Mohd Nor Farhan Bin Muhammad, P.B. (born 19 December 1984) is a Malaysian footballer who plays as

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and

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. Farhan's international senior debut was against

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on 31 May 2006. He also played in

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represented Malaysia U-23 team. During the first match of the 2015 Asian Cup qualifiers against

Farhan only played in the second half. It ended with his team losing 0–2 to Qatar in the match.

Club career

Terengganu

Farhan made his senior debut with east coast Malaysia club

Terengganu Terengganu (; Terengganu Malay: ''Tranung'', formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu) is a sultanate and States and federal territories of Malaysia, federal state of Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, ''Dāru l-Iman (c ...

and played for the club during 2005–06 season until 2006–07 season. Farhan enjoyed a highly successful season with the club and became one of the top scorer.

PDRM

After two successful seasons with

, Farhan moved to on the rise club during that time PDRM. He helped the club to gain 9th place in 2007–08 Malaysia Super League. He scored two goals on big winning over

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in the Malaysia Cup Group B match, 7–0.

Kelantan

2012 season

After a season playing for T-Team, Farhan returned to

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in 2012 season. In last league match campaign, with a resounding 3–1 victory against

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in Kelantan's final (26th) match at the

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. Farhan put the finishing touches with a brace, his goals coming in the 65th and 67th minutes respectively. Kelantan's captain

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had put the hosts ahead in the 61st minute before. In the first round of the

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, against Sarawak Farhan became a hero when he scored the winner goal in the final minute after both teams almost ended draw. Kelantan won 2–1 and the first goal scored by

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. Farhan's brace in the 3–0 win over KL SPA in the first leg of the FA Cup quarter-final has virtually sealed Kelantan's place in the last four. Farhan credited his strike partner

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for his goal rush during that match. Farhan missed the action in the 1–0 win over

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in the

final when coach

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opted to pair up Norshahrul Idlan with

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in attack. On 23 May, Farhan was the hero for the Kelantan, scoring a brace in the second and 18th minutes when Kelantan defeated

3–2 in 2012 AFC Cup knockout stage. Rizal Fahmi contributed the other goal in the 44th minute. Despite playing on a wet and slippery pitch after a thunderstorm, Kelantan took only two minutes to grab the lead. From a pass by Ghanaian striker

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, Farhan easily beat goalkeeper Sharbinee Allawee.

was again the provider in the 18th minute and Farhan gleefully tucked away the chance to make it 2–0. A minute before half-time, Kelantan raced to a 3–0 lead when Rizal Fahmi stunned Sharbinee Allawee with a 30-yard free-kick. Terengganu replied through Ismail Faruqi (56th) and Forkey Doe (83rd). With that victory Kelantan enabled to play the quarter-finals against Arbil. Unfortunately, Arbil won 6–2 on aggregate. On 15 October, Farhan scored winning goal for Kelantan in the 62nd minute during first leg of

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semi-finals against

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. Nevertheless, Farhan has been unable to play in the

final against

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after picking up his second yellow card in the 2–0 semi-final, second leg win over Selangor.

2013 season

On 28 November, Farhan scored 1 goal in pre-season match against

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won that match 3–0. Another 2 goals scored by Khairul Izuan and Aris Zaidi.

Return to Terengganu

Farhan rejoined

despite Kelantan offering high salary for the player.

Return to Kelantan

Farhan later make a return to Kelantan in 2015. He gets an injury during the

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against T-Team which made him unavailable for the rest of the competition. After being frozen out of the Kelantan first team as a result of new head coach Fajr Ibrahim reshuffling of the team, Farhan signed with

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team D'AR Wanderers on loan from April 2018 until the end of the 2018 season.

International career

Farhan was selected to represent Malaysia for

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. He only made two appearances as substitute. Farhan also helping Malaysia to win

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after defeating Myanmar 3–1. He was a member of the Malaysia team when Malaysia participated in

2008 AFF Suzuki Cup The 2008 AFF Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament. It was primarily sponsored by Suzuki and therefore officially known as the 2008 AFF Suzuki Cup. The group stage was held in Indonesia and Thailand from 5 to 10 December 2008. ...

. B. Sathianathan was the team coach at that time.

Career statistics

Club

''As of 13 May 2018.''

International

Honours

Club

Kelantan

Malaysia Super League The Malaysia Super League (), known simply as the Super League (), is the men's top professional Football in Malaysia, football division of the Malaysian football league system. Administered by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnersh ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

; Runner-up

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

; Runner-up

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Malaysia FA Cup The Malaysia FA Cup () is an annual association football, football competition in Malaysia, established in 1990. It was previously managed by the Football Association of Malaysia, before being transferred to the Football Malaysia LLP, Malaysian ...

; Runner-up

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Malaysia Charity Shield The Malaysian Charity Shield (English: Charity Cup), also known as Piala Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah () or Piala Sumbangsih, is a Malaysian football super cup competition. It is the curtain raiser match to the new Malaysian football season, pittin ...

: Runner-up

International

;Malaysia *

SEA Games The Southeast Asian Games, commonly known as SEA Games is a biennial multi-sport event involving participants from the current 11 countries of Southeast Asia. The games are under the regulation of the Southeast Asian Games Federation with su ...

: Bronze

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

Pestabola Merdeka Merdeka Tournament () is an international friendly football tournament held in Malaysia to commemorate the Independence Day. It is mainly played at Independence Stadium, in Kuala Lumpur. "Merdeka" is the Malay word for independence. As of 202 ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

Individual

;

FAM Football Awards The Football Association of Malaysia National Football Awards are presented to the best football local and foreign players and coaches. They have been awarded since the 2005–06 Malaysia Super League season. Sponsorship Since the establishment o ...

: *Best Young Players: 2005/06 *Best Striker:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

References

External links

*
Mohd Nor Farhan Muhammad
at SoccerPunter.com * * {{Malaysia Squad 2007 AFC Asian Cup Living people 1984 births Footballers from Terengganu Malaysian men's footballers Malaysia men's international footballers Polis Diraja Malaysia FC players Terengganu F.C. II players Terengganu FC players Kelantan F.C. players 2007 AFC Asian Cup players Malaysia Super League players 21st-century Malaysian sportsmen Men's association football wingers Men's association football forwards Footballers at the 2006 Asian Games Footballers at the 2014 Asian Games Malaysian people of Malay descent Men's association football midfielders Asian Games competitors for Malaysia