Irfan Bakti Abu Salim

Irfan Bakti Abu Salim is a Malaysian football coach, who is head coach of the Malaysia Premier League club Kuching City. A former football player, he was in the Malaysia squad for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup in Tehran, Iran.[1]

In this Malay name, there is no family name. The name Abu Salim is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by the given name, Irfan Bakti. The Arabic-derived word "bin" or "binti"/"binte", if used, means 'son of' or 'daughter of', respectively.
Irfan Bakti
Personal information
Full name Irfan Bakti bin Abu Salim
Date of birth (1951-04-01) 1 April 1951
Place of birth Bukit Mertajam, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 vacant
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Perak FA
National team
Malaysia
Teams managed
1996 Malaysia Deaf national football team
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
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Coaching career

Beginnings

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.[2][3] He was the head coach of Selangor FA from 2012 until his resignation in 2013.[4]

Felda

Irfan was unveiled as new coach of Felda United FC on November 2013.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7] 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

Irfan was tasked to bring back Terengganu[8] 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

Penang FA
FA Cup Malaysia
  • 2000(Runner Up),2002
Malaysia Charity Shield
  • 2003
Malaysia Super League
  • 2000(Runner Up),2001

Perlis FA
Malaysia Charity Shield
  • 2008

Terengganu FA
FA Cup Malaysia
  • 2011
Malaysia Cup
  • 2011(Runner Up)
Malaysia Super League
  • 2011(Runner Up)
Malaysia Super League
  • 2018 (Runner Up)

Felda United F.C.
Malaysia Premier League
  • 2014(Runner Up)
FA Cup Malaysia
  • 2014(Runner Up)
Malaysia Super League
  • 2016(Runner Up)

Individual
National Football Award
  • Best Coach:2011

References
  1. http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article/beritaharian19760602-1.2.50.8.aspx
  2. "Irfan Bakti to coach Terengganu next season". besonline. 20 November 2009. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  3. "Irfan Bakti Has High Hopes For Terengganu". BNet Source: Bernama; Malaysian National News Agency. 25 November 2009. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  4. http://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3896/malaysia/2013/08/28/4219725/irfan-bakti-resigns-as-selangor-head-coach
  5. http://www.thestar.com.my/Sport/Football/2013/11/15/Irfans-target-Felda-promotion-to-Super-League.aspx
  6. https://www.fourthofficial.com/2017/46845/throwback-piala-fa-2014-pahang-2-1-felda-united/
  7. http://www.sinarharian.com.my/nasional/piala-malaysia-felda-united-tewaskan-jdt-4-3-1.326105
  8. https://www.bharian.com.my/node/203195
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