United Arab Emirates national football team
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| Nickname(s) | The White Jersey Eyal Zayed (Zayed's sons) |
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| Association | U.A.E. Football Association |
| Confederation | AFC (Asia) |
| Sub-confederation | WAFF (West Asia) |
| Head coach | Mahdi Ali |
| Captain | Ismail Matar |
| Most caps | Adnan Al Talyani (161) |
| Top scorer | Adnan Al Talyani (52) |
| FIFA code | UAE |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 64  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 40 (November–December 1998) |
| Lowest | 138 (January 2012) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 62 (19 December 2016) |
| Highest | 24 (15 January 2015) |