Tan Cheng Hoe

Tan Cheng Hoe
Personal information
Full name Tan Cheng Hoe
Date of birth 1968 (age 49–50)
Place of birth Kedah, Malaysia
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1995 Kedah
National team
1986 Malaysia U-18
Teams managed
2004–2006 Malaysia U-19 (assistant)
2007–2009 Harimau Muda A (assistant)
2009–2011 Malaysia U-23 (assistant)
2009–2013 Malaysia (assistant)
2014–2017 Kedah
2017 Malaysia (assistant)
2017– Malaysia
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Tan Cheng Hoe (Chinese: 谭成浩; pinyin: Tán Chéng Hào) (born 1968), is a Malaysian football manager who is currently in charge of the Malaysia national team.

Career

Playing career

As a player, Tan played for Kedah in three Malaysia Cup final from 1988 until 1990. He lost the two final in 1988 and 1989 before winning the cup in 1990 final.

Managerial career

Tan was an assistant coach to K. Rajagopal from 2004 until 2013. With Rajagopal and Tan combination, Malaysia achieves several positives results such as reaching the quarter final of 2004 AFC Youth Championship and qualify on merit for the 2006 AFC Youth Championship. Malaysia also ended their drought in regional competition by winning the 2009 SEA Games and 2010 AFF Championship.

Tan appointed as Kedah head coaches in 2014 after Dave Mitchell was instructed by the Kedah FA (KFA) exco to take a “rest” following unsatisfactory results in the first half of the Malaysia Premier League.[1] In 2015, he helped Kedah win the Premier League to gain promotion to the Super League. He was named the M-League’s Best Coach of the Year at the 2016 National Football Awards following the success in Malaysia Cup, finishing third in the Super League and reached the FA Cup semi-finals.[2] In 2017, he made a return as the assistant coach of Malaysia under Nelo Vingada. He take over as Malaysia head coach after Vingada stepped down following a string of poor results.[3]

In the preparation for the 2018 AFF Championship, Tan had mentioned through an article published by the FOX Sports Asia that Malaysia are underdogs team and hope their country fans will not put their hope too much despite being drawn into a favourable Group A consisting of Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, adding the favourites in the group would be Vietnam and hope their players will not feel too much pressure as there had been a lot of expectations from the fans.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Loganath Velloo (11 April 2014). "New Kedah coach aiming for Malaysia Cup berth". The Star. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Alvin Oh (28 December 2016). "Cheng Hoe goes the extra mile to keep soaring with Red Eagles". The Star. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "FAM: Tan Cheng Hoe to take over as Harimau Malaya head coach". The Star. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Nicolas Anil. "Malaysia are underdogs at AFF Cup despite favourable group, says Tan". Fox Sports Asia. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
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