2024–25 UAE Pro League

The 2024–25 UAE Pro League (also known as ADNOC Pro League for sponsorship reasons) was the 50th edition of the UAE Pro League. Al Wasl were the defending champions.

UAE Pro League

Season	2024–25
Dates	23 August 2024 – 25 May 2025
Champions	Shabab Al Ahli (9th title)
Relegated	Dibba Al Hisn Al Urooba
Champions League Elite	Shabab Al Ahli Sharjah Al Wahda
Champions League Two	Al Wasl
Gulf Club Champions League	Al Ain
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

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
Ajman	Goran Tufegdžić	Saoud Saeed	Adidas	Ajman Bank
Al Ain	Vladimir Ivić	Bandar Al-Ahbabi	Nike	First Abu Dhabi Bank
Al Bataeh	Farhad Majidi	Mohamed Ahmed	Nike	Majid Al Futtaim Group
Al Jazira	Hussein Ammouta	Ali Khasif	Zat Outfit	Healthpoint
Al Nasr	Alfred Schreuder	Ahmed Shambih	Adidas	Emirates Islamic
Al Urooba	Abdulaziz Al-Hashmi (caretaker)	Mohanad Khamis Obaid	Uhlsport	Emaar Properties
Al Wahda	Darko Milanič	TBA	Adidas	Volkswagen
Al Wasl	Miloš Milojević	TBA	Macron	Dubai Real Estate Centre
Baniyas	Daniel Isăilă	Fawaz Awana	Macron	ADIB
Dibba Al Hisn	Hassan Al-Abdooli	Khalid Abdullah	Umbro	Emirates NBD
Ittihad Kalba	Vuk Rašović	Abdusalam Mohammed	Nike	Shurooq
Khor Fakkan	Joaquín Gil (caretaker)	Masoud Sulaiman	Macron	ADNOC
Shabab Al Ahli	Paulo Sousa	Majed Naser	Nike	Mai Dubai
Sharjah	Cosmin Olăroiu	Shahin Abdulrahman	Adidas	SAIF Zone

Foreign players

All clubs can register foreigners as many as they want but can only include five professionals in each team rosters. Players in the age of under-23 (U23) do not counted as professionals and players who have received Emirati citizenship are deemed as local players.

• 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	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Unregistered players	Former players
Ajman	Ali Madan	Junior Flemmings	Mohamed Souboul	Walid Azaro	Miloš Kosanović		Abdelhamid Sabiri Ayman El Hassouni Haykeul Chikhaoui
Al Ain	Soufiane Rahimi	Kaku	Fábio Cardoso	Park Yong-woo	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba
Al Bataeh	Paulinho	Anatole Abang	Diney	Ulrich Meleke	Azizjon Ganiev
Al Jazira	Ramón Miérez	Neeskens Kebano	Mohamed Elneny	Nabil Fekir	Karim Rekik
Al Nasr	Othmane Boussaid	Samir Memišević	Mattheus Oliveira	Leroy Fer	Haris Seferovic	Manolo Gabbiadini	Adel Taarabt
Al Urooba	Héber	Petrus Boumal	Witi	Viv Solomon-Otabor	Filip Kiss	Paulo Ricardo Bubacarr Trawally	Appolinaire Kack Mohammad Reza Azadi
Al Wahda	Kevin Agudelo	Ahmad Nourollahi	Mohammad Ghorbani	Omar Khribin	Khojimat Erkinov		Philip Otele
Al Wasl	João Pedro	Anas Zniti	Soufiane Bouftini	Jung Seung-hyun	Srđan Mijailović	Gerónimo Poblete Alexis Pérez	Isaac Success Haris Seferovic
Baniyas	Juan Bauza	Arnaud Lusamba	Youssoufou Niakaté	Andrei Burcă	Lazar Marković
Dibba Al Hisn	Pierre Kunde	Ibrahima Cissé	Alexandru Mățan	Haythem Jouini	Oussama Haddadi		Danielzinho João Pedro Witi
Ittihad Kalba	Daniel Bessa	Mehdi Ghayedi	Saman Ghoddos	Shahriyar Moghanlou	Miha Blažič		Filip Kiss
Khor Fakkan	Lourency	Tarik Tissoudali	Aylton Boa Morte	Kwon Kyung-won	Won Du-jae		Mattheus Oliveira Pedro Henrique Thulani Serero Jonathan Viera
Shabab Al Ahli	Saeid Ezatolahi	Sardar Azmoun	Mu'nas Dabbur	Bogdan Planić	Luka Milivojević	Iago Santos
Sharjah	Darko Nejašmić	Adel Taarabt	Cho Yu-min	Tyrone Conraad	Firas Ben Larbi	Paco Alcácer

