2011–12 UAE Pro-League

Pro-League
Season	2011–12
Champions	Al Ain 10th title
Relegated	Emirates Club Al Sharjah
Champions League	Al Ain Al Jazira Al Nasr Al Shabab
Matches played	132
Goals scored	449 (3.4 per match)
Top goalscorer	Asamoah Gyan (22)
Biggest home win	Al Jazira 5–0 Al Sharjah
Biggest away win	Emirates Club 1–5 Al Shabab Al Wasl 2–6 Al Ahli Al Jazira 1–5 Al-Nasr
Highest scoring	Al Sharjah 4–5 Al-Nasr (9 goals)
Highest attendance	21,455 Al Jazira 1–3 Al Ain
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Pro-League season (known as Etisalat Pro-League for sponsorship reasons) was the 37th top-level football season in the UAE, and the fourth Professional season.

Al Jazira was the defending champions, having won their 1st Pro-League title in the 2010–11 campaign after being runner-up for three times in a row. Al Dhafra and Ittihad Kalba were relegated from the previous season. Ajman and Emirates were promoted from the UAE Division 1 Group A.^[1] The campaign began on 15 October 2011^[2] and finished on 27 May 2012.

Teams

Ittihad Kalba and Al Dhafra were relegated to the 2011–12 UAE Division 1 Group A after finishing in the bottom two spots of the table at the end of the 2010-11 season. The two relegated teams were replaced by 2nd level champions Ajman Club and runners up Emirates Club.^[1]

Stadia and locations

Dubai

Ajman

Abu Dhabi

Al Ain

Sharjah

Ras al-Khaimah

Locations of teams in the 2011–12 UAE Pro-League

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
Al Ahli	Dubai	Rashed Stadium	18,000
Al Jazira	Abu Dhabi	Al Jazira Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium	42,056
Al Ain	Al Ain	Tahnoun bin Mohammed Stadium	15,000
Al Wahda	Abu Dhabi	Al-Nahyan Stadium	12,000
Al Shabab	Dubai	Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Stadium	12,000
Al Wasl	Dubai	Zabeel Stadium	12,000
Al Nasr	Dubai	Al-Maktoum Stadium	12,000
Al Sharjah	Sharjah	Sharjah Stadium	18,000
Ajman	Ajman	Ajman Stadium	10,000
Dubai	Dubai	Police Officers Club Stadium	6,500
Bani Yas	Abu Dhabi	Bani Yas Stadium	9,570
Emirates Club	Ras al-Khaimah	Emirates Club Stadium	5,000

Personnel

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Chairman	Head Coach	Captain
Al Ahli	Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	Quique Flores	Mohammed Qassim
Al Jazira	Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Caio Junior	Lucas Neill
Al Wahda	Saeed bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Josef Hickersberger	Fahed Masoud
Al Ain	Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Cosmin Olăroiu	Rami Yaslam
Al Sharjah	Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Thani	Valeriu Tiţa	Nawaf Mubarak
Al Nasr	Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid	Walter Zenga	Abdallah Mousa
Ajman	Sheikh Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi	Abdulwahab Abdulkadir	Mohamed Zahran
Emirates	Ahmed bin Saqr Al Qassimi	Ghazi Ghrairi	Karim Kerkar
Baniyas	Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Gabriel Calderón	Fawzi Bashir
Al Wasl	Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum	Diego Maradona	Khalid Darwish
Al Shabab	Saeed bin Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum	Paulo Bonamigo	Hassan Al Sharif
Dubai	Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Maktoum	Ayman Ramadi	Jamal Abdullah

Managerial changes

Managerial changes during the 2011-12 campaign.

