2023–24 UAE Pro League

UAE Pro League
Season	2023–24
Dates	18 August 2023 – 25 May 2024
Matches played	35
Goals scored	120 (3.43 per match)
Top goalscorer	Walid Azaro; (5 goals)
Biggest home win	Al Ain 6–0 Ajman ; (23 September 2023)
Biggest away win	Hatta 0–5 Al Wasl ; (27 October 2023)
Highest scoring	Emirates 4–4 Ajman ; (25 August 2023); Ajman 3–5 Kalba; (29 September 2023)
Longest winning run	Al Ain; Shabab Al Ahli; (4 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Al Wasl; Shabab Al Ahli; (6 games)
Longest winless run	Ajman; Hatta; (6 games)
Longest losing run	Hatta; (6 games)
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →

The 2023–24 UAE Pro League will be the 49th edition of the UAE Pro League. Shabab Al Ahli will be the defending champions after securing their title in a 2–1 victory against Baniyas.

Teams

Promoted to the Pro League

Hatta secured promotion to the pro league after a decisive 3–2 victory over Al Rams.[1] Hatta are returning after two seasons of absence. Emirates would secure promotion on the second last matchday after winning 4–3 against Al Rams, coincidentally the same club Hatta beat. This will be Emirates 10th season in the Pro League.[2]

Relegated to the First Division

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.[3]

Stadium and locations

2023–24 UAE Pro League is located in United Arab Emirates

Locations of teams in the 2023–24 UAE Pro League

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Ajman	Ajman	Ajman Stadium	5,537
Al Ain	Al-Ain	Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium	25,965
Al Bataeh	Al Bataeh	Al Bataeh Stadium	2,000
Al Jazira	Abu Dhabi (Al Nahyan)	Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium	42,056
Al Nasr	Dubai (Al Nasr)	Al-Maktoum Stadium	15,058
Al Wahda	Abu Dhabi (Al Nahyan)	Al Nahyan Stadium	12,201
Al Wasl	Dubai (Zabeel)	Zabeel Stadium	8,439
Baniyas	Abu Dhabi (Al Shamkha)	Baniyas Stadium	10,000
Emirates	Ras Al Khaimah	Emirates Club Stadium	5,200
Hatta	Hatta	Hamdan Bin Rashid Stadium	5,000
Kalba	Kalba	Ittihad Kalba Stadium	8,500
Khor Fakkan	Khor Fakkan	SBM Al Qassimi Stadium	7,500
Shabab Al Ahli	Dubai (Deira)	Al-Rashid Stadium	12,052
Sharjah	Sharjah	Sharjah Stadium	20,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Head Coach	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Ajman	Daniel Isăilă	Saoud Saeed	Adidas	Ajman Bank
Al Ain	Alfred Schreuder	Bandar Al-Ahbabi	Nike	First Abu Dhabi Bank
Al Bataeh	Mirel Rădoi	Mohamed Ahmed	Nike	Majid Al Futtaim Group
Al Jazira	Frank de Boer	Ali Khasif	Zat Outfit	Healthpoint
Al Nasr	Goran Tufegdžić	Ahmed Shambih	N45	Emirates Islamic
Al Wahda	Pitso Mosimane	Allan	Adidas	Volkswagen
Al Wasl	Miloš Milojević	Ali Salmeen	Macron	Dubai Real Estate Centre
Baniyas	Darko Milanič	Fawaz Awana	Macron	ADIB
Emirates	Lluís Planagumà	Andrés Iniesta	uhlsport	RAK Ceramics
Hatta	Fabio Viviani	Vernon De Marco	uhlsport	Emaar
Kalba	Farhad Majidi	Abdusalam Mohammed	Errea	Caltex
Khor Fakkan	Gerard Zaragoza	Masoud Sulaiman	Adidas	ADNOC
Shabab Al Ahli	Marko Nikolić	Majed Naser	Nike	Mai Dubai
Sharjah	Cosmin Olăroiu	Shahin Abdulrahman	Adidas	SAIF Zone

Foreign players

All teams can register many foreigners as they want but could only include up to five professional players. Players in the age of under-23 do not counted as professional.

Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Players in italics were out of the squad or left the club within the season, after the pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Former players
Ajman	Walid Azaro	Ali Madan	Prestige Mboungou	Nader Ghandri	Haykeul Chikhaoui
Al Ain	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Soufiane Rahimi	Omer Atzili	Kaku	Park Yong-woo
Al Bataeh	Anatole Abang	Ulrich Meleke	Petrus Boumal	Diney	Paulinho
Al Jazira	Neeskens Kebano	Alejandro Pozuelo	Karim Rekik	Fernando	Aboubakar Kamara
Al Nasr	Adel Taarabt	Samir Memišević	Iuri Medeiros	Kevin Agudelo	Manolo Gabbiadini
Al Wahda	Omar Khribin	Allan	Ahmad Nourollahi	Cristian Guanca	Zelimkhan Bakayev	João Pedro
Al Wasl	Soufiane Bouftini	Gerónimo Poblete	Nicolás Giménez	Alexis Pérez	Haris Seferovic
Baniyas	Saša Ivković	Gastón Álvarez Suárez	Taulant Seferi	Youssoufou Niakaté	Francisco Geraldes
Emirates	Franck Kom	Al Sanousi Al Hadi	Uroš Vitas	Andrés Iniesta	Paco Alcácer	Diogo Acosta
Hatta	Alexander Merkel	Vernon De Marco	Moustafa Zeidan	Shabaib Al-Khaldi	Aaron Tshibola	Gabrielzinho
Kalba	Filip Kiss	Daniel Bessa	Andrés Vombergar	Mehdi Ghayedi	Wallace	Ivanildo Fernandes
Khor Fakkan	Lourency	Tiago Leonço	Saîf-Eddine Khaoui	Abdulla Abdullaev	Thulani Serero	Pedro Castro
Shabab Al Ahli	Federico Cartabia	Azizjon Ganiev	Bogdan Planić	Mu'nas Dabbur	Luka Milivojević
Sharjah	Caio	Miralem Pjanić	Kostas Manolas	Firas Ben Larbi	Moussa Marega	Paco Alcácer

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Pos.	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Al Wasl	Juan Antonio Pizzi[4]	16 May 2023	Mutual consent	Pre-season	Miloš Milojević[5]	2 June 2023
Al Bataeh	Said Chkhit	25 May 2023	End of caretaker spell		Mirel Rădoi	25 May 2023
Al Jazira	Marcel Keizer[6]	26 May 2023	End of contract		Frank de Boer	5 June 2023
Al Ain	Serhiy Rebrov[7]	27 May 2023	End of contract		Alfred Schreuder[8]	27 May 2023
Hatta	Abdullah Mesfer[9]	1 June 2023	Mutual consent		Željko Markov[10]	6 June 2023
Shabab Al Ahli	Leonardo Jardim[11]		End of contract		Marko Nikolić	2 June 2023
Baniyas	Daniel Isăilă				Darko Milanič	8 June 2023
Al Nasr	Goran Tomić[12]	5 June 2023			Goran Tufegdžić[13]	5 June 2023
Ajman	Goran Tufegdžić	5 June 2023	Signed by Al Nasr		Caio Zanardi	6 June 2023
Al Wahda	Arno Buitenweg	18 June 2023	End of caretaker spell		Pitso Mosimane[14]	18 June 2023
Hatta	Željko Markov	4 September 2023	Sacked	13th	Fabio Viviani[15]	5 September 2023
Emirates	Mohammed Al Jalboot	5 September 2023	Mutual consent	10th	Lluís Planagumà[16]	5 September 2023
Khor Fakkan	Abdulaziz Al Anberi	24 September 2023	Mutual consent	10th	Gerard Zaragoza	29 September 2023
Ajman	Caio Zanardi[17]	3 October 2023	Sacked	13th	Daniel Isăilă	3 October 2023

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Wasl	6	4	2	0	16	7	+9	14	Qualification for AFC Champions League Elite League stage
2	Shabab Al Ahli	6	4	2	0	14	6	+8	14	Qualification for AFC Champions League 2 group stage
3	Al Ain	5	4	0	1	14	5	+9	12
4	Al Jazira	5	3	1	1	12	5	+7	10
5	Sharjah	5	3	0	2	11	10	+1	9
6	Al Wahda	6	3	0	3	8	9	−1	9
7	Al Bataeh	6	2	2	2	7	8	−1	8
8	Baniyas	5	2	1	2	10	9	+1	7
9	Al Nasr	6	2	1	3	10	11	−1	7
10	Kalba	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7
11	Emirates	5	1	2	2	7	8	−1	5
12	Khor Fakkan	5	1	1	3	7	11	−4	4
13	Ajman	6	0	3	3	9	20	−11	3	Relegation to UAE Division 1
14	Hatta	6	0	0	6	2	15	−13	0	Relegation to UAE Division 1

