Hamka Hamzah

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Hamka Hamzah
Personal information
Full name Hamka Hamzah
Date of birth (1984-01-29) 29 January 1984 (age 40) [1]
Place of birth Makassar, Indonesia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [2]
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
RANS Nusantara (manager)
Number 23
Youth career
2000–2001 PSM Makassar
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2001–2002 PSM Makassar 12 (0)
2002–2003 Persebaya Surabaya 20 (1)
2003–2005 Persik Kediri 50 (2)
2005–2008 Persija Jakarta 62 (5)
2008–2009 Persik Kediri 32 (3)
2009–2010 Persisam Putra Samarinda 20 (5)
2010–2011 Persipura Jayapura 19 (1)
2011–2013 Mitra Kukar 56 (5)
2013–2014 PKNS 20 (5)
2014–2015 Borneo 23 (7)
2015–2016 Arema Cronus 30 (9)
2017 PSM Makassar 30 (4)
2018 Sriwijaya 15 (4)
2018–2019 Arema 45 (4)
2020–2021 Persita Tangerang 3 (0)
2021–2022 RANS Cilegon 15 (2)
2022 Bekasi City 7 (2)
2023– RANS Nusantara 2 (0)
Total461(59)
International career
2002 Indonesia U21 8 (0)
2004–2014 Indonesia 31 (0)
Managerial career
2021–2022 RANS Cilegon (Assistant)
2023– RANS Nusantara (Manager)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
AFF Championship
Runner-up 2004 Vietnam & Malaysia 2004
Runner-up 2010 Indonesia & Vietnam 2010
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 March 2024

Hamka Hamzah (born 29 January 1984) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and now as a manager in the RANS Nusantara. In the past, he once played as a forward. Hamka also has one appearance as a goalkeeper in Persik Kediri.

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Biography

Hamka Hamzah played as a defender for the Indonesia national team at the 2010 AFF Championship tournament. His consistent play and fighting spirit to guard the opposing strikers has made Hamka Hamzah respected by the opposing strikers and always has a place in the Indonesian national team. Footballer whose height is 183cm.

Apart from PSM, Hamka has played for a number of big clubs in Indonesia, such as Persik Kediri, Arema Cronus, Persebaya, Persija, Persisam and Persipura. While at Persija, Hamka was one of Persija's most prolific goal scorers. Sergei Dubrovin, former Persija architect, praised that not many players have skills like Hamka. Because he was considered to have quite a big influence, Hamka was asked to become captain to replace Hendro Kartiko who left for Arema Malang. [3]

Club career

PSM Makassar

Hamka played for his hometown club, PSM Makassar for the 2017 League 1 competition. Hamka started his career with PSM Makassar Junior in 2001-2002. At that time he was 17 years old.

Persebaya Surabaya

After his debut with PSM Makassar, in 2002 he officially wore the Persebaya Surabaya uniform. There he appeared 20 times with 1 goal.

Persik Kediri

After just one season in Surabaya, he moved to Persik Kediri. At Persik he lasted almost 2 seasons with 50 appearances and 2 goals. In almost every team he plays for, Hamka always wears the jersey number 23. That's his favorite number.

Persija Jakarta

In 2005, he officially joined the capital's proud team, Persija Jakarta. He is one of the players most liked by The Jakmania (as Persija fans are called), because he played greatly and is skilled at defending.

With Persija Hamka could be said to be more productive as a defender, scoring 5 goals in 62 appearances. At Persija he almost spent three seasons, he returned to defend Persik Kediri for about one season.

After that, he played at several big clubs such as Persisam Samarinda, Persipura Jayapura, Mitra Kukar, PKNS, Pusamania Borneo and Arema Cronus. In Arema, he became a captain.

PKNS Selangor

Not only that, Hamka is also one of the Indonesian players who plays abroad. He was contracted at a fantastic price by Malaysia club PKNS Selangor.

On the field, Hamka is one of the players who expresses his emotions the most. From there he learned lessons and then made him team captain. After becoming captain, Hamka looked quite calm and more mature in playing.

After moving from club to club, he finally returned to his hometown to strengthen and become captain of PSM Makassar in the continuation of the 2019 Liga 1 competition.

Bekasi City

On 1 July 2022, Hamka joined Liga 2 club, Bekasi City.

RANS Nusantara

Hamka while no longer active as a player, and became the manager for RANS Nusantara. On 17 March 2024, Hamka played his first game after two years, for RANS as player-manager against Bali United in a 1–1 draw.

Honours

Club

Persebaya Surabaya

Persipura Jayapura

Sriwijaya

Arema

RANS Cilegon

National team

Indonesia U-21

Indonesia

Individual

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