2024–25 UAE Pro League

UAE Pro League

Season	2024–25
Dates	23 August 2024 – 10 May 2024
Matches played	54
Goals scored	197 (3.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Shabab Al Ahli Club 5–4 Al Wahda FC (22 September 2024)
Biggest away win	Al Urooba 1–5 Al Nasr (23 August 2024)
Highest scoring	Al Urooba 1–5 Al Nasr (23 August 2024) Al Bataeh 3–3 Al Ain (30 August 2024)
← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 23 November 2024.

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

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	Fernando
Al Nasr	Othmane Boussaid	Mattheus Oliveira	Manolo Gabbiadini	Leroy Fer	Haris Seferovic	Samir Memišević	Adel Taarabt
Al Urooba	Paulo Ricardo	Petrus Boumal	Witi	Viv Solomon-Otabor	Filip Kiss	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	Alioune Ndour	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	Thulani Serero	Mattheus Oliveira Pedro Henrique 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	15	13	2	0	38	13	+25	41	Qualification for ACLE League stage
2	Sharjah	15	12	1	2	28	7	+21	37	Qualification for ACLE play off round
3	Al Ain	16	8	5	3	41	25	+16	29	Qualification for AFC CL2 group stage
4	Al Nasr	16	8	2	6	30	28	+2	26
5	Al Wahda	15	7	4	4	28	21	+7	25
6	Al Jazira	15	7	3	5	32	23	+9	24
7	Al Wasl	16	6	6	4	29	23	+6	24
8	Kalba	16	5	6	5	26	23	+3	21
9	Baniyas	16	5	4	7	18	30	−12	19
10	Ajman	16	6	1	9	27	30	−3	19
11	Khor Fakkan	16	5	3	8	26	32	−6	18
12	Al Bataeh	16	3	3	10	20	34	−14	12
13	Dibba Al Hisn	16	2	4	10	18	39	−21	10	Relegation to UAE Division 1
14	Al Urooba	16	1	0	15	13	46	−33	3

Updated to match(es) played on 14 February 2025. Source: UPLeague
Rules for classification: 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
Notes:

Results

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

Updated to match(es) played on 14 February 2025. 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.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Kodjo Fo-Doh Laba	Al Ain	16
2	Omar Khribin	Al Wahda	13
3	Mehdi Ghayedi	Ittihad Kalba	10
4	Caio Lucas	Al Sharjah	8
	Sardar Azmoun	Al Ahli Dubai
	Ali Mabkhout	Al Nasr
	Soufiane Rahimi	Al Ain
	Anatole Abang	Al Bataeh
8	Junior Flemmings	Ajman	7
	Adel Taarabt	Sharjah FC