Al Bataeh Club

Al Bataeh Club
Full nameAl Bataeh Cultural & Sports Club
Founded2012; 12 years ago (2012)[1]
GroundAl Bataeh Stadium
Capacity2,000[citation needed]
ChairmanSaud bin Sultan Al Qasimi
ManagerGoran Tomić
LeagueUAE Pro League
2023–24UAE Pro League, 7th

Al Bataeh Club is a professional football club from Al Bataeh, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.[2] The team joined the UAE football league in 2019–20 season.

History

Founded in 2012, the club started its sporting activities with table tennis and athletics.[3] The football team was established in 2013 as a youth academy and competed in many youth tournaments. In 2019, the club joined the UAE football league system in the UAE First Division League, while its first season was interrupted due to COVID-19 pandemic, it consistently performed well, finishing 3rd in both of their first two seasons. The club would secure promotion in 2021 after finishing second in the 2021–22 season, becoming one of the fastest clubs to get promoted as they only spent three seasons in the second tier.[4]

Pro-League record

Season Lvl. Tms. Pos. President's Cup League Cup
2019–20a 2 11 3rd Round of 16
2020–21 2 11 3rd Preliminary Round
2021–22 2 15 2nd Preliminary Round
2022–23 1 14 12th Quarter-Finals First Round
2023–24 1 14 7th Round of 16 First Round

Notes^ 2019–20 UAE football season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Arab Emirates.

Key

  • Pos. = Position
  • Tms. = Number of teams
  • Lvl. = League

Current squad

As of UAE Pro League:

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK United Arab Emirates UAE Mohamed Juma
3 MF Ivory Coast CIV Ulrich Meleke
5 MF Brazil BRA Neto U23
6 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Mohamed Ahmed
7 FW United Arab Emirates UAE Mohammed Al-Hammadi
8 MF Uzbekistan UZB Azizjon Ganiev
9 FW Brazil BRA Álvaro
10 MF Brazil BRA Paulinho
11 FW United Arab Emirates UAE Ahmed Khalil
13 GK United Arab Emirates UAE Darwish Bin Habib (on loan from Al-Sharjah)
14 MF United Arab Emirates UAE Hamad Al-Balooshi
18 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Eisa Ahmed
19 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Ahmed Al-Zeyoudi
20 MF Croatia CRO Ivan Šaranić U23
22 MF Brazil BRA Ivonei U23
23 DF Cape Verde CPV Diney
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Rashed Abdulla U23
26 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Abdulaziz Haikal
28 FW United Arab Emirates UAE Abdallah Saleh U23
29 FW Cameroon CMR Anatole Abang
30 MF United Arab Emirates UAE Mohammed Jumaa
31 MF United Arab Emirates UAE Saud Khalil U23
32 MF Brazil BRA Weberty Silva
34 DF Brazil BRA Rafael Pereira
37 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Rashed Muhayer
44 GK United Arab Emirates UAE Ibrahim Essa
45 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Saeed Juma
55 GK United Arab Emirates UAE Ahmed Sulaiman U23
62 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Ahmed Al Ali U23
94 FW Argentina ARG Nicolas Clemente
96 DF United Arab Emirates UAE Marwan Fahad
99 MF Nigeria NGA Haruna Hassan U23

Coaching staff

Position Name
Manager Croatia Goran Tomić
Assistant Manager United Arab Emirates
Goalkeeper Coach United Arab Emirates
Fitness Coach United Arab Emirates
Match Analyst United Arab Emirates
Sporting Director Qatar Hussein Yasser

Managerial history

* Served as caretaker coach.

Name Nat. From To Ref.
Tareq Al Sayed Egypt October 2019 June 2020
Giovanni Tedesco Italy October 2020 November 2020 [5]
Saeed Shakhit* Morocco November 2020 November 2020
Noureddine Abidi Tunisia November 2020 February 2021 [6]
Abdullah Mesfer United Arab Emirates March 2021 May 2021 [7]
Tarek Hadhiri Tunisia May 2021 May 2022 [8]
Caio Zanardi Brazil May 2022 November 2022
Saeed Shakhit* Morocco November 2022 May 2023
Mirel Rădoi Romania May 2023 December 2023
Goran Tomić Croatia January 2024 Present [9]

See also

References

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