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UAE Pro-League
Season2016–17
Champions Al-Jazira (2nd title)
Relegated Baniyas
Kalba
2018 AFC Champions League Al-Jazira
Al-Wahda
Al-Wasl
Al-Ain
2017 FIFA Club World Cup Al-Jazira
Matches played364
Goals scored573 (1.57 per match)
Top goalscorer(33 Goals) Ali Mabkhout
Biggest home win Al-Wasl 8–0 Dibba (8 December 2016)
Biggest away win Sharjah 1–7 Al-Wahda (2 November 2016)
Highest scoring Al-Shabab 3–7 Al-Jazira (3 December 2016)
Longest winning run8 Matches Al-Jazira
Longest unbeaten run13 Matches Al-Ain
Longest winless run11 Matches Emirates
Longest losing run7 Matches Baniyas
Highest attendance Al-Ain 1–1 Al-Ahli (22,546)
Lowest attendance Hatta 0–1 Al-Dhafra (450)
← 2015–16
2017–18 β†’

The 2016–17 UAE Pro League (also known as Arabian Gulf League for sponsorship reasons) was the 42nd season of top-level football in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Ahli are the defending champions of this season's UAE pro league after securing their seventh title last season. Al-Jazira won its second title on 29 April 2017 after defeating Hatta 5-0.

Stadia and locations

Locations of teams in the 2016–17 UAE Pro League
Club Home city Stadium Capacity
Al-Ahli Dubai Al-Rashid Stadium 15,000
Al-Ain Al-Ain Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium 25,000
Al-Dhafra Madinat Zayed Al Dhafra Stadium 5,012
Al-Jazira Abu Dhabi Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium 42,056
Al-Nasr Dubai Al-Maktoum Stadium 10,750
Al-Shabab Dubai Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium 12,000
Sharjah Sharjah Sharjah Stadium 11,073
Al-Wahda Abu Dhabi Al Nahyan Stadium 11,456
Al-Wasl Dubai Zabeel Stadium 8,439
Baniyas Abu Dhabi Baniyas Stadium 8,954
Dibba Fujairah Fujairah Club Stadium 10,645
Emirates Ras Al-Khaimah Emirates Club Stadium 5,127
Hatta Hatta Hamdan Bin Rashid Stadium 5,000
Kalba Kalba Ittihad Kalba Stadium 8,500

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 Assistant Coach Captain Kit Manufacturer Shirt Sponsor
Al-Ahli Romania Cosmin Olăroiu Romania Catalin Necula [1] United Arab Emirates Ahmed Khalil Nike Skydive Dubai
Al-Ain Croatia Zoran Mamić Croatia Borimir Perkovic [2] Nike First Gulf Bank
Al-Dhafra Syria Mohammad Kwid Morocco Badreddine Al-Idrissi [3] Adidas
Al-Jazira Netherlands Henk ten Cate Netherlands Jan Versleijen United Arab Emirates Ali Khasif Nike IPIC
Al-Nasr Romania Dan Petrescu Moldova Emil Caras
Romania Valeriu Bordeanu [4]
Adidas Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority
Emirates NBD
DP World
Al-Shabab Netherlands Fred Rutten Netherlands Patrick Greveraars
United Arab Emirates Saad Obaid [5]
Umbro Al-Naboodah
Sharjah Portugal JosΓ© Peseiro Adidas SAIF Zone
Al-Wahda Mexico Javier Aguirre Spain Juan Erabrin United Arab Emirates Ismail Matar Adidas Al-Wahda Mall
Al-Wasl Argentina Rodolfo Arruabarrena United Arab Emirates Saleem Abdulrahman United Arab Emirates Waheed Ismail Macron Saif Belhasa Holding
Baniyas Portugal JosΓ© Manuel Gomes United Arab Emirates Salem Al-Arfi United Arab Emirates Yousif Jaber Adidas Saaed
Secure Engineering
Dibba Portugal Paulo SΓ©rgio Egypt Tarek Al-Sayed uhlsport
Emirates Germany Theo BΓΌcker Germany Klaus Dieter
Tunisia Nourredine Al-Hadi [6]
United Arab Emirates Haidar Alo Ali uhlsport
Hatta United Arab Emirates Waleed Obaid United Arab Emirates Mohammad Al-Ajmani [7] Adidas
Kalba Italy Fabio Viviani Tunisia Salem Al-Qaddami [8] Errea

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field during each game including at least one player from the AFC country.

