the Hong Kong national youth team.

On 27 May 2017, Eastern chairman announced Szeto as Chan Yuen Ting's successor as their head coach. He resigned less than a year later on 19 January 2018 due to poor results.

On 2 August 2022, it was reported that Szeto had become the head coach of HK U23.

In March 2023, Szeto was also appointed as the head coach of Hong Kong U-23.

On 17 July 2024, Szeto was appointed as the assistant coach of Lee Man.

On 4 July 2026, Szeto was appointed as the head coach of Rangers.

Executive career

On 4 June 2020, Wigan Athletic announced that the takeover of the club by Next Leader Fund L.P. had been completed. Szeto, who was a friend of Next Leader Fund's General Partner, Au Yeung Wai Kay, was named as a director of the club as part of the takeover. Less than a month later, he voted them into administration.

Commentator career

Szeto began his commentator career in January 2007 for Hong Kong Cable TV.

Honours

  1. Kitchee

  2. Hong Kong League Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07

  3. Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2005–06

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