United Arab Emirates national football team

United Arab Emirates
الإمارات العربيّة المتّحدة

Nickname (s)	Al Sukoor (The Falcons)
Association	United Arab Emirates Football Association
confederacy	AFC
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Jorge Luis Pinto (since 2020)
Record scorer	Ali Mabkhout (63)
Record player	Adnan at-Talyani (161)
Home stadium	Zayed Sports City Stadium
FIFA code	UAE
FIFA rank	71st (1334 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match UAE 1-0 Qatar ( Riyadh , Saudi Arabia ; March 17, 1972 )
Biggest win Brunei 0:12 UAE ( Bandar Seri Begawan , Brunei ; April 14, 2001 )
Biggest defeat UAE 8-0 Brazil ( Abu Dhabi ; November 12, 2005 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 1990 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1990
Asian Championship
Participation in the finals	10 ( first : 1980 )
Best results	Final 1996
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 1997 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1997
(As of December 2, 2019)

The United Arab Emirates national football team is the United Arab Emirates (UAE) men's national team .

history

The UAE Football Association was founded in 1971 and joined FIFA in 1972 . She once took part in a world championship (1990 in Italy), but did not get beyond the preliminary round there.

At the Asian Championships , the team finished fourth in 1992 and second in 1996. Both times they lost the games on penalties. In 2015, the team reached third place after losing in the semi-finals to hosts Australia with a 3-2 win against Iraq .

In 2007 the Emirates won the golf cup for the first time as the host .
At the 2013 Golf Cup in Bahrain , the team was able to win the title again.

successes

• Football Asian Cup : Vice Asian Champion 1996, 3rd place 2015
• Kirin Cup : 2005
• Golf Cup : 2007, 2013

Participation in the soccer world championship

→ Main article : United Arab Emirates National Football Team / World Cups

The United Arab Emirates team took part in qualifying for the 1986 World Cup for the first time, but failed. After that, the team took part in all qualifications and reached the finals in 1990. But this was the only qualification. In the all-time table of the World Cup finalists, the team occupies 73rd place.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated				not an independent state
1934	Italy	not participated				not an independent state
1938	France	not participated				not an independent state
1950	Brazil	not participated				not an independent state
1954	Switzerland	not participated				not an independent state
1958	Sweden	not participated				not an independent state
1962	Chile	not participated				not an independent state
1966	England	not participated				not an independent state
1970	Mexico	not participated				not an independent state
1974	Germany	not participated				not a FIFA member
1978	Argentina	withdrawn
1982	Spain	not participated
1986	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification in West Asia semifinals on Iraq failed.
1990	Italy	Preliminary round	Colombia , Germany , Yugoslavia	24.	Carlos Alberto Parreira	Eliminated after three defeats as bottom of the group.
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualifiers in the first round of Japan failed, which also failed to qualify.
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification in the 2nd round to South Korea and again to Japan failed.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualification in the 2nd round in the play-offs of the runners-up in the group failed because of Iran , which also failed to qualify.
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round, North Korea failed, which also failed to qualify.
2010	South Africa	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 4th round as bottom of the group.
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification in the 3rd round failed as a group last.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In the qualification in the 3rd round failed as a group in fourth.
2022	Qatar

Participation in the Asian football championship

• 1980 - preliminary round
• 1984 - preliminary round
• 1988 - preliminary round
• 1992 - fourth place
• 1996 - runner-up
• 2000 - Not qualified
• 2004 - preliminary round
• 2007 - preliminary round
• 2011 - preliminary round
• 2015 - third place
• 2019 - semi-finals

Participation in the West Asian Football Championship

• 2000 to 2019 - did not participate
• 2021 - qualified (host)

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	06/15/1990	Milan ( )	Germany	5: 1	United Arab Emirates
2.	01/26/1992	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	0: 2	Switzerland
3.	04/27/1994	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	0: 2	Germany
4th	09/06/1994	Sion	Switzerland	1-0	United Arab Emirates
5.	02/23/2000	Muscat ( )	United Arab Emirates	1-0	Switzerland
6th	02/09/2005	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	1: 2	Switzerland
7th	06/02/2009	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	2: 7	Germany

No internationals against Liechtenstein and Austria so far.

Record player

(As of December 2, 2019)

Record player
Games	player	position	Period	Gates
161	Adnan at-Talyani	attack	1984-1997	52
133	Ismail Matar	attack	2003–	36
120	Subait Khater	midfield	1999-2011	11
116 (115)	Abdulrahim Jumaa	midfield	1998-2009	13
115 (114)	Ismail al-Hammadi	midfield	2007–	13
112	Zuhair Bakheet	attack	1988-2002	27
112 (111)	Abdulsalam Jumaa	Defense	1997-2010	07th
107 (106)	Muhsin Musabah	goal	1985-1999	00
103 (104)	Ahmed Khalil	attack	2008–	48
102	Mohammad Omar	attack	1996-2009	28

Record shooters
Gates	player	Period	Games
63	Ali Mabkhout	1999-2014	083
52	Adnan at-Talyani	1984-1997	161
48	Ahmed Khalil	2008–	103 (104)
36	Ismail Matar	2003–	133
28	Mohammad Omar	1996-2009	102
27	Zuhair Bakheet	1988-2002	112

Source: * rsssf.com (Numbers in brackets correspond to current FIFA counts as of December 4, 2019)

Trainer

Surname	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
Bernard Blaut	1990	1990
Carlos Alberto Parreira	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	1999
Srećko Juričić	1999	1999
Abdullah Mesfer	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	2008
Dominique Bathenay	2008	2009
Srečko Katanec	2009	2011
Abdullah Mesfer	2011	2012
Mahdi Ali	2012	2012
Edgardo Bauza	2016	2017
Alberto Zaccheroni	2017	2019
Bert van Marwijk	2019	2019
Jorge Luis Pinto	2020

See also

• List of national football teams (men)
• List of international matches of the United Arab Emirates national football team
• United Arab Emirates National Football Team (U-20 Men)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
3. ↑ United Arab Emirates - Record International Players
4. ↑ FACT Sheet FIFA Century Club