1998–99 Al Ain FC season

Al Ain
1998–99 season
President	Mohammed Bin Zayed
Manager	Nelo Vingada; (from 1998 until 15 November 1998); Ilie Balaci; (from 15 November 1998)
UAE Football League	2nd
President's Cup	Winners
Asian Club Championship	Third place
Top goalscorer	League: Seydou Traoré (11); All: Seydou Traoré (15)
	← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

The 1998–99 season was Al Ain Football Club's 31st in existence and the club's 24th consecutive season in the top-level football league in the UAE.

Club

Technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Nelo Vingada (Sacked) Ilie Balaci
Assistant coach	António Simões
Goalkeeping coach	Samir Shaker
Team Manager	Rabea Ibrahim ^[2]

Source: [1]

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Football League	2 October 1998	6 May 1999	Matchday 1	2nd	33	16	9	8	58	36	+22	048.48
President's Cup	9 May 1999	27 May 1999	Round of 16	Winners	4	4	0	0	7	2	+5	100.00
Asian Club Championship	4 September 1998	30 April 1999	First round	Third place	9	6	0	3	22	10	+12	066.67
Total					46	26	9	11	87	48	+39	056.52

Last updated: 27 May 1999
Source: Competitions

UAE Football League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Al Wahda	33	19	8	6	68	35	+33	65
2	Al Ain	33	16	9	8	58	36	+22	57
3	Al Nasr	33	16	8	9	64	49	+15	56
4	Al Wasl	33	16	7	10	63	37	+26	55
5	Al Ahli	33	15	7	11	69	54	+15	52

Source: rsssf.com

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Ground	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	D	L	L	W	L	D	W	L	W	D	W	W	W	D	D	W	W	D	L	D	D	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	W	W	L	W	W
Position			10^[3]	9			11	11^[4]	7^[5]																		5					2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 6 May 1999. Source: UAE Pro League
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

2 October 1998 1	Baniyas	0–0	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
		Report

15 October 1998 3	Al Ain	0–1	Sharjah	Al-Ain
		Report Report	I. Mohamed 7'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Saeed Abdullah

31 October 1998 5	Al Ain	2–3	Al Wahda	Al-Ain
	Pele 12' M. Mohamed 78'	Report	Alboury Lah 43' A. Jumaa 45' F. Ismail 89'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

7 November 1998 6	Al Shabab	1–1	Al Ain	Dubai
	Marcal 75'		S. Johar 84'	Stadium: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum

10 November 1998 2	Al Wasl	1–0	Al Ain	Dubai
	Darwish 52'			Stadium: Zabeel Stadium

13 November 1998 7	Al Ain	1–0	Al Jazira	Al-Ain
	Pele 44'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

19 November 1998 8	Al Ahli	1–0	Al Ain	Dubai
	Shah 21'	Report Report		Stadium: Rashid Stadium

23 November 1998 4	Al Khaleej	2–5	Al Ain	Khor Fakkan
	Benmahmoud N. Hamdan	Report	Traoré Al Owais Pele J. Tawfiq H. Saeed

27 November 1998 9	Al Ain	2–1	Al Nasr	Al-Ain
	Pele 17' J. Tawfiq 28' (pen.)	Report Report	Geert 26'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

4 December 1998 10	Al Shaab	1–1	Al Ain	Sharjah
	S. Yousif 81'		Al Owais 88'	Stadium: Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium

10 December 1998 11	Al Ain	5–0	Ras Al Khaimah	Al-Ain
	Al Owais 30', 34' J. Tawfiq 36' Traoré 55' S. Johar 55'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

25 December 1998 12	Al Ain	2–1	Baniyas	Al-Ain
	Al Owais 29' S. Johar 78'		A. Traoré 70'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

31 December 1998 13	Al Ain	2–1	Al Wasl	Al-Ain
	Pele 11' Hamdoon 31' (pen.)		H. Yousuf 40' (pen.)	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

7 January 1999 14	Sharjah	1–1	Al Ain	Sharjah
	Jumaa 59'		Traoré 26'	Stadium: Sharjah Stadium

11 January 1999 15	Al Ain	1–1	Al Khaleej	Al-Ain
	Traoré 35'		Annan 90'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