Pre-season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Al Wasl	Khalifa Mubarak	Caretaker role ended^[3]	Diego Maradona
Al Jazira	Abel Braga	Contract finished	Franky Vercauteren^[4]
Al Ain	Alexandre Gallo	Contract finished^[5]	Cosmin Olăroiu
Baniyas	Mahdi Ali^[6]	Caretaker role ended	Jorvan Vieira
Al-Ahli	Abdulhameed al Mishtiki	Caretaker role ended^[7]	Ivan Hašek^[8]
Al Sharjah	Carlos Azenha	Resigned before season started^[9]	Valeriu Tiţa^[10]

During the season

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Replaced by
Dubai	Néstor Clausen	Resigned	Umberto Barberis
Dubai	Umberto Barberis	Caretaker role ended	Ion Marin^[11]
Baniyas	Jorvan Vieira	Sacked	Salem Al-Orfi
Al-Ahli	Ivan Hašek	Sacked	Quique Flores
Baniyas	Salem Al-Orfi	Sacked	Gabriel Calderón^[12]
Dubai	Ion Marin	Sacked ^[13]	Pierre-Andre Schurmann
Dubai	Pierre-Andre Schurmann	Caretaker role ended	Ayman Ramadi
Al Sharjah	Valeriu Tiţa	Sacked^[14]	Jorvan Vieira
Al Sharjah	Jorvan Vieira	Sacked^[15]	Valeriu Tiţa
Al Jazira	Franky Vercauteren	Sacked^[16]	Caio Junior
Al Sharjah	Valeriu Tiţa	Sacked^[17]	Abdulmajeed Al Nimr

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Ain (C)	22	17	4	1	52	16	+36	55	2013 AFC Champions League Group stage
2	Al Nasr	22	11	8	3	49	33	+16	41	2013 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off
3	Al Shabab	22	10	8	4	39	27	+12	38	2013 AFC Champions League Qualifying play-off
4	Al Jazira	22	11	2	9	47	38	+9	35	2013 AFC Champions League Group stage ¹
5	Al-Ahli	22	10	4	8	45	42	+3	34
6	Al-Wahda	22	8	9	5	32	30	+2	33
7	Ajman	22	9	4	9	36	35	+1	31
8	Al Wasl	22	7	5	10	32	40	−8	26
9	Baniyas	22	6	6	10	34	39	−5	24	2012–13 GCC Champions League
10	Dubai Club	22	5	5	12	29	40	−11	20
11	Emirates Club (R)	22	5	2	15	28	56	−28	17	Promotion/Relegation Stage
12	Sharjah (R)	22	2	5	15	26	53	−27	11	Promotion/Relegation Stage

Updated to games played on 27 May 2012.
Source: Standings
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Al Jazira secured qualification for the 2013 AFC Champions League through winning the 2011–12 UAE President's Cup
(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.

Results

Home \ Away^[1]	AJM	ALI	AIN	JAZ	NAS	SHA	WAH	WAS	YAS	DUB	EMI	SHR
Ajman		0–1	1–4	3–4	1–2	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–0	2–1
Al-Ahli	2–0		0–2	2–1	3–3	2–3	2–2	1–2	6–4	5–2	2–0	2–2
Al Ain	4–0	1–0		2–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–1
Al Jazira	1–0	4–0	1–3		1–5	2–0	4–2	1–0	3–1	0–2	4–1	5–0
Al Nasr	1–1	4–0	2–0	2–2		2–1	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–1	5–3	3–2
Al Shabab	4–4	2–0	1–1	3–2	2–2		2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	5–1
Al-Wahda	1–0	3–3	2–2	3–2	1–1	0–0		2–1	2–1	1–1	2–2	1–0
Al Wasl	2–4	2–6	2–2	0–1	2–2	2–2	0–2		1–0	1–2	4–1	3–0
Baniyas	1–2	1–3	2–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	2–2	1–2		2–0	4–1	2–2
Dubai Club	1–3	1–2	0–2	2–4	1–2	1–1	0–0	5–2	1–2		2–4	3–0
Emirates Club	1–3	2–1	1–4	3–2	1–3	1–5	2–1	1–2	0–2	2–1		1–2
Sharjah	1–3	1–2	1–4	2–2	4–5	1–0	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–1

Updated to games played on 11 May 2012.
Source: UFL
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.

