Al-Wasl F.C.

Al-Wasl
	Al Wasl FC team at ACL in 2018
Full name	Al-Wasl Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Cheetahs
Founded	1974
Ground	Zabeel Stadium,; Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	Rashid Bin Ghaid
Manager	Rodolfo Arruabarrena
League	UAE Football League
2025-26	3rd

Al-Wasl, founded in Dubai in the 60s, is a football club based in the United Arab Emirates. The club is known for its rich history. It is a part of the Al Wasl Sports Club

History

Start of the club

Al Wasl FC was founded in 1960, in the house of Al-Zamalek, it began growing in 1962, and they moved stadium to Zabeel Stadium. In 1966 they won the UAE championship defeating Al-Shabaab in the final.

Dominant Years

In 1980s they began dominating the league, winning in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1988. Later in 1992 and 1997 they also won the title. They won the UAEFC in 1993 (UAE Federation Cup).

Present Years

In 2006/07 they won the league again, and in 2010, they won the Gulf Cup Champions.

Players

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	Khaled Al-Senani
2	DF	Colombia	Daniel Pedrozo ^U21
3	DF	United Arab Emirates	Yousif Al-Mheiri
4	DF	Morocco	Soufiane Bouftini
5	MF	United Arab Emirates	Ali Salmeen
6	MF	Mali	Siaka Sidibe ^U23
7	FW	United Arab Emirates	Ali Saleh
8	FW	Switzerland	Haris Seferovic
9	FW	Ivory Coast	Adama Diallo
10	MF	United Arab Emirates	Fábio Lima
11	MF	United Arab Emirates	Majed Suroor (on loan from Al-Sharjah)
12	DF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulrahman Saleh
13	DF	United Arab Emirates	Faris Khalil
14	DF	Brazil	Rodrigo Oliveira
15	DF	South Korea	Jung Seung-hyun
16	DF	Morocco	Nour Zarkane ^U23
17	FW	United Arab Emirates	Caio Canedo
18	MF	Syria	Malek Janeer
19	DF	Japan	Takashi Uchino ^U23
21	MF	Ivory Coast	Jean N'Guessan


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	Guinea-Bissau	Sana Gomes
23	MF	United Arab Emirates	Tahnoon Al-Zaabi
25	DF	Colombia	Alexis Pérez
28	MF	United Arab Emirates	Naser Salem ^U23
29	DF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulla Bader ^U23
31	MF	United Arab Emirates	Nicolás Giménez
32	GK	United Arab Emirates	Mohamed Qayoudhi
33	MF	Serbia	Srđan Mijailović
36	MF	United Arab Emirates	Mohammed Shaaban ^U23
39	MF	Syria	Khaled Al-Hamoush ^U21
44	DF	United Arab Emirates	Salem Al-Azizi
53	DF	United Arab Emirates	Omar Haikal ^U23
55	GK	United Arab Emirates	Abdullah Salem
58	MF	Saudi Arabia	Yasir Al-Shammari ^U21
59	DF	United Arab Emirates	Atiq Esam ^U21
77	MF	United Arab Emirates	Jonatas Santos ^U23 (on loan from Al-Ain)
78	FW	United Arab Emirates	Rabee Hassan ^U23
88	MF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulla Al-Shamsi ^U23
89	FW	United Arab Emirates	Mohammed Al-Mehairi ^U23
99	GK	United Arab Emirates	Yousuf Al Rahma ^U23

Unregistered players

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	Argentina	Gerónimo Poblete


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
90	MF	Nigeria	Isaac Success

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
60	MF	United Arab Emirates	Ghanem Ahmad (on loan to Emirates)
—	GK	United Arab Emirates	Suhail Abdulla (on loan to Dibba Al-Hisn)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	Brazil	Luizão (on loan to Dibba Al-Hisn)

Players

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	Khaled Al-Senani
2	DF	Colombia	Daniel Pedrozo
3	DF	United Arab Emirates	Yousif Al-Mheiri
4	DF	Morocco	Soufiane Bouftini
6	MF	Mali	Siaka Sidibe
7	FW	United Arab Emirates	Ali Saleh
8	MF	United Arab Emirates	Tahnoon Al-Zaabi
10	MF	United Arab Emirates	Fábio Lima
11	FW	Brazil	Matheus Saldanha
12	DF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulrahman Saleh
13	MF	Peru	Renato Tapia
14	DF	Brazil	Rodrigo Oliveira
16	DF	Brazil	Hugo


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	GK	United Arab Emirates	Suhail Abdulla
18	MF	Syria	Malek Janeer
19	MF	Cape Verde	Serginho
20	DF	United Arab Emirates	Faris Khalil
21	MF	Ivory Coast	Jean N'Guessan
30	MF	Colombia	Brahian Palacios (on loan from Atlético Mineiro)
31	MF	United Arab Emirates	Nicolás Giménez
32	GK	United Arab Emirates	Mohamed Qayoudhi
34	DF	Brazil	Adryelson
44	DF	United Arab Emirates	Salem Al-Azizi
79	DF	Portugal	Pedro Malheiro
90	FW	Ivory Coast	Adama Diallo
96	FW	Brazil	Renato Júnior

