2021–22 UAE Division 1

2021–22 UAE Division One is the 45th Division one season. This seasons will expand the league from 11 to 15 teams due to the inclusion of UAE Second Division League teams who were recently promoted into the league.^[1]

UAE Division One

Season	2021–22
Dates	8 October 2021 – 29 April 2022
Champions	Dibba Al Fujairah (2nd title)
Promoted	Dibba Al Fujairah Al Bataeh
Matches played	112
Goals scored	347 (3.1 per match)
Top goalscorer	Diogo Acosta (27 goals)
Biggest home win	Dibba Al Fujairah 5–0 Al Jazirah Al Hamra (18 December 2021)
Biggest away win	Abtal Al Khaleej 2–8 Dibba Al Fujairah (10 December 2021)
Highest scoring	Abtal Al Khaleej 2–8 Dibba Al Fujairah (10 December 2021)
Longest winning run	Dibba Al Fujairah (13 games)
Longest unbeaten run	Al Arabi (12 games)
Longest winless run	Dubai City (14 games)
Longest losing run	Abtal Al Khaleej (6 games)
← 2020–21 2022–23 → All statistics correct as of 30 April 2022.

Team changes

To Division 1

Relegated from UAE Pro League

• Fujairah
• Hatta

Promoted from UAE Division 2

• Abtal Al Khaleej
• Dubai City

Joined

• Al Rams
• Al Jazirah Al Hamra

From Division 1

Promoted to UAE Pro League

• Al Urooba
• Emirates

Stadia and locations

Abtal Al K.

Arabi

Bataeh

Dhaid

Hamriyah

Hamra

Rams

Taawon

Dibba F.

Dibba H.

City

Fujairah

Hatta

Masafi

Masfout

Locations of teams in the UAE Division One

Note: Table lists clubs in alphabetical order.

Club	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Abtal Al Khaleej	Dubai (Mirdif)	Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium[2]	12,000
Al Arabi	Umm al Quwain	Umm al Quwain Stadium	3,000
Al Bataeh	Al Bataeh	Al Bataeh Stadium	2,000
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 Rams	Ar-Rams	Al Rams Stadium	4,000
Al Taawon	Al Jeer	Taawon Stadium	200
Dibba Al Fujairah	Dibba Al-Fujairah	Dibba (F) Stadium	100
Dibba Al Hisn	Dibba Al-Hisn	Dibba (H) Stadium	700
Hatta	Hatta	Hamdan Bin Rashid Stadium	5,000
Dhaid	Dhaid	Al-Dhaid Stadium	500
Dubai City	Dubai (Al Barsha)	The Sevens Stadium[2]	4,000
Fujairah	Fujairah	Fujairah Club Stadium	10,645
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
Abtal Al Khaleej	Mostafa Abdelhady	Damilare Adigun	uhlsport
Al Arabi	Mohammad Al Jalboot	Khalifa Abdullah	Nike
Al Bataeh	Tarek Hadhiri	Rodrigo Souza	uhlsport	SMC
Al Dhaid	Roman Nádvorník	Ali Al-Nuaimi	uhlsport
Al Hamriyah	Jamal Al Hassani	Ahmed Al-Shaji	Nike
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Mutaz Abdulla	Salem Al Khaddem	uhlsport
Al Rams	Salem Al-Bout	Ali Al Maazmi	uhlsport
Al Taawon	Ahmed El Mujahid	Malek Al-Shehhi	uhlsport
Dibba Al Fujairah	Zoran Popović	Mohamed Al Rowaihy	uhlsport
Dibba Al Hisn	Saeed Shakhit	Khalid Al Riyami	uhlsport
Dubai City	Mason Mcclelland	Jamal Bartley	Macron
Fujairah	Mohammed Al-Timoumi	Ahmed Al-Zahmi	Puma
Hatta	Ameur Derbal	Lahej Al-Nofali	Macron	Expo
Masafi	Fahad Al Dabal	Brahima Diakite	Adidas
Masfout	Abdulghani Binkarshat	Abdullah Jassem	Nike

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
Abtal Al Khaleej	Damilare Adigun	Lassana Camara
Al Arabi	Alex	Paulinho
Al Bataeh	Rodrigo Souza	Thiago Augusto	Thauan
Al Dhaid	Adenilson		Sílvio Júnior
Al Hamriyah	Gilmar	Vinícius Lopes
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Hugo Alexsander	Kouakou Kouadio
Al Rams	Saullo	Valdo Babacal	Geovane
Al Taawon	Gil Paraíba	Denny Antwi
Dibba Al Fujairah	Diogo Acosta	Chiquinho
Dibba Al Hisn	Dedê Costa	Marcos Moraes
Dubai City	Jamal Bartley	Nenai Banda
Fujairah	Issah Yakubu	Mustafa Mahmoud
Hatta	Régis	Tony	Hyuri
Masafi	Sílvio Júnior	Brahima Diakite	Fidélis
Masfout	Jacó	Juan Batista	Bruno Dybal

