| Hariz Danial | |
| Fullname: | Muhammad Hariz Danial bin Haji Khallidden |
| Birth Date: | 1 November 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Brunei Darussalam |
| Position: | Striker |
| Currentclub: | MS ABDB |
| Clubnumber: | 7 |
| Years1: | 2019– |
| Caps1: | 34 |
| Goals1: | 22 |
| Clubs1: | MS ABDB |
| Nationalyears1: | 2019– |
| Nationalcaps1: | 12 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
| Nationalteam1: | Brunei |
| Club-Update: | 9 November 2024 |
| Ntupdate: | 16 November 2024 |
Lance Corporal Muhammad Hariz Danial bin Haji Khallidden, born 1 November 1996, is a Bruneian footballer who plays as a striker for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces Sports Council Football Team (MS ABDB FT) and the Brunei national team.[1]
A career soldier for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF, – ABDB), Hariz started playing for the army's football team MS ABDB FT in the second half of the 2018–19 Brunei Super League. He made his league debut on 4 January 2019 in a 4–1 victory over Najip FC, scoring in the 80th minute.[2] He contributed five goals in nine appearances in his half-season, including winning goals against title rivals Indera SC as well as Kasuka FC,[3] helping the armymen to win the league championship for the fourth consecutive time.[4]
After the discontinued 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hariz led the line for a transitioning MS ABDB FT side in 2021 and scored five goals in as many games, acquiring his first career hat-trick against BAKES FC in a 4–1 victory on 11 July.[5] The league was again abandoned due to the detection of COVID-19 infections inside the country, ending an over 450-day record where Brunei had zero local COVID-19 transmissions stretching from June 2020.[6]
The next year, Hariz and the armymen participated in the 2022 Brunei FA Cup and went all the way to the semi-finals, where they were eliminated 1–3 on aggregate by Kasuka FC.[7]
Hariz received his first callup to the national team for the 2022 World Cup qualification matches against Mongolia in July 2019, alongside nine other uncapped players.[8] He played for Brunei in an exhibition match against the BSL All-Stars on 30 March 2021, which ended in a 1–1 draw.[9] He made his unofficial debut for the Wasps in a 1–3 defeat to Sabah FC at the Track & Field Sports Complex on 6 September 2023.[10] His first international cap came five days later in a 10–0 defeat away to Hong Kong, as a second-half substitute.[11]
In October 2023, Hariz received a call-up for the national team at the 2026 World Cup qualification matches against Indonesia in a two-legged affair.[12] He featured from the start in the first leg at left midfield, directly against Saddil Ramdani and Asnawi Mangkualam and performed admirably, but in the end the Wasps succumbed to a 6–0 defeat.[13] Five days later in the return leg at Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium, Hariz only played for half-an-hour as a substitute for Abdul Azizi Ali Rahman where the Garuda ran out winners by repeating the same score from the previous clash.[14]
Hariz made five appearances in as many friendly games for Brunei in 2024, mostly as a substitute, as the Wasps recorded three wins against Vanuatu at the 2024 FIFA Series in March and also Sri Lanka which they played twice in June.[15] The following September, he was elected by interim Brunei head coach Jamie McAllister as a starter in both games against Macau at the play-offs for the third round of the 2027 AFC Asian Cup qualification. Hariz aided the Wasps to a 4–0 aggregate victory to advance Brunei to the next phase of the competition.[16] A month later however, Hariz was unable to replicate his recent form in both legs of the 2024 ASEAN Championship qualification, losing to Timor-Leste 0–1 on aggregate.[17] He lastly featured in a final friendly game in 2024 was against Russia national football team where the Wasps were beaten 11–0.[18]
| season! | league | cup | other | total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| division | apps | goals | apps | goals | apps | goals | apps | goals | |||
| MS ABDB | 18–19 | Brunei Super League | 9 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 2021 | 5 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 2022 | — | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | ||||
| 2023 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 8 | |||
| 24–25 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | |||
| career total | 34 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 43 | 24 | |||
Hariz's younger brother Martin Haddy is a defender who plays for DPMM FC II, and had been a regular in the national youth setup from 2015 to 2019.[19] [20]