Irfan Bakti Abu Salim
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Irfan Bakti bin Abu Salim | ||
| Date of birth | 1 April 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Perak, Malaysia | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Perak FA | |||
| National team | |||
| Malaysia | |||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1996 | Malaysia Deaf national football team | ||
| 1999–2000 | Negeri Sembilan FA | ||
| 2001–2003 | Penang FA | ||
| 2004–2007 | Melaka TMFC | ||
| 2007 | Persipura Jayapura | ||
| 2008 | Perlis FA | ||
| 2009–2011 | Terengganu FA | ||
| 2012–2013 | Selangor FA | ||
| 2013–2016 | Felda United FC | ||
| 2017– | Terengganu FA | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Irfan Bakti Abu Salim is a Malaysian football coach. A former football player, he was in the Malaysia squad for the 1976 AFC Asian Cup in Tehran, Iran.
He spent most of his early coaching days as a coach with the Football Association of Malaysia in Wisma FAM. He first worked as a state coach with the Negri Sembilan team, and later joined Penang FA and TMFC respectively. In 2007 he suddenly resigned from TMFC to coach an Indonesian team, Persipura Jayapura. He returned to Malaysian football in 2008, joining Perlis FA. He later left Perlis and joined Terengganu FA for the 2010/11 season. He was the head coach of Selangor FA from 2012 until his resignation in 2013.
Irfan was unveiled as new coach of Felda United FC on November 2013.
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