Pema Dorji (footballer)

Pema Dorji
Personal information
Full name Pema Dorji[1]
Date of birth (1985-07-05) 5 July 1985 (age 39)[2][1]
Place of birth Bhutan[1]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[2][1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Transport United (head coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2007 Transport United
2005–2014 Yeedzin FC
International career‡
2003–2013 Bhutan 31 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 FC Terton
2015–2016 Bhutan
2019–2023 Bhutan
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 September 2013

Pema Dorji (Dzongkha: དྲུང་འཚོ་པདྨ་རྡོ་རྗེ; 5 July 1985) is a Bhutanese football coach and former footballer. A former international player, he made his first appearance for the Bhutan national football team in 2003.[2]

Pema served as assistant coach to Japanese coach Norio Tsukitate during the first games of the Asian qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup[3] until Tsukitate's tenure ended following a dispute with the team manager on 8 October 2015.[4] Pema guided the team as interim coach in Bhutan's next match against Hong Kong on 13 October 2015.[3]

  1. ^ a b c d "Bhutan - P. Dorji - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". us.soccerway.com. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  2. ^ a b c Pema Dorji at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ^ a b Younten Tshedup (15 October 2015). "Bhutanese coach to lead the national team in China". Kuensel. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
  4. ^ Younten Tshedup (9 October 2015). "Head coach Norio wanted to leave: BFF". Kuensel. Retrieved 13 March 2016.