Akbar Nawas was recently the head coach of Nakhon Pathom United in Thai League 1.
22 Facts About Akbar Nawas
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In 2014, Akbar Nawas was the assistant coach to the technical director and coach in the Singapore U21 and at the same time, the youth development manager for the Football Association of Singapore from 2011 to 2014.
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In 2015, Akbar Nawas was appointed the assistant coach of Tampines Rovers and the head coach for the Tampines Rovers U21 Reserve team who emerged as champions in the Reserve League.
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Akbar Nawas captained the Professional Club side Trywhitt Under-19 side to third Place.
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Akbar Nawas played for the Singapore Under-19 and professional club side Trywhitt senior team.
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Akbar Nawas was then called up for training with the National "A" team for the Dunhill Cup after his stint with Marine Castle United.
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Akbar Nawas joined the compulsory military service in 1996 and played football in the Police Force Home team.
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In 1995, Akbar Nawas started to play professionally in the Singapore Football Professional teams and he was called up for the Singapore Pre-Olympic and Jakarta Squad team respectively.
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In 2015, Nawas first joined as the assistant coach for Tampines Rovers under V Sundramoorthy.
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On 27 May 2016, as V Sundramoorthy was appointed the head coach of Singapore national football team, Nawas was the promoted to head coach of Tampines Rovers for the 2016 season and led the team to the runners up position in the League.
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Akbar Nawas led Tampines to the 2016 Singapore Cup Final and emerged as runners-up and was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Singapore League Cup, where he introduced the reserve team players as most of the players from the first team were away with the national team.
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Akbar Nawas' expertise is the attacking approach in football; this helped Tampines Rovers team to dominate possession in almost every game during his term as head coach and reduced the gap of seven points to only one point, guiding the team from fourth place to second place in the Singapore League.
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Akbar Nawas led the club to a quarterfinal finish at the 2016 AFC Cup and was knocked out of the competition by eventual runners-up Bengaluru.
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In May 2017, it was reported that Akbar Nawas joined Global Cebu, one of the top football clubs in the Philippines, who participated in the inaugural season of the national professional Philippines Football League, Akbar Nawas became the technical consultant and later on was offered the post of a head coach, the first Singaporean coach to handle a football team from the Philippines.
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Akbar Nawas then helped the club in their 2017 AFC Cup group stage campaign with club like Johor Darul Ta'zim, Boeung Ket Angkor and Magwe.
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On 26 October 2020, Akbar Nawas parted ways with the club by mutual consent in which countrymen, Satyasagara took over the helms.
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On 22 October 2021, Akbar Nawas was announced as the head coach of Balestier Khalsa, succeeding Marko Kraljevic, who left a week prior.
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On 1 September 2022, Akbar Nawas joined Thai League 2 club, Udon Thani.
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On 18 December 2023, Akbar Nawas stepped down as head coach to become the sporting director of the club while Mavi Lopes took over the head coach position.
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On 17 February 2023, Akbar Nawas was appointed as the club head coach again while keeping his job as the club sporting director.
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Akbar Nawas turned down offers from three Indian clubs as he was interested in the club vision.
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Nawas son, Saifullah Akbar is a professional footballer who is currently playing for Tampines Rovers in the Singapore Premier League.