25 January 1999 16	Al Wahda	1–2	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
	A. Jumaa 39'		Al Owais 47', 48'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium

28 January 1999 17	Al Ain	1–0	Al Shabab	Al-Ain
	S. Johar 15'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

3 February 1999 18	Al Jazira	1–1	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
	Tiéhi 90'		J. Tawfiq 89' (pen.)

12 February 1999 19	Al Ain	2–3	Al Ahli	Al-Ain
	Traoré 7', 89'		S. Abdullah 17' F. Khalil 62' Atiq 72'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

17 February 1999 20	Al Nasr	0–0	Al Ain	Dubai
				Stadium: Al Maktoum Stadium

5 March 1999 23	Baniyas	2–4	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
	A. Traoré 44' Kambou 75'		Traoré 15', 83' Pele 80' Al Nowais 85'

10 March 1999 24	Al Wasl	3–0	Al Ain	Dubai
	M. Omar 80', 87' Otokoré 83'			Stadium: Zabeel Stadium

14 March 1999 25	Al Ain	5–1	Sharjah	Al-Ain
	J. Tawfiq 7', 38' Al Nowais 13' G. Harib 25' Pele 45'		Ereyahi 24'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

18 March 1999 26	Al Khaleej	1–1	Al Ain	Khor Fakkan
	Annan 50'		Al Nowais 70'

22 March 1999 21	Al Ain	1–1	Al Shaab	Al-Ain
	S. Rashed 69'		Al-Doukhi 76'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

25 March 1999 27	Al Ain	1–2	Al Wahda	Al-Ain
	H. Saeed 61'		F. Masoud 4' Alboury Lah 85'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

1 April 1999 28	Al Shabab	0–1	Al Ain	Dubai
			Traoré 25'	Stadium: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum

4 April 1999 22	Ras Al Khaimah	2–7	Al Ain	Ras al-Khaimah
	Nouh 22' Drigo 52'		A. Gharib 12' H. Saeed 13' G. Harib 51', 76' Traoré 53' A. Ali 60' M. Abdullah 90'

7 April 1999 29	Al Ain	1–0	Al Jazira	Al-Ain
	Al Nowais 75'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

14 April 1999 30	Al Ahli	0–2	Al Ain	Dubai
			H. Saeed 36', 80'	Stadium: Rashid Stadium

18 April 1999 31	Al Ain	1–3	Al Nasr	Al-Ain
	Al Nowais 9'		Mossi 1', 53' E. Juma 85'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

22 April 1999 32	Al Shaab	1–3	Al Ain	Sharjah
	Moudakkar 63'		H. Mubarak 11' M. Mohamed 16', 17'	Stadium: Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium

6 May 1999 33	Al Ain	2–0	Ras Al Khaimah	Al-Ain
	Traoré 32' M. Mohamed 77'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

UAE President's Cup

9 May 1999 Round of 16	Al Ain	2–0	Al Dhaid	Dubai
	Al Owais 5' Al Nowais 26'			Stadium: Zabeel Stadium

12 May 1999 Quarter-finals	Al Ain	2–1	Al Shaab	Abu Dhabi
	Traoré 32' Al Owais 86'		Al Doukhi 20'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium

19 May 1999 Semi-finals	Al Ain	2–1	Al Wasl	Abu Dhabi
7:30 GMT+4 (UAE Time)	Al Nowais 77' Traoré 90'	Report	Otokoré 40'	Stadium: Al Jazira Stadium

27 May 1999 Final	Al Ain	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Al Shabab	Abu Dhabi
	H. Mubarak 101'	Report		Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Fareed Ali

Asian Club Championship

First round

4 September 1998 First leg	Al Ain	5–2	Oman	Al Ain
	Daoudi 7' J. Tawfiq 18' (pen.) Traoré 20' Al Nowais 64' Pelé 75'	Report	M. Zayed 45' D. Salem 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

