Season | 2016–17 |
---|---|
Champions | Al-Jazira (2nd title) |
Relegated | Baniyas Kalba |
2018 AFC Champions League | Al-Jazira Al-Wahda Al-Wasl Al-Ain |
2017 FIFA Club World Cup | Al-Jazira |
Matches played | 364 |
Goals scored | 573 (1.57 per match) |
Top goalscorer | (33 Goals) Ali Mabkhout |
Biggest home win | Al-Wasl 8–0 Dibba (8 December 2016) |
Biggest away win | Sharjah 1–7 Al-Wahda (2 November 2016) |
Highest scoring | Al-Shabab 3–7 Al-Jazira (3 December 2016) |
Longest winning run | 8 Matches Al-Jazira |
Longest unbeaten run | 13 Matches Al-Ain |
Longest winless run | 11 Matches Emirates |
Longest losing run | 7 Matches Baniyas |
Highest attendance | Al-Ain 1–1 Al-Ahli (22,546) |
Lowest attendance | Hatta 0–1 Al-Dhafra (450) |
← 2015–16 2017–18 → |
The 2016–17 UAE Pro League (also known as Arabian Gulf League for sponsorship reasons) was the 42nd season of top-level football in the United Arab Emirates. Al-Ahli are the defending champions of this season's UAE pro league after securing their seventh title last season. Al-Jazira won its second title on 29 April 2017 after defeating Hatta 5-0.
Stadia and locations
Club | Home city | Stadium | Capacity |
---|---|---|---|
Al-Ahli | Dubai | Al-Rashid Stadium | 15,000 |
Al-Ain | Al-Ain | Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium | 25,000 |
Al-Dhafra | Madinat Zayed | Al Dhafra Stadium | 5,012 |
Al-Jazira | Abu Dhabi | Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium | 42,056 |
Al-Nasr | Dubai | Al-Maktoum Stadium | 10,750 |
Al-Shabab | Dubai | Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium | 12,000 |
Sharjah | Sharjah | Sharjah Stadium | 11,073 |
Al-Wahda | Abu Dhabi | Al Nahyan Stadium | 11,456 |
Al-Wasl | Dubai | Zabeel Stadium | 8,439 |
Baniyas | Abu Dhabi | Baniyas Stadium | 8,954 |
Dibba | Fujairah | Fujairah Club Stadium | 10,645 |
Emirates | Ras Al-Khaimah | Emirates Club Stadium | 5,127 |
Hatta | Hatta | Hamdan Bin Rashid Stadium | 5,000 |
Kalba | Kalba | Ittihad Kalba Stadium | 8,500 |
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.
Foreign players
The number of foreign players is restricted to four per team, including a slot for a player from AFC countries. A team could use four foreign players on the field during each game including at least one player from the AFC country.
- Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
- Players in italics were out of squad or left club within the season, after pre-season transfer window, or in the mid-season transfer window, and at least had one appearance.
^1 Caio Canedo has East Timorese citizenship and was counted as Asian player.
Transfers
Managerial changes
Team | Outgoing manager | Date of vacancy | Manner of departure | Pos. | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Al-Shabab | Caio Júnior | 8 May 2016 | End of contract | Pre-season | Fred Rutten | 11 May 2016 [20] |
Sharjah | Abdulaziz Al-Anbari | 13 May 2016 | Georgios Donis | 27 July 2016[21] | ||
Al-Wasl | Gabriel Calderón | 25 May 2016[22] | Sacked | Rodolfo Arruabarrena | 6 June 2016[23] | |
Baniyas | Abdullah Mesfer | 5 June 2016 [24] | Mutual consent | Pablo Repetto | ||
Dibba | Theo Bücker | 22 June 2016[25] | Signed by Emirates | Paulo Sérgio | 29 June 2016[26] | |
Emirates | Paulo Comelli | 31 May 2016 [27] | Mutual consent | Theo Bücker | 22 June 2016 | |
Kalba | Mourad Okbi | 28 Aug 2016 | Fabio Viviani | 28 Aug 2016 | ||
Baniyas | Pablo Repetto | 22 October 2016 | Sacked | 12th | José Manuel Gomes | 23 October 2016 |
Al-Nasr | Ivan Jovanović | 31 October 2016 | 8th | Dan Petrescu | 31 October 2016 | |
Sharjah | Georgios Donis | 1 January 2017 [28] | Mutual consent | 10th | José Peseiro | 2 January 2017 [29] |
League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Al Jazira (C) | 26 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 72 | 15 | +57 | 68 | Qualification to the 2017 FIFA Club World Cup and 2018 AFC Champions League group stage |
2 | Al Wasl | 26 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 55 | 26 | +29 | 57 | Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League group stage |
3 | Al Ahli | 26 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 50 | 18 | +32 | 56 | |
4 | Al Ain | 26 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 58 | 37 | +21 | 55 | Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League play-off round[30] |
5 | Al Wahda | 26 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 39 | Qualification to the 2018 AFC Champions League group stage |
6 | Al Nasr | 26 | 11 | 3 | 12 | 42 | 32 | +10 | 36 | |
7 | Al Dhafra | 26 | 10 | 5 | 11 | 40 | 46 | −6 | 35 | |
8 | Al Shabab | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 24 | 44 | −20 | 30 | |
9 | Sharjah | 26 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 31 | 47 | −16 | 26 | |
10 | Hatta | 26 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 24 | 47 | −23 | 25 | |
11 | Emirates | 26 | 5 | 5 | 16 | 33 | 51 | −18 | 20 | |
12 | Dibba | 26 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 25 | 54 | −29 | 20 | |
13 | Kalba (R) | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 44 | −14 | 19 | Relegation to the UAE Division One |
14 | Baniyas (R) | 26 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 33 | 70 | −37 | 15 |
Rules for classification: [31] 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head goals scored; 5) head-to-head away goals scored; 6) goal difference; 7) number of goals scored; 8) number of away goals scored; 9) fair play ranking[32] 10) draw
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Results
Statistics
Top scorers
- As of matches played 13 May 2017
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Ali Mabkhout | Al-Jazira | 33 |
2 | Fábio Lima | Al-Wasl | 25 |
3 | Makhete Diop | Al-Ahli | 21 |
4 | Sebastián Tagliabué | Al-Wahda | 19 |
5 | Caio Canedo | Al-Wasl | 14 |
6 | Sebastián Sáez | Emirates | 13 |
7 | Ahmed Khalil | Al-Ahli | 12 |
Source: agleague.ae
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