Mehmet Fatih Kale

Mehmet Fatih Kale
Personal information
Full name Mehmet Fatih Kale
Date of birth (1968-05-30) 30 May 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Ankara, Turkey
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 4+1⁄2 in)
Managerial career
Years Team
2000–2016 Taipei-SCSC Football Club
2006 Taipei Select Men's Team
2014–2016 Chinese Taipei Women's National Futsal Team
2016 Brunei Men's National Team
2017 Chinese Taipei F.A.Technical Director
2018 LAOS U23 Head Coach , Men's NT Interim Head Coach
2021–22 Gençlerbirliği FK Women's Football Sporting Director
2023– Bhutan FA Technical Director[1]

Mehmet Fatih Kale (born 30 May 1968) is a Turkish/Taiwanese Football and Futsal coach, and known for his contributions to the development of Women's football and futsal development in Taiwan. In 2014, Kale established the first ever women's Futsal National Team for the Chinese Taipei Football Association. Kale was granted Republic of China (Taiwan) citizenship in January 2018 due to his long time contributions to the sports in the country. Kale is the first football coach from Taiwan to work as head coach of an other nation with his stints in Brunei and Laos. After a year of absence due to covid restrictions, he joined the Turkish club Gençlerbirliği to create a women's football program for the club.[2]

Managerial statistic

Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Chinese Taipei Taipei Select Men's futsal team 2006 2006 3 2 0 1 066.67
Taiwan Taipei-SCSC Club 2007 2016 154 117 16 21 075.97
Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei women's national futsal team 2014 2016 5 3 0 2 060.00
Brunei Brunei national futsal team (all friendly matches) 2016 2016 7 7 0 0 100.00
Chinese Taipei Chinese Taipei Men's national futsal team 2017 2017 9 4 1 4 044.44
Laos Laos U23 football team (official and friendly matches) 2018 2018 8 5 0 3 062.50
Career totals 186 138 17 31 074.19

Coaching Achievements

2006 Taipei International Futsal Tournament (Taipei Select Men's Futsal Team) Runners up

2008 Taiwan Women's Futsal Championship (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

2009 Taiwan Women's Football League (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

2011~2015 (5years back to back)Taiwan Women's Futsal Championship (Taipei-SCSC Club) Champion

Honors

2009 Chinese Taipei Football Association "Coach of The Year" award

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Mehmet Fatih Kale entrusted with reviving Bhutan's football". FIFA.com. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
  2. ^ Chen, Yu-fu; Chung, Jake (20 January 2018). "TV host, academics among new citizens". Taipei Times. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

Futsalplanet news [1]

JFA match report [2]