Szeto Man Chun (born 5 June 1975) is a Hong Kong football coach and a former professional footballer. He is currently the assistant coach of Hong Kong Premier League club Lee Man.

International career

Szeto has played for the Hong Kong national football team for more than 8 years. In his football career, he played a lot of games against various national teams around the world, such as Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Japan, South Korea and so on. He also played invitation matches with Liverpool and Real Madrid etc. He retired from professional football after the 2008–09 season.

Coaching career

Szeto started his coaching career during his footballing career. Since 2007, he was one of the coaches of the Hong Kong national youth team. On 27 May 2017, Eastern chairman announced Szeto as Chan Yuen Ting's successor as their head coach. He resigned less than a year later on 19 January 2018 due to a poor results. In July 2022, it was reported that Szeto had become the head coach of HK U23. In March 2023, Szeto was appointed as the head coach of Hong Kong U-23.

Executive career

On 4 June 2020, Wigan Athletic announced the takeover of the club by Next Leader Fund L.P. had been completed. Szeto, who was a friend of Next Leader Fund's General Partner, Au Yeung Wai Kay, was named as a director of the club as part of the takeover. Less than a month later he voted them into administration.

Commentator career

He began his commentator career in January 2007 in Hong Kong Cable TV.

Honours