Cap Goals Date Venue Opponent Score Competition
1 25- 3-03 Malé Myanmar 0-2 Asian Cup Qualifier
2 29-11-03 Ulaanbaatar Mongolia 1-0 World Cup Qualifier
3 4 4 3-12-03 Malé Mongolia 12-0 World Cup Qualifier
4 4 3- 6-04 Muscat Oman 1-4
5 4 9- 6-04 Beirut Lebanon 0-3 World Cup Qualifier
6 2 6 13-10-04 Malé Vietnam 3-0 World Cup Qualifier
7 6 17-11-04 Seoul South Korea 0-2 World Cup Qualifier
8 2 8 7-12-05 Karachi Afghanistan 9-1 SAFF Cup
9 1 9 9-12-05 Karachi Sri Lanka 2-0 SAFF Cup
10 9 11-12-05 Lyari Pakistan 0-0 SAFF Cup
11 9 14-12-05 Karachi India 0-1 SAFF Cup
12 9 8-10-07 Sana'a Yemen 0-3 World Cup Qualifier
13 1 10 28-10-07 Malé Yemen 2-0 World Cup Qualifier
14 10 9- 4-08 Beirut Lebanon 0-4 Asian Cup Qualifier
15 10 23- 4-08 Malé Lebanon 1-2 Asian Cup Qualifier
16 10 3- 6-08 Malé Pakistan 3-0 SAFF Cup
17 10 5- 6-08 Malé Nepal 4-1 SAFF Cup
18 10 7- 6-08 Malé India 0-1 SAFF Cup
19 10 11- 6-08 Colombo Sri Lanka 1-0 SAFF Cup
20 10 14- 6-08 Colombo India 1-0 SAFF Cup
21 10 28- 3-09 Colombo Sri Lanka 1-1
22 10 14- 4-09 Malé Turkmenistan 1-3 AFC Cup Qualifier
23 1 11 16- 4-09 Malé Philippines 3-2 AFC Cup Qualifier
24 2 13 18- 4-09 Malé Bhutan 5-0 AFC Cup Qualifier
25 13 5-12-09 Dhaka Nepal 1-1 SAFF Cup
26 2 15 7-12-09 Dhaka Afghanistan 3-1 SAFF Cup
27 1 16 11-12-09 Dhaka Sri Lanka 5-1 SAFF Cup
28 16 12-10-10 Bandung Indonesia 3-0
29 3 19 21- 3-11 Malé Cambodia 4-0 AFC Cup Qualifier
30 19 23- 3-11 Malé Kyrgyzstan 2-1 AFC Cup Qualifier
31 19 25- 3-11 Malé Tajikistan 0-0 AFC Cup Qualifier
32 19 7- 6-11 Singapore Singapore 0-4
33 19 10- 7-11 Malé India 1-1
34 19 23- 7-11 Tehran Iran 0-4 World Cup Qualifier
35 19 28- 7-11 Malé Iran 0-1 World Cup Qualifier
36 19 4- 8-11 Praslin Mauritius 1-1 Indian Ocean Gam.
37 19 6- 8-11 Roche Caiman Comoros 2-2 Indian Ocean Gam.
38 19 9- 8-11 Roche Caiman Seychelles 1-5 Indian Ocean Gam.
39 1 20 22-11-11 Malé Seychelles 3-0
40 20 24-11-11 Malé Seychelles 2-1
41 1 21 2-12-11 New Delhi Nepal 1-1 SAFF Cup
42 21 4-12-11 New Delhi Pakistan 0-0 SAFF Cup
43 1 22 6-12-11 New Delhi Bangladesh 3-1 SAFF Cup
44 22 9-12-11 New Delhi India 1-3 SAFF Cup
45 22 10- 3-12 Kathmandu Nepal 1-0 AFC Challenge Cup
46 22 12- 3-12 Kathmandu Palestine 0-2 AFC Challenge Cup
47 22 23- 8-12 New Delhi Nepal 2-1 Nehru Cup
48 22 25- 8-12 New Delhi India 0-3 Nehru Cup
49 1 23 27- 8-12 New Delhi Syria 2-1 Nehru Cup
50 23 12- 2-13 Malé Pakistan 1-1
51 2 25 14- 2-13 Malé Pakistan 3-0
52 6 31 2- 9-13 Kathmandu Sri Lanka 10-0 SAFF Cup
53 4 35 4- 9-13 Kathmandu Bhutan 8-0 SAFF Cup
54 35 9- 9-13 Kathmandu India 0-1 SAFF Cup
55 1 36 27-11-13 Roche Caiman Seychelles 1-3
56 1 37 29-11-13 Roche Caiman Seychelles 1-2
57 2 39 13- 5-14 Malé Laos 7-1 [!]
