 Tierney with Johor Darul Ta'zim FC in 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Fergus Tierney | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 19 March 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2021 | Soccer Experience F.C. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Johor Darul Ta'zim III | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Johor Darul Ta'zim II | 17 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Malaysia U22 | 6 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Malaysia U23 | 14 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 February 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fergus Tierney (born 19 March 2003) is a Malaysian-Scottish professional footballer who plays as forward for Johor Darul Ta'zim F.C..[1][2][3][4][5][6] Born in Scotland, he represents Malaysia at youth level.
Tierney was born in 2003, and raised in Penang, Malaysia since child, which made him a naturalized player and holds a Malaysian passport.[7][8]
He started his youth career in Malaysia with Soccer Experience FC and his youth football development was challenged during many international football trips where he would play with and against many international professional football academies.
In his youth playing days with Soccer Experience FC he would play in Europe against academy teams like Atlético Madrid youth teams,[9] CA Osasuna Cantera, Levante UD Academy,[10] CD Tenerife academy, Rangers F.C. B Team and Academy[11] and many more big clubs in Europe and also played against many quality youth teams in Southeast Asia against youth teams like Barcelona FC Asian academies, Penang, JSSL Singapore and many more regional clubs.
Over the years of travelling from Malaysia to play internationally and gain exposure and experience Tierney was invited to train with clubs like, Sunderland, Leicester City, Dundee, FC Goa, St Johnstone and many more.
After the COVID-19 pandemic and when lockdown eased he was 18 years old and was then invited to train with Penang first team. He also been invited to train with Johor Darul Ta'zim and was very proud in early 2022 to sign a contract with the 7-times Malaysia Super League champions club.[12][13][14] and was part of the squad that won the Malaysian Premier League title, Malaysia Premier League[15][16] in 2022, Fergus was coached in 2022 by former Boca Juniors & Argentina National team player Mariano Echeverría.[17][18]
At only 19 years old, Tierney was called up to the Malaysia national under-23 football team in February 2023 and again called up in March 2023 for the Malaysian team that went on to win the Merlion Cup for the first time that was held in Singapore.
In April 2023 Tierney was selected again to the Malaysia national under-23 football team for the 2023 Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Tierney was again selected in August 2023 for the AFF U-23 Championship held in Thailand where he scored crucial goals including a double against Indonesia national under-23 football team to help his Malaysia team win 2 - 1 and he also helped the team reach the 3rd & 4th Playoff.
In September 2023 Tierney was selected again for the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification held in Thailand and helped the Malaysia team advance from the AFC regional qualifiers and reach the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup FINALS to be held in Qatar in April 2024.
In December 2023 Tierney played for Malaysia national under-23 football team away in Shanghai, China where the Malaysian team won 1-0, making it the first time in decades a Malaysian national team had beaten the Chinese national team in China.
Tierney is the son of former PDRM, Penang and Geylang International football player and academy coach and TV pundit for Astro SuperSport, Martin Tierney and also his mother Sharon Tierney was an elite athlete who has represented Scottish Athletics national team. Also his sisters Murron Tierney and Grear Tierney are presently competitive footballers with Soccer Experience F.C. senior girls/ladies team. Both Murron and Grear are licensed Asian Football Confederation youth football coaches.
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