The United Arab Emirates Football Association (UAE FA; ) is the governing body of

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and

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in the

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Association staff

President

The following is a list of selected presidents of the United Arab Emirates Football Association including pre-UAEFA era.

Activity

At the level of developing the national cadres, the FA chose 2010 as the Year of the National Coach and signed various agreements with some national associations in the game for development and training including Germany, Spain, Czech, Italy and Egypt. The national coaches took over the youth and junior national teams and they were provided with financial support. At the organizational level, the FA hosted the FIFA Club World Cups in 2009 and 2010, the 2009 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup and other friendly and official championships and supported the women football and launched the Futsal in collaboration with sports council within the country. The next step is to organize and host the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup. In 2010, UAEFA partnered with the

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to launch the ''UAEFA Grassroots Festivals'', a state-wide campaign to recruit and train certain players. In July 2011, a 3-year sponsoring deal was signed with

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. In January 2016, UAEFA signed a partnership with the

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to provide UAEFA a football club operators licensing program. In December 2016, UAEFA renewed its partnership with the

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. In February 2017, UAEFA warned 46 football players (including

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) about their inappropriate hairstyles that did not conform to its guidelines. In October 2017, UAEFA requested that the

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be postponed while the issue with

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was being resolved.Qatar Gulf Cup boycott is over Kuwait's FIFA ban, UAE FA says
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Management

League system

:Tier 1:

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:Tier 2:

UAE First Division League UAE First Division League is the second tier of football league competition in the United Arab Emirates. As of 2020–21, the league features 15 sides who play each other in a home and away round-robin format, with a total of 28 games for each t ...

:Tier 3:

UAE Second Division League UAE Second Division League is the third tier of football (soccer), football league competition in the United Arab Emirates, the league is organised by United Arab Emirates Football Association, UAE Football Association for private funded clubs a ...

:Tier 4:

UAE Third Division League UAE Third Division League is the fourth tier of football league competition in the United Arab Emirates, the league is organised by UAE Football Association for private funded clubs. The league was established for the 2021–22 season. 12 teams ...

Domestic Cups

UAE President's Cup The UAE President's Cup, or simply the President Cup, is a association football, football tournament that takes place in United Arab Emirates, between Football team, clubs in the UAE Pro League and the UAE First Division League. The winner qualifi ...

UAE League Cup The UAE League Cup () is a knockout tournament for clubs in the UAE Pro-League. The first edition of the tournament was played in the 2008–09 Etisalat Emirates Cup, 2008–2009 season. In the 2008–09 season, UAE League Cup replaced the UAE Fed ...

UAE Super Cup The UAE Super Cup () and Charity Champions Cup in the first edition (1989–90), is the curtain raiser of the United Arab Emirates football season. It is played between the previous season's UAE League, Pro-League winners and UAE President's Cup, P ...

Defunct tournaments

* UAE Vice-presidents Cup *

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Women's competition

* UAE Women's Football League

National teams

*United Arab Emirates

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, under-23, under-20, under-17 and

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national association football teams * United Arab Emirates national futsal team *

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References

External links

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