His tenure lasted more than a decade until his team left the Brunei Super League in 2015, but not before lifting three straight titles from 2005-06 to 2009-10.

He subsequently found work with Brunei's governing body of football, NFABD, as the coach of the national under-15s in 2015.

He became assistant coach to Mike Wong in the full national team after the completion of the Premier League season.

As was practice for Brunei's football association to send a club side for international tournaments at the time, due to QAF winning the domestic title in 2006 and 2010 Ali was appointed head coach of the Brunei national football team for the two AFC Challenge Cup campaigns of 2006 and 2009.

[5] (Brunei sent DPMM FC for games held in 2008 but the club declined in 2009 due to the hectic S.League schedule.