Almoez Ali

Club

As of match played 24 January 2025

International

As of match played 24 June 2026

Early career

Ali was born in Sudan and moved to Qatar at an early age. He started playing for Al-Mesaimeer when he was seven years old, then moved to Aspire Academy and also played youth football at Lekhwiya SC. He was also a part of the youth setup for Belgian club Eupen in 2015.

LASK

In July 2015, Ali joined the senior team of Austrian club LASK. His first and only Austrian Bundesliga league goal for the club's first team came on 27 November 2015 against Floridsdorfer AC, becoming the second Qatari to score a league goal in Austria's top league, after Adel Jadoua Ali.

Cultural Leonesa

In January 2016, Ali left LASK and joined Cultural Leonesa, which participayed in the Segunda División B. On 3 April 2016, he scored his first goal for the Cultural Leonesa in a 1–0 victory over Arandina, becoming the first Qatari footballer ever to score in a Spanish league.

Al-Duhail

Ali rejoined his former youth club Lekhwiya SC for the 2016–17 league season. He scored his first goal for the club on 27 September 2016 in a 5–4 win against Muaither. He went on to score 8 goals in 25 appearances, as well as providing 8 assists and being awarded as the best U23 player of the season as his club won the Qatar Stars League. In the following season, Ali was part of the newly rebranded Al-Duhail, as his former club was merged with El Jaish, and was part of the unbeaten 2017–18 Qatar Stars League title campaign.

Ali unofficially made his inaugural appearance for the senior national team in a friendly against Bahrain in December 2013. The match was not recognized by FIFA. In 2014, Ali was a part of the Qatar U19 team that won the 2014 AFC U-19 Championship, Ali scored 3 goals in the tournament. In 2015, he was part of the Qatar U20 squad for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He played in the three group stage matches, but Qatar did not advance to the knockout stage. On 8 August 2016, Ali made his official senior debut for the Qatar national team coming on as a substitute in 2–1 win against Iraq. Furthermore, he was the top scorer in the 2018 AFC U-23 Championship with six goals and played an instrumental role in Qatar's third-place ranking.

2019 AFC Asian Cup

In 2019, Ali was selected for Qatar's squad for the upcoming 2019 AFC Asian Cup. He found the net in his team's first group stage game against Lebanon. In the next game against North Korea, he scored a four goals in a span of 51 minutes, the second fastest time to four goals after Iranian Ali Daei, who scored four goals in 23 minutes against South Korea in the 1996 AFC Asian Cup. The following match against Saudi Arabia, he increased his tally in the competition to seven goals after scoring a Brace in the 2–0 win. In doing so, he became the joint-top scorer in the AFC Asian Cup Group Stage, sharing the record with Ali Daei of Iran, Choi Soon-ho of South Korea and Naohiro Takahara of Japan. He also broke Mansour Muftah's…

Al-Duhail

Qatar Stars League: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2022–23 Emir of Qatar Cup: 2018, 2019, 2022 Qatar Cup: 2018, 2023 Qatari Stars Cup: 2022–23 Sheikh Jassim Cup: 2016 Qatar U19

AFC U-19 Championship: 2014 Qatar

AFC Asian Cup: 2019, 2023 WAFF Championship: 2014 Individual

AFC U-23 Championship top goalscorer: 2018 AFC Asian Cup top goalscorer: 2019 AFC Asian Cup Best Player: 2019 AFC Asian Cup Team of the Tournament: 2019, 2023 IFFHS AFC Men's Team of the Decade 2011–2020 CONCACAF Gold Cup Golden Boot: 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup Best XI: 2021