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Athletics national side
United Arab Emirates
National team · United Arab Emirates
«Al-Abyad»
78
Matches
35
wins
19
draws
24
losses
120–80
Goals
+40
Difference
1.5
Scored per game
Form
W
9 Dec 2025 · Home Kuwait · 3:1
D
12 Dec 2025 · Away Algeria · 1:1
L
15 Dec 2025 · Away Morocco · 0:3
D
18 Dec 2025 · Away Saudi Arabia · 0:0
W
24 Sep · Home Yemen · 4:0
W
27 Sep · Away Bahrain · 3:0
Riyadh, 17 March 1972: the United Arab Emirates play their first official international, beat Qatar 1–0, and the federation running the game back home is barely a year old, founded the same year the country itself came into being.
The 1996 AFC Asian Cup, staged on home soil, took the team all the way to the final against Saudi Arabia at Zayed Sports City Stadium. The match went to penalties, and the UAE came away with silver rather than the trophy. Nineteen years later, at the 2015 tournament in Australia, they went one round further short and settled for bronze.
Regionally the record reads differently. The team won the Arabian Gulf Cup of Nations twice, in 2007 on home ground and again in 2013 in Bahrain. No fixture on the calendar carries more weight than the one against Qatar.
Two names anchor the team's history at opposite ends of a career.
Latest results
Fixtures and results| 27 Sep | Gulf Cup of Nations |
Bahrain
A
|
3:0 | W |
| 24 Sep | Gulf Cup of Nations |
Yemen
H
|
4:0 | W |
| 30 Mar | Friendlies |
Faroe Islands
H
|
||
| 26 Mar | Friendlies |
Armenia
H
|
||
| 18 Dec 2025 | Arab Cup |
Saudi Arabia
A
|
0:0 | D |
| 15 Dec 2025 | Arab Cup |
Morocco
A
|
0:3 | L |
Standing
Asian CupGroup stage · Group C
| # | Team | M | W | D | L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Iran
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7:2 | 9 |
| 2 |
 United Arab Emirates
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5:4 | 4 |
| 3 |
 Palestine
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5:5 | 4 |
| 4 |
 Hong Kong
|
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1:7 | 0 |
Team statistics
matches counted in total: 78
78
Matches
35
wins
19
draws
24
losses
120–80
Goals
+40
Difference
1.5
Scored per game
wins
draws
losses
scored — above the line
conceded — below the line
| Metric | Total | Home | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches | 78 | 45 | 33 |
| Scored | 120 | 75 | 45 |
| Conceded | 80 | 43 | 37 |
| Scored per game | 1.5 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Conceded per game | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
| Difference | +40 | +32 | +8 |
Fixtures of United Arab Emirates
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30 Sep · 18:30
Qatar
H
Gulf Cup of Nations
Honours of United Arab Emirates
- Arabian Gulf Cup of Nations 2007, 2013 2
- Arabian Gulf Cup of Nations 1986, 1988, 1994, 2017 4
- AFC Asian Cup 1996 1
- Asian Games 2010 1
- AFC Asian Cup 2015 1
- Asian Games 2018 1
- FIFA Arab Cup 2025 1