Abu Bakar Fadzim

Abu Bakar Fadzim

Personal information
Full name	Abu Bakar bin Fadzim
Date of birth	(1971-08-29) 29 August 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Penang, Malaysia
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Perak FA II (Head coach)
Youth career
1990	Perak
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1991–1992	PDRM	31	(3)
1993–1998	Perak	13	(1)
1999	Perlis	20	(2)
2000–2003	Perak	33	(3)
Total		97	(9)
Managerial career
2009	Perak (youth)
2010	Perak (assistant)
2011–2013	Perak FA (youth)
2010–2011	Perak Malay FA
2013–2014	Perak
2014–2015	Perak (assistant)
2015–	Perak FA II
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In this Malay name, there is no surname or family name. The name Fadzim is a patronymic, and the person should be referred to by their given name, Abu Bakar.

Abu Bakar bin Fadzim (born 29 August 1971) is a Malaysian football coach and former football player. He is the head coach of Malaysia Premier League club Perak FA II.

Playing career

Abu Bakar played for Perak from 1991 to 2003, except in 1999 when he played for Perlis. Abu Bakar also played for PDRM during his early playing career. Among his achievements as a player was winning the Malaysia Cup with Perak in 1998 and 2000.

Coaching career

Abu Bakar took a job as an assistant technical director with Perak after retiring as a player. He has been the assistant head coach for Perak senior team under Yang Mulia Raja Azlan Shah Raja So'ib for 2010 season.^[1]

He took over the Perak President's Cup Head coach job in 2011 having been the assistant coach for the team under Raja Azlan from 2007, the last time Perak win the competition.^[2] He guided the team to win the President's Cup competition in 2012.^[3] He was also the head coach of Perak Malay FA team who is competing in the Piala Emas Raja-Raja (Regent's Gold Cup in Malay) competition.

He was appointed as head coach of Perak in October 2013, after the resignation of Azraai Khor.^[4][5] He holds this position until October 2014, where he was demoted to assistant head coach after the appointment of Vjeran Simunić as head coach.

On 31 July 2015, Abu Bakar has been appointed as the PKNP FC as the club's head coach.

Managerial statistics

As of match played 26 July 2018

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record					Ref.
			P	W	D	L	Win %
Perak FA II	31 July 2016	Present	81	42	15	24	051.9
Total			81	42	15	24	051.9	—

References

1. Raj, R. G. (9 January 2004). "Bakar returns to the pitch as coach". New Straits Times. Archived from the original on 17 May 2011. Retrieved 3 March 2008.
2. "Perak juara Piala Presiden 2012". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
3. "Skipper Nurridzuan nets winner for Perak". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
4. "Early release will be resolved soon: Azraai - Football | The Star Online". Archived from the original on 22 October 2013.
5. "New Perak head coach announced | Goal.com".

External links

• Abu Bakar Fadzim at Soccerway