2012–13 UAE Pro-League

UAE Pro-League
Season	2012–13
Champions	Al Ain FC
Relegated	Dibba Al-Fujairah Ittihad Kalba
Champions League	Al-Ahli Al-Jazira Al-Ain Baniyas
Gulf Champions League	Al-Shabab Al-Nasr
Matches played	90
Goals scored	330 (3.67 per match)
Top goalscorer	Asamoah Gyan (30 goals)
Highest attendance	19,756 [Al-Jazira vs. Al-Ain]
Lowest attendance	103 [Kalba vs. Dibba]
Average attendance	2,468
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

The UAE Pro-League (known as Etisalat Pro-League for sponsorship reasons) is the premier league in United Arab Emirates. It will be the 38th top-level football season in the UAE, and the fifth Professional season.

It will be contested by 14 teams due to an expansion in the league system.^[1]

Al Ain are the defending champions, having won the previous 2011–12 Pro-League season.

On Thursday, 18 April 2013, Al Ain won their match against Dubai which guarantees them as winners of the 2012–13 Pro-League.

They will receive their trophy on their last match against Al Nasr on Saturday, 25 May 2013.

Promotion

In June 2012 the UAE FA announced that the league would expand to 14 clubs The two teams that came in the bottom two of the previous campaign – Al Sharjah and Emirates Club – would enter a promotion/relegaton series with the teams that came third and fourth in the second level – Al Dhafra and Al Shaab Sharjah.^[2]

This two sides would join Ittihad Kalba and Dubba Al Fujairah who came in the top two in the second division.

Promotion/Relegation Play-offs


Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al-Shaab	3	2	1	5	4	+1	6	Promotion to the 2012–13 UAE Pro-League
2	Al-Dhafra	3	2	1	8	4	+4	6	Promotion to the 2012–13 UAE Pro-League
3	Al Sharjah	3	2	1	3	2	+1	6	Relegation to the 2012–13 UAE Second Division
4	Emirates Club	3	0	3	3	9	−6	0	Relegation to the 2012–13 UAE Second Division

Source: Full Standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Dubai

Ajman

Abu Dhabi

Al Ain

Sharjah

Ras al-Khaimah

Madinat Zayed

Kalba

Fujairah

Locations of teams in the 2012–13 UAE Pro-League

Team	Home city	Manager	Stadium	Capacity
Al Ahli	Dubai	Quique Flores	Rashed Stadium	18,000
Al Dhafra	Madinat Zayed	Laurent Banide	Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan Stadium	12,000
Al Jazira	Abu Dhabi	Luis Milla	Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium	42,056
Al Ain	Al Ain	Cosmin Olăroiu	Tahnoun bin Mohammed Stadium	15,000
Al Wahda	Abu Dhabi	Josef Hickersberger	Al-Nahyan Stadium	12,000
Al Shaab Sharjah	Sharjah	Marius Șumudică	Khalid Bin Mohammed Stadium	10,000
Al Shabab	Dubai	Marcos Paqueta	Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium	12,000
Al Wasl	Dubai	Eid Baroot	Zabeel Stadium	12,000
Al Nasr	Dubai	Walter Zenga	Al-Maktoum Stadium	12,000
Ajman	Ajman	Abdul Alwab Abdulkadir	Ajman Stadium	10,000
Dubai	Dubai	Rene Marsiglia	Police Officers Club Stadium	6,500
Bani Yas	Abu Dhabi	Salem Al Orafi	Bani Yas Stadium	9,570
Dubba Al Fujairah	Fujairah	Abdullah Misfir	Fujairah Club Stadium	3,500
Ittihad Kalba	Kalba	Zé Mario	Ittihad Kalba Club Stadium	3,000

Managerial changes

Managerial changes during the 2012–13 campaign.

