Win Naing Tun

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

In this Burmese name, the given name is Win Naing Tun. There is no family name.
Win Naing Tun
Personal information
Full name Win Naing Tun
Date of birth (2000-05-03) 3 May 2000
Place of birth Depayin, Sagaing Region, Myanmar
Height 5 ft 11.5 in (1.82 m)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Yangon United
Number 10
Youth career
2011–2015 Myanmar Football Academy
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2019 Yadanarbon FC 28 (11)
2020 Ayeyawady United 5 (0)
2021– Yangon United 16 (14)
International career‡
2017 Myanmar U18 6 (7)
2016–2019 Myanmar U20 33 (25)
2018–2023 Myanmar U23 18 (10)
2021– Myanmar 25 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 March 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2023

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.

Career

In 2017, Yadanarbon FC 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.

International
As of match played 31 December 2022
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Myanmar 202180
2022141
202330
Total251

International goals
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1.14 June 2022Dolen Omurzakov Stadium, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Singapore1–32–62023 AFC Asian Cup qualification

Honours

National Team

  • Tri-Nation Series (India)
  • Runners-up (1):2023

International

Individual
  • 2018: Best Player of the Thanh Niên Newspaper International U-21 Football Tournament

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.
  3. "Ayeyawady United signs Myanmar international forward Win Naing Tun". Myanmar DigitalNews. 9 January 2020.
  4. "ဧရာဝတီအသင်းတိုက်စစ်မှူးသစ် ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 10 January 2020.
  5. "၁ ... ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်း ပြည့်စုံနိုင် နှင့် မြတ်ကောင်းခန့် တို့အား ရတနာပုံ အသင်းတရားဝင် ခေါ်ယူခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်". Yadanarbon. 2017.
  6. "Win Naing Tun's late goal gives Yadanabon draw to Shan United". Myanmar DigitalNews. 20 January 2019.
  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.
  9. "ဖိလစ်ပိုင်ဆီးဂိမ်းစ်တွင် Super-Sub အဖြစ် ခြေစွမ်းပြခဲ့သည့် တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီအသင်း ခေါ်ယူ". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 8 January 2020.
  10. "တိုက်စစ်မှူး ဝင်းနိုင်ထွန်းကို ဧရာဝတီယူနိုက်တက်ခေါ်ယူ". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 10 January 2020.
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