United_Arab_Emirates_national_football

United Arab Emirates national football team

United Arab Emirates

Nickname(s) Al Sukoor (The Falcons)

Association U.A.E. Football Association

Confederation AFC (Asia)

Head coach Bruno Metsu, (2006-)

Most caps Adnan Al Talyani (164)

Top scorer Adnan Al Talyani (53)

Home stadium Sheikh Zayed Stadium

FIFA code UAE

FIFA ranking 106

Highest FIFA ranking 42 (November 1998)

Lowest FIFA ranking 111 (October 2003)

Elo ranking T95

Home colours

Away colours

First international

UAE 1 - 0 Qatar
(Saudi Arabia; March 17, 1972)

Biggest win

Brunei 0 - 12 UAE
(Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei; April 14, 2001)

Biggest defeat

UAE 0 - 8 Brazil
(Abu Dhabi, UAE; November 12, 2005)

World Cup

Appearances 1 (First in 1990)

Best result Round 1, 1990

AFC Asian Cup

Appearances 6 (First in 1980)

Best result Runners-up, 1996

Confederations Cup

Appearances 1 (First in 1997)

Best result 1st round 1997

The United Arab Emirates national football team is the national team of United Arab Emirates and is controlled by the United Arab Emirates Football Association. It made one World Cup appearance, in 1990, but lost all three of its games, to Colombia, West Germany, and Yugoslavia. The side rebounded to take fourth place in the 1992 Asian Cup, and runner-up in 1996. In both tournaments their final match was lost on penalty kicks. In 2005 the UAE football team jointly won the Kirin Cup along with the Peruvian team. In 2007 the UAE beat Oman 1-0 to win the Gulf Cup for the first time in their history.

1 FIFA World Cup record
2 AFC Asian Cup record
3 Achievements
4 Coaches
5 Current National Team
- 5.1 Recent Call Ups 2007

FIFA World Cup record

1930 to 1974 - Did not enter
1978 - Withdrew
1982 - Did not enter
1986 - Did not qualify
1990 - Round 1
1994 to 2006 - Did not qualify

AFC Asian Cup record

1956 to 1976 - Did not enter
1980 - Round 1
1984 - Round 1
1988 - Round 1
1992 - Fourth place
1996 - Runners-Up
2000 - Did not qualify
2004 - Round 1
2007 - Round 1

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

1972-Present

Manager	From	To
Mohammed Sheita	1972	1973
Jumaa Gharib	1973	1973
Mohammed Sheita	1973	1974
Mimi El-Sherbini	1975	1975
Jumaa Gharib	1975	1976
Kaditich	1976	1976
Don Revie	1977	1980
Heshmat Mohajarhani	1980	1984
Carlos Alberto Parreira	1984	1988
Mario Zagallo	1988	1990
Bernhard Blaut	1990	1990
Valery Lobanovsky	1990	1992
Antoni Piechniczek	1992	1995
Tomislav Ivic	1995	1996
Lori Sandri	1997	1997
Milan Máčala	1997	1997
Lori Sandri	1998	1998
Carlos Queiroz	1998	1999
Srecko Jurcic	1999	1999
Dr Abdullah Masfar	2000	2000
Henri Michel	2000	2001
Abdullah Saqr	2001	2001
Tony Ruys	2001	2001
Jo Bonfrere	2001	2002
Roy Hodgson	2002	2004
Aad De Mos	2004	2005
Dick Advocaat	2005	2005
Bruno Metsu	2006	Present

Current National Team

Squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying against Kuwait on February 6, 2008.

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
1	GK	Majed Naser	1 April 1984	Al-Wasl
2	DF	Tariq Hasan	18 March 1983	Al-Wasl
3	DF	Obaid Khalifa	13 April 1985	Al-Ahli
4	MF	Subait Khater	27 February 1980	Al-Ain FC
5	DF	Mohammed Qassim	9 November 1981	Al-Ahli
6	DF	Rashid Abdulrahman	20 October 1975	Al-Jazeera
7	FW	Mohamed Al Shehhi	28 March 1988	Al-Wahda
8	DF	Haidar Alo Ali	25 December 1979	Al-Wahda
9	MF	Saif Mohammed	15 September 1983	Al-Shaab
10	FW	Ismail Matar	7 April 1983	Al-Wahda
11	FW	Faisal Khalil	4 December 1982	Al-Ahli
12	GK	Ismail Rabee	11 January 1983	Al-Shabab
13	MF	Ahmed Mohamed Mubarak	10 June 1988	Al-Jazeera
14	DF	Bashir Saeed	28 June 1981	Al-Wahda
15	MF	Hilal Saeed	12 May 1977	Al-Ain
16	MF	Abdullah Al Noubi		Al-Wahda
17	FW	Ahmad Khalil		Al-Ahli
18	FW	Abdullah Malallah	5 July 1983	Emirates
	MF	Darwish Ahmed		Al-Nasr
	FW	Nawaf Mubarak	31 August 1981	Sharjah FC
	FW	Suroor Salim		Al-Shabab

Recent Call Ups 2007

No.	Pos.	Player	DoB (Age)	Club
2	DF	Humaid Fakher	3 November 1978	Al-Ain
5	MF	Ali Abbas	12 December 1979	Al-Ahli
11	FW	Saeed Hassan Al Kas	20 February 1976	Sharjah FC
12	GK	Waleed Salim	28 October 1980	Al-Ain
18	MF	Amir Mubarak	28 December 1987	Al-Nasr
4	DF	Ali Msarri	9 October 1981	Al-Ain
	DF	Mohammed Khamis	11 March 1976	Al-Nasr
	DF	Yousef Jaber	25 February 1985	Al-Ahli
	MF	Essa Ali	2 April 1981	Al-Wasl
	MF	Abdulrahim Jumaa	23 May 1979	Al-Wahda
	MF	Khaled Darwish	17 October 1979	Al-Wasl
	FW	Mohamed Omer		Al Jazeera Club
	DF	Adel Abdulaziz		Al-Ahli
	FW	Salim Saad		Al-Shabbab
	MF	Salim Khamis		Al-Ahli
	FW	Mohammed Rashid Suroor		Al-Ahli

Gulf Cup of Nations Winners

v • d • e

9 titles : Kuwait (1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1996, 1998)
3 titles : Iraq (1979, 1984, 1988) Saudi Arabia (1994, 2002, 2003)
2 titles : Qatar (1992, 2004)
1 title : United Arab Emirates (2007)