Mohamed Faisal

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Mohamed Faisal
Faisal with Club Valencia in 2021
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-08-04) 4 August 1988 (age 35)
Place of birth Fenfushi, Maldives
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Maziya
Number 22
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2009 Club AYL 40 (0)
2007 → Victory (loan) (0)
2010–2012 Victory 43 (0)
2013 Club Valencia 17 (0)
2014–2015 Club Eagles 17 (0)
2016–2017 Club Valencia 35 (0)
2017–2018 New Radiant 39 (0)
2019–2020 Da Grande 20 (0)
2020–2022 Club Valencia 7 (0)
2021 → Club Eagles (loan) 0 (0)
2023– Maziya 1 (0)
International career‡
2010 Maldives U23 1 (0)
2009– Maldives 35 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
 Maldives under-23
Third place South Asian Games 2010
 Maldives
First place SAFF Championship 2018
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 April 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 December 2022

Mohamed Faisal (Dhivehi: މުޙައްމަދު ފައިސަލް; born 4 August 1988) is a Maldivian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dhivehi Premier League club, Maziya and the Maldives national team.

Faisal began his career with Club All Youth Linkage, made his debut as a teenager in 2006 Third Division. He started every match of the season in goal and secured promotion to Second Division football as league runner ups. In his second year, Faisal won both Second Division and Dhivehi League (first division) in 2007 with Club AYL and Victory Sports Club while on loan. He also helped Club AYL promote to Dhivehi League for the first time in club's history. He later played for Victory, Valencia, Club Eagles, New Radiant and Da Grande Sports Club. He joined Valencia on a swap deal on deadline day 2020 from Da Grande Sports Club.

Since his national team debut in 2009, he was mostly used as a back-up goalkeeper and earned number one spot following Imran Mohamed's retirement from international football. He led Maldives to win the 2018 SAFF Championship as the tournament's Most Valuable Player.

Club career[edit]

Born in Fenfushi, Maldives, Faisal started his playing career with Club All Youth Linkage in 2006, where he helped the team gain promotion to top division from Third Division, during his four year at the club. During his first season, they gained promotion to Second Division as 2006 Third Division runner-ups, also winning the best goalkeeper award.

Faisal won Second Division and Dhivehi League both in 2007. He first claimed 2007 Second Division with Club AYL but failed to get promoted to first division in the play-off. He was then loaned to Victory Sports Club for the rest of the season as their first choice Imran Mohamed got injured, and won first division with them.

In 2008, Faisal earned another best goalkeeper award despite Club AYL were runner-ups of the 2008 Second Division. They also gained promotion to first division football, winning the play-offs.

Faisal left Club AYL to play for Victory SC in 2010, making his debut in the AFC Cup against Indonesian club Sriwijaya. He won the FA Cup and President's Cup in his first two seasons. In 2012, Faisal fractured a bone in his left ankle in the AFC Cup qualifying round against Al-Tilal which sidelined him for five months.[1][2]

On 2 November 2012, Faisal signed for Club Valencia on a one year deal for the 2013 season.[3]

Faisal became a Club Eagles player on 25 February 2014. [4] Faisal helped Club Eagles, qualify to the President's Cup for the first time in the club's history, after securing third in the league. They reached the final where they lost to the only goal which came in the extra time.

On 9 April 2015, Faisal suffered an ACL injury during the pre season trainings with Club Eagles.[2] After a gap of one season without a game, Faisal returned for Club Valencia on 7 January 2016.[5][6] They became the ultimate champions of the 2016 FA Cup, defeating the league runner ups TC Sports Club in the final, ending a trophy drought of 8 years for the club.[7]

On 25 July 2017, Faisal joined New Radiant as Club Valencia failed to secure a top 4 spot in 2017 Malé League.[8][9][10] He won a domestic treble in 2017, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and the President's Cup. He also won the Malé League with New Radiant in 2018.

Faisal signed for Da Grande Sports Club on 28 May 2019.[11] He spent one season with the club until returning to Club Valencia for the third time, on a deadline day; 5 December 2020, swap with Mohamed Jazlaan.[12]

On 21 January 2021, Faisal made his third Valencia debut against the newly promoted Super United Sports in the last gameweek of Dhivehi Premier League first round, keeping a clean sheet in the goalless draw.[13] During a Premier League match against United Victory on 22 April 2021, Faisal suffered a hamstring injury, forcing him to make way for Mohamed Shafeeu in the 40th minute of the game.[14]

International career[edit]

Faisal made his international debut on 18 April 2009, against Bhutan in the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup qualification. He kept a clean sheet to his name in the game as Maldives won by 5–0.[15]

In 2010, he was called up for the 2010 South Asian Games, where he won bronze with the national under-23 team. He only played the third-place play-off match against India, in which he saved two penalties to win the penalty shoot-out.

