Negeri Sembilan FA K. Devan officially started his coaching career in 2004 with his former team
Negeri Sembilan FA. He won the
2005-06 Malaysia Super League championship with Negeri Sembilan, as well as guiding the team to the 2006
Malaysia Cup final and 2006
Malaysia FA Cup semi-final.
Malacca FA K. Devan then coaches
Malacca FA in 2007
Kuala Muda Naza In 2008, K. Devan coaches
Kuala Muda Naza where he led the team to the
Malaysia Premier League championship that year.
Selangor FA In 2009, K. Devan was signed as
Selangor FA team manager and head coach. He held the roles until his resignation as head coach in September 2011. Under his guidance,
Selangor FA became the
Malaysia Super League champion in 2009, 2010 and also won
2009 Malaysia FA Cup.
Johor FC K. Devan was appointed as head coach of
Johor FC for the
2012 Malaysia Super League season, however he resigned in April 2012 after series of poor results in the league.
Felda United In early 2013, K. Devan was appointed as head coach of
Felda United but was replaced by
Azuan Zain in June 2013, with Felda United in poor form and in danger of being relegated with only four games remaining. Devan later was named as the new head coach of
Penang FA, a team newly promoted to
2014 Malaysia Premier League, in October 2013.
Negeri Sembilan FA In November 2014,
Negeri Sembilan announced that K. Devan will take over the 2nd tier
Malaysia Premier League club for the
2015 season.
Kelantan FA On 5 December 2015,
Kelantan FA has unveiled K. Devan as their new head coach. After an unsatisfactory performance shown by the team in the league, he decided to resign on 10 May 2016 citing personal reasons. He was replaced as Kelantan FA head coach by
Velizar Popov.
Petaling Jaya City In December 2017,
MISC-MIFA announced that Devan will take over the position as head coach of the Malaysia Premier League club for the
2018 season. Devan has already overseen the team as interim head coach when he was appointed as technical director in June 2017. On 16 January 2019, the club was rebranded to
Petaling Jaya City in which he kept his job as head coach at the club.
Third spell at Negeri Sembilan In January 2021, K. Devan was appointed as head coach in his third spell at Negeri Sembilan where he was tasked to guide the team to promotion in which he won the
2021 Malaysia Premier League title with the club and guided them back to the
Malaysia Super League.
Melaka In 2024, Negeri Sembilan didn't renewed his contract and thus he left the club cementing his place as a legendary figure at Negeri Sembilan. On 6 March 2024,
Malaysia M3 League club
Melaka took the chance to sign K. Devan as their head coach. ==Managerial statistics==