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| Full name | Al-Ain Sports and Cultural Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The Boss | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium (Capacity 12,000 10,000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Mohamed Bin Zayed AL Nahyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager |  Winfried Schäfer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | UAE League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/07 | UAE League, 9th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Al-Ain Football Club (Arabic: نادي العين; transliterated: Nady al-'Ayn) is a professional association football club based in the city of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates. Football club names are a part of the sport 's culture reflecting century-old traditions This is a of lists of the use of Nicknames in football (soccer. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium (ستاد الشيخ خليفة الدولي is a multi-use Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium (استاد طحنون بن محمد is a multi-use Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The following is a list of Association football stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the Winfried "Winnie" Schäfer (born January 10, 1950 in Mayen) is a German football manager and former player he is currently Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Different approaches and methods for the Romanization of Arabic exist Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Al Ain ( Arabic: العين,, literally The Spring) is the fourth largest city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE Al-Ain won the 2003 Asian Champions League competition with a 2-1 aggregate victory over BEC Tero Sasana of Thailand. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The AFC Champions League is the current annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation (AFC BEC Tero Sasana FC (สโมสรฟุตบอลบีอีซี เทโรศาสน is a Thailand professional football club who finished runners-up The Kingdom of Thailand (ˈtaɪlænd ราชอาณาจักรไทย, râːtɕʰa-ʔaːnaːtɕɑ̀k-tʰɑj
Al Ain FC is by far the most successful club in the UAE and among the best in Asia. The team was established in 1968 in the quiet garden city of Al Ain. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The team quickly gained popularity and recognition throughout the country, being the team with the most UAE league titles (nine) and the first UAE side to win the AFC Champions league title in 2003. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar.
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Al Ain Club Leaders
Honorary President: Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (President of the UAE/Ruler of Abu Dhabi)
President: Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi)
Vice President 1: Sheikh Hazza Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Vice President 2: Sheikh Tahnoun Bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Al Ain Stadiums
Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium, capacity: 15,000
Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium, capacity: 15,000
Al Ain Jersey
The Al Ain purple jersey was inspired by the Belgian Club Anderlecht's colours during a football training camp in Morroco in 1977. Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (خليفة بن زايد بن سلطان النهيان referred to either as Sheikh Nahyan or Sheikh Khalifa is the current Tahnoun Bin Mohamed Stadium (استاد طحنون بن محمد is a multi-use Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Sheikh Khalifa International Stadium (ستاد الشيخ خليفة الدولي is a multi-use Stadium in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. Al Ain's previous colours were green and then red but they are now permanently purple.
Current Squad
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- Team Administrator: Majed Al-Owais
- Team Manager: Hamad Bin Nukhairat Al-Ameri
Transfers In
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Transfers Out
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Famous Players
Hawar Mulla Mohammed- Nashat Akram
- Hussein Alaa Hussein
Abedi Pele- Arthur Moses
Boubacar Sanogo- Joel Tiehi
- Kandia Traoré
Farhad Majidi
Edílson- Rodrigo
- Kelly
- Dodô
- Lopez
- Pedrinho
Roberto Acuña
Kodjo Afanou
Ahmed Kanu
Seydou Traoré
Ousman Jallow
Hossam Hassan
Skander Souayah
Rachid Daoudi- Mustapha Hadji
- Saeed Kharazi
- Soufiane Alloudi
Nenad Jestrovic
Luis Tejada- Alberto Blanco
Onyekachi- Odita
Fall- Mohamed Omar
- Ibrahima Diakite
Mauricio Molina
Sergio Berti
Frank Olivea- Nicolas Alnoudji
Juma Mossi
Notable Coaches
- Bruno Metsu
- Alain Perrin
- Winfried Schäfer
Milan Macala- Mohammed El-Mansi
Iordănescu- Ilie Balaci
Walter Zenga- Tite
- Zé Mario
Budgie (Goal-Keeper Coach)
The New Stadium
