The United Arab Emirates Football Association (UAEFA; ar, الاتحاد الاماراتي لكرة القدم) is the governing body of

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United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (Middle East, The Middle East). It is ...

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 United States Sports Academy 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 Asamoah Gyan) about their inappropriate hairstyles that did not conform to its guidelines. In October 2017, UAEFA requested that the 23rd Arabian Gulf Cup 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: UAE Pro League :Tier 2: UAE First Division League :Tier 3: UAE Second Division League :Tier 4: UAE Third Division League

Domestic Cups

* UAE President's Cup * UAE League Cup * UAE Super Cup

Defunct tournaments

* UAE Vice Presidents Cup * UAE Federation Cup

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 * United Arab Emirates national beach soccer team

References

External links

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Sports organizations established in 1971