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| Full name | Abdelkarim Hassan Al Haj Fadlalla[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1993-08-28)28 August 1993 (age 32)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Doha, Qatar | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left-back,center-back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Al-Wakrah | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Al Sadd | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2022 | Al Sadd | 190 | (29) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2018 | →Eupen (loan) | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Al-Jahra | 21 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Persepolis | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Al-Wakrah | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2014 | Qatar U20 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2015 | Qatar U23 | 9 | (4) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010– | Qatar | 136 | (15) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 8 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 March 2025 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Abdelkarim Hassan Al Haj Fadlalla (Arabic:عَبْد الْكَرِيم حَسَن الْحَاجّ فَضْل الله; born 28 August 1993) is a Qatari professionalfootballer who plays as aleft-back orcenter-back forQatar Stars League clubAl-Wakrah and theQatar national team.
Abdelkarim won theAsian Footballer of the Year award in 2018.[4]
Abdelkarim Hassan graduated fromAspire Academy in 2011.[5]
He was the youngest player to appear in the2011 AFC Champions League at 17 years old,[6] coming off the bench againstEsteghlal.[7] His team subsequently emerged champions of the Champions League that year. He was awarded Young Player of the Year in the2012–13 Qatar Stars League.[8] It was announced in June 2017 thatAl Sadd had loaned him toBelgian First Division A sideEupen.[9]
Abdelkarim played in the2019 FIFA Club World Cup, in which he scored in a 3–1 win overHienghène Sport. He later scored in the second round 3–2 loss againstC.F. Monterrey. Al-Sadd eventually finished in the 5th place.
On 21 December 2022, the management of Al Sadd announced that Abdelkarim Hassan has been excluded from the football first team permanently. This comes due to the player’s outlook not matching the goals and aspirations of the team for the upcoming period.[10] On 25 January 2023, Abdelkarim Hassan joined forKuwaiti Premier League clubAl-Jahra.[11]
On 22 January 2024, Hassan joinedPersian Gulf Pro League sidePersepolis on a 18-month deal,[12][13] making him first Qatari footballer to play professionally in Iran.[14]
Abdelkarim scored a goal againstUAE U20 in the10th International Friendship Youth Tournament.[15]
In a friendly match against the Malaysia U-23 side on 17 June 2012, Abdelkarim sparked a mass melee between the two sides after a two-footed lunge on Mohd Azrif in the 43rd minute. He was duly shown a red card for his challenge. Afterwards, a Malaysian player,Nazmi Faiz, ran half the length of the pitch to confront him, and punched him. Being 5 inches shorter than Abdelkarim, Nazmi's punch turned into nothing more than a push on his chest.[16] Faiz was promptly shown a red card. Qatar went on to lose the match 2–0.[17]
He scored a goal in Qatar's opening game against Maldives in the qualifying stage for the2014 AFC U-22 Asian Cup.[18]
Abdelkarim made his debut for the senior national team on 18 November 2010 againstHaiti.[19]
He was the youngest player to appear in the preliminary squad list for the2011 Asian Cup at the age of 17 years and 123 days old. He scored Qatar's only goal againstMalaysia in the2015 AFC Asian Cup qualifiers to ensure Qatar a berth in the Asian Cup.[20] He also scored a goal in Qatar's 4–1 victory againstYemen in the qualifiers.
Though his team lost all their group stage games in the2015 AFC Asian Cup, he was extolled as one of the stars of the tournament. AFIFA.com featured article theorized that he would form the basis of young players who go on to represent Qatar at the2022 FIFA World Cup.[21]
He was named part of Qatar's squad for the23rd Arabian Gulf Cup held in Kuwait in from December 2017 to January 2018.[22]
He was part of Qatar's squad at2019 AFC Asian Cup which helped them to win their first continental title. On 30 March 2021, he played his 100th match for Qatar in a 1–1 friendly match against theRepublic of Ireland.
Following the three-loss streak of the Qatar national football team in thegroup stage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, screenshots of a conversation with Hassan onSnapchat surfaced and started circulating over social media. In the conversation Hassan displayed a careless and apathetic attitude towards the poor performance of the team with a now-famous remark, saying: "استريح عبالك حرب" (lit. 'Relax! It's not war'). Following the remark, theQatar Football Association announced on its official twitter account the exclusion of Hassan from the national team as did Hassan’s club Al Sadd SC from the player roster.[23]
| Club | Season | League | League | Cup1 | League Cup2 | Continental3 | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Al Sadd | 2010–11 | QSL | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| 2011–12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 2012–13 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2013–14 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 35 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | 25 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 40 | 6 | ||
| 2015–16 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | ||
| 2016–17 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 3 | ||
| K.A.S. Eupen | 2017–18 (loan) | Belgian First Division A | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| Al Sadd | 2017–18 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 22 | 2 | |
| 2018–19 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 27 | 5 | ||
| 2019–20 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 31 | 5 | ||
| 2020–21 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 29 | 2 | ||
| 2021–22 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 24 | 4 | ||
| 2022–23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Al Sadd SC Total | 200 | 29 | 24 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 69 | 5 | 312 | 39 | ||
| Al Sadd B | 2016–17 | Reserve League (Qatar) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Al-Jahra | 2022–23 | KPL | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 13 | 1 | ||
| 2023–24 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Al-Jahra Total | 21 | 0 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 23 | 1 | ||||
| Persepolis | 2023–24 | Pro League | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 15 | 0 | ||
| Total | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||
| Al-Wakrah | 2024–25 | QSL | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |
| Career Total | 259 | 30 | 31 | 4 | 19 | 2 | 73 | 5 | 382 | 41 | ||
1IncludesEmir of Qatar Cup.
2IncludesSheikh Jassem Cup.
3IncludesAFC Champions League.
Qatar score listed first, score column indicates score after each Hassan goal.[1][24]
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 31 January 2013 | Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium,Doha, Qatar | 2 |  Lebanon | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 2 | 7 March 2013 | Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 4 |  Egypt | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 3 | 15 November 2013 | Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 18 |  Yemen | 2–1 | 4–1 | 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification |
| 4 | 6 November 2014 | Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 29 |  North Korea | 3–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 5 | 27 December 2014 | Abdullah bin Khalifa Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 35 |  Estonia | 2–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 6 | 30 March 2015 | Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 40 |  Slovenia | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 7 | 8 September 2015 | Mong Kok Stadium,Mong Kok, Hong Kong | 46 |  Hong Kong | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 8 | 29 May 2016 | Stadion Hartberg,Hartberg, Austria | 52 |  Albania | 1–0 | 1–3 | Friendly |
| 9 | 6 June 2017 | Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 60 | North Korea | 1–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 10 | 13 January 2019 | Khalifa bin Zayed Stadium,Al Ain, United Arab Emirates | 78 | 6–0 | 6–0 | 2019 AFC Asian Cup | |
| 11 | 5 September 2019 | Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 87 |  Afghanistan | 4–0 | 6–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 12 | 29 November 2019 | Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar | 94 | Yemen | 1–0 | 6–0 | 24th Arabian Gulf Cup |
| 13 | 2–0 | ||||||
| 14 | 4–0 | ||||||
| 15 | 4 September 2021 | Nagyerdei Stadion,Debrecen, Hungary | 108 |  Portugal | 1–2 | 1–3 | Friendly |
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