18 September 1998 Second leg	Oman	0–2	Al Ain	Muscat
		Report	H. Saeed 30' Daoudi 65'

Round of 16

9 October 1998 First leg	Al Ain	3–1	Al-Ansar	Al Ain
	H. Saeed 10', 56' Pelé 45'	Report	Prosper 26'

25 October 1998 Second leg

Al-Ansar

1–0

Al Ain

Beirut

Quarter-finals

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al-Ain	3	2	1	7	2	+5	6
Esteghlal	3	2	1	3	2	+1	6
Al-Hilal	3	1	2	5	5	0	3
Köpetdag Aşgabat	3	1	2	4	10	−6	3

Source: AFC

25 February 1999	Al Ain	6–1	Köpetdag Aşgabat	Al Ain
	Al Owais 5', 80' Shila 14', 41' Pelé 55' H. Saeed	Report	Bairamov 20'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

27 February 1999	Al Ain	0–1	Esteghlal	Al Ain
			Akbarpour 70'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

1 March 1999	Al Ain	1–0	Al-Hilal	Al Ain
	G. Harib 68'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

Semi-finals

28 April 1999	Al-Ain	2–2 ^{(aet, 2–4 PK)}	Júbilo Iwata	Tehran
	Al Nowais 35', 66'		Tanaka 15' Fujita 37'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium

Third place

30 April 1999	Al-Ain	3–2	Dalian Wanda	Tehran
	Traoré 7' Pelé 61' G. Harib 80'		Yan Song 23' Němeček 44'	Stadium: Azadi Stadium

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of 27 May 1999

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

Rank	Pos.	Player	Football League	President's Cup	Asian Club Championship	Total
1	FW	Seydou Traoré	11	2	2	15
2	FW	Majid Al Owais	7	2	2	11
2	MF	Abedi Pele	7	0	4	11
4	FW	Fahad Al Nowais	5	2	3	10
5	MF	Helal Saeed	5	0	4	9
6	MF	Jasem Tawfiq	6	0	1	7
7	MF	Gharib Harib	3	0	2	5
8	FW	Musabbah Mohamed	4	0	0	4
8	MF	Salem Johar	4	0	0	4
10	MF	Hamad Mubarak	1	1	0	2
	FW	Abdullah Shila	0	0	2	2
	MF	Rachid Daoudi	0	0	2	2
14	DF	Mohamad Abdullah	1	0	0	1
	DF	Abdullah Ali	1	0	0	1
	MF	Awad Gharib	1	0	0	1
	MF	Sultan Rashed	1	0	0	1
	DF	Mohammed Hamdoon	1	0	0	1
Own goals (from the opponents)			0	0	0	0
Totals			58	7	22	87

Awards

Asian Club Championship

Award^[6]	Player
Most Valuable Player	Seydou Traoré

References

^ ^a ^b "العين يستغني عن مدربه البرتغالي فينجادا". AlBayan.ae. Archived from the original on 2002-11-07. Retrieved 2023-05-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ "نادي الانصار أنهى جميع التحضيرات لاستقبال نادي العين الاماراتي اليوم". Addiyar.com. 23 October 1998. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
^ "Round 3 results". Al-Jazirah.com.
^ "Round 8 results". Al-Jazirah.com.
^ "Round 9 results". Al-Jazirah.com.
^ "Asian Club Championship 18th Edition 1998/99". Asian Football Confederation. 22 April 1999. Archived from the original on 22 April 1999.

External links

Al Ain FC official website (in English and Arabic)

[العين_يستغني_عن_مدربه_البرتغالي_فينجادا-1] "العين يستغني عن مدربه البرتغالي فينجادا". AlBayan.ae. Archived from the original on 2002-11-07. Retrieved 2023-05-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[2] "نادي الانصار أنهى جميع التحضيرات لاستقبال نادي العين الاماراتي اليوم". Addiyar.com. 23 October 1998. Retrieved 13 May 2023.

[3] "Round 3 results". Al-Jazirah.com.

[4] "Round 8 results". Al-Jazirah.com.

[5] "Round 9 results". Al-Jazirah.com.

[Awards-6] "Asian Club Championship 18th Edition 1998/99". Asian Football Confederation. 22 April 1999. Archived from the original on 22 April 1999.

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