United Arab Emirates national football team

United Arab Emirates

Nickname(s)	Al Abyad (The white)
Association	U.A.E. Football Association
Sub-confederation	WAFF (West Asia)
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Abdulla Mesfer
Captain	Subait Khater
Most caps	Adnan Al Talyani (164)
Top scorer	Adnan Al Talyani (53)
Home stadium	Sheikh Zayed Stadium
FIFA code	UAE
FIFA ranking	122
Highest FIFA ranking	42 (November 1998)
Lowest FIFA ranking	138 (January 2012)
Elo ranking	103
Highest Elo ranking	41 (September 1997)
Lowest Elo ranking	151 (September 1981)
Home colours Away colours
First international
United Arab Emirates 1–0 Qatar (Saudi Arabia; March 17, 1972)
Biggest win
Brunei 0–12 United Arab Emirates (B. S. Begawan, Brunei; April 14, 2001)
Biggest defeat
United Arab Emirates 0–8 Brazil (Abu Dhabi, UAE; November 12, 2005)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 1990)
Best result	Round 1, 1990
Asian Cup
Appearances	7 (First in 1980)
Best result	Runner-up, 1996
Confederations Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 1997)
Best result	1st round 1997

The United Arab Emirates national football team (Arabic: الامارات العربية المتحدة لكرة القدم‎) represents United Arab Emirates in association football and is controlled by the United Arab Emirates Football Association, the governing body for football in United Arab Emirates. United Arab Emirates' home ground is Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

It has made one World Cup appearance, in 1990 in Italy, but lost all three of its games, to Colombia, West Germany, and Yugoslavia. Two years later the UAE took fourth place in the 1992 Asian Cup, and runner-up in 1996. In both tournaments their final match was lost on penalty kicks. In 2007 the UAE beat Oman 1–0 to win the Gulf Cup for the first time in their history.

FIFA World Cup record

World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1930 to 1974	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1982	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1986	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1990	Round 1	24/24	3	0	0	3	2	11
1994 to 2014	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/19	Round 1	3	0	0	3	2	11

* Denotes draws include knockout matches decided on penalty kicks.

AFC Asian Cup record

Year	Round	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1956 to 1976	Did not enter	-	-	-	-	-	-
1980	Round 1	4	0	1	3	3	9
1984	Round 1	4	2	0	2	3	8
1988	Round 1	4	1	0	3	2	4
1992	Fourth place	3	1	2	0	2	1
1996	Runners-Up	6	4	2	0	8	3
2000	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
2004	Round 1	3	0	1	2	1	5
2007	Round 1	3	1	0	2	3	6
2011	Round 1	3	0	1	2	0	4
Total	8/15	30	9	7	14	22	40

• Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Gulf Cup of Nations record

Winner of the 2007 edition

Year	Host Country	Place
1970	Bahrain	Did not enter
1972	Saudi Arabia	Third place
1974	Kuwait	4th place
1976	Qatar	Third place
1979	Iraq	6th place
1982	UAE	Third place
1984	Oman	4th place
1986	Bahrain	Runner-up
1988	Saudi Arabia	Runner-up
1990	Kuwait	5th place
1992	Qatar	4th place
1994	UAE	Runner-up
1996	Oman	4th place
1998	Bahrain	Third place
2002	Saudi Arabia	6th place
2003	Kuwait	5th place
2004	Qatar	Group Stage
2007	UAE	Champion
2009	Oman	Group Stage
2010	Yemen	Semi-Final
2013	Bahrain

FIFA Confederations Cup

FIFA Confederations Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D *	L	GF	GA	Squad
1992	Did Not Qualify
1995
1997	Group Stage	6th	3	1	0	2	2	8	Squad
1999	Did Not Qualify
2001
2003
2005
2009
2013
2017	To Be Determined
2021
Total	Group Stage	1/9	3	1	0	2	2	8	-

Achievements

• Qualified for the 1990 FIFA World Cup
• Second Place in The 1996 Asian Cup
• Kirin Cup Winner in 2005
• Winners of 2007 Gulf Cup of Nations

Coaches

Manager	From	To
Mohammed Sheita	1972	1973
Jumaa Gharib	1973	1973
Mohammed Sheita	1973	1974
Mimi El-Sherbini	1975	1975
Jumaa Gharib	1975	1976
Dimitri Tadić	1976	1976
Don Revie	1977	1980
Heshmat Mohajerani	1980	1984
Carlos Alberto Parreira	1984	1988
Mario Zagallo	1988	1990
Bernhard Blaut	1990	1990
Valery Lobanovsky	1990	1992
Antoni Piechniczek	1992	1995
Tomislav Ivić	1995	1996
Lori Sandri	1997	1997
Milan Máčala	1997	1997
Lori Sandri	1998	1998
Carlos Queiroz	1998	Sept 1999
Srećko Juričić	1999	1999
Abdullah Masfar	2000	2000
Henri Michel	2000	2001
Abdullah Saqr	2001	2001
Tini Ruijs	2001	2001
Jo Bonfrere	Nov 2001	Jan 2002 (Gulf Cup campaign)
Roy Hodgson	Apr 2002	Jan 2004
Aad De Mos	2004	2005
Dick Advocaat	Aug 2005	Sep 2005 (clause in contract allowing him to leave)
Bruno Metsu	2006	September 2008
Dominique Bathenay	September 2008	June 2009
Srečko Katanec	June 2009	September 2011
Abdullah Masfar	September 2011

Current squad

• The following squad has been called up for the 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Lebanon on 29 February 2012.

