Henky Timisela

Personal information
Date of birth	(1937-11-22)22 November 1937
Place of birth	Soerabaja, Dutch East Indies
Date of death	26 September 2025(2025-09-26) (aged 87)
Place of death	Jakarta, Indonesia
Position	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1957–1962	Persib Bandung
International career
1958–1962	Indonesia	55	(23)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Indonesia Asian Games 1958 Tokyo
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henky Timisela (22 November 1937 – 26 September 2025) was an Indonesian professional football player who played as a forward.^[1] He played during the late 1950s to the early 1960s. He is recorded to have played 63 matches and scored 55 goals throughout his career representing the Indonesia national team (including non-FIFA matches).^[2] Upon his retirement, he pursued further education at the Faculty of Commerce at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.^[3][4]

Timisela was the son of a soldier of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force. He had seven siblings, six of whom were also professional footballers. Three of his siblings, Freddy, Pietje, and Max Timisela, have also represented the Indonesia national team, while Jopie Timisela has coached the national team at youth level. ^[5]

In 2014, the Ministry of Youth and Sports (Kemenpora) published a book that highlighted his story, titled Henky Timisela: Wonder Boy Sepak Bola Indonesia, written by Sumohadi Marsis.^[6]

Timisela died on 26 September 2025, at the age of 87.^[7]

Scores and results list Indonesia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Timisela goal. The list is incomplete.

List of international goals scored by Henky Timisela

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	11 February 1959	Ikada Stadium, Djakarta, Indonesia	East Germany	1–0	2–2	Friendly
2				2–0
3	14 April 1960	Calcutta, India	India	2–4	2–4	1960 Summer Olympics qualification
4	8 August 1960	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Singapore	1–1	8–3	1960 Merdeka Tournament
5				2–1
6				4–1
7				5–1
8	13 August 1960	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	South Vietnam	4–2	5–3	1960 Merdeka Tournament
9				5–3
10	14 August 1960	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Pakistan	2–0	4–0	1960 Merdeka Tournament
11	17 August 1960	Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	South Vietnam	1–0	1–1	Friendly
12	2 August 1961	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Singapore	1–0	1–0	1961 Merdeka Tournament
13	9 August 1961	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Thailand	2–0	2–1	1961 Merdeka Tournament
14	12 August 1961	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	South Korea	1–1	1–1	1961 Merdeka Tournament
15	13 August 1961	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaya	1–0	2–1	1961 Merdeka Tournament
16	12 July 1962	Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	Singapore	1–0	2–1	Friendly
17	18 August 1962	Jalan Besar Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	Malaya	1–1	2–3	1962 Asian Games
18				2–3
19	11 September 1962	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Singapore	2–0	2–0	1962 Merdeka Tournament
20	14 September 1962	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	South Vietnam	2–1	2–1	1962 Merdeka Tournament
21	17 September 1962	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	South Korea	1–0	3–0	1962 Merdeka Tournament
22				3–0
23	19 September 1962	Stadium Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Pakistan	2–1	2–1	1962 Merdeka Tournament

Persib Bandung

• Perserikatan: 1959–61; runner-up 1957–59

Indonesia

• Merdeka Tournament: 1961, 1962
• Asian Games bronze medal: 1958

Individual

• Merdeka Tournament top scorer: 1962

• Marsis, Sumohadi (2014). Henky Timisela: Wonder Boy Sepak Bola Indonesia (in Indonesian) (1st ed.). Jakarta: Kemenpora.
• Kadir, Jusuf (1982). Sepak bola Indonesia: sistem blok, total-football, mencetak gol, catenaccio (in Indonesian) (1st ed.). Indonesia: Gramedia. pp. 17–18.^{[dead link]}