[6][7] Ahmed started his career in football by joining BK Forward in 2007 at the age of sixteen, where his eldest brother Salar was a coach for one of their youth teams.

[4] When he first joined Örebro SK, it took the talented winger a while to settle in the first team and in his first season he made only four brief substitute appearances, a total of 54 minutes of football!

[4] However the club were relegated into the second tier of Swedish football, Superettan but rather than obstructing his career, the stint in the second division was the making of the player.

[4] Ahmed was a key factor in the team's promotion back to the top flight, appearing 29 times, scoring six goals and assisting for seven goals as he became a regular on the right wing under coach Per-Ola Ljung, the man who gave him his start at the club.

[12] Ahmed failed to adopt quickly enough in Denmark,[13] scoring only once and two assist in 17 league appearances, he returned to Sweden mid-season, this time with AIK.

In the winter 2016, Ahmed returned to the Swedish Allsvenskan, Yasin scored two goal and a five assist in 23 games for AIK in league and Cup.

[14] Ahmed joined Qatari club Muaither on a 4-month loan following the end of the Swedish league.

[16] Ahmed Yasin scored four goals and provided a further 6 assists in 13 QSL games for the club,[17] but it was not enough as Muaither finished second to last with 20 points and were relegated from the Qatar Stars League.

Yasin confirmed on 24 April 2017, that his time at Qatar was done 5 weeks before his contract expired and he turned back to AIK.

[21] In January 2018, Yasin returned to AIK, on first appearance helped in win team, scored goal against Syrianska in Svenska Cupen.

[8][31] Ahmed made his debut for the Iraq Olympic football team on 16 June 2011, in a friendly match against Qatar.

In June 2011 he and some other European-based players, were called up to train with the Iraq national football team by the coach Sidka.

[34] In February 2012 after playing very good with the Olympic side, Zico called him up for the game against Singapore, although he was unable to join the team because of a lack of time for preparations.

[35] Later, Ahmed Yasin was named in a 33-man squad list by Zico for a training camp to be help in Turkey in Iraq's preparations for the final round of qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil.

On 11 September 2012, Ahmed Yasin made his first appearance in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Japan as a starter wearing the number 9 shirt.

[36] In the team's third group match, he scored Iraq's second goal as they defeated Palestine 2–0 to qualify for the knockout stage.

[37] In the quarter-final match against Iran, Yasin scored Iraq's first goal as they drew 3–3 at Canberra Stadium and eventually prevailed 7–6 on a penalty shootout.

The Yasin family had lived on the famous Falastin Street in the Iraqi capital, but had first left Baghdad for Sweden in 1987 at the near end of the Iraq-Iran War.