Tshering Dorji aka ''Tshagay'' (born 11 September 1995) is a

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

ese professional

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who plays for

Thimphu City FC Thimphu City FC is a Bhutanese professional football club based in Thimphu that competes in the Bhutan Premier League, the top level of football in Bhutan. Founded in 2012, they qualified for the inaugural Bhutan National League in the same yea ...

as a

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. Dorji is best known for the late goal he scored against Sri Lanka, which gave Bhutan their first ever win in the World Cup qualification. As of March 2015, he was studying at the

Royal Thimphu College Royal Thimphu College is a private college in Thimphu, Bhutan under the Royal University of Bhutan. It is Bhutan's first private college. The campus is located in an area of 25 acres of land in Ngabiphu, a rural area in Thimphu dzongkhag, locat ...

as a first year student.

Club career

South United

On 20 December 2018, it was announced that Tshering Dorji signed for Bengaluru-based club South United FC, which plays in the

I-League 2nd Division I-League 2, previously known as I-League 2nd Division and officially known as or Hero I-League 2 (for sponsorship ties with Hero MotoCorp), is an Indian men's professional football league. It is the 3rd tier of Indian football, behind Indian ...

, the tried tier of Indian football.

Madhya Bharat

In 2019, he joined the newly formed club from

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, Madhya Bharat SC, which has earlier played in the 2017–18 season of the

International career

Dorji represents

in international football since 2011. He made his senior debut on 12 March against Sri Lanka in 3–0 loss match at the

2011 SAFF Championship The 2011 South Asian Football Federation Championship, sponsored by Karbonn Mobiles and officially named Karbonn SAFF Championship 2011, was the 9th tournament of the SAFF Championship, which held in New Delhi, India. Venue It was originally s ...

in New Delhi.

International statistics

:''Scores and results list the Bhutan's goal tally first.''

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