| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gavin Joshua Lee Tse Peng | ||
| Date of birth | 8 September 1990 | ||
| Place of birth | Singapore | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Singapore (Interim Head Coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2014 | SCC | 0 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2015 | Warriors (assistant) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Tampines Rovers (assistant) | ||
| 2019–2025 | Tampines Rovers | ||
| 2024–2025 | Singapore (assistant) | ||
| 2025– | Singapore (interim) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Gavin Joshua Lee Tse Peng (born 8 September 1990) is a Singaporean professional football coach who is currently the interim head coach of the Singapore national team. [1]
Lee played for the Tampines under-8s, as well as the under-10s, teams that his father coached at the time.[ citation needed ] Lee was enrolled in the National Football Academy and also played for the national under-14 team. [2]
After training alongside Gabriel Quak, Hariss Harun and Izwan Mahbud, Lee knew he would not be able to keep up. He shared that “It was also at that point that I realised I couldn't cope academically, so I decided to choose a different path” and turned to coaching because his father had been a coach since he was young.[ citation needed ]
Lee studied at Victoria School and Victoria Junior College. [3] He later studied in Nanyang Technological University and had a degree in Sports Science and Management. [2]
As a young football coach, Gavin admitted that a consequence of his daily routines is that he “does not have as many friends as others”. When Gavin Lee was in university, he was often labelled as an "old man" as he did not join his peers for suppers and parties and chose to rest early to work the following day.[ citation needed ]
Since he was 17, Lee has been a football coach. He worked his way up from the grassroots, coaching children as young as five at JSSL.
Lee joined the JSSL Singapore when he was 18 as a "cone guy" before becoming the general manager in 2016. [2]
In June 2011, Lee was issued an AFC 'C' Coaching License at the age of 21. He then went on to get the AFC 'B' Coaching License in July 2015 before finally getting to the highest achieving license, AFC 'A' Coaching License in January 2020.
In 2014, Gavin joined Warriors as their match analyst in their title winning season in 2014 where he got promoted to the assistant coach under Alex Weaver in 2015. Lee left Warriors in October 2015. [2]
In December 2017, Lee joined Tampines Rovers as an assistant coach under head coach Jürgen Raab. [2] In 2019, after head coach Raab was relieved of his duties at Tampines Rovers on 9 October 2018, [4] Lee was appointed as head coach despite lacking the required Asian Football Confederation 'A' License to become the head coach. [2] [5] The appointment was based on his past performance as Warriors' assistant coach and impressed Tampines Rovers' staff and players with his knowledge. [2] He was then the youngest head coach in the history of the Singapore Premier League. [6]
Lee led the club to second place in the Singapore Premier League (SPL) and won the 2019 Singapore Cup in his first season in charge. [1] Tampines Rovers placed second in the SPL again in his second year at the head of the team. [7]
During the 2021 season, Lee led the team to their first ever AFC Champions League debut in Tashkent, Uzbekistan which they are drawn in Group H with 2020 K League 1 champions and 2020 Korean FA Cup winners, Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, 2020 J1 League runners-up, Gamba Osaka and Thailand Chiangrai United. On 16 June, Lee has extended his contract until 2024.
On 17 June 2025, Lee left Tampines Rovers after eight years in charge of the club. [8]
On 7 March 2024, Lee was invited to be part of the backroom staff of the Singapore national team by newly appointed Japanese head coach Tsutomu Ogura for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification match against China. [9] On 11 June 2024, Gavin was appointed in charge of the national team against Thailand after Ogura tested positive for COVID-19 and was isolated from the team. [10]
On 24 June 2025, Ogura stepped down as the national team head coach, due to personal reasons. FAS decided to appoint Lee as the interim coach. [11]