Tshering Dorji

Tshering Dorji
Dorji with Thimphu City FC in 2017
Personal information
Full name Tshering Dorji
Date of birth (1995-09-11) 11 September 1995 (age 29)[1][2]
Place of birth Ramjar, Trashiyangtse, Bhutan[3]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Thimphu City FC
Number 16
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008 Transport United 10 (4)
2012–2014 Ugyen Academy
2015–2018 Thimphu City 36 (9)
2018 Madhya Bharat[4] 15 (3)
2018–2019 Aizawl[5] 0 (0)
2019–2020 South United Bengaluru 7 (2)
International career
2011– Bhutan 31 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Tshering Dorji aka Tshagay (born 11 September 1995) is a Bhutanese professional footballer who plays for Thimphu City FC as a midfielder.

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.[6]

As of March 2015, he was studying at the Royal Thimphu College as a first year student.[3]

  1. ^ Tshering DorjiFIFA competition record (archived)
  2. ^ "Tshering Dorji". Soccerway. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Bhutan's Two Heroes With Three Important Goals In Between Them". The Bhutanese. 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Squad". I-league.org. Archived from the original on 18 March 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  5. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "NFT player — National team & Club appearances: Dorji, Tshering". national-football-teams.com. National Football Teams. Archived from the original on 5 October 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  6. ^ Sirilal, Ranga (12 March 2015). "World's worst Bhutan win on World Cup qualifying debut". Reuters. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2015.