Szeto Man Chun (; born 5 June 1975) is a

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coach and a former professional footballer. He is currently the head coach of

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club HK U23 and Hong Kong U-23.

International career

Szeto has played for the

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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

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and

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

Coaching career

Szeto has 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

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's successor as their head coach. He resigned less than a year later on 19 January 2018 due to a poor results. In July 2022, it was reported that Szeto has 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,

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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. Less than a month later he voted them into administration.

Commentator career

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

Honours

; Kitchee *

Hong Kong League Cup Hong Kong Football Association League Cup () is an annual football competition contested by clubs in the top-tier Hong Kong domestic football league (currently Hong Kong Premier League). The cup was relaunched for the 2014–15 season after being ...

: 2005–06, 2006–07 *

Hong Kong Senior Shield The Hong Kong Senior Challenge Shield (), known commonly as the Senior Shield, is the football knockout inter-club competition held in Hong Kong and the fourth oldest football tournament in Asia. Traditionally, only the teams in the Hong Kong Pr ...

: 2005–06

References

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Szeto Man Chun
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at kitchee.com 1975 births Living people Hong Kong football managers Hong Kong footballers Hong Kong men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Eastern Sports Club footballers Happy Valley AA players Yee Hope FC players South China AA players Kitchee SC players Hong Kong First Division League players Expatriate footballers in Macau Hong Kong League XI representative players {{HongKong-footy-bio-stub