Mohd Nidzam Jamil

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Mohd Nidzam Jamil
Personal information
Full name Mohd Nidzam bin Jamil
Date of birth (1980-04-15) 15 April 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
Selangor (head coach)
Youth career
1998–1999 Selangor
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999–2004 Selangor
2005–2006
PKNS
2006–2007
Negeri Sembilan
2007–2008
Proton
International career
2000–2001 Malaysia U-23 6 (0)
2002–2003 Malaysia 4 (1)
Managerial career
2010–2013
SPA FC
2014
SPA FC
(team manager)
2015
AirAsia
2016–2017 Malaysian University
2017–2018
FELDA United
(assistant)
2019–2020
FELDA United
2022–2024 Selangor (assistant)
2024– Selangor
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 22, 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 December 2015

Mohd Nidzam bin Jamil (born 15 April 1980) is a former

footballer. He is also a former member of the Malaysia national team. His present position as the head coach of Malaysia Super League club Selangor.[1][2]

Playing career

He spend his majority professional career at

Proton FC
.

Due to injuries and multiple operations on his ankle and knees, he decided to stop playing at the age of 28 and started to concentrate in coaching arena.

Coaching career

SPA FC

At the age of 32, he is one of the youngest coach that has won the senior national level championship title in Malaysia as a coach, for SPA FC in the 2012 Malaysia FAM League. Also in 2012 Malaysia FA Cup tournament, he guided the team to the quarter-final, where SPA FC has become the first team from FAM League to reach this stage so far.

Air Asia

He also have coached

AirAsia
in the FAM League and guided Malaysia University Football team in 29th World University Games Summer Universiade at Taipei 2017.

FELDA United

In 2017, he was appointed as assistant head coach of

FELDA United[3] After B. Sathianathan leaves his post as the team's head coach in November 2018, Nidzam were promoted to head coach position.[4][5]

Selangor

After 18 years later on 22 November 2021, Nidzam officially returned to his "home" again and appointed as assistant coach for Michael Feichtenbeiner.[6]

On 9 August 2022, Selangor announced that the management and Michael Feichtenbeiner have mutually agreed to let go of his position as the First Team Head Coach of the club and continue the football development project as Sporting Director which he has held since 2020.[7] In the meantime, the First Team Head Coach responsibilities will be taken up by the Assistant Head Coach, Nidzam Jamil as Interim Head Coach for the remainder of the 2022 Malaysian League season.[8]

National team

Nidzam has played for Malaysia national football team, and the Malaysia under-23 team. Both teams he played for were then under the charge of Allan Harris.

He scored his only international goal in the

2002 Tiger Cup competition, a penalty against Laos in the group stage.[9]

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 22 December 2002 Bishan Stadium, Singapore  Laos 1–0 1–1
2002 Tiger Cup

Personal life

He also appeared in Malaysia satellite TV channel Astro Arena as football pundit or as guest commentator in their Malaysian football league programmes. His late brother Zaid Jamil was also a footballer and had represented Selangor and Malaysia.

In 2018,his football life has been featured in a Digi Hari Raya short clip called Niat or Nawaitu. The clip features the life of Nidzam Jamil and his late brother

Managerial statistics

As of match played 14 September 2022
Team From To Record
G W D L Win%
Felda United
12 November 2018[10] 15 November 2020 46 10 14 22 021.74
Selangor (interim) 9 August 2022[11] 23 September 2022 5 1 1 3 020.00
Total 51 11 15 25 021.57

Honours

Player

Selangor

Manager

SPA F.C.

References

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