Al Wahda FC

Al Wahda FC
نادي الوحـدة لكرة القدم
Full name Al Wahda Football Club
Nickname(s) Clarets
Founded 1974
Ground Al-Nahyan Stadium
Ground Capacity 12,000[1]
Owner Dhiab Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Chairman Dhiab Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan
Manager Laurențiu Reghecampf
League UAE Pro League
2016–17 UAE Pro League, 5th
Website Club website
Al Nahyan Stadium

Al Wahda Football Club (Arabic: نادي الوحدة لكرة القدم) is a football club based in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates that plays in the UAE Arabian Gulf League. The club was founded in 1974 and plays its home games at the Al-Nahyan Stadium. The club's colours are maroon, grey and white.

Al Wahda has won the UAE Arabian Gulf League four times, with the most recent title coming in the 2009–10 UAE Pro-League season.

Honours

Champion: 1999, 2001, 2005, 2010
Champion: 2000, 2017
Champion: 2002, 2011
Champion: 1986, 1995, 2001
Champion: 2015-16

Performance in AFC competitions

2004: Quarter-Finals
2006: Group Stage
2007: Semi-Finals
2008: Group Stage
2010: Group Stage
2011: Group Stage
2015: Play-Off
2017: Group Stage
2018: qualified
2000: First Round
2002: Group Stage
1998/99: First Round
2000/01: First Round

Al Nahyan stadium

The Al Nahyan stadium is the home of Al Wahda, and although Al-Nahyan Stadium is perhaps less impressive in terms of infrastructure (12,000 seats) it still boasts a fervent atmosphere on match days and has the added advantage of being only three kilometres from the city centre.

Players

As of UAE Arabian Gulf League:

No Position Player Nation
1 Goalkeeper Mohammed Al-Shamsi  United Arab Emirates
55 Goalkeeper Fahad Al-Dhanhani  United Arab Emirates
88 Goalkeeper Saeed Mesmari  United Arab Emirates

2 Defender Mohammed Barqesh  United Arab Emirates
3 Defender Mohammed Saif  United Arab Emirates
4 Defender Salem Sultan  United Arab Emirates
8 Defender Hamdan Al-Kamali  United Arab Emirates
12 Defender Mohammed Al-Dhahri  United Arab Emirates
19 Defender Khaled Ibrahim  United Arab Emirates
21 Defender Abdullah Al-Korbi  United Arab Emirates
23 Defender Rim Chang-woo  South Korea
24 Defender Abduraheem Abdurahman  United Arab Emirates
27 Defender Abdullah Al-Dhanhani  United Arab Emirates
37 Defender Ahmed Rashed  United Arab Emirates
44 Defender Mansor Shawkan  United Arab Emirates

5 Midfielder Mohammed Abdulbasit  United Arab Emirates
6 Midfielder Sultan Al Ghaferi  United Arab Emirates
7 Midfielder Mohamed Al-Shehhi  United Arab Emirates
14 Midfielder Khaled Ba Wazir  United Arab Emirates
17 Midfielder Suhail Al-Mansoori  United Arab Emirates
20 Midfielder Nasser Abdulhadi  United Arab Emirates
22 Midfielder Balázs Dzsudzsák  Hungary
30 Midfielder Tareq Al-Khodaim  United Arab Emirates
34 Midfielder Eisa Al-Ameri  United Arab Emirates
36 Midfielder Ahmed Al-Akbari  United Arab Emirates
77 Midfielder Khalil Ibrahim  United Arab Emirates

9 Forward Mourad Batna  Morocco
10 Forward Ismail Matar (Captain)  United Arab Emirates
11 Forward Sebastián Tagliabué  Argentina
42 Forward Mohamed Al-Akbari  United Arab Emirates
70 Forward Mohammed Al-Hammadi  United Arab Emirates

-- Midfielder Bader Al-Harthi  United Arab Emirates
-- Forward Sultan Saif  United Arab Emirates

Out on loan

No Position Player Nation
-- Goalkeeper Ali Al-Hosani (on loan to Ajman)  United Arab Emirates
-- Goalkeeper Fahad Al-Dhanhani (on loan to Dibba Al-Fujairah)  United Arab Emirates

Past managers

References

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