It has been confirmed that a new 45,000 capacity all seater stadium will be built for the club as part of a new major residential and commercial project called Ain Al Emarat (Eye of the Emirates) which will be conducted by the Al Qudra Holding company in Al Ain, however the completion date for this project is yet to have been confirmed. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Al Dhafra Sport & Culture Club ( Arabic: نادي الظفرة الرياضي الثقافي is a United Arab Emirati football club Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Al Dhafra Sport & Culture Club ( Arabic: نادي الظفرة الرياضي الثقافي is a United Arab Emirati football club For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Al Dhafra Sport & Culture Club ( Arabic: نادي الظفرة الرياضي الثقافي is a United Arab Emirati football club In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Al-Naasr Sports Club (Victory النصر is a football team located in Dubai and plays in the United Arab Emirates' National Football League Hawar Mulla Mohammed Taher Zeebari (هوار ملا محمد طاهر زيباري Kurdish: هاواری مهلا محهمهد born in 1 June, 1981 Nashat Akram Ali ( نشأت اكرم, born September 12 1984 in Al Hillah, Babil, Iraq) is an Iraqi football player Hussain Alaa Hussain (Arabic حسين علاء حسين born October 4, 1987 in Kut, Iraq is an Iraqi football player who currently Abédi Ayew, also known as Abédi "Pelé" (born November 5 1964 is a former Ghana International football player and captain Arthur Moses (born 3 March, 1973 in Accra) is a former Ghanaian football player Boubacar Sanogo (born December 17, 1982 in Dimbokro, Ivory Coast) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Werder Bremen Joël Tiéhi (born 12 June, 1964 in Abidjan) is a retired footballer from Ivory Coast. Kandia Traoré (born July 5, 1980 in Abidjan) is a football Striker who plays for Sochaux and the Côte d'Ivoire national Farhad Majidi ( born June 3, 1977 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian football Striker who currently plays for Edílson, full name Edílson da Silva Ferreira, (born September 17, 1971 in Salvador) is a football player from Brazil. Rodrigo Fabiano Mendes or simply Rodrigo Mendes (born August 9 1975 in Uberaba, is a Brazilian attacking midfielder. Clesly Evandro Guimarães or simply Kelly (born on April 28, 1975 in Barra Bonita) is a Brazilian attacking midfielder. Ricardo Lucas or simply Dodô (born May 2, 1974 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian striker. Fabrício Lopes Alcântara (born May 18 1984 in Salvador Bahia, Brazil) simply known as Fabrício Alcântara, is a Brazilian Pedro Paulo de Oliveira, best known as Pedrinho (born in Rio de Janeiro, June 29, 1977) is a Brazilian attacking Roberto " El Toro " Acuña, fullname Roberto Miguel Acuña Cabello (born March 25, 1972 in Avellaneda Kodjo Afanou (born 21 November, 1977 in Lomé, Togo) is a French football defender. Ahmed Mubarak (born 23 February 1985 is an Omani Football midfielder who plays for Al-Siliya. Seydou Traoré (born on September 17, 1970) is a Burkinabé footballer who is a Striker for Al-Qadisiya. Ousman Jallow (born October 21, 1988 in Gambia) is a Gambian football Striker, who currently plays for the Danish team Hossam Ahmad Hussein ( Arabic:حسام حسن (born August 10, 1966) is an Egyptian Association football player Skander Souayah (سكندر سويح (born 20 November, 1972) is a Tunisian football player Rachid Daoudi (راشد داوودي (born 21 February, 1966) is a retired Moroccan football player Mustapha Hadji (مصطفى حاجي (born 16 November, 1971 in Ifrane, Morocco) is a Moroccan ex- international footballer Soufiane Alloudi (سفيان علودي born July 1, 1983 in El Gara) is a Moroccan football Striker. Nenad Jestrović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Јестровић) (born May 9, 1976 in Obrenovac, Serbia, Luis Carlos Tejada Hansell (born March 23, 1982) is a Panamanian Football (soccer Striker, who plays for the Panamanian national Luis Alberto Blanco (born 8 January, 1978) is a Panamanian football midfielder who plays for ANAPROF team San Francisco Onyekachi Nwoha (born 28 February 1983 in Aba) is a Nigerian football striker who left FC Zorya Luhansk in Ukraine Obiora Odita (born May 14, 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football player currently playing for KVC Westerlo in Belgium Mohamed Omar (Born in 1976 is a football player from the United Arab Emirates who currently plays in Al-Nasr and the former captain of the UAE national Mauricio Alejandro Molina Uribe, nicknamed Mao, is a Colombian footballer that plays as a midfielder born April 30, 1980 in Sergio Ángel Berti (born September 17, 1969 in Villa Constitución, Santa Fe) is a retired Argentine professional football Nicolas Alnoudji (born December 9, 1979) is a Cameroonian football player who currently plays in the Romanian Liga I at Pandurii Juma Mossi is a former International striker player who played from the early nineties until recently for Intamba, the Burundi national football team. Bruno Metsu (born 28 January 1954 in Dunkerque) is a French football manager Alain Perrin, (born October 7 1956 in Lure Haute-Saône) is a French association