Szeto Man Chun

Szeto Man Chun (Chinese: 司徒文俊; Jyutping: si¹ tou⁴ man⁴ zeon³; born 5 June 1975) is a Hong Kong football coach and a former professional footballer.

Szeto Man Chun

Personal information
Full name	Szeto Man Chun
Date of birth	(1975-06-05) 5 June 1975 (age 50)
Place of birth	Hong Kong
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1993–1994	Voicelink
1994–1998	Happy Valley
1998–1999	Sai Kung Friends
1999–2000	Sai Kung
2000–2001	Orient & Yee Hope Union
2001–2004	South China	26	(2)
2004–2008	Kitchee	34	(3)
2008–2009	Eastern	20	(2)
2011	Hoi Fan
International career
2000–2007	Hong Kong	45	(1)
Managerial career
2013–2016	Hong Kong (team manager)
2016–2017	Eastern (assistant coach)
2017–2018	Eastern
2018	Eastern (team manager)
2018–2019	Eastern (deputy director)
2020–2021	Wigan Athletic (director)
2022–2024	HK U23
2023–2024	Hong Kong U-23
2024–2025	Lee Man (assistant coach)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

In this Chinese name, the family name is Szeto.

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

Coaching career

Szeto started his coaching career during his footballing 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.^[1] He resigned less than a year later on 19 January 2018 due to a poor results.^[2]

In July 2022, it was reported that Szeto had become the head coach of HK U23.

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

Executive career

On 4 June 2020, Wigan Athletic announced 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.^[3] Less than a month later he voted them into administration.^[4]

Commentator career

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

Honours

Kitchee

• Hong Kong League Cup: 2005–06, 2006–07
• Hong Kong Senior Shield: 2005–06