Mohd Noor Ali is a
Singaporean former
footballer and current head coach.
Club career
Throughout his career, he played as a
midfielder or
winger for
Tampines Rovers,
Geylang United,
SAFFC,
Woodlands Wellington and
Hougang United in the
S.League, as well as
Admiralty FC
Admiralty Football Club, also commonly known as Admiralty FC, is a football club which plays in the Division 2 of the Singapore Football League, the third tier of football in Singapore.
History
Admiralty FC started off in 1987 as a participan ...
in the
NFL Division 2 before hanging up his boots. He returned to club action for
Geylang International in the 2013 season during an injury crisis at the 2nd half of the season.
He helped mastermind one of the greatest shock in Singapore football when he aided
Geylang United to the
2001 S.League
2001 S.League was the sixth season of Singapore's professional football league. It was won by Geylang United, which was their second league title.
League table
Foreign players
Each club is allowed to have up to a maximum of 4 foreign players.
...
title. However, the season ended in disaster when they were thrashed 8-0 by
Home United in the
Singapore Cup final, a match in which Noor Ali was sent off. During this time he started a partnership with
Aleksandar Duric
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
when they played together for
Geylang United and
SAFFC.
Noor Ali was charged by FAS in 2003 with placing bets on S-League games, thus breaching the S-League Players' Code of Conduct, and banned for the season.
He captained
SAFFC to their 5th league title in 2006, despite losing the last match of the season to former club
Geylang United.
He won the
Singapore Cup in 2009 while playing for
Geylang United.
International career
Mohd Noor Ali made his international debut for
Singapore in 1998 and has not been selected since 2004. In total, he made 36 appearances for the Lions.
National team career statistics
Goals (partial) for Senior National Team
Coaching career
He became the assistant coach for
Geylang International FC for the 2017 S.League season.
He became the permanent head coach for The Eagles on 20 June 2017.
He guided
Geylang International FC for a fourth-place finish in the
2017 S.League
The 2017 S.League (also known as the Great Eastern Hyundai S.League for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd season of the S.League, the top-flight Singaporean professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1996. The ...
season. It was the first time since 14 years that they finished in the top 4 place.
In January 2018, he left
Geylang International FC after he was sent to
Matsumoto Yamaga FC for 10-month training stint to have a better experience in coaching. He was replaced by Hirotaka Usui. Noor Ali's stint in Japan proved to be a fruitful one as he guided the
Matsumoto Yamaga
or Simply Matsumoto Yamaga FC (松本山雅, ''Matsumoto Yamaga Efu Shī'') is the Japanese football (soccer) club based in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture. The club currently play in the J3 League after relegation from J2 League at the end of the ...
U-18 ‘B’ team to the Takamado Cup JFA U-18 Football League 2018 Nagano Prefecture title. His side won 11 matches and lost only 3 while scoring 37 goals and only conceding 11 en route to the title.
He returned to his position at Geylang after his Yamaga's stint.
Personal life
His brother,
Jamil Ali
Jamil Ali is a Singapore international football player. Club career
He started his career with Tampines Rovers before moving to Geylang United in 2002. He later was called to represent the Young Lions in 2004 before returning to Geylang Unite ...
, is also a former professional footballer.
Honours
Club
As Player
SAFFC
*
S.League:
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
,
2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
*
Singapore Cup: 2007
Geylang United
*
S.League:
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
*
Singapore Cup:
2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
As Coach
*
Takamado Cup JFA U-18 Football League Nagano Prefecture: 2018
International
Singapore
*
ASEAN Football Championship: 1998
References
External links
*
*http://www.sleague.com/Web/Main.aspx?ID=,68e68380-9e0b-44b2-8a32-d06df7470ca6&AID=f713ba5f-59ad-4f9e-bb13-7c2fbbec49ea&NLT=300
*http://www.sleague.com/Web/Main.aspx?ID=,68e68380-9e0b-44b2-8a32-d06df7470ca6&AID=3eb528d5-ff8b-4ded-aee8-bdb35bf8be3a&NLT=300
*http://www.goal.com/en-sg/news/3880/singapore/2013/08/03/4161000/noor-ali-to-come-out-of-retirement-for-geylang
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mohd Noor Ali
Singaporean men's footballers
Singapore Premier League players
Singapore men's international footballers
Geylang International FC players
Warriors FC players
Hougang United FC players
Tampines Rovers FC players
Woodlands Wellington FC players
Living people
1975 births
Men's association football midfielders
Men's association football forwards