football coach who is without a club after leaving Winfried "Winnie" Schäfer (born January 10, 1950 in Mayen) is a German football manager and former player he is currently Milan Máčala (born July 4 1943) is a Czech football coach who currently coaches the Bahrain national football team. Anghel Iordănescu (born 4 May 1950 in Iaşi) is a former Romanian football Striker, currently a football manager. Ilie Balaci (born 13 September 1956) is a retired Romanian football midfielder Walter Zenga (born 28 April 1960 in Milan) is an Italian Football (soccer manager and former player a long-time Goalkeeper Adenor Leonardo Bacchi, known as Tite is the manager of SC Internacional de Porto Alegre appointed on June 12, 2008. José Mário de Almeida Barros, (born 1 February 1949 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian football manager. John Burridge (born 3 December 1951 in Workington, Cumbria) is an English former professional football goalkeeper who played for Many news articles on the internet stated that the new stadium will be one of the world's most technologically advanced sports stadiums with movable seat tiers similar to that of Japans Sapporo Dome, the stadium will also be fully covered with climate control features in order to protect the spectators from the suns heat and the new score board will be suspended above the playing pitch by four powerful steel cables. The is a Stadium located in Toyohira-ku Sapporo, Japan, and is primarily used for football and Baseball.
Titles
- UAE League (9): 76/77, 80/81, 83/84, 92/93, 97/98, 99/2000, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004
- UAE Emir Cup (5): 1998/1999, 2000/2001, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2007/08
- AFC Champions League (1): 2003
- Gulf Club Champions Cup (1): 2001
- UAE Federation cup (3): 88/89, 2004/2005, 2005/2006
- UAE Super Cup (2): 94/95, 2002/2003
- Abudhabi Championship Cup (2): 73/74, 74/75
Performance in AFC Competitions
- AFC Champions League: 5 appearances
- Asian Club Championship: 3 appearances
- Asian Cup Winners Cup: 3 appearances
- 1995/96: Second Round
- 1999/00: First Round
- 2001/02: Quarter-Final
Trivia
- Al Ain Club is the first team to win the domestic soccer league for three years in a row, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004
- Two of the UAEs four goals in the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship held in the Emirates were scored by Al Ain players Ali Al-Wehaibi and Shehab Ahmed. The AFC Champions League is the current annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation (AFC The Persian Gulf Club Champions Cup is a football league tournament for the Arab Countries around the Persian Gulf, it's a tournament for clubs The AFC Champions League is the current annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation (AFC The AFC Champions League 2002-03 is the 22th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 1st edition under the current AFC Champions League title The AFC Champions League 2004 is the 23th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 2nd edition under the current AFC Champions League title The AFC Champions League 2005 is the 24th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 3rd edition under the current AFC Champions League title The AFC Champions League 2006 is the 25th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 4th edition under the current AFC Champions League title The AFC Champions League 2007 is the 26th edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament and the 5th edition under the current AFC Champions League title The AFC Champions League is the current annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation (AFC The Asian Club Championship 1985-86 was the 5th edition of the annual Asian club football competition hosted by Asian Football Confederation. The Asian Club Championship 1998-99 was the 18th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia The Asian Club Championship 2000-01 was the 20th edition of the annual international club football competition held in the AFC region (Asia The Asian Cup Winners Cup was an association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC The 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in United Arab Emirates between November 27 and December 19 2003. Ali Al-Wehaibi (born on October 27, 1983) is a United Arab Emirati footballer who is a Midfielder for Al-Ain. Shehab Ahmed (born 29 March 1984) is a UAE midfield player who plays for Al Ain FC and the UAE National Team
- Al Ain is the only club in the uae to defeat al sharjah in the UAE Emir Cup final
External links
- (Arabic) Official Website
- Zaimuae.ae
| Preceded by Suwon Samsung Bluewings  | Champions of Asia 2002/03 | Succeeded by Al-Ittihad  |
| UAE League Division 1 2007-2008 |
| Al-Ahli | Al-Ain | Al-Jazira | Al-Nasr | Al-Shaab | Al-Shabab |
| Al-Wahda | Al-Wasl | Al Dhafra | Emirates | Hatta | Al-Sharjah |
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