2023–24 UAE Division 1

UAE Division One
Season	2023–24
Dates	9 September 2023 – 30 May 2024
Champions	Al Urooba (3rd title)
Promoted	Al Urooba; Dibba Al Hisn
Top goalscorer	Marcelo Torres; (26 goals)
	← 2022–23 2024–25 →

2023–24 UAE Division One is the 47th Division one season. This season saw the first time two teams got relegated to the 3rd tier as Al Fursan and Baynounah got relegated a season after promotion.

Team changes

To Division 1

Relegated from UAE Pro League

Promoted from UAE Division 2

From Division 1

Promoted to UAE Pro League

Relegated to UAE Division 2

Stadia and locations

Locations of teams in the UAE Division One

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Club	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Al Arabi	Umm Al Quwain	Umm Al Quwain Stadium	3,000
Al Dhafra	Madinat Zayed	Al Dhafra Stadium	5,020
Al Dhaid	Dhaid	Al-Dhaid Stadium	500
Al Hamriyah	Al Hamriyah	Al Hamriya Sports Club Stadium	5,000
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Al Hamra Stadium	2,000
Al Khaleej	Dubai (Mirdif)	UIS International School	200
Al Rams	Ar-Rams	Al Rams Stadium	4,000
Al Taawon	Al Jeer	Taawon Stadium	200
Al Urooba	Qidfa / Mirbah	Al Sharqi Stadium	3,000
Dibba Al Fujairah	Dibba Al Fujairah	Dibba New Stadium	9,000
Dibba Al Hisn	Dibba Al-Hisn	Dibba (H) Stadium	700
Dubai City	Dubai (Al Barsha)	Kings School Al Barsha	100
Dubai United	Dubai (Jumeirah)	Dubai British School	100
Fujairah	Fujairah	Fujairah Club Stadium	10,645
Gulf United	Dubai (Al Jaddaf)	Dubai Club Stadium	7,000
Masafi	Masafi	Masafi Stadium	2,000
Masfout	Masfout	Masfout Club Stadium	3,000

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	Captain	Kit Manufacturer	Shirt Sponsor
Al Arabi	Fouad Boumdal	Ahmed Hussain	Nike
Al Dhafra	Paulo Comelli	Sultan Al Ghaferi	Kelme	Al Dhannah
Al Dhaid	Jamal Al Hassani	Salem Al Qaydi	uhlsport
Al Hamriyah	Mohamed Al Jalboot	Othman Al-Hamour	Macron
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Samir El Sheikh	Ali Sanqoor	uhlsport
Al Khaleej	Mohammed Al Ajmani	Nasser Al-Shahary	uhlsport
Al Rams	Abdulla Al Teneiji	Mohamed Al Ali	uhlsport
Al Taawon	Badr Al Shehhi	Abdullah Malallah	uhlsport
Al Urooba	Bruno Pereira	Khalid Al-Jabri	uhlsport
Dibba Al Fujairah	Eid Baroot	Mohamed Al Rowaihy	uhlsport
Dibba Al Hisn	Tareq Al Sayed	Fahad Rashed	uhlsport
Dubai City	Saeed Jassem	Abdullah Al Ahmadi	uhlsport
Dubai United	Johann Louvel	Ahmed Sulaiman	Umbro
Fujairah	Željko Markov	Okacha Hamzaoui	Puma
Gulf United	Neil Taylor	Jack Shiels	Puma
Masafi	Brahim Boufoud	Abdullah Al-Shahyary	Adidas
Masfout	Mohammed Al Blooshi	Hamad Ali	Puma

Foreign players

All teams could register as many foreign players as they want, but could only use two on the field each game.

Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
Players in italics were out of the squad or left the club within the season, after the pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Former Players
Al Arabi	Júnior Saudade	Vander Vieira
Al Dhafra	Benik Afobe	Carlos Fortes	Diogo Acosta
Al Dhaid	Phillerson	Dominic Vinicius
Al Hamriyah	Youssef El Jebli	Mardik Mardikian
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Danilo	Mateus
Al Khaleej	Ibrahima Badji	Lassana Camara
Al Rams	Rodrigo Figueiredo	Joao Santos
Al Taawon	Alex	Ablaye Sy
Al Urooba	Morgan Ferrier	Victor Nwaneri
Dibba Al Fujairah	Wanderson Costa		Nikola Stojiljković
Dibba Al Hisn	Gilmar	Cláudio Maradona
Dubai City	Marcelo Henrique	Daniel Williams
Dubai United	Marcelo Torres	Aboubakar Karamoko
Fujairah	Okacha Hamzaoui	Felipe Sá
Gulf United	Jack Shiels	Richard Peniket
Masafi	Francivaldo	Marius Obekop
Masfout	Diego Silva	Alfusainey Gassama

