Win Naing Tun

In this Burmese name, the given name is Win Naing Tun. There is no family name.
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 35 (5)
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 December 2024

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 and the Myanmar national team. He is considered one of the most promising young players in Burmese football.[2][3][4]

Early life

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

Club career

Yadanarbon

In 2017, Yadanarbon signed Win Naing Tun from the Myanmar Football Academy.[5][6] He make his first professional career debut in a 5–2 win over Ayeyawady United on 15 January 2018. Win scored his first career goal in a 3–2 lost against Shan United on 10 June. In December, 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' award in January during the 2019 Myanmar National League.[8]

Ayeyawady United

On 8 January 2020, Win signed for Ayeyawady United.[3][9][10] He make his debut in a goalless draw against Magwe on 11 January.

Yangon United

In January 2021, Win signed for Yangon United but the league was cancelled for the year. Win played his first match against Shan United on 6 August 2022 but got sent off in the first ten minutes. He scored his first goal against Mahar United on 5 September in a 3–0 win. On 2 October, Win scored his first professional career hat-trick where he scored five in a 10–0 battering against relegation-candidates Rakhine United.

Borneo Samarinda

In July 2023, Win decided to go abroad for the first time to Indonesia and joined Liga 1 side Borneo Samarinda for the 2023–24 season.[11] He make his debut on 3 July becoming the first Myanmar professional footballer to play in Indonesia in a 1–1 draw to Persik Kediri.[12]

International career

In December 2018, Win received the best player award at the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament held in Vietnam.[7]

Senior

On 28 May 2021, Win make his debut for Myanmar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification in a 10–0 thrashing defeat to Japan. Win was then called up for the delayed 2020 AFF Championship in December.

On 14 June 2022, Win scored his first goal for Myanmar in a 2–6 lost to Singapore during the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualification in Bishkek.

In addition to his club successes in 2022, Win was called up to represent Myanmar in the 2022 AFF Championship. 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.

During the 2024 ASEAN Championship match against Laos, as Myanmar was losing 2–1, Win scored a brace in the 87th and 90+3th minute to rescue Myanmar to a 3–2 comeback thus earning the 3 points in the group stage.

Career statistics

Club

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

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
4. 18 December 2024  Laos 2–2 3–2 2024 ASEAN Championship
5. 3–2

Honours

Club

Borneo Samarinda

International

Myanmar

Myanmar U23

Myanmar U19

Individual

References

  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. ^ a b "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.