The Most Famous
SOCCER PLAYERS from Bhutan
This page contains a list of the greatest Bhutanese Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 2 of which were born in Bhutan. This makes Bhutan the birth place of the 149th most number of Soccer Players behind Republic of the Congo, and Hong Kong.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bhutanese Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Bhutanese Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Wangay Dorji (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 35.75, Wangay Dorji is the most famous Bhutanese Soccer Player. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Wangay Dorji (born 9 January 1974) is a Bhutanese former professional footballer. He played as striker for Dhaka Mohammedan, Samtse, Ranjung United, Druk Pol and Transport United. Dorji gained international fame after scoring a hat-trick against Montserrat in The Other Final. Bhutan won the match 4–0. Dorji was captain of the Bhutanese national team.
2. Chencho Gyeltshen (b. 1996)
With an HPI of 22.32, Chencho Gyeltshen is the 2nd most famous Bhutanese Soccer Player. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages.
Chencho Gyeltshen (Dzongkha: བཙན་སྐྱོགས་རྒྱལ་མཚན; born 10 May 1996) is a Bhutanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 2 club Sriwijaya and captains the Bhutan national team. Gyeltshen is the all-time leading international goalscorer for Bhutan. He is affectionately nicknamed CG7 or Bhutanese Ronaldo, because of his style of play similar to that of Cristiano Ronaldo. Gyeltshen is the first Bhutanese fully professional footballer.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Bhutanese soccer players born between 1974 and 1996. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Bhutanese soccer players include Wangay Dorji, and Chencho Gyeltshen.