Pre-season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Al Wasl	Diego Maradona	Sacked^[3]	Bruno Metsu^[4]
Al Wahda	Josef Hickersberger	Resigned^[5]	Branko Ivankovic^[6]
Al Dhafra			Dzemal Hadziabdic^[7]
Al Sharjah	Valeriu Tiţa		Faouzi Benzarti^[8]
Dubai Club	Ayman Ramadi		Rene Marsiglia^[9]
Bani Yas	Gabriel Calderón^[10]	Contract not renewed	Jozef Chovanec^[11]
Al Jazira	Caio Junior^[12]	Contract not renewed	Paulo Bonamigo^[13]
Al Shabab	Paulo Bonamigo^[13]	Resigned	Marcos Paqueta

During season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Ittihad Kalba	Dragan Talajic	Sacked^[14]	Lufti Benzarti
Al Wasl	Bruno Metsu	Illness^[15]	Gilles Morisseau & Nasser Khamis
Dubba Al Fujairah	Marcelo Ribeiro Cabo	Sacked^[16]	Abdullah Misfir
Al Wasl	Gilles Morisseau & Nasser Khamis	Temporary Mandate^[17]	Guy Lacombe
Ittihad Kalba	Lufti Benzarti	Sacked^[18]	Zé Mario
Al Shaab Sharjah	Sérgio Alexandre	Sacked^[18]	Marius Șumudică
Al Dhafra	Dzemal Hadziabdic	Sacked^[18]	Laurent Banide
Al Wasl	Guy Lacombe	Sacked^[19]	Eid Baroot
Al Jazira	Paulo Bonamigo	Sacked	Luis Milla^[20]
Al Wahda	Branko Ivankovic	Sacked^[21]	Josef Hickersberger
Baniyas	Jozef Chovanec	Became Technical Director^[22]	Salem Al Orafi

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Ain (C)	26	20	2	4	74	26	+48	62	Qualification to the 2014 AFC Champions League Group Stage
2	Al-Ahli	26	15	6	5	62	33	+29	51
3	Al Jazira	26	13	8	5	56	37	+19	47
4	Baniyas	26	14	5	7	50	37	+13	47	Qualification to the 2014 AFC Champions League Second Qualifying Round
5	Al Shabab	26	13	3	10	48	39	+9	42	Qualification to the 2014 GCC Champions League
6	Al Nasr	26	11	6	9	51	40	+11	39	Qualification to the 2014 GCC Champions League
7	Al-Wahda	26	12	3	11	44	41	+3	39
8	Al Dhafra	26	9	9	8	37	46	−9	36
9	Al Wasl	26	8	8	10	41	45	−4	32
10	Ajman	26	8	6	12	48	58	−10	30
11	Dubai Club	26	6	9	11	32	53	−21	27
12	Al-Shaab	26	7	4	15	37	49	−12	25
13	Fujairah (R)	26	6	3	17	30	55	−25	21	Relegation to the 2013–14 UAE Second Division
14	Ittihad Kalba (R)	26	3	2	21	24	75	−51	11	Relegation to the 2013–14 UAE Second Division

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	AJM	ALI	AIN	DHA	ITT	JAZ	NAS	SHB	SHA	WAH	WAS	YAS	FUJ	DUB
Ajman		1–2	1–4	0–3	6–1	2–4	2–1	3–1	2–2	4–2	0–2	3–3	3–3	2–1
Al-Ahli	3–0		0–3	1–1	3–0	0–2	2–2	2–0	5–1	2–0	4–0	0–0	1–0	1–1
Al Ain	4–0	3–6		7–0	6–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	5–0	2–2	0–1	3–0
Al Dhafra	1–1	2–1	0–3		1–0	2–1	1–0	3–3	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–3	2–3	1–1
Ittihad Kalba	0–3	1–3	1–3	2–1		1–3	2–1	0–4	0–2	0–6	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–3
Al Jazira	2–1	2–2	2–2	4–1	3–1		1–2	2–0	2–1	2–2	2–3	3–0	3–3	1–1
Al Nasr	1–1	2–3	0–2	1–2	6–1	3–3		2–1	2–3	4–1	2–2	2–1	3–1	4–1
Al-Shaab	2–1	1–3	1–0	2–2	2–1	2–3	1–1		0–3	1–2	0–0	1–3	5–3	2–3
Al Shabab	2–2	2–0	2–3	0–2	3–2	5–1	2–4	1–2		3–2	2–1	2–0	2–0	3–1
Al-Wahda	3–4	2–6	2–0	3–0	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	1–0		1–1	2–0	2–0	1–2
Al Wasl	4–2	2–2	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–0	0–1	3–2	2–1	4–1		0–1	2–3	3–1
Baniyas	5–0	1–4	0–3	2–2	2–0	1–3	3–1	4–2	1–0	1–1	3–1		2–0	5–0
Fujairah	1–4	1–0	1–5	0–2	2–3	0–4	1–3	0–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	1–2		0–1
Dubai Club	1–0	3–6	2–5	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–3	2–2	2–3	0–0

Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Asamoah Gyan	Al Ain	31
2	Grafite	Al Ahli	24
3	Giuseppe Mascara	Al Nasr	10
3	Emiliano Alfaro	Al Wasl	9
5	Ricardo Oliveira	Al Jazira	9
6	Bruno Correa	Al Nasr	8
	Papa Waigo	Al-Wahda	8
	Richard Porta	Dubai Club	8
	André Senghor	Baniyas	8
	Boris Kabi	Ajman	8

References

↑ "UAE FA increases the number of professional clubs to 14". ufl.ae. 4 June 2012. Retrieved 4 June 2012.
↑ Amith Passela. "UAE Pro League to expand to 14 teams". The National. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
↑ "Maradona sacked as coach of Al Wasl". Gulf News. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
↑ "Bruno Metsu confirmed as Maradona's replacement at Al Wasl". The National. 17 July 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
↑ "Al Wahda waste no time recruiting new faces". The National. 7 May 2012. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
↑ "Al Wahda line up Ivankovic to replace Hickersberger". The National. 1 May 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
↑ "Football: Al Dhafra recruit for play-offs". The National. 31 July 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
↑ "Pro League round-up: Nasr stand firm on Bresciano". The National. 29 July 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
↑ "Dubai coach Marsiglia hails signing of former Al Wahda midfielder Magrao". The National. 20 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
↑ "Another Pro League coach bites the dust". Gulf News. 30 May 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
↑ "Bani Yas looking to build on last season". Gulf News. 14 July 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
↑ "Scocco among key figures on the way out from UAE". The National. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2012.
1 2 "Bonamigo breaks Al Shabab deal to take over at Al Jazira". The National. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2012.
↑ "Kalba sack manager Dragan Talajic after losing start to new season". The National. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
↑ "Al Wasl's Metsu has 'serious medical condition'". Gulf News. 16 October 2012. Retrieved 16 October 2012.
↑ "Al Shabab smart to retain Marcos Paqueta". The National. 24 October 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
↑ "Al Wasl sign an 8 – month contract with Lacombe". Pro League Committee. 8 November 2012.
1 2 3 "Al Shaab fire coach Sergio Alexandre after run of defeats". The National. 16 December 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
↑ "Guy Lacombe dismissed as Al Wasl coach". The UAE National. 18 February 2013.
↑ "Al Jazira 4 Al Dhafra 1". The National. 21 February 2013.
↑ "Josef Hickersberger 'eager to start again' as Al Wahda coach". The National. 28 April 2013. Retrieved 28 April 2013.
↑ "GCC Championship semi-final: Time for Baniyas loyal Salem Al Orafi to shine". The National. 7 May 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.

External links

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Super Cups	China Japan Malaysia Oman Saudi Arabia Singapore Thailand Vietnam

Regional club competitions	2012–13 GCC Champions League 2012–13 UAFA Club Cup

AFC club competitions	AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off Group stage Knock-out stage Final AFC Cup Qualifying play-off Group stage Knock-out stage Final AFC President's Cup

National team competitions	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 2015 AFC Asian Cup qualification 2014 AFC Challenge Cup qualification 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup 2013 East Asian Games 2013 Southeast Asian Games 2014 WAFF Championship

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