Ibrar Hussain Bali

Ibrar Hussain Bali
	Bali post-retirement
Personal information
Full name	Ibrar Hussain Bali
Date of birth	Unknown
Place of birth	North-West Frontier Province, British India
Date of death	Unknown
Position	Defender
Youth career
	Punjab University
Senior career*
Years	Team
1940s	Bata Sports
1950s	NWFP
International career
1952–1956	Pakistan
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ibrar Hussain Bali (Urdu: ابرار حسین بالی) was a Pakistani footballer who played as a defender. Bali represented the Pakistan national football team during the early 1950s, and was a part of the N.W.I.F.A team in the 1940s as well.

Club career

Bali then played for the Punjab University football team in the 1940s,^[1]^[2] and also captained the team in 1948.^[3] He was selected for the N.W.I.F.A football team for the 1945–46 Santosh Trophy in India.^[4]^[5] He also played for Bata Sports Club of Lahore throughout the 1940s.^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9] Bali represented the NWFP football team at the National Football Championship.

In 1952, Bali was among the players selected to represent the Pakistan national team for the 1952 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament held in Colombo, Ceylon.^[10] The same year, he played a friendly match against Iran at Karachi.^[11]

In 1955, Bali was once again selected for the 1955 Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament which was held at Dacca (now Dhaka), East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).^[12] The following year, he toured with the national team for their 1956 far east tour to countries such as Ceylon, Singapore and China.^[13]

In 1970, Bali was appointed as a member of the PFF selection committee alongside Sheikh Shaheb Ali for the 1970 RCD Cup.^[14] He served as manager of the Pakistan national team at the 1986 Fajr International Tournament, with Younus Changezi as head coach.^[15]