This is a list of
football clubs in the
United Arab Emirates. Currently there are officially 49 football clubs in the
United Arab Emirates. Fourteen of them compete in the top tier division, 15 of them compete in the 2nd tier division, 12 of them compete in the 3rd tier division, and eight of them are currently in a hiatus. There are four defunct clubs which means there is a total of 53 clubs in the history of UAE football.