Alamgir Ghazi

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Alamgir Ghazi
Personal information
Full name Alamgir Ali Khan Ghazi
Date of birth (2001-05-09) 9 May 2001 (age 22)
Place of birth Charun, Chitral district, Pakistan
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 WAPDA
Youth career
Highlanders FC
Mehran
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–2020 Pakistan Television
2020–2022 Khan Research Laboratories 12 (9)
2022– WAPDA
International career‡
2020 Pakistan U20 4 (0)
2023 Pakistan U23 3 (1)
2022– Pakistan 12 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:47, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:00, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Alamgir Ali Khan Ghazi (born 9 May 2001) [1] is a Pakistani professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Pakistan Premier League club WAPDA and the Pakistan national team.

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Early and personal life

Ghazi was born in the town of Charun in the Chitral district of Pakistan. [2] He is son of the PTI politician Rehmat Ghazi, [2] and cousin of former international striker Muhammad Rasool. [3] Ghazi started playing football at the age of 11. [4]

Club career

Early career

Ghazi played for Highlanders FC in Chitral at youth level. He later played for Mehran. [5] He was subsequently called by departmental side Pakistan Television for the 2019 PFF National Challenge Cup. [6] In the end of 2019, Ghazi participated in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football Cup organised by Ufone, along with his older cousin Muhammad Rasool with district football team DFA Chitral, falling in the final in the penalties against Peshawar Combined FC. [3]

Khan Research Laboratories

In 2020, Ghazi joined Khan Research Laboratories. He scored 9 goals in 12 appearances in the 2021–22 Pakistan Premier League until the league was cancelled shortly after starting. [6] In December 2021, Ghazi again played with DFA Chitral with Muhammad Rasool as captain, winning the 2021 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Football Cup after winning in the final against Muslim FC. [7] [8]

WAPDA

By 2022 Ghazi signed for WAPDA. [6]

International career

Ghazi represented Pakistan at the youth level in 2020 AFC U-19 Championship qualification. [9] He went on to make four appearances in the campaign. [6]

In August 2022 Ghazi was called up for a trials with the senior national team. [10] In November the same year, he was included in Pakistan's squad for a friendly against Nepal, Pakistan's first fixture in nearly three-and-a-half years because of the Pakistan Football Federation's suspension by FIFA. He made his senior international debut in the starting lineup in the eventual 0–1 away defeat. [11]

He was called in September 2023 for the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup qualification where he scored a long range goal from the half of the field on a 1–3 loss against Bahrain, as Pakistan exited the group losing three games in the group. [12]

Futsal career

Alongside his football career, Ghazi also played futsal at club level. In July 2017, Ghazi participated in the Neymar Jr’s 5 tournament with the futsal section of his youth club Highlanders FC in Brazil. [lower-alpha 1] Ghazi started playing for Team Eighteen in Islamabad since the establishment of the club in 2018. [15] He also played for the futsal section of Karachi club Abdul FC. [16]

Career statistics

International

As of 26 March 2024 [17]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Pakistan 202210
202390
202420
Total120

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  1. ↑ Ghazi at the far left in the picture of the squad. [13] [14]
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