  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
  • Players in italics were out of squad or left club within the season, after pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC Player Former players
Al-Ahli Brazil Γ‰verton Ribeiro Ghana Asamoah Gyan Senegal Makhete Diop Brazil Lima
South Korea Kwon Kyung-won
Al-Ain Brazil Caio Lucas [9] Colombia Danilo Asprilla Saudi Arabia Nasser Al-Shamrani South Korea Lee Myung-joo Brazil Douglas
Al-Dhafra [10] Morocco Adil Hermach Morocco Issam El Adoua Oman Khalid Al-Hajri Senegal Makhete Diop
Syria Omar Khribin
Al-Jazira Brazil AΓ­lton Brazil Leonardo Morocco Mbark Boussoufa [11] South Korea Park Jong-woo Brazil JoΓ£o Carlos
Brazil Thiago Neves
Peru Jefferson FarfΓ‘n
Al-Nasr Brazil Wanderley France Jirès Kembo Ekoko Morocco Abdelaziz Barrada [12] Lebanon Joan Oumari Burkina Faso Jonathan Pitroipa
Iraq Mohannad Abdul-Raheem
Al-Shabab Argentina TomΓ‘s De Vincenti Ghana Nana Poku Moldova Henrique Luvannor Uzbekistan Azizbek Haydarov Netherlands Ruud Boymans
Sharjah Brazil DigΓ£o [13] Poland Adrian Mierzejewski Venezuela Gelmin Rivas [14] Japan Chikashi Masuda South Korea Song Jin-hyung
Al-Wahda Argentina SebastiΓ‘n TagliabuΓ© Chile Jorge Valdivia Hungary BalΓ‘zs DzsudzsΓ‘k South Korea Rim Chang-woo
Al-Wasl Brazil FΓ‘bio Lima Brazil Ronaldo Mendes [15] Brazil Serginho Brazil Caio Canedo 1 Portugal HΓ©lder Barbosa
Baniyas France Jean-Philippe Mendy Martinique Harry Novillo Nigeria Ezekiel Henty Australia Mark Milligan Argentina JoaquΓ­n Larrivey
Brazil Fellipe Bastos
Colombia Daniel HernΓ‘ndez
Dibba Brazil Bruno Moraes Brazil Derley Morocco Driss Fettouhi Jordan Yaseen Al-Bakhit Brazil Danilo Cirino
Ivory Coast Hamed KonΓ©
South Korea Heo Jae-won
Suriname Nicandro Breeveld
Emirates Argentina SebastiΓ‘n SΓ‘ez Morocco Mourad Batna [16] Sweden Osman Sow Iraq Ahmed Ibrahim Khalaf Australia Zac Anderson
Brazil Augusto CΓ©sar
Tunisia Hocine Ragued
Hatta Brazil Rafael Silva Brazil Samuel Romania Adrian Ropotan Australia Nikolai Topor-Stanley [17] Brazil Rafael Bastos
Burkina Faso Issiaka OuΓ©draogo
Jordan Yaseen Al-Bakhit
Romania Mihai Răduț
Kalba Brazil Ciel Burkina Faso Bakare Kone Mali Modibo MaΓ―ga [18] Iraq Salam Shaker [19] Romania Mihai Costea

Spain Carmelo GonzΓ‘lez

^1 Caio Canedo has East Timorese citizenship and was counted as Asian player.

