Mohammad Al-Shamlan | |
Fullname: | Mohammed Shamlan Mubarak Basheer Al-Shamlan |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1972[1] |
Birth Place: | Bahrain |
Position: | Defender (playing career) |
Currentclub: | Hidd SCC (manager) |
Nationalteam1: | Bahrain |
Manageryears1: | 2005–2007 |
Managerclubs1: | Pakistan (assistant) |
Manageryears2: | 2010 |
Managerclubs2: | Bahrain U-23 |
Manageryears3: | 2012–2013 |
Managerclubs3: | Manama Club |
Manageryears4: | 2013–2015 |
Managerclubs4: | Pakistan |
Manageryears5: | 2014–2015 |
Managerclubs5: | Pakistan U-23 |
Manageryears6: | 2016 |
Managerclubs6: | Riffa SC |
Manageryears7: | 2017 |
Managerclubs7: | Hidd SCC |
Manageryears8: | 2017–2019 |
Managerclubs8: | Manama Club |
Manageryears9: | 2019–2021 |
Managerclubs9: | Hidd SCC |
Manageryears10: | 2021 |
Managerclubs10: | Al-Khaldiya SC |
Managerclubs11: | Hidd SCC |
Manageryears11: | 2022– |
Mohammad Al-Shamlan (born 26 December 1972) is a Bahraini football coach. Besides Bahrain, he has managed in Pakistan.[2] [3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
Mohammad Al-Shamlan was designated as manager of Pakistan in 2013, asking for a six-month buffer period in order to yield positive results.[7] As their manager, he tried to utilize Pakistan's football talent[4] but failed and quit the job in summer 2015, joining Riffa SC in the Bahraini Premier League.[8] With Al-Shamlan as coach, Pakistan failed to progress to the second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification.
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.