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Shabab Al Ahli (C)	26	19	6	1	57	22	+35	63	Qualification for AFC CLE league stage[a]
2	Sharjah	26	16	3	7	44	22	+22	51
3	Al Wahda	26	13	9	4	51	32	+19	48
4	Al Wasl	26	13	7	6	51	35	+16	46	Qualification for AFC CL2 group stage
5	Al Ain	26	12	8	6	56	32	+24	44	Qualification for AGCFF GCCL group stage
6	Al Nasr	26	11	5	10	45	45	0	38
7	Al Jazira	26	10	7	9	45	40	+5	37
8	Khor Fakkan	26	9	6	11	41	52	−11	33
9	Kalba	26	8	8	10	39	38	+1	32
10	Ajman	26	9	4	13	40	46	−6	31
11	Al Bataeh	26	7	6	13	30	45	−15	27
12	Baniyas	26	7	6	13	30	53	−23	27
13	Dibba Al Hisn (R)	26	4	4	18	29	56	−27	16	Relegation to UAE Division 1
14	Al Urooba (R)	26	4	1	21	24	64	−40	13

Source: UPLeague
Rules for classification: ^[1] 1) points; 2) head-to-head goal difference; 3) head-to-head goals scored; 4) head-to-head away goals scored; 5) goal difference; 6) number of goals scored; 7) number of away goals scored; 8) head-to-head points; 9) fair play ranking 10) draw
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the 2024–25 UAE President's Cup, Shadab Al Ahli, had already qualified for the AFC Champions League Elite, the spot given to the UAE President's Cup winners (Champions League Two) was passed to the third-placed team.

Results

Home \ Away	AJM	AIN	BTH	JAZ	NAS	URO	WAH	WAS	YAS	DAH	KAL	KHF	SAD	SHR
Ajman		4–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–3	4–3	0–0	2–3	5–1	2–3	4–1	1–2	0–1
Al Ain	0–0		2–1	1–1	4–1	3–0	1–2	4–2	4–0	1–1	3–1	5–1	0–1	0–0
Al Bataeh	1–1	3–3		0–3	3–4	1–0	1–3	1–3	1–0	2–2	0–0	1–3	1–3	0–2
Al Jazira	4–0	1–3	2–0		3–1	2–0	0–0	0–5	0–1	1–0	1–2	4–2	1–2	1–1
Al Nasr	3–1	0–2	0–1	2–3		2–1	0–0	0–1	4–1	3–2	3–2	3–1	1–1	2–1
Al Urooba	0–2	2–4	1–3	4–5	1–5		1–1	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–4	0–1
Al Wahda	1–0	2–1	0–2	2–2	2–2	3–0		2–2	2–2	4–2	3–1	3–1	2–2	3–0
Al Wasl	2–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	6–0	2–2		3–1	1–0	2–2	3–4	2–1	0–1
Baniyas	3–1	0–3	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–3	0–0		2–4	2–2	3–3	1–5	1–4
Dibba Al Hisn	0–1	3–2	1–2	1–6	0–1	1–2	0–2	2–3	1–0		2–2	0–1	0–3	1–4
Kalba	3–2	3–3	3–0	1–1	2–3	3–0	0–1	2–2	0–1	2–1		0–1	1–2	2–1
Khor Fakkan	0–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	3–3	3–0	0–1	2–1	5–2	1–1	0–2		1–1	2–4
Shabab Al Ahli	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	5–4	3–0	2–0	3–2	0–0	4–0		2–1
Sharjah	4–0	0–3	0–1	4–0	3–0	2–1	2–0	4–1	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0

Source: UPLeague
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.

Positions by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Al Ain	18
2	Omar Khribin	Al Wahda	13
3	Mehdi Ghayedi	Ittihad Kalba	12
4	Sardar Azmoun	Al Ahli Dubai	11
5	Caio Lucas	Al Sharjah	8
	Ali Mabkhout	Al Nasr
	Soufiane Rahimi	Al Ain
	Anatole Abang	Al Bataeh
8	Junior Flemmings	Ajman	7
	Adel Taarabt	Sharjah FC