Goalscorers

22 goals

Asamoah Gyan (Al Ain)

16 goals

Grafite (Al-Ahli)
André Senghor (Bani Yas)

14 goals

Ricardo Oliveira (Al-Jazira)

13 goals

11 goals

Ciel (Al Shabab)

10 goals

Source: official site:^[18]

References

1 2 "Emirates and Ajman to the Pro-League". ufl.ae. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
↑ "The UFL Board of Directors approved the agenda of the next season 2011-2012". ufl.ae. 15 May 2011. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
↑ "Maradona Confirmed as Al Wasl Coach Football legend to start his managerial role from next season". UFL. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 17 May 2011.
↑ "Vercauteren asked to delay UAE switch to Al Jazira". The National. 11 August 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
↑ Al Ain announce officially signing with Cosmin Olaroiu
↑ "Ali defends his record as Baniyas coach". UFL. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
↑ "Al Ahli focus on quality coach". The National. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
↑ Al Ahli appoint Ivan Hasek as new coach
↑ "Azenha resignation stuns Sharjah". The National. 13 September 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
↑ "Sharjah plug their coach gap with Romanian". The National. 17 September 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
↑ "Pro League club Dubai unveil Ion Marin as new coach". The National. 3 October 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
↑ "Pro League: Baniyas appoint Calderon". The National. 25 November 2011. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
↑ "Pierre-Andre Schurmann to become Dubai's fourth manager of the season". The National. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
↑ "Viera: Sincere respect to Dubai". Pro League. 22 December 2011. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
↑ "Pro League news: Bobby Zamora turned down Al Jazira". The National. 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012.
↑ "Franky Vercauteren dismissed by Al Jazira". The National. 8 March 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
↑ "Tita dismissed as Sharjah coach for the second time". The National. 8 April 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
↑ "Goals: 2011-2012". Etisalat Pro-League Statistics. Pro League. Retrieved 27 June 2012.

External links

Pro League Official Website
Football Association The UAE Football Association

UAE Arabian Gulf League

UAE Arabian Gulf League	Al Ahli Al Ain Baniyas Al Dhafra Dibba Al-Fujairah Emirates Hatta Ittihad Kalba Al Jazira Al Nasr Al Shabab Al Sharjah Al Wahda Al Wasl

UAE Division 1	Ajamn Al Arabi Dibba Al-Hisn Dubai Al Fujairah Al Hamriyah Al Khaleej Masfut Ras Al Khaima Al Shaab Al Thaid Al Urobah

Other Club	Al Jazira Al Hamra Masafi Al Rams Al Taawon

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2011–12 in Emirati football

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Domestic leagues	Pro-League Division 2 Group A (Play-Off 2ª) Division 2 Group B (Play-Off 2ªB)

Domestic cups	Etisalat Emirates Cup UAE President's Cup UAE Federation Cup UAE Super Cup

Asian competitions	Champions League GCC Champions League

Related to national team	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (Second Round) Srečko Katanec

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2011 in Asian Football (AFC)

« 2010 2012 »

Domestic leagues	Australia '10–'11 '11–'12 Bahrain '10–'11 '11–'12 Bangladesh '10–'11 Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Chinese Taipei Guam '11 '11–'12 Hong Kong '10–'11 '11–'12 India '10–'11 '11–'12 Indonesia '10–'11 ISL '11 LPI Iran '10–'11 '11–'12 Iraq '10–'11 '11–'12 Japan Jordan '10–'11 '11–'12 Korea DPR Korea Republic Kuwait '10–'11 '11–'12 Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon '10–'11 '11–'12 Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal '11 '11–'12 Oman '10–'11 '11–'12 Pakistan Palestine '10–'11 '11–'12 Philippines Qatar '10–'11 '11–'12 Saudi Arabia '10–'11 '11–'12 Singapore Sri Lanka '10–'11 '11–'12 Syria '10–'11 '11–'12 Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan UAE '10–'11 '11–'12 Uzbekistan Vietnam '11 '12 (early rounds) Yemen '10–'11 '11–'12

