Mat Zan Mat Aris

Mat Zan Mat Aris

Personal information
Full name	Mohd Zan bin Mat Aris
Date of birth	(1958-02-28) 28 February 1958 (age 66) [1] [2]
Place of birth	Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1980–1992	Kuala Lumpur FA
International career
1985–1989	Malaysia
Managerial career
1996	DBKL
1999–2000	Kuala Lumpur
2001–2002	Terengganu
2003	Telekom Melaka
2004–2007	Kuala Lumpur
2008–2010	KL Plus
2011	Pos Malaysia
2012	Terengganu
2013–2014	Harimau Muda B (assistant)
2015–2016	Melaka United
2017	Petaling Jaya Rangers
2019	Negeri Sembilan
2020	Melawati
2021	PDRM
2022	Tun Razak City
2023–	Imigresen
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mat Zan Mat Aris is a Malaysian manager and former national footballer.

He spent most of his football career playing for Kuala Lumpur FA during the 1980s and early 1990s.

Career

Playing career

Mat Zan began his career as a player for Kuala Lumpur in the early 1980s.

He played with Kuala Lumpur FA for whom he played 13 years and won treble Malaysia Cup 1987, 1988 & 1989.

Mat Zan made his full international debut in 1985 and he won Gold Medal in 1989 SEA Games at Kuala Lumpur. ^{[3] [4]}

Managerial career

Mat Zan start out his managerial and coaching stint as head coach for his employee while working with DBKL FC before pursuing his career as a full-time football coach. Mat Zan coached Kuala Lumpur FA in 1999 and won Malaysia FA Cup in 1999 and Charity Cup in 2000. In 2001, Mat Zan then move as head coach of Terengganu FA and He won the 2001 Malaysia Cup, 2001 Malaysia Charity Cup and second place in Malaysia League. With PLUS F.C. in 2008 he took 2nd place in Premier League and automatically promoted to Malaysia Super League. In 2012, he comeback with Terengganu FA and go through to FA Cup Semi-finals and round two in AFC Cup. In 2015 Mat Zan move to Melaka United and won 2015 Malaysia FAM League and won 2016 Malaysia Premier League. ^[5] After his contract was not renewed with Melaka at the end of 2016, he was appointed as new head coach of AirAsia Allstars FC, which was renamed as Petaling Jaya Rangers F.C., for the 2017 season. ^[6] He signed a 1-year contract with Negeri Sembilan form the 2019 season. ^[7]

Mat Zan also assistant coached the club side of Malaysia U-21 squad, Harimau Muda B, who won plate winner Singapore Starhub League Cup, Thanj Nien Newspaper Cup, Vietnam 3rd place and Hassanal Bolkiah Cup, Brunei 3rd place

Honours

Managerial honours

Kuala Lumpur FA

• 1999 Malaysia FA Cup (1): 2000 Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup (1)

Terengganu FA

• 2001 Malaysia Cup (1): 2001 Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Cup (1)

Melaka United

• 2015 Malaysia FAM League (1): 2016 Malaysia Premier League (1)

Immigration F.C.

• 2023 Malaysia M3 League (1)

References

1. Mat Zan Mat Aris - NFT
2. Haji Mohd Zan Haji Mat Aris - Soccerway
3. Vijhay Vick (27 July 2017). "SEA Games 1989 final: When Merdeka Malaysia celebrated with the 'mother of all gold medals'". Four Four Two Archived at Wayback Machine . Archived from the original on 27 July 2017. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
4. South East Asian Games 1989 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
5. "Unceremonious exit for Mat Zan | New Straits Times". 25 October 2016.
6. "BERNAMA - Mat Zan Is AirAsia Allstars FC New Coach". www.bernama.com. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
7. "Sukan". 26 December 2018.