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Pos.	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Dibba Al Hisn	Hussein Skenderovic	27 June 2023	Mutual consent	Pre-season	Othmen Najjar^[1]	27 June 2023
Al Arabi	Abdulghani Binkarshat	5 July 2023	Mutual consent		Fouad Boumdal^[2]	5 July 2023
Masfout	Fouad Boumdal	5 July 2023	Signed by Al Arabi		Abdulghani Binkarshat^[3]	7 July 2023
Fujairah	Mohammed Al Hosani	8 October 2023	Sacked	12th	Željko Markov^[4]	9 October 2023
Dibba Al Fujairah	Hassan Al Abdouli	16 October 2023	Resigned	6th	Zoran Popović^[5]	16 October 2023
Masfout	Abdulghani Binkarshat	1 November 2023	Sacked	15th	Slavko Matić	2 November 2023
Al Rams	Mutaz Abdulla	4 November 2023		17th	Ali Al Teneiji	5 November 2023
Al Hamriyah	Mohamed Al Ali	18 November 2023		12th	Mohamed Al Jalboot^[6]	20 November 2023
Al Dhafra	Abdullah Mesfer^[7]	18 November 2023	Mutual consent	2nd	Paulo Comelli^[8]	4 December 2023
Dubai City	Mohammed Al Blooshi	24 November 2023	Sacked	16th	Saeed Jassem	25 November 2023
Dibba Al Hisn	Othmen Najjar^[9]	14 December 2023		3rd	Tareq Al Sayed	20 December 2023
Masfout	Slavko Matić	22 December 2023		15th	Mohammed Al Blooshi^[10]	25 December 2023
Al Rams	Ali Al Teneiji^[11]	31 December 2023	Resigned	17th	Abdulla Al Teneiji	1 January 2024
Dibba Al Fujairah	Zoran Popović^[12]	2 January 2024	Sacked	8th	Eid Baroot	2 January 2024
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Eid Baroot	2 January 2024	Signed by Dibba Al Fujairah	7th	Samir El Sheikh	3 January 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Al Urooba (C, P)	31	24	6	1	57	25	+32	78	Promotion to the UAE Pro League
2	Dibba Al Hisn (P)	31	20	4	7	51	23	+28	64	Promotion to the UAE Pro League
3	Dibba Al Fujairah	31	17	12	2	51	16	+35	63
4	Fujairah	31	14	8	9	49	38	+11	50
5	Al Arabi	31	14	7	10	55	46	+9	49
6	Dubai United	31	14	6	11	63	46	+17	48
7	Al Dhafra	31	11	12	8	53	44	+9	45
8	Masafi	31	11	11	9	51	41	+10	44
9	Al Taawon	31	11	10	10	39	32	+7	43
10	Al Jazirah Al Hamra	31	11	8	12	45	60	−15	41
11	Al Hamriyah	31	10	9	12	44	46	−2	39
12	Al Dhaid	31	9	7	15	43	54	−11	34
13	Al Khaleej	31	8	9	14	37	48	−11	33
14	Masfout	31	7	10	14	35	52	−17	31
15	Gulf United	31	5	10	16	31	53	−22	25
16	Dubai City (R)	31	1	5	25	31	82	−51	8	Relegation to UAE Second Division League
17	Al Rams^[13] (W)	16	2	0	14	20	49	−29	6	Withdrew

Updated to match(es) played on 30 May 2024. Source: soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (W) ?

Results

Home \ Away	ARB	DHA	DHD	HAM	JHR	KHL	RAM	TAW	URO	DAF	DAH	DCI	DUN	FUJ	GFU	MSF	MST
Al Arabi		2–2	3–1	1–2	4–1	2–1		0–1	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–2
Al Dhafra	1–2		2–2	3–0	2–2	1–0	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–2	3–2
Al Dhaid	1–2	3–2		1–3	3–0	1–1	3–0	0–3	0–1	0–4	0–1	2–1	3–2	0–1	2–2	3–1	2–2
Al Hamriyah	3–1	1–1	1–2		1–2	3–1	3–0	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–1	3–1	0–3	1–3	3–0	1–0	2–1
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	3–3	1–1	3–2	3–1		3–2	3–2	2–2	0–2	0–2	1–2	1–1	0–4	1–0	3–2	2–0	2–1
Al Khaleej	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	1–0		0–1	3–2	0–2	2–2	0–4	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	0–1
Al Rams	0–5	0–3	3–0		3–4	1–3			2–3			0–2	2–4	4–1	0–0	2–6
Al Taawon	1–1	1–1	1–3	3–0	2–2	0–1	2–0		0–2	1–2	0–2	4–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	3–1	0–0
Al Urooba	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–2	3–1	3–3	3–1	1–0		0–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–1
Dibba Al Fujairah	2–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	4–0	1–0	4–0	0–0	1–0		0–0	4–0	2–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	2–0
Dibba Al Hisn	3–0	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	5–0	1–2	0–2	0–0		4–1	2–1	1–2	0–0	1–1	3–0
Dubai City	2–4	0–2	1–1	2–2	0–2	2–4	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–2	1–2		1–4	3–4	1–2	1–6	1–1
Dubai United	1–2	1–3	1–0	4–4	1–2	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–2	2–1	0–1	6–2		0–0	2–0	1–0	4–0
Fujairah	5–1	4–3	2–1	3–2	4–1	1–1		0–1	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–1		0–1	3–3	4–1
Gulf United	3–1	1–3	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–3	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–3	0–3	1–1	1–2	0–2		1–2	2–2
Masafi	1–2	2–4	1–2	1–1	4–1	1–1		0–0	0–0	2–1	3–2	3–0	3–3	1–1	2–1		0–0
Masfout	0–3	2–2	4–2	0–0	0–0	0–3	3–2	4–2	1–3	0–2	1–2	2–1	4–2	0–0	0–0	0–1