Domestic cups	Bahrain Bangladesh Fed '11–'12 Ind '11 China Hong Kong Shield '10–'11 League Cup '10–'11 FA Cup Shield '11–'12 India Fed Cup Shield Durand Cup Iran '10–'11 '11–'12 Japan Emperor's Cup '10 (final) League Cup Emperor's Cup '11 Jordan FA Cup '10–'11 Shield FA Cup '11–'12 Korea Republic FA Cup League Cup Kuwait Fed Cup '10–'11 Crown Prince Cup '11 Emir Cup '11 Fed Cup '11–'12 Crown Prince Cup '11–'12 Emir Cup '11–'12 Kyrgyzstan Lebanon FA Cup '10–'11 Elite Cup FA Cup '11–'12 Malaysia FA Cup Malaysia Cup Maldives FA Cup President's Cup Oman Philippines PFF Championship UFL Cup Qatar Crown Prince Cup Emir Cup Sheikh Jassem Cup Stars Cup '11–'12 Saudi Arabia King Cup of Champions CP Cup '10–'11 '11–'12 Singpoare Singapore Cup League Cup Syria '10–'11 Thailand FA Cup League Cup Turkmenistan Turkmenistan Cup President's Cup UAE Emirates Cup '10–'11 President's Cup '10–'11 Emirates Cup '11–'12 President's Cup '11–'12 Uzbekistan Vietnam '11 '12 (early rounds)

Regional club competitions	2011 GCC Champions League

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

National team competitions	2011 AFC Asian Cup 2012 AFC Challenge Cup qualification 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 2011 SAFF Championship

National team results	Afghanistan Australia Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China PR Chinese Taipei Guam Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Korea DPR Korea Republic Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkmenistan UAE Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

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Domestic cups	Bahrain Bangladesh '11–'12 '12 Brunei Cambodia '12 '12–'13 China Hong Kong Shield '11–'12 League Cup '11–'12 FA Cup '12 Shield '12–'13 FA Cup '12–'13 India Fed Cup Durand Cup Indonesia Iran '11–'12 '12–'13 Iraq '12–'13 Japan Emperor's Cup '11 (final) League Cup Emperor's Cup '12 Jordan FA Cup '11–'12 FA Cup '12–'13 Korea Republic Kuwait Emir Cup '11–'12 Crown Prince Cup '12–'13 Fed Cup '12–'13 Kyrgyzstan Lebanon FA Cup '11–'12 Elite Cup FA Cup '12–'13 Macau Malaysia FA Cup Malaysia Cup Maldives FA Cup President's Cup Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Fed Cup '12–'13 Sultan Qaboos Cup '12–'13 Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Stars Cup '11–'12 Crown Prince Cup Emir Cup Sheikh Jassem Cup Stars Cup '12–'13 Saudi Arabia King Cup of Champions CP Cup '11–'12 '12–'13 Singapore Singapore Cup League Cup Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand FA Cup '11 (final rounds) League Cup '11 (final) FA Cup '12 League Cup '12 Turkmenistan UAE Emirates Cup '11–'12 President's Cup '11–'12 Emirates Cup '12–'13 President's Cup '12–'13 Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

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

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

National team competitions	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification 2012 AFC Challenge Cup 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup 2012 Arab Nations Cup 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup Preliminary 2012 West Asian Football Federation Championship

National team results	Afghanistan Australia Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China PR Chinese Taipei Guam Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Korea DPR Korea Republic Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Timor-Leste Turkmenistan UAE Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

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