Transfers

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Manner of departure Pos. Incoming manager Date of appointment
Al-Shabab Brazil Caio JΓΊnior 8 May 2016 End of contract Pre-season Netherlands Fred Rutten 11 May 2016 [20]
Sharjah United Arab Emirates Abdulaziz Al-Anbari 13 May 2016 Greece Georgios Donis 27 July 2016 [21]
Al-Wasl Argentina Gabriel CalderΓ³n 25 May 2016 [22] Sacked Argentina Rodolfo Arruabarrena 6 June 2016 [23]
Baniyas United Arab Emirates Abdullah Mesfer 5 June 2016 [24] Mutual consent Uruguay Pablo Repetto
Dibba Germany Theo BΓΌcker 22 June 2016 [25] Signed by Emirates Portugal Paulo SΓ©rgio 29 June 2016 [26]
Emirates Brazil Paulo Comelli 31 May 2016 [27] Mutual consent Germany Theo BΓΌcker 22 June 2016
Kalba Tunisia Mourad Okbi 28 Aug 2016 Italy Fabio Viviani 28 Aug 2016
Baniyas Uruguay Pablo Repetto 22 October 2016 Sacked 12th Portugal JosΓ© Manuel Gomes 23 October 2016
Al-Nasr Serbia Ivan Jovanović 31 October 2016 8th Romania Dan Petrescu 31 October 2016
Sharjah Greece Georgios Donis 1 January 2017 [28] Mutual consent 10th Portugal JosΓ© Peseiro 2 January 2017 [29]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Al Jazira (C) 26 22 2 2 72 15 +57 68 Qualification to the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup and 2018 AFC Champions League group stage
2 Al Wasl 26 17 6 3 55 26 +29 57 Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League group stage
3 Al Ahli 26 16 8 2 50 18 +32 56
4 Al Ain 26 17 4 5 58 37 +21 55 Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League play-off round [30]
5 Al Wahda 26 10 9 7 54 40 +14 39 Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League group stage
6 Al Nasr 26 11 3 12 42 32 +10 36
7 Al Dhafra 26 10 5 11 40 46 −6 35
8 Al Shabab 26 7 9 10 24 44 −20 30
9 Sharjah 26 6 8 12 31 47 −16 26
10 Hatta 26 6 7 13 24 47 −23 25
11 Emirates 26 5 5 16 33 51 −18 20
12 Dibba 26 3 11 12 25 54 −29 20
13 Kalba (R) 26 4 7 15 30 44 −14 19 Relegation to the UAE Division One
14 Baniyas (R) 26 3 6 17 33 70 −37 15
Source: uae.agleague.ae
Rules for classification: [31] 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored; 8) number of away goals scored; 9) fair play ranking [32] 10) draw
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away ALI AIN DHA JAZ NAS SHA WAH WAS YAS EMI DAF HAT KAL SHR
Al-Ahli 1–2 3–3 2–1 2–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 2–1 4–0 4–1 6–0 0–0 2–2
Al Ain 1–1 5–2 1–3 3–0 2–1 3–2 2–1 1–0 5–2 1–2 2–0 2–1 3–0
Al Dhafra 0–2 1–2 0–4 2–4 3–0 0–3 1–1 0–1 2–1 5–0 4–3 2–1 0–0
Al Jazira 2–0 2–0 4–0 1–0 3–0 5–1 3–1 5–0 5–0 2–0 1–0 1–0 3–0
Al Nasr 0–1 1–2 2–2 2–0 0–1 3–0 1–2 2–2 1–0 4–0 1–2 2–1 1–0
Al Shabab 0–0 1–3 1–0 3–7 0–4 1–1 0–0 2–0 0–4 0–0 1–1 0–4 2–1
Al Wahda 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 5–1 1–1 1–2 6–2 0–0 2–2 3–2 1–1 5–1
Al Wasl 0–0 4–3 4–1 2–3 2–1 2–1 2–1 4–0 1–1 8–0 4–1 1–1 2–0
Baniyas 0–2 1–1 0–2 1–3 0–3 2–4 2–3 3–4 4–4 1–1 2–3 3–1 2–2
Emirates 0–3 3–2 0–3 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–2 6–0 0–2 0–2 3–2 2–3
Dibba Al-Fujairah 0–2 2–2 2–3 0–3 0–0 1–1 1–2 0–2 4–3 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–2
Hatta 0–3 2–3 0–1 0–5 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 2–1 2–2 2–1 0–0
Kalba 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–3 1–5 1–2 3–4 0–1 1–1 2–1 3–2 1–1 0–0
Sharjah 0–1 2–4 2–1 0–1 1–3 0–0 1–7 1–2 4–1 2–1 1–1 4–0 2–1
Updated to match(es) played on 21 March 2017. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played 13 May 2017
Rank Player Club Goals
1 United Arab Emirates Ali Mabkhout Al-Jazira 33
2 Brazil FΓ‘bio Lima Al-Wasl 25
3 Senegal Makhete Diop Al-Ahli 21
4 Argentina SebastiΓ‘n TagliabuΓ© Al-Wahda 19
5 Brazil Caio Canedo Al-Wasl 14
6 Argentina SebastiΓ‘n SΓ‘ez Emirates 13
7 United Arab Emirates Ahmed Khalil Al-Ahli 12

Source: agleague.ae

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