Chencho Dorji (born 1 January 1980 in Mongar) is a

Bhutan Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, in the Eastern Himalayas between China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast. With a population of over 727,145 and a territory of , ...

ese

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

manager Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether businesses, nonprofit organizations, or a government bodies through business administration, nonprofit management, or the political science sub-field of public administra ...

head coach A head coach, senior coach, or manager is a professional responsible for training and developing athletes within a sports team. This role often has a higher public profile and salary than other coaching positions. In some sports, such as associat ...

. Besides Bhutan, he has coached in

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

Managerial career

Dorji completed his C-License coaching course in 2005 when he was still just 25. In the 12 years that he worked with the

Bhutan Football Federation The Bhutan Football Federation (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྐང་རིལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ) is the governing body of football in Bhutan, controlling Bhutan national football team, Bhutan women's national football team and Bhutan ...

(BFF) after that, he enrolled in every programme that he came across, just to learn more about the game. Such was his hunger for footballing knowledge that upon finishing all of BFF's courses, he went to Japan and completed all the coaching courses from there as well.

Football in Bhutan Football is a sport with a comparatively brief history in Bhutan, having had an initial period of favour in the mid-twentieth century, when it was first introduced to the country by visiting teachers from India and Europe. It has only achieved ...

benefited from it as he served a number of different age-group teams over the years besides playing an important role in setting up their grassroots system. Dorji had earlier worked as the head coach of the

youth national teams and he was always wanting to move to Indian

I-League The I-League is the men's second professional football division of the Indian football league system behind the Indian Super League. Administered by the All India Football Federation, it is currently contested by 13 clubs. It operates as a s ...

. "The I-League is one of the biggest leagues in South Asia and it has teams that have been playing at such a high level for many years. We have been preparing well and no team should take us lightly. We can certainly come up with surprise results," Dorji said about his move to Sudeva. Bracing up for their maiden

appearance,

Sudeva Delhi FC Sudeva Delhi Football Club is an Indian professional football club based in Delhi. The club competed in the I-League 2, the third tier of the Indian football league system, after getting relegated from the second tier I-League in 2022–23. I ...

appointed Dorji as the team's head coach ahead of the upcoming season. I-League's newest entrant is the first team from national capital

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

. Dorji is the first

ese coach at the helm of any club in the history of the

. He joined Sudeva's academy in November 2019 and is now the chief tactician of the senior team. Dorji has previously worked at the

for 12 years. The first club from the national capital to play in the I-League,

have opted for an all-Indian squad in their first season and the concept came from Dorji's mind. He said that "The message was always clear that we will go with an all-Indian squad." Dorji later became head coach of Sudeva Delhi again in 2023, and guided the team in

I-League 2 The I-League 2 is an Indian men's professional association football, football league. It is the 3rd tier of the Indian football league system, behind the Indian Super League and the I-League. It operates as a system of promotion and relegation ...

Statistics

Managerial statistics

References

External links

Chencho Dorji Profile
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