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| Full name | Hamka Hamzah | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1984-01-29) 29 January 1984 (age 40)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Makassar, Indonesia | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | |||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | RANS Nusantara (manager) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | PSM Makassar | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2002 | PSM Makassar | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Persebaya Surabaya | 20 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Persik Kediri | 50 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Persija Jakarta | 62 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Persik Kediri | 32 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Persisam Putra Samarinda | 20 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Persipura Jayapura | 19 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2013 | Mitra Kukar | 56 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | PKNS | 20 | (5) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | Borneo | 23 | (7) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Arema Cronus | 30 | (9) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | PSM Makassar | 30 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Sriwijaya | 15 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Arema | 45 | (4) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2021 | Persita Tangerang | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | RANS Cilegon | 15 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Bekasi City | 7 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | RANS Nusantara | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 463 | (59) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Indonesia U21 | 8 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2014 | Indonesia | 31 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | RANS Cilegon (Assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | RANS Nusantara (Manager) | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 April 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hamka Hamzah (born 29 January 1984) is an Indonesian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and now as a manager in the RANS Nusantara. In the past, he once played as a forward. Hamka also has one appearance as a goalkeeper in Persik Kediri.
Hamka Hamzah played as a defender for the Indonesia national team at the 2010 AFF Championship tournament. His consistent play and fighting spirit to guard the opposing strikers has made Hamka Hamzah respected by the opposing strikers and always has a place in the Indonesian national team. Footballer whose height is 183cm.
Apart from PSM, Hamka has played for a number of big clubs in Indonesia, such as Persik Kediri, Arema Cronus, Persebaya, Persija, Persisam and Persipura. While at Persija, Hamka was one of Persija's most prolific goal scorers. Sergei Dubrovin, former Persija architect, praised that not many players have skills like Hamka. Because he was considered to have quite a big influence, Hamka was asked to become captain to replace Hendro Kartiko who left for Arema Malang.[3]
Hamka played for his hometown club, PSM Makassar for the 2017 League 1 competition. Hamka started his career with PSM Makassar Junior in 2001-2002. At that time he was 17 years old.
After his debut with PSM Makassar, in 2002 he officially wore the Persebaya Surabaya uniform. There he appeared 20 times with 1 goal.
After just one season in Surabaya, he moved to Persik Kediri. At Persik he lasted almost 2 seasons with 50 appearances and 2 goals. In almost every team he plays for, Hamka always wears the jersey number 23. That's his favorite number.
In 2005, he officially joined the capital's proud team, Persija Jakarta. He is one of the players most liked by The Jakmania (as Persija fans are called), because he played greatly and is skilled at defending.
With Persija Hamka could be said to be more productive as a defender, scoring 5 goals in 62 appearances. At Persija he almost spent three seasons, he returned to defend Persik Kediri for about one season.
After that, he played at several big clubs such as Persisam Samarinda, Persipura Jayapura, Mitra Kukar, PKNS, Pusamania Borneo and Arema Cronus. In Arema, he became a captain.
Not only that, Hamka is also one of the Indonesian players who plays abroad. He was contracted at a fantastic price by Malaysia club PKNS Selangor.
On the field, Hamka is one of the players who expresses his emotions the most. From there he learned lessons and then made him team captain. After becoming captain, Hamka looked quite calm and more mature in playing.
After moving from club to club, he finally returned to his hometown to strengthen and become captain of PSM Makassar in the continuation of the 2019 Liga 1 competition.
On 1 July 2022, Hamka joined Liga 2 club, Bekasi City.
Hamka while no longer active as a player, and became the manager for RANS Nusantara. On 17 March 2024, Hamka played his first game after two years, for RANS as player-manager against Bali United in a 1–1 draw.
Persebaya Surabaya
Persipura Jayapura
Sriwijaya
Arema
RANS Cilegon
Indonesia U-21
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