Updated to match(es) played on 27 October 2023. Source: UPLeague
Rules for classification: [18] 1) points; 2) head-to-head goal difference; 3) head-to-head goals scored; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) number of away goals scored; 8) head-to-head points; 9) fair play ranking[19] 10) draw

Results

Home \ Away	AJM	AIN	BTH	JAZ	NAS	WAH	WAS	YAS	EMI	HAT	KAL	KHF	SAD	SHR
Ajman											3–5		0–3
Al Ain	6–0					a		3–2					a
Al Bataeh	1–1										0–0	3–1	0–2
Al Jazira			3–1			1–2							1–1
Al Nasr		1–0		1–3			a							0–1
Al Wahda		a	1–2	a						1–0	2–1
Al Wasl	1–1				a			3–2	1–0					a
Baniyas					4–2	2–1			0–0
Emirates	4–4													1–3
Hatta		0–2			0–3		0–5
Kalba				0–4						2–1				3–4
Khor Fakkan							3–3		0–2	2–1
Shabab Al Ahli		a			3–3	3–1						2–1
Sharjah		2–3					1–3

Updated to match(es) played on 27 October 2023. Source: UPLeague
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Number of teams by Emirates

	Emirate	Number of teams	Teams
1	Abu Dhabi	4	Al Ain, Al Jazira, Al Wahda and Baniyas
	Sharjah		Sharjah, Kalba, Khor Fakkan and Al Bataeh
	Dubai		Shabab Al Ahli, Al Nasr, Al Wasl and Hatta
4	Ajman	1	Ajman
4	Ras Al Khaimah		Emirates

Season statistics

Positions by round

	Leader and qualification to AFC Champions League Elite
	qualification to AFC Champions League 2
	Relegation to UAE First Division League

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6
Team ╲ Round
Shabab Al Ahli	1	1	2	2	1
Al Ain	4	2	1	1	2
Al Wasl	7	3	3	3	3
Al Jazira	2	6	4	4	4
Sharjah	3	9	6	5	5
Baniyas	9	5	9	8	6
Al Bataeh	6	4	8	11	7
Kalba	8	11	11	10	8
Al Nasr	13	14	14	12	9
Al Wahda	11	7	5	6	10
Emirates	12	10	7	7	11
Khor Fakkan	5	8	10	9	12
Ajman	14	12	12	13	13	13
Hatta	10	13	13	14	14	14

Updated to match(es) played on 27 October 2023. Source: UPLeague

Top scorers

As of 27 October 2023[20]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Walid Azaro	Ajman	5
2	Kodjo Laba	Al Ain	4
	Caio Lucas	Sharjah
	Mehdi Ghayedi	Kalba
	Youssoufou Niakaté	Baniyas
	Fábio Lima	Al Wasl
	Haris Seferovic	Al Wasl
7	Kevin Agudelo	Al Nasr	3
	Manolo Gabbiadini	Al Nasr
	Mu'nas Dabbur	Shabab Al Ahli
	Federico Cartabia	Shabab Al Ahli
	Omar Khribin	Al Wahda
	Ali Mabkhout	Al Jazira
	Alejandro Pozuelo	Al Jazira
	Soufiane Rahimi	Al Ain

Top assists

As of 27 October 2023[20]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Nicolás Giménez	Al Wasl	4
2	Omer Atzili	Al Ain	3
	Alejandro Pozuelo	Al Jazira
	Gastón Suárez	Baniyas
	Adel Taarabt	Al Nasr
6	16 players		2

Clean sheets

As of 27 October 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Suhail Abdulla	Emirates	2
	Khaled Al-Senani	Al Wasl
	Khalid Eisa	Al Ain
	Ahmed Shambih	Al Nasr
5	Fahad Al-Dhanhani	Baniyas	1
	Adel Al-Hosani	Sharjah
	Mohamed Al-Shamsi	Al Wahda
	Ibrahim Essa	Al Bataeh
	Hassan Hamza	Shabab Al Ahli
	Eisa Hooti	Kalba
	Ali Khasif	Al Jazira
	Majed Naser	Shabab Al Ahli

Hat tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Round
Walid Azaro	Ajman	Kalba	3–5 (H)	29 September 2023	4

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[2] "حتا بطل الهواة والصقور يحلق للأضواء وهيسبانا يهبط للثانية" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 14 May 2023.

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