Reserve team

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	GK	Ivory Coast	Moriba Kamara
25	DF	Brazil	Gabriel Vareta
26	MF	Gabon	Roy Mbongui
29	DF	United Arab Emirates	Abdullah Badr
36	MF	United Arab Emirates	Mohammed Shaaban
39	MF	Syria	Khaled Al-Hamoush
50	GK	United Arab Emirates	Yousuf Al Rahma


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
53	DF	United Arab Emirates	Omar Haikal
54	DF	Nigeria	Abdullah Hawsawi
59	DF	United Arab Emirates	Atiq Esam
76	MF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulla Ahmed
78	FW	United Arab Emirates	Rabee Hassan
88	MF	United Arab Emirates	Abdulla Al-Shamsi
89	FW	United Arab Emirates	Mohammed Al-Mehairi

Unregistered players

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
60	MF	United Arab Emirates	Ghanem Ahmad


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
73	MF	Morocco	El Mehdi El Khamlichi

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	DF	Japan	Takashi Uchino (on loan to Dibba)

Honours

Domestic competitions

UAE Pro League: 8
- Winner: 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1987–88, 1991–92, 1996–97, 2006–07, 2023–24
UAE President's Cup: 3
- Winner: 1986–87, 2006–07, 2023–24
UAE Federation Cup: 1
- Winner: 1992–93
The IFFHS named Al Wasl as the UAE's Club of the 20th Century.

Regional competitions

GCC Champions League
- Winner (1) : 2009–10
- Runners-up (2): 2005, 2012
Arab Club Champions Cup
- Semi-finals: 1998
- Quarter-finals: 2018–19
Qatar–UAE Super Shield

Winner: (1) 2024_25

Performance in AFC competitions

AFC Champions League: 3 appearances

2008: Group stage

2018: Group stage

2019: Group stage

Asian Club Championship: 4 appearances

1986: Qualifying Stage

1989–90: Qualifying Stage

1992–93: Third Place

1994–95: Quarter finals

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Vacant
Assistant coach	Vacant
	Goalkeeper coach	Romulo Nunes
	Fitness coach	Nikolaos Giagou
	Chief analyst	Paul Mitchell

Managerial history

^* Served as caretaker coach.

Name	From	To
Bakhit Salem	1960	1970
Ismail Al-Jarman	1971	1971
Zaki Osman	1972	1973
Valinhos	1980	1981
Joel Santana	1981	1986
Hassan Shehata	1986	1988
Antônio Lopes	1988	1989
Gílson Nunes	1989	1990
Dimitri Davidović	1991	1992
Arthur Bernardes	1996	1998
Alain Laurier	1998	December 1998
Paulo Campos	January 1999	May 1999
Henryk Kasperczak	September 1999	February 2000
Alain Laurier*	March 2000	May 2000
Josef Hickersberger	June 2000	June 2001
Johan Boskamp	July 2001	2002
Martín Lasarte	2002	2002
Khalifa Al Shamsi*	2002	March 2003
Arthur Bernardes	March 2003	May 2004
Vinko Begović	2004	2005
Zé Mário	2006	2007
Miroslav Beránek	2007	2008
Alexandre Guimarães	July 2009	May 2010
Khalifa Al Shamsi	June 2010	June 2011
Sérgio Farias	August 2010	April 2011
Diego Maradona	May 2011	July 2012
Bruno Metsu	July 2012	October 2012
Guy Lacombe	November 2012	February 2013
Eid Baroot	February 2013	May 2013
Laurent Banide	June 2013	October 2013
Héctor Cúper	November 2013	March 2014
Jorginho*	March 2014	October 2014
Gabriel Calderón	October 2014	May 2016
Rodolfo Arruabarrena	July 2016	June 2018
Gustavo Quinteros	July 2018	October 2018
Hassan Al Abdouli*	October 2018	December 2018
Laurențiu Reghecampf	December 2018	October 2020
Salem Rabie*	October 2020	December 2020
Odair Hellmann	December 2020	June 2022
Juan Antonio Pizzi	July 2022	May 2023
Miloš Milojević	June 2023	May 2025
Luís Castro	June 2025	November 2025

Pro-League record

Season	Lvl.	Tms.	Pos.	President's Cup	League Cup
2008–09	1	12	7th	Round of 16	First Round
2009–10	1	12	5th	Round of 16	First Round
2010–11	1	12	6th	Semi-Finals	Semi-Finals
2011–12	1	12	8th	Quarter-Finals	Semi-Finals
2012–13	1	14	9th	Round of 16	First Round
2013–14	1	14	12th	Quarter-Finals	First Round
2014–15	1	14	6th	Round of 16	First Round
2015–16	1	14	6th	Quarter-Finals	Semi-Finals
2016–17	1	14	2nd	Quarter-Finals	Semi-Finals
2017–18	1	12	3rd	Runner-ups	Runner-ups
2018–19	1	14	9th	Semi-Finals	Quarter-Finals
2019–20^a	1	14	8th	Quarter-Finals	Quarter-Finals
2020–21	1	14	9th	Quarter-Finals	Semi-Finals
2021–22	1	14	6th	Semi-Finals	Quarter-Finals
2022–23	1	14	4th	Semi-Finals	First Round
2023–24	1	14	1st	Champions	Semi-Finals
2024–25	1	14	4th	Semi-Finals	Semi-Finals