Updated to match(es) played on 30 May 2024. Source: soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Number of teams by Emirates

	Emirate	Number of teams	Teams
1	Ras Al Khaimah	4	Al Jazira Al Hamra, Al Rams, Al Taawon and Masafi
1	Dubai	4	Al Khaleej, Dubai City, Dubai United and Gulf United
3	Sharjah	3	Al Dhaid, Al Hamriyah and Dibba Al Hisn
3	Fujairah	3	Al Urooba, Dibba Al Fujairah and Fujairah
5	Umm Al Quwain	1	Al Arabi
	Abu Dhabi		Al Dhafra
	Ajman		Masfout

Season statistics

Top Goalscorers

^[14]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Marcelo Torres	Dubai United	26
2	Alex	Al Taawon	21
3	Alfusainey Gassama	Masfout	17
4	Benik Afobe	Al Dhafra	16
5	Alhassane Tamboura	Al Urooba	14
6	Pape Bacary	Dubai United	13
6	Vander Vieira	Al Arabi	13
8	Gilmar da Silva Ribeiro	Dibba Al-Hisn	12
8	Lamar Walker	Al Dhaid	12
11	Mohammed Al Marbuii	Dibba Al Fujairah	11

References

^ "الحصن يعيد التونسي عثمان النجار مدرباً للفريق". Al Bayan. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
^ "الجزائري بومضل مدرباً للعربي". Al Khaleej. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
^ "عبد الغني المهري مدرباً لمصفوت". Al Bayan. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
^ "الفجيرة يعين الصربي ماركوف مدرباً للذئاب والحوسني أول ضحايا الهواة". Al Bayan. Retrieved 9 October 2023.
^ "دبا الفجيرة يتعاقد مع المدرب الصربي زوران". Al Bayan. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
^ "«تسونامي الهواة» يطيح 5 مدربين مواطنين في 9 جولات" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
^ "المدرب السادس الذي يغادر دوري الهواة .. الظفرة ينهي عقد مسفر بالتراضي" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
^ "الظفرة يتعاقد مع المدرب البرازيلي كاميلي خلفاً لمسفر" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 4 December 2023.
^ "«نجار الحصن» أول مدرب أجنبي تتم إقالته في «الهواة»" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
^ "9 مدربين غادروا دوري الهواة..محمد البلوشي مدرباً لمصفوت خلفاً لسلافكو" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
^ "استقالة مدير فريق الكرة بنادي الرمس" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
^ "عيد باروت بديلاً لـ«الضحية11» في دوري الهواة" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
^ "لجنة المسابقات تحذف مباريات الرمس من دوري الدرجة الأولى" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
^ "UAE First Division Top Scorers". uaefa. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

[1] "الحصن يعيد التونسي عثمان النجار مدرباً للفريق". Al Bayan. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

[2] "الجزائري بومضل مدرباً للعربي". Al Khaleej. Retrieved 5 July 2023.

[3] "عبد الغني المهري مدرباً لمصفوت". Al Bayan. Retrieved 7 July 2023.

[4] "الفجيرة يعين الصربي ماركوف مدرباً للذئاب والحوسني أول ضحايا الهواة". Al Bayan. Retrieved 9 October 2023.

[5] "دبا الفجيرة يتعاقد مع المدرب الصربي زوران". Al Bayan. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

[6] "«تسونامي الهواة» يطيح 5 مدربين مواطنين في 9 جولات" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 22 November 2023.

[7] "المدرب السادس الذي يغادر دوري الهواة .. الظفرة ينهي عقد مسفر بالتراضي" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 27 November 2023.

[8] "الظفرة يتعاقد مع المدرب البرازيلي كاميلي خلفاً لمسفر" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 4 December 2023.

[9] "«نجار الحصن» أول مدرب أجنبي تتم إقالته في «الهواة»" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

[10] "9 مدربين غادروا دوري الهواة..محمد البلوشي مدرباً لمصفوت خلفاً لسلافكو" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 25 December 2023.

[11] "استقالة مدير فريق الكرة بنادي الرمس" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 31 December 2023.

[12] "عيد باروت بديلاً لـ«الضحية11» في دوري الهواة" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 2 January 2024.

[13] "لجنة المسابقات تحذف مباريات الرمس من دوري الدرجة الأولى" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Retrieved 13 April 2024.

[14] "UAE First Division Top Scorers". uaefa. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]

[14]