Timo Scheunemann

Timo Scheunemann is an Indonesian football coach and actor. He is the current head coach of the Indonesia Women U17 team. He is also a former professional football forward. He used to play professionally in Indonesia's Liga Indonesia and Singapore's S-League and was one of the coaches of the Indonesia women's national football team and Persema Malang.

Early life and education

Scheunemann was born in Indonesia to expatriate German parents.
He holds a Bachelor of Philosophy degree from The Master's University.

Football career

Playing career

Scheunemann started his career at the youth level with Persik Kediri, and started his senior career in the US collegiate system with The Master's College in NCCAA division I in 1993. Upon graduation in 1997, he played for Persiba Balikpapan, as their first foreign player ever. After a year, he continues to play in S-League with Tampines Rovers. By the end of the year 1998, he was invited for trials at Eintracht Frankfurt, Stuttgarter Kickers and Gillingham in England.

Coaching career

Scheunemann started coaching at Wesley International School and Malang Football Club, both in Malang. In 2007, he was appointed technical director of Persikoba Batu. After that, he was asked to control Indonesia women's national football team for SEA Games 2009. In 2010, he was appointed as a manager for Persema Malang. Then he also hold a managerial position with Persiba Balikpapan in 2017.
In August 2025, Scheunemann was appointed as the head coach for the Indonesia women's u17 team for the 2025 ASEAN U-16 Women's Championship tournament.

Personal life

Scheunemann currently lives in Batu, East Java as well as maintaining a residence in Dau, Malang Regency and is currently married to Devi Scheunemann, a native Javanese woman and the couple had two children namely Naya and Brandon, a footballer.
He also has a niece named Claudia, also a footballer who plays for the Indonesia women's national team.
A German but born in post-independence Indonesia to expatriate cum immigrant parents from Germany, he is a native speaker of German but also speaks his adoptive country's national language of Indonesian and the local Javanese language fluently, because he spent most of his childhood as well as his adulthood in East Java province and also Indonesia as a whole, in which that made him fluently speaking the above two languages in addition to his own mother tongue.

Filmography

Film

Source:

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	Tendangan dari Langit	Himself	Concurrently choreographer for the Persema team
2013	Soekarno	Lieutenant Colonel C. van den Hoogenband
2016	Rudy Habibie	Pastor Gilbert
2017	Ayat-ayat Cinta 2	Philip
2018	Belok Kanan Barcelona	Gunter
2018	Hanum & Rangga: Faith & the City	Philipus Brown
2019	Yowis Ben 2	Cak Jim
2019	Say I Love You	Teacher
2022	Lara Ati	Frederick Hofmann