Following the retirement of then goalkeeper Imran Mohamed, Faisal was the number one goalkeeper for the national team since 2017. His first major tournament was the 2018 SAFF Championship in which they won the tournament for the second time in their history, also winning the best player award.[16]

Career statistics[edit]

Club[edit]

As of match played 15 August 2021
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season Division League FA Cup President's Cup Continental[a] Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Club AYL 2006 Third Division 8 0 0 0 — — — 8 0
2007 Second Division 8 0 0 0 — — 6[b] 0 14 0
2008 Second Division 6 0 2 0 — — 3[c] 0 11 0
2009 Dhivehi League 18 0 1 0 — — 0 0 19 0
Total 40 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 52 0
Victory (loan) 2007 Dhivehi League 0 0 0 0 — — — 0 0
Victory 2010 Dhivehi League 21 0 3 0 2 0 6 0 1[d] 0 33 0
2011 Dhivehi League 19 0 2 0 2 0 6 0 1[e] 0 30 0
2012 Dhivehi League 3 0 2 0 3 0 — 1[f] 0 9 0
Total 43 0 7 0 7 0 12 0 3 0 72 0
Valencia 2013 Dhivehi League 17 0 1 0 — — — 18 0
Eagles 2014 Dhivehi League 17 0 3 0 3 0 — — 23 0
2015 Premier League 0 0 0 0 — — — 0 0
Total 17 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 23 0
Valencia 2016 Premier League 21 0 1 0 — — — 22 0
2017 Malé League 14 0 — — — 5[g] 0 19 0
Total 35 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 41 0
New Radiant 2017 Premier League 14 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 15 0
2018 Malé League 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 0
Premier League 12 0
Total 39 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 40 0
Da Grande 2019–20 Premier League 20 0 1 0 — — — 21 0
Valencia 2020–21 Premier League 7 0 0 0 0 0 — — 7 0
Eagles (loan) 2020–21 Premier League — — — — 1[h] 0 1 0
Career totals 218 0 15 0 11 0 12 0 18 0 274 0
  1. ^ All appearances in AFC Cup
  2. ^ Appearances in 2008 Dhivehi League qualifiers
  3. ^ Appearances in 2009 Dhivehi League qualifiers
  4. ^ Appearance in 2010 Maldivian FA Charity Shield
  5. ^ Appearance in 2011 Maldivian FA Charity Shield
  6. ^ Appearance in 2012 AFC Cup qualifying play-off
  7. ^ 4 Appearances in 2017 AFC Cup qualifying play-off, and 1 Appearance in 2017 Maldivian FA Charity Shield
  8. ^ Appearance in 2021 AFC Cup qualifying play-off

International[edit]

As of match played 15 June 2021
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Maldives U23
2010 1 0
Total 1 0
Maldives
2009 1 0
2011 3 0
2016 2 0
2017 6 0
2018 6 0
2019 5 0
2021 3 0
Total 26 0

Honours[edit]

Club AYL

Victory

Eagles

Valencia

New Radiant

Maldives

Maldives U23

Individual

References[edit]

  1. ^ Faisal Sidelined for 4 months Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at VHP
  2. ^ a b Eagles keeper injured Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at Sun Online (Archived)
  3. ^ Faisal, Labaan and Aslam has signed for Valencia at Maldivesoccer (Archived)
  4. ^ Faisal & Easa to Eagles Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at Haveeru Online (Archived)
  5. ^ Faisal & Shaafy joins Valencia Archived 2021-01-09 at the Wayback Machine at Vnews (Archived)
  6. ^ Shaafy & Faisal to Valencia Archived 2021-01-11 at the Wayback Machine at Avas (Archived)
  7. ^ Valencia lifts the FA cup after 12 years Archived 2021-02-13 at the Wayback Machine at Mihaaru
  8. ^ Keeper Faisa & Adhuham to NRSC Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at Mihaaru
  9. ^ Keeper Faisal, Adhuham & Riley to New Radiant Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at Sun
  10. ^ Riley, Sadey & Keeper Faisal joins New Rasiant Archived 2021-01-12 at the Wayback Machine at Vnews
  11. ^ Best player of SAFF joins Da Grande SC Archived 2022-09-03 at the Wayback Machine at Mihaaru
  12. ^ Faisal to Valencia, Jazlaan to Da Grande Archived 2020-12-06 at the Wayback Machine at Mihaaru
  13. ^ SUS holds Valencia Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine at Mihaaru
  14. ^ UV not looking backwards as they beats Valencia Archived 2021-05-17 at the Wayback Machine at Adhadhu
  15. ^ Match summary at AFC
  16. ^ a b c "Most Valuable Player". 15 September 2018. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Red Line wins on penalties" (in Divehi). Haveeru Online. 22 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
  18. ^ "Red Line beat AYL to be the champions" (in Divehi). Haveeru Online. 30 August 2008. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 25 June 2014.

External links[edit]

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