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This is a list of football clubs in the United Arab Emirates.Currently there are officially 49 football clubs in the United Arab Emirates.Fourteen of them compete in the top tier division, 15 of them compete in the 2nd tier division, 12 of them compete in the 3rd tier division, and eight of them are currently in a hiatus.
The UAE Pro League (Arabic: دوري المحترفين الإماراتي), known for sponsorship reasons as the ADNOC Pro League, [1] is the top professional football league in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The first team to win the title was Al Orouba (Sharjah), whilst Al Ain has the record with 14 league titles to their name.
Al Dhafra got relegated after losing to Ajman 2–1. This marks the fourth time Al Dhafra got relegated in the top flight with the last time being in 2010–11 season. Dibba Al Fujairah soon followed after drawing 1–1 to Al Dhafra, ending their short spell in the Pro League a year after Dibba Al Fujairah got promoted as division 1 champions.
The UAE Football League as it is known, includes the top flight UAE Arabian Gulf League with Al Ain the only club with fourteen title wins. [3] UAE Division 1 currently acts as the UAE's 2nd tier competition with two clubs getting promoted and UAE Second Division League was established in 2019 to act as the UAE's 3rd tier competition.
It has made one World Cup appearance in 1990 in Italy and lost all three of its games. United Arab Emirates took fourth place in the 1992 AFC Asian Cup and runner-up in 1996 as host. It won the Arabian Gulf Cup in 2007 and 2013. It finished third in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup and hosted the 2019 edition in which it was eliminated in the semi-finals.
UAE First Division League is the second tier of football league competition in the United Arab Emirates. [1] As of 2020–21, the league features 15 sides who play each other in a home and away round-robin format, with a total of 28 games for each team. The top two sides gain promotion to the UAE Pro-League.
FIFA Club World Cup: Al Jazira: ... (6 games) Longest unbeaten run: ... The 2020–21 UAE Pro League was the 46th edition of the UAE Pro League following the ...
The tables below show the makeup of the system. The UAE Pro League sits at the top of the pyramid and two teams get promoted/relegated between the UAEPL and Division 1. UAE First Division League is the 2nd tier of the league system, below there are UAE Second and Third Division Leagues. [1]