58 1 40 19- 5-14 Malé Myanmar 2-3 AFC Challenge Cup
59 2 42 21- 5-14 Malé Kyrgyzstan 2-0 AFC Challenge Cup
60 42 23- 5-14 Malé Palestine 0-0 AFC Challenge Cup
61 42 27- 5-14 Malé Philippines 2-3 AFC Challenge Cup
62 42 29- 5-14 Malé Afghanistan 1-1 [1] AFC Challenge Cup
63 42 11- 6-15 Malé Qatar 0-1 World Cup Qualifier
64 42 16- 6-15 Hongkong Hongkong 0-2 World Cup Qualifier
65 3 45 8-10-15 Thimphu Bhutan 4-3 World Cup Qualifier
66 45 13-10-15 Doha Qatar 0-4 World Cup Qualifier
67 45 12-11-15 Malé Hongkong 0-1 World Cup Qualifier
68 1 46 24-12-15 Kariavattom Bhutan 3-1 SAFF Cup
69 1 47 26-12-15 Kariavattom Bangladesh 3-1 SAFF Cup
70 47 28-12-15 Kariavattom Afghanistan 1-4 SAFF Cup
71 47 31-12-15 Kariavattom India 2-3 SAFF Cup
72 2 49 29- 3-16 Malé Bhutan 4-2 World Cup Qualifier
73 49 1- 9-16 Malé Bangladesh 5-0
74 2 51 6- 9-16 Malé Laos 4-0 Asian Cup Qualifier
75 51 5- 9-17 Muscat Oman 0-5 Asian Cup Qualifier
76 51 13-11-17 Al-Ram Palestine 1-8 Asian Cup Qualifier
77 51 10- 9-19 Malé China 0-5 World Cup Qualifier
78 1 52 10-10-19 Dubai Syria 1-2 World Cup Qualifier
79 52 14-11-19 Malé Philippines 1-2 World Cup Qualifier
80 1 53 19-11-19 Malé Guam 3-1 World Cup Qualifier
81 53 11- 6-21 Sharjah China 0-5 World Cup Qualifier
82 53 15- 6-21 Sharjah Philippines 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
83 53 1-10-21 Malé Nepal 0-1 SAFF Cup
84 1 54 7-10-21 Malé Bangladesh 2-0 SAFF Cup
85 1 55 10-10-21 Malé Sri Lanka 1-0 SAFF Cup
86 1 56 13-10-21 Malé India 1-3 SAFF Cup
87 1 57 9-11-21 Colombo Sri Lanka 4-4 Four Nations Cup
88 57 13-11-21 Colombo Bangladesh 1-2 Four Nations Cup
89 57 16-11-21 Colombo Seychelles 0-0 Four Nations Cup
[1] Maldives won 8-7 on penalty kicks.
[!] match not considered a full A-international by FIFA but it is for the Maldives FA
Remark: The above list may not be complete; Ali Ashfaq may have additional matches
against othes countries (such as Oman in 2004, 2007); this is being investigated
Remark: the following matches were not full A-international matches and are therefore
not included here:
26-11-09 Shah Alam Malaysia U-23 1-0 (1 goal)
29-11-09 Shah Alam Malaysia U-21 4-1 (3 goals)
9-12-09 Dhaka India U-23 2-0 SAFF Cup
13-12-09 Dhaka India U-23 0-0 [*] SAFF Cup
29- 4-14 Bangkok Thailand U-19 1-1
[*] Maldives lost 1-3 on penalty kicks.
Total Record:
Matches Won Draw Lost For Against Points Percentage
89 37 15 37 168-141 89 50.00
Types of Matches Goals
SAFF Cup 27 23
World Cup Qualifier 21 14
Friendlies 13 7
AFC Challenge Cup 7 3
AFC Challenge Cup Qual. 6 6
Asian Cup Qualifier 6 2
Indian Ocean Is. Games 3 0
Other Tournaments 6 2
Total caps / goals: 89 57
Thanks to Dick Holstein (holstein@vi.nl) for earlier version of this file
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