Win Naing Tun (Burmese: ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း; born 3 May 2000) is a Burmese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club Chiangrai United. He is considered the most promising striker in Burmese football.[2] He won a bronze medal at the 2019 SEA Games.[3][4]

Win Naing Tun
Naing Tun with Myanmar U23 in 2019
Personal information
Full name Win Naing Tun
Date of birth (2000-05-03) 3 May 2000 (age 24)
Place of birth Depayin, Myanmar
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
Chiangrai United
Number 77
Youth career
2011–2015 Myanmar Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Yadanarbon 24 (11)
2020 Ayeyawady United 5 (0)
2021–2023 Yangon United 15 (11)
2023–2024 Borneo Samarinda 25 (0)
2024– Chiangrai United 7 (1)
International career
2017 Myanmar U18 6 (7)
2016–2019 Myanmar U20 33 (25)
2018–2023 Myanmar U23 18 (10)
2021– Myanmar 33 (3)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Myanmar
Tri-Nation Series
Silver medal – second place 2023 India
AFF U-19 Youth Championship
Silver medal – second place 2018 Indonesia
Sea Games
Bronze medal – third place 2019 philippines
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 August 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 November 2023

Early life

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Win Naing Tun was born on 3 May 2000 in Saipyingyi Village, Depayin in Sagaing Region. He went to the Myanmar Football Academy.

Career

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In 2017, Yadanarbon signed Win Naing Tun from the Myanmar Football Academy.[5][6] He scored his first time ever goal for Yadanarbon against Shan United.

In December 2018, he received the best player award at the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament held in Vietnam.[7] He won the Player of the Month for January at the 2019 Myanmar National League (MNL).[8]

In 2020, he signed for Ayeyawady United.[3][9][10]

He joined Yangon United in 2021, but the league was cancelled for the year. Win Naing Tun played his first match against Shan United but got sent off in the first ten minutes. He scored his first Lions goal against Mahar United, and scored five in a 10-0 battering against relegation-candidates Rakhine United.

In addition to his club successes that year, Win Naing Tun represented Myanmar in the AFF Mitsubishi Electric Cup. However, he failed to make an impact, missing a penalty in the opening match against Malaysia and failing to make an appearance for the match against Vietnam.

Borneo FC Samarinda

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Ahead 2023–24 season, Win Naing Tun decided to go abroad for the first time to Indonesia and joined Liga 1 side Borneo Samarinda.[11] He became the first Myanmar professional footballer to play in Indonesia.[12]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of 25 May 2024
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Yadanarbon 2018 Myanmar National League 9 1 0 0 9 1
2019 Myanmar National League 15 10 0 0 15 10
Total 24 11 0 0 24 11
Ayeyawady United 2020 Myanmar National League 5 0 0 0 5 0
Yangon United 2022 Myanmar National League 10 6 0 0 10 6
2023 Myanmar National League 5 5 0 0 5 5
Total 15 11 0 0 15 11
Borneo Samarinda 2023–24 Liga 1 25 0 0 0 25 0
Career total 69 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 69 22

International

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As of 21 November 2023
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Myanmar 2021 9 0
2022 12 1
2023 12 2
Total 33 3
List of international goals scored by Win Naing Tun
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 14 June 2022 Dolen Omurzakov Stadium, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan   Singapore 1–3 2–6 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification
2. 11 September 2023 Thuwunna Stadium, Yangon, Myanmar     Nepal 1–0 1–0 Friendly
3. 21 November 2023   North Korea 1–6 1–6 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

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Myanmar

Myanmar U23

Myanmar U19

Borneo FC Samarinda

Individual

References

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  1. ^ Yangon United F.C. [@YangonUnitedFC] (8 January 2021). "We are delighted to confirm the signing of Myanmar National U-23 and Ayeyawady United striker Win Naing Tun with a three-year contract for the preparation of upcoming seasons" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 10 July 2021 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "မန်မာU 18 အသင်းရဲ့ဂိုးသွင်းစက် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Ayeyawady United signs Myanmar international forward Win Naing Tun". Myanmar DigitalNews. 9 January 2020. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  4. ^ "ဧရာဝတီအသင်းတိုက်စစ်မှူးသစ် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 10 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  5. ^ "၁ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်". Yadanarbon. 2017. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Win Naing Tun's late goal gives Yadanabon draw to Shan United". Myanmar DigitalNews. 20 January 2019. Archived from the original on 28 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Win Naing Tun named best player in Viet Nam football tourney 297". The Global New Light of Myanmar. 20 December 2018 – via Free For Readers.
  8. ^ "ဇန်နဝါရီအတွက် MNL အကောင်းဆုံးဆုကို ဦးအောင်ကျော်မိုးနှင့် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ရရှိ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 3 February 2019. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  9. ^ "ဖိလစ်ပိုင်ဆီးဂိမ်းစ်တွင် Super-Sub အဖြစ် ခြေစွမ်းပြခဲ့သည့် တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီအသင်း ခေါ်ယူ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 8 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  10. ^ "တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီယူနိုက်တက်ခေါ်ယူ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  11. ^ "Datangkan Win Naing Tun dari Yangon United dengan Sistem Transfer". www.borneofc.id (in Indonesian). 27 May 2023. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  12. ^ "Mengenal Win Naing Tun, Top Skor AFF dan Pemain Myanmar Pertama di Liga Indonesia". www.indosport.com (in Indonesian). 28 May 2023. Archived from the original on 12 June 2023. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
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