Irfan Bakti Abu Salim
Irfan Bakti Abu Salim is a Malaysian football coach, who last worked as head coach of the Malaysia Premier League club Kuching City.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Irfan Bakti bin Abu Salim | ||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1951[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Perak, Malaysia | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1971–1974 | Kelantan FA | ||
| 1975–1977 | ATM FA | ||
| International career | |||
| 1976 | Malaysia | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Malaysia (assistant) | ||
| 1996 | Malaysia Deaf national football team | ||
| 1996–1997 | Malaysia (assistant) | ||
| 1997 | Malaysia U23 | ||
| 1999–2000 | Negeri Sembilan FA | ||
| 2001–2003 | Penang FA | ||
| 2004–2007 | Melaka TMFC | ||
| 2007 | Persipura Jayapura | ||
| 2008 | Perlis FA | ||
| 2009–2011 | Terengganu FA | ||
| 2012–2013 | Selangor FA | ||
| 2013–2016 | Felda United FC | ||
| 2017–2019 | Terengganu FA | ||
| 2021-2023 | Kuching City F.C. | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Playing career edit
He had played with Kelantan FA and ATM FA in 1970s.[1] He also was in the Malaysia squad for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup in Tehran, Iran.[2]
Coaching career edit
Beginnings edit
He spent most of his early coaching days as a coach with the Football Association of Malaysia in Wisma FAM. He first worked as a state coach with the Negri Sembilan team, and later joined Penang FA and TMFC respectively. In 2007, he suddenly resigned from TMFC to coach an Indonesian team, Persipura Jayapura. He returned to Malaysian football in 2008, joining Perlis FA. He later left Perlis and joined Terengganu FA for the 2010/11 season.[3][4] He was the head coach of Selangor FA from 2012 until his resignation in 2013.[5]
Felda edit
Irfan was unveiled as new coach of Felda United FC in November 2013.[6]
With Felda, he guided them to the 2014 Malaysia FA Cup Final, where they lost 2–1 to Pahang, conceding goals at the last minute after leading for the long period of the game.[7] Felda continued their revitalized season by performing well in that year's Malaysia Cup with a win against a strong Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. team at rainy muddy pitch of MPS Stadium by 4–3, but lost in the second leg of the semi-final.[8] In the domestic campaign they finished second which saw only PDRM managed to prevented them from winning the Malaysia second tier division.
In 2015, Felda finished the season in 5th placed and make it to semi final of Malaysia cup.
In 2016, Felda ended the season as runners-up, their best position ever since inception. But Irfan left the team at the end of the season to take the head coach position of Terengganu for the second time.
Terengganu edit
Irfan was tasked to bring back Terengganu[9] to their glory days after number of coached comes in comes out end up with poor tactical, bad result cost the team relegation to premier league. Their best achievement was when Irfan was their head coach by winning the 2011 FA cup, super league & Malaysia cup runners up in 1 single season. On 20 October 2018, he managed to bring Terengganu advance to the 2018 Malaysia Cup final when Terengganu beaten heavily favourite Johor Darul Ta'zim (JDT) with 3–2 score aggregate but loss to Perak in penalty shootout (4-1).
Achievement edit
As a Player edit
Kelantan FA edit
- FAM Cup
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- 1971(Runner-up), 1972 (Runner-up)
- Kings Gold Cup
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- 1972, 1973 (Runner-up)
As a Coach edit
Malaysia U23 edit
- Bangabandhu Cup
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- 1997[1]
Penang FA edit
- FA Cup Malaysia
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- 2000(Runner-up),2002
- Malaysia Super League
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- 2000(Runner-up),2001
Perlis FA edit
Terengganu FA edit
- FA Cup Malaysia
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- 2011
- Malaysia Cup
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- 2011(Runner-up) & 2018(Runner-up)
- 2011(Runner-up)
Felda United F.C. edit
- Malaysia Premier League
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- 2014(Runner-up)
- FA Cup Malaysia
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- 2014(Runner-up)
- Malaysia Super League
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- 2016(Runner-up)
Individual edit
- Best Coach: 2011
References edit
- ^ a b c (in Malay). Berita Harian. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
- ^ "Sertaan Malaysia dim Piala Asia bagai 'mimpi tiba2 jadi kenjataan'". eresources.nlb.gov.sg.
- ^ . besonline. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ "Irfan Bakti Has High Hopes For Terengganu". BNet Source: Bernama; Malaysian National News Agency. 25 November 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
- ^ "Irfan Bakti resigns as Selangor head coach | Goal.com". www.goal.com.
- ^ . Archived from the original on 20 December 2013.
- ^ Krishnan, Gowri (19 May 2017). "#Throwback Piala FA 2014: Pahang 2-1 Felda United".
- ^ Harian, Sinar (26 December 2018). "Nasional". Sinarharian.
- ^ Bakar, Baharom (17 October 2016). "Irfan Bakti sah milik Terengganu". Berita Harian.