_{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

References

↑ "Al Wasl - Clubs - UAE Pro League Committee". uae.agleague.ae. Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
↑ Atsushi Fujioka (6 September 2018). "United Arab Emirates – List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
1 2 Hans Schöggl and Karel Stokkermans (31 January 2019). "United Arab Emirates – List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
↑ "IFFHS – Asia's Club of the Century". Archived from the original on 18 March 2013.
↑ "Club Milestones". Al Ain FC. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.
1 2 Arthur Bernardes Profile; SambaFoot.com Archived 19 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine
↑ (in Croatian) Novi list Toni Bilić: Vinko Begović, trener iranskog "Pegah Dilana", komentira status izbornika iranske reprezentacije, 1 December 2005 "Splićanin Vinko Begović već šest godina radi kao trener u Iranu, jednu je sezonu proveo u Ujedinjenim Arapskim Emiratima..."
↑ "Guimaraes, willing to lead Honduras". DIEZ.HN (in Spanish). 5 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
↑ "Khalifa takes the reins for Al Wasl against Kalba". The National. Abu Dhabi. 24 April 2011.
↑ "Maradona hired to coach UAE club Al Wasl". CBC Sports. 16 May 2011. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
↑ Dispensing services French coach Guy Lacombe; www.alwaslsc.ae
↑ باروت يقود اول تمرين له مع الفهود; www.alwaslsc.ae
↑ Gary Meenaghan (21 October 2013). "Laurent Banide dismissed as Al Wasl coach". The National. Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Media. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
↑ Ahmed Rizvi (2014). "Al Wasl part ways with Hector Cuper after brief, disappointing tenure". The National. Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Media. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
↑ "Gabriel Calderon replaces Jorginho as Al Wasl coach". gulfnews.com. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
↑ Monaghan, Matt (6 January 2019). "Football news: New Al Wasl coach Laurentiu Reghecampf vows to drag them out of AGL relegation 'crisis' - Sport360 News". Sport360.
↑ "مقابل 2 مليون دولار.. هيلمان يقود الوصل في قمة الجزيرة" (in Arabic). albayan. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.

Other websites

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[1] "Al Wasl - Clubs - UAE Pro League Committee". uae.agleague.ae. Archived from the original on 2019-03-21. Retrieved 2016-12-31.

[2] Atsushi Fujioka (6 September 2018). "United Arab Emirates – List of Champions". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 February 2019.

[rsfcup-3] 1 2 Hans Schöggl and Karel Stokkermans (31 January 2019). "United Arab Emirates – List of Cup Winners". RSSSF. Retrieved 6 February 2019.

[4] "IFFHS – Asia's Club of the Century". Archived from the original on 18 March 2013.

[Club_Milestones-5] "Club Milestones". Al Ain FC. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.

[autogenerated1-6] 1 2 Arthur Bernardes Profile; SambaFoot.com Archived 19 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine

[Novi_list-7] (in Croatian) Novi list Toni Bilić: Vinko Begović, trener iranskog "Pegah Dilana", komentira status izbornika iranske reprezentacije, 1 December 2005 "Splićanin Vinko Begović već šest godina radi kao trener u Iranu, jednu je sezonu proveo u Ujedinjenim Arapskim Emiratima..."

[8] "Guimaraes, willing to lead Honduras". DIEZ.HN (in Spanish). 5 July 2010. Archived from the original on 24 January 2019. Retrieved 18 August 2016.

[9] "Khalifa takes the reins for Al Wasl against Kalba". The National. Abu Dhabi. 24 April 2011.

[10] "Maradona hired to coach UAE club Al Wasl". CBC Sports. 16 May 2011. Archived from the original on 12 October 2022. Retrieved 12 October 2022.

[11] Dispensing services French coach Guy Lacombe; www.alwaslsc.ae

[12] باروت يقود اول تمرين له مع الفهود; www.alwaslsc.ae

[13] Gary Meenaghan (21 October 2013). "Laurent Banide dismissed as Al Wasl coach". The National. Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Media. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

[14] Ahmed Rizvi (2014). "Al Wasl part ways with Hector Cuper after brief, disappointing tenure". The National. Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi Media. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

[15] "Gabriel Calderon replaces Jorginho as Al Wasl coach". gulfnews.com. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 2019-09-26.

[16] Monaghan, Matt (6 January 2019). "Football news: New Al Wasl coach Laurentiu Reghecampf vows to drag them out of AGL relegation 'crisis' - Sport360 News". Sport360.

[17] "مقابل 2 مليون دولار.. هيلمان يقود الوصل في قمة الجزيرة" (in Arabic). albayan. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.