Tan Cheng Hoe

Tan Cheng Hoe (Chinese: 陈清和) is a Malaysian football manager who is currently in charge of the Malaysia team.

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan (陈).
Tan Cheng Hoe
Personal information
Full name Tan Cheng Hoe 陈清和
Date of birth (1968-05-30) 30 May 1968
Place of birth Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia
Playing position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Malaysia (Coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1988–1995 Kedah
1996 Perlis
1997 Penang
1998 Kuala Lumpur
1999 Kelantan
2000–2001 Kedah
National team
1986 Malaysia U-18
1991 Malaysia B
1991 Malaysia XI 1 (0)
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

Career

Playing career

As a player, Tan played for Kedah in three Malaysia Cup finals from 1988 to 1990. He lost the 1988 and 1989 finals, but finally won the trophy in 1990.

Tan made an appearance for Malaysia in a match against Aston Villa on 20 May 1991. In September 1991, he was part of Malaysia B team managed by M. Karathu for TAAN Cup, an invitational tournament in Kathmandu Nepal.[1] Malaysia B team won the tournament beating Tiong Bahru of Singapore 2–0.[2]

Managerial career

Tan was the assistant coach to K. Rajagopal from 2004 to 2013. Under Rajagopal and Tan, Malaysia achieved many good results such as reaching the quarter-finals of 2004 AFC Youth Championship and qualifying for the 2006 AFC Youth Championship. Malaysia also ended their trophy drought in regional football by winning the 2009 SEA Games and 2010 AFF Championship.

Tan appointed as Kedah head coach 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]

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.[6] Surprisingly, he managed to lead Malaysia into the final after eliminating the tournament defending title as well five times champions of Thailand in the semi-finals.[7][8]

This was continued in the finals first leg when the Malaysian team under his led also managed to hold the tournament favourites of Vietnam 2–2 at home in their second meet in the tournament despite the latter had already scoring two goals in the first half.[9] However, in the second leg in Hanoi, his team failed to repeat the same success when the favourites scored a goal in the early first half of 6th minute and began tightening their defence, resulting in a 2–3 aggregate until the end of the match as a result of which Malaysia became the runners-up for the third time.[10][11]

Tan continued to lead the Malaysian team in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification after he been reward by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) to manage the team for another two years until his contract ended in 2020.[12] Although the team under his management able to easily routed Timor-Leste in the first round by 12–2 in aggregate to proceed into the second round, the team only able to defeating Indonesia by 3–2 in an away match before losing two matches against United Arab Emirates in home by 1–2 and against Vietnam by 0–1 in an away match where they meet again for the fourth time through his managerial career despite of all the promises Tan has made earlier to the Malaysian fans before the competition started.[13] After the two consecutive defeats, he then led Malaysia to win one of the most famous matches in their history, beating neighbour and Southeast Asian powerhouse Thailand 2–1 to extend its unbeaten streak at home to Thailand, and Indonesia 2–0 also at home to keep maintaining Malaysia's World Cup dream alive.[14][15]

Managerial statistics
As of match played 19 November 2019
Team From To Record
GWDLWin%
Kedah 10 April 2014[3] 29 April 2017 106 59 28 19 055.66
Malaysia 7 December 2017[16] Present 30 17 4 9 056.67
Total 136 76 32 28 055.88

Honours

Manager
Kedah
Malaysia
Individual
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References
  1. T. Bahru holds Nepal - The Straits Times, 21 September 1991
  2. Defensive errors let Tiong Bahru down - The Straits Times, 28 September 1991
  3. Loganath Velloo (11 April 2014). "New Kedah coach aiming for Malaysia Cup berth". The Star. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  4. Alvin Oh (28 December 2016). "Cheng Hoe goes the extra mile to keep soaring with Red Eagles". The Star. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  5. "FAM: Tan Cheng Hoe to take over as Harimau Malaya head coach". The Star. 7 December 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  6. Nicolas Anil (2 May 2018). "Malaysia are underdogs at AFF Cup despite favourable group, says Tan". Fox Sports Asia. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  7. "Malaysia in AFF Suzuki Cup final after defeating Thailand on away goals". The Star. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  8. "Thailand suffer shock exit in AFF Suzuki Cup". The Nation. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  9. "Malaysia fight back to hold Vietnam to a draw". Bernama. The Sun. 12 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  10. T. Avineshwaran (16 December 2018). "Clinical Vietnam strike early to shatter Malaysia's dream". The Star. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  11. "Vietnam beat Malaysia to claim AFF Cup". Vietnam News Agency. Vietnam+. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  12. Ooi Kin Fai (8 January 2019). "Tan Cheng Hoe stay on Malaysia head coach until 2020". Goal.com. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  13. "No easy passage but Cheng Hoe cautiously optimistic". Bernama. The Malay Mail. 17 July 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  14. T. Avineshwaran (15 November 2019). "Malaysia beat Thailand 2-1 to claim second win in WC qualifiers". The Star. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  15. ZD (20 November 2019). "Malaysia beat Indonesia 2-0 in FIFA World Cup Asian qualifier". Xinhua News Agency. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
  16. "Tahniah Tan Cheng Hoe Dilantik Sebagai Ketua Jurulatih Harimau Malaya Yang Baharu" [Congratulations Tan Cheng Hoe Appointed as Malayan Tiger Head Coach]. Football Association of Malaysia. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
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