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Date of vacancy	Manner of departure	Pos.	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Hatta	Vladimir Vermezović	25 April 2021	Sacked	Pre-season	Sulaiman Al Balooshi[3]	30 May 2021
Al Bataeh	Abdullah Mesfer	1 May 2021	Resigned		Tarek Hadhiri[4]	20 May 2021
Fujairah	Nassif Al Bayawi	15 May 2021			Mohammed Al-Timoumi	16 May 2021
Masfout	Tarek Hadhiri	20 May 2021	Signed by Al Bataeh		Abdulghani Binkarshat	21 May 2021
Dibba Al Fujairah	Sulaiman Al Balooshi	30 May 2021	Signed by Hatta		Zoran Popović[5]	1 July 2021
Dibba Al Hisn	Abdulghani Binkarshat	1 June 2021	End of contract		Othmen Najjar[6]	3 July 2021
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Ali Al Shehhi	11 October 2021	Mutual consent	13th	Muhammad Al-Naqbi[7]	11 October 2021
Hatta	Sulaiman Al Balooshi	1 November 2021	Sacked	10th	Fouad Boumdal[8]	1 November 2021
Al Rams	Jassim Al Tunaiji	16 November 2021	Resigned	12th	Salem Al-Bout[9]	16 November 2021
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	Muhammad Al-Naqbi	17 November 2021	End of caretaker spell	14th	Mutaz Abdulla[10]	17 November 2021
Abtal Al Khaleej	Mostafa Abdelhady	20 November 2021	Sacked	10th	Ahmed El Mujahid[11]	25 November 2021
	Ahmed El Mujahid[12]	12 December 2021	Resigned	11th	Mostafa Abdelhady	13 December 2021
Al Taawon	Aaref Al Shehhi	14 December 2021	Sacked	13th	Ahmed El Mujahid[13]	14 December 2021
Masafi	Mohamed Al Antali	15 December 2021	Mutual consent	14th	Fahad Al Dabal[14]	15 December 2021
Al Dhaid	Walid Obaid	29 December 2021		10th	Roman Nádvorník	5 January 2022
Dibba Al Hisn	Othmen Najjar[15]	3 January 2022	Sacked	4th	Saeed Shakhit[16]	8 January 2022
Hatta	Fouad Boumdal	7 January 2022	Resigned	6th	Amer Derbal[17]	7 January 2022
Al Hamriyah	Tareq Al Sayed	14 February 2022		4th	Jamal Al Hassani	15 January 2022

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Dibba Al Fujairah (C, P)	28	24	3	1	73	15	+58	75	Promotion to the UAE Pro League
2	Al Bataeh (P)	28	21	4	3	58	21	+37	67
3	Dibba Al Hisn	28	19	6	3	56	26	+30	63
4	Al Arabi	28	20	3	5	48	24	+24	63
5	Al Hamriyah	28	15	7	6	56	34	+22	52
6	Hatta	28	14	5	9	44	38	+6	47
7	Fujairah	28	12	7	9	38	32	+6	43
8	Masfout	28	10	5	13	34	38	−4	35
9	Al Jazirah Al Hamra	28	8	6	14	41	57	−16	30
10	Masafi	28	8	3	17	30	42	−12	27
11	Abtal Al Khaleej	28	6	6	16	39	64	−25	24
12	Al Rams	28	6	2	20	29	65	−36	20
13	Al Taawon	28	5	4	19	32	52	−20	19
14	Al Dhaid	28	5	4	19	28	52	−24	19
15	Dubai City	28	3	3	22	26	72	−46	12

Source: soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) goal difference; 4) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Results

Home \ Away	ABK	ARB	BTH	DHD	HAM	JHR	RAM	TAW	DAF	DAH	DCI	FUJ	HAT	MSF	MST
Abtal Al Khaleej		0–1	1–1	3–2	2–2	1–1	0–1	2–2	2–8	1–3	3–1	0–0	0–2	1–0	1–4
Al Arabi	4–1		1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–2	0–0	2–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–0
Al Bataeh	4–2	2–0		1–0	4–2	3–1	4–1	4–1	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	4–1
Al Dhaid	2–2	0–0	0–2		2–3	2–3	3–1	1–3	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–2
Al Hamriyah	3–1	1–2	1–1	4–0		1–2	2–0	3–0	0–2	2–3	2–0	1–0	4–4	4–1	0–0
Al Jazirah Al Hamra	1–3	1–2	1–5	1–2	1–2		2–1	2–1	0–0	0–1	4–3	0–0	1–2	2–3	2–2
Al Rams	4–0	1–2	1–3	1–1	0–1	3–4		1–0	1–4	0–4	2–1	0–5	1–2	2–1	2–4
Al Taawon	2–0	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–3	2–3	2–1		1–3	0–2	3–1	1–2	2–2	3–1	1–2
Dibba Al Fujairah	5–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	4–1	6–0	5–0	1–0		2–0	5–1	3–0	3–0	1–0	2–1
Dibba Al Hisn	4–3	2–1	1–2	3–0	2–2	1–1	5–0	3–2	1–1		4–0	1–1	2–3	1–0	2–1
Dubai City	0–3	1–6	0–1	0–3	0–5	1–1	2–0	2–2	1–2	0–1		1–2	1–2	0–2	1–2
Fujairah	3–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–2	1–2	5–2		1–0	1–2	1–1
Hatta	2–1	0–2	1–3	4–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–2	1–2	5–1	1–0		0–1	1–1
Masafi	2–0	1–3	1–2	3–1	0–2	2–1	3–4	2–1	0–2	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–0		1–0
Masfout	0–2	2–3	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–2	1–0	2–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	1–0

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.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Diogo Acosta	Dibba Al Fujairah	27
2	Vinícius Lopes	Al Hamriyah	22
3	Dedê Costa	Dibba Al Hisn	19
4	Alex	Al Arabi	18
5	Mohammed Al-Marbuii	Dibba Al Hisn	17

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
	Sharjah		Al Bataeh, Al Dhaid, Al Hamriyah and Dibba Al Hisn
3	Dubai	3	Abtal Al Khaleej, Dubai City and Hatta
4	Fujairah	2	Dibba Al Fujairah and Fujairah
5	Umm Al Quwain	1	Al Arabi
	Ajman		Masfout