Mohammad Al-Shamlan

Mohammad Al-Shamlan
Personal information
Full name	Mohammed Shamlan Mubarak Basheer Al-Shamlan
Date of birth	26 December 1972 (age 49)
Place of birth	Bahrain
Position(s)	Defender (playing career)
Club information
Current team	Hidd SCC (manager)
National team
	Bahrain
Teams managed
Years	Team
2005–2007	Pakistan (assistant)
2010	Bahrain U-23
2012/2013	Manama Club
2013–2015	Pakistan
2014–2015	Pakistan U-23
2016	Riffa SC
2017–	Hidd SCC

Mohammad Al-Shamlan (born 26 December 1972) is a Bahraini football coach. Leading the Bahrain Olympic Team to the 2010 Asian Games, he left them after a dismal campaign which saw them fail to progress past the group stage.^[2] Was denied entry into Palestine by Israel to join his team in the 2014 Palestine International Championship for some days and was forced to sit out of their first game.^[3]

Career[]

He sent 5 goalkeeping coaches to License B training courses in Bahrain when managing Pakistan and was the only foreign coach to deliberately quit the Pakistan job.^[4]

Pakistan National Team[]

Mohammad Al-Shamlan was designated as manager of Pakistan in 2013, asking for a six-month buffer period in order to yield positive results.^[5] As their manager, he tried to utilize Pakistan's football talent^[2] but failed and quit the job in summer 2015, joining Riffa SC in the Bahraini Premier League.^[6] With Al-Shamlan as coach, Pakistan failed to progress to the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.^[7]

Pakistan Under 23's[]

Blamed for unsatisfactory results for the Pakistan U-23's in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualifying stages and losing all matches, he was backed by the Pakistan Football Federation.^[8]