Caps and goals updated as February 29, 2012.

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Dawoud Sulaiman (1990-02-21)21 February 1990 (aged 22) 0 0 Al Ain 12 GK Salim Abdulla (1984-01-18)18 January 1984 (aged 28) 0 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi 22 GK Ali Khasif (1987-06-09)9 June 1987 (aged 24) 8 0 Al-Jazira 2 DF Khalid Sabeel (1986-06-22)22 June 1986 (aged 25) 20 0 Al-Jazira 8 DF Fayez Jumaa (1989-05-02)2 May 1989 (aged 22) 6 0 Al Sharjah 14 DF Bashir Saeed (1981-06-28)28 June 1981 (aged 30) 57 5 Al-Ahli 17 DF Yousif Jaber (1985-02-25)25 February 1985 (aged 27) 40 2 Baniyas 18 DF Abdullah Mousa (1987-02-23)23 February 1987 (aged 25) 6 0 Al-Jazira 21 DF Eisa Ahmed (1987-01-13)13 January 1987 (aged 24) 3 0 Al-Wahda 3 MF Yaqoub Al Hosani (1987-06-01)1 June 1987 (aged 24) 1 0 Al-Wahda 4 MF Abdulsalaam Jumaa (1977-05-23)23 May 1977 (aged 34) 49 3 Al-Jazira 5 MF Adel Abdullah Abbas (1980-07-03)3 July 1980 (aged 31) 1 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi 6 MF Salem Abdullah (1986-07-05)5 July 1986 (aged 25) 2 0 Al Ain 7 MF Ali Al-Wehaibi (1983-10-27)27 October 1983 (aged 28) 46 4 Al Ain 15 MF Majed Hassan (1992-08-01)1 August 1992 (aged 19) 0 0 Al-Ahli 16 MF Humaid Ahmed (1988-02-07)7 February 1988 (aged 24) 0 0 Al Sharjah 20 MF Obaid Khalifa (1985-04-13)13 April 1985 (aged 26) 7 0 Al-Ahli 23 MF Adnan Hussain (1985-12-06)6 December 1985 (aged 26) 1 0 Baniyas 9 FW Mohamed Al Shehhi (1988-03-28)28 March 1988 (aged 23) 57 12 Al Wahda 10 FW Ismail Matar (1983-04-07)7 April 1983 (aged 28) 89 27 Al Wahda 11 FW Essa Obaid (1984-04-10)10 April 1984 (aged 27) 2 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi 13 FW Abdulaziz Fayez (1990-06-17)17 June 1990 (aged 21) 1 0 Al Ain 19 FW Abdullah Qasem (1986-08-11)11 August 1986 (aged 25) 2 0 Al Jazira

Recent callups

0#0 Pos. Player Date of Birth (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Majed Nasser April 1, 1984 (1984-04-01) 64 0 Al-Wasl 12 GK Khalid Eisa September 15, 1989 (1989-09-15) 0 0 Al Jazira 22 GK Ali Al Hosani May 26, 1988 (1988-05-26) 0 0 Al Wahda 12 GK Obaid Al Tawila (1979-08-27)27 August 1979 (aged 31) 5 0 Al-Ahli 3 DF Walid Abbas (1985-06-11)11 June 1985 (aged 25) 32 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi 6 DF Fares Juma Al Saadi (1988-12-30)30 December 1988 (aged 22) 31 2 Al Ain 8 DF Hamdan Al Kamali (1989-05-02)2 May 1989 (aged 21) 26 3 Lyon 15 DF Mohamed Ahmad Juma (1989-04-16)16 April 1989 (aged 22) 5 0 Al Shabab Al Arabi 15 DF Saeed Al Kass (1976-02-20)20 February 1976 (aged 34) 61 15 Al Wasl 2 MF Mahmoud Khamees (1987-10-28)28 October 1987 (aged 23) 21 2 Al-Wahda 4 MF Subait Khater (1980-02-27)27 February 1980 (aged 30) 99 9 Al-Jazira 5 MF Ali Abbas Yasin (1979-12-10)10 December 1979 (aged 31) 25 1 Al Jazira 11 MF Khalid Jalal (1991-05-04)4 May 1991 (aged 20) 1 0 Al Wahda 13 MF Mohamed Fawzi (1990-02-22)22 February 1990 (aged 20) 6 0 Baniyas 5 MF Amer Abdulrahman (1989-07-03)3 July 1989 (aged 21) 17 0 Baniyas 13 MF Theyab Awana (1990-04-08)8 April 1990 (aged 20) 9 2 Baniyas 16 MF Amer Mubarak (1987-12-27)27 December 1987 (aged 23) 40 1 Al-Nasr 16 FW Ismail Al Hammadi (1988-07-01)1 July 1988 (aged 22) 39 6 Al-Ahli 19 FW Ahmed Khalil (1991-06-08)8 June 1991 (aged 19) 29 9 Al-Ahli 20 FW Saeed Al Kathiri (1988-03-28)28 March 1988 (aged 22) 7 2 Al Wahda 23 FW Ahmed Jumaa (1986-01-02)2 January 1986 (aged 25) 9 1 Al Jazira 23 FW Omar Abdulrahman (1991-09-20)20 September 1991 (aged 19) 3 0 Al Ain

See also

• United Arab Emirates national under-20 football team
• United Arab Emirates national under-17 football team