Myanmar Football Academy

The Myanmar Football Academy, headed by Myanmar Football President, Zaw Zaw. Myanmar Football Federation has three Academies in Myanmar. There are National Football Academy (Yangon)[1], Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay) and Ayeyarwady Football Academy (Pathein)[2].

Myanmar Football Academy

Chairman	Zaw Zaw
Manager	Nyi Nyi Latt
Website	Club website

National Football Academy (Yangon)

FIFA president Gianni Infantino officially declared open Myanmar’s National Football Academy on 17 February 2017.[3].

Founded	29 December 2015
Location	Waizayantar Road, Thingangyan Township, near by MFF Office.
Total Aera	6.55 Acre
Building Aera	Length - 245ft, width - 49ft
Contribution from FIFA	500,000 USD
Contribution from MFF	284,794 USD
Total Project Cost	2,784,794 USD

Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay)

2011 March 15, FIFA President, Sepp Blatter opens Myanmar Football Academy (Mandalay)[4].

Mandalay Football Academy

Founded	4 June 2006
Location	73rd Road, Chanmyathazi Township, near by Mandalarthiri Stadium, Mandalay
Building Type	2 Storey Reinforced Concrete Building
Building Aera	Length - 245ft, width - 49ft
Goal Project from FIFA	USD 400,000
FIFA မွ Goal Project investment	USD 400,000
Yearly Contribution from FAP for 2005	USD 250,000
Yearly Contribution from FAP for 2006	USD 250,000
Investment from MFF	USD 100,000
Total Project Cost	USD 1,000,000

Ayeyawady Football Academy (Pathein)

US Dollars Two hundred and fifty thousand was donated by Asian Football Confederation and the remaining US Dollars five hundred thousand was donated by Ayeyawady Foundation for a total cost of US Dollars seven hundred and fifty thousand. Land is donated by Government[5].

Founded	4 June 2006
Location	Pathein Township, Ayeyawady Region
Building Type	3 Storey Reinforced Concrete Building
Building Aera	12052 sq-ft (1120 sq-m)
Overall Length	137 ft (41.75m)
Overall width	44 ft (13.41m)
Total Project Cost	USD 750,000

Academy team

Current management

Position	Name	Nationality
Academy Director:	Zaw Zaw	Myanmar
Team Leader:	Moe Wai Aung	Myanmar
Head of Coaching/U18 Manager:	Nyi Nyi Latt	Myanmar
Academy Operations Manager:	Min Thu	Myanmar
Goalkeeping Coach:	Mya Ko Min	Myanmar

Current Academy squad

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Goals	Club
1	1GK	Htet Wai Yan Soe				MFF Mandalay Academy
18	1GK	Aung Myint Myat				MFF Mandalay Academy
21	1GK	Khaung Phone Kyaw				MFF Mandalay Academy
2	2DF	Min Myat Thu				MFF Mandalay Academy
3	2DF	Kyaw Phyo Wai				MFF Mandalay Academy
4	2DF	Bo Bo Aung				MFF Mandalay Academy
5	2DF	Thet Paing Htwe				MFF Mandalay Academy
12	2DF	Sithu Moe Khant				MFF Mandalay Academy
14	2DF	Thura San				MFF Mandalay Academy
15	2DF	Pyae Phyo Maung				MFF Mandalay Academy
16	2DF	Dwe Ko Ko				MFF Mandalay Academy
20	2DF	Zwe Khant Min				MFF Mandalay Academy
8	3MF	Phone Nanda				MFF Mandalay Academy
9	3MF	Thet Paing Htoo				MFF Mandalay Academy
11	3MF	Wai Yan Oo				MFF Mandalay Academy
13	3MF	Ye Win Tun				MFF Mandalay Academy
19	3MF	Htet Phyo Wai				MFF Mandalay Academy
17	4FW	Hein Htet Aung				MFF Mandalay Academy
23	4FW	Ye Yint Aung				MFF Mandalay Academy

Academy graduates

Now playing elsewhere

• Aung Thu, now at BEC Tero, has played for Myanmar [6]
• Kyaw Min Oo, now at Yangon United, has played for Myanmar
• Sann Satt Naing, now at Yangon United, has played for Myanmar
• Phone Thit Sar Min, now at Shan United, has played for Myanmar U-20
• Aung Wanna Soe, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-20 [7]
• Win Naing Tun, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23 [8]
• Pyae Sone Naing, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23 [9]
• Myat Kaung Khant, now at Yadanarbon, has played for Myanmar U-23 [10]
• Hein Htet Aung, now at Hanthawaddy United FC, has played for Myanmar U-23

References

1. "Mr.Infantino opens Academy". Asean Football.
2. "Soccer School: Manchester United Trained Myanmar Young Footballers". myanmarinternationaltv.com.
3. "Myanmar National Football Academy (Yangon)". MFF.
4. "Myanmar Football Academy ( Mandalay )". MFF.
5. "Ayeyawady Football Academy (Pathein)". MFF.
6. "ကစားသမားဘ၀ တုိးတက္ေစရန္ ျပည္ပကလပ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေအာင္သူ ေျပာၾကား". News-eleven. 2017.
7. "လူငယ္ကစားသမားေအာင္ဝဏၰစိုး အား ရတနာပံု အသင္းေခၚယူ". Yadanarbon. 2017.
8. "၁ ... ၀င္းႏိုင္ထြန္း ျပည့္စံုႏိုင္ ႏွင့္ ျမတ္ေကာင္းခန္႕ တို႕အား ရတနာပံု အသင္းတရား၀င္ ေခၚယူခဲ့ျပီျဖစ္". Yadanarbon. 2017.
9. "၂ ... ၀င္းႏိုင္ထြန္း ျပည့္စံုႏိုင္ ႏွင့္ ျမတ္ေကာင္းခန္႕ တို႕အား ရတနာပံု အသင္းတရား၀င္ ေခၚယူခဲ့ျပီျဖစ္". Yadanarbon. 2017.
10. "၃ ... ၀င္းႏိုင္ထြန္း ျပည့္စံုႏိုင္ ႏွင့္ ျမတ္ေကာင္းခန္႕ တို႕အား ရတနာပံု အသင္းတရား၀င္ ေခၚယူခဲ့ျပီျဖစ္". Yadanarbon. 2017.

External links

• Academy page at Yangon.
• Mandalay Academy at Mandalay.
• Academy page at Pathein.