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.

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

History

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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

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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

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

Coaching staff

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Position Name
Manager   Goran Tomić
Assistant Manager  
Goalkeeper Coach  
Fitness Coach  
Match Analyst  
Sporting Director   Hussein Yasser

Managerial history

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* Served as caretaker coach.

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

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "فريق: البطائح". kooora.com (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. ^ "UAE Football Association". uaefa.ae. Archived from the original on 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  3. ^ "The Beginning". Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  4. ^ "احتفال تاريخي للبطائح "ثاني الصاعدين" لدوري المحترفين الإماراتي" (in Arabic). Emaratalyoum. Archived from the original on 2022-04-29. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
  5. ^ "إنهاء علاقة البطائح ومدربه ودّياً" (in Arabic). Albayan. Archived from the original on 2023-11-26. Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  6. ^ فضل, متابعة – محمد (28 February 2021). "البطائح يقيل مدربه العبيدي ويكلف "شخيت" بالمهمة". البيان (in Arabic). albayan. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
  7. ^ "عبد الله مسفر يقود تدريبات البطائح" (in Arabic). albayan. March 2021. Archived from the original on 2021-04-13. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
  8. ^ "البطائح يتعاقد مع المدرب التونسي طارق الحضيري لموسم واحد" (in Arabic). emaratalyoum. 19 May 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
  9. ^ "غوران مدرباً للبطائح" (in Arabic). Al Bayan. Archived from the original on 2024-01-06. Retrieved 7 January 2024.