Almoez Ali Zainalabedeen Mohamed Abdulla (Arabic: الْمُعِزّ عَلِيّ زَيْن الْعَابِدِين مُحَمَّد عَبْد الله; born 19 August 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for and captains the Qatar Stars League club Al-Duhail.

[13] In January 2016, Ali left the club and joined Cultural Leonesa in Spain's third tier, the Segunda División B.

[17] He went on to make 25 appearances and scoring 8 goals, as well as providing 8 assists and being awarded as the best U23 player of the season as his club won the Qatar Stars League.

[28] In doing so, he became the joint-top scorer in the AFC Asian Cup Group Stage, sharing the record with Ali Daei of Iran, Choi Soon-ho of South Korea and Naohiro Takahara of Japan.

He also broke Mansour Muftah's all-time record of five goals scored for the Qatar national team in the AFC Asian Cup.

[30] He broke that record in the following game after scoring the opening goal with a bicycle kick at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup Final match against Japan.

[31][32] On 30 January 2019, soon after the 4–0 defeat at the 2019 AFC Asian Cup semifinal, the UAE FA lodged a formal appeal to the AFC over the eligibility of Sudanese-born Almoez Ali and Iraqi-born Bassam Al-Rawi, claiming that they did not qualify to play for Qatar on residency grounds based on Article 7 of the FIFA statute [33] which states that a player's eligibility to play for a representative team if he has "lived continuously for at least five years after reaching the age of 18 on the territory of the relevant association".

[34] On 1 February 2019, the AFC Disciplinary and Ethics Committee dismissed the protest lodged by the United Arab Emirates Football Association without further comments or explanation.

[35][36][37] In August 2020, the case was finally settled at CAS (Court of Arbirtration for Sport, based in Lausanne, Switzerland) with the UAE losing its appeal against the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) decision.