| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mohammed Shamlan Mubarak Basheer Al-Shamlan | ||
| Date of birth | 26 December 1972 [1] | ||
| Place of birth | Bahrain | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Hidd SCC (manager) | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Bahrain | |||
| Managerial career | |||
| 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 | ||
| 2017–2019 | Manama Club | ||
| 2019–2021 | Hidd SCC | ||
| 2021 | Al-Khaldiya SC | ||
| 2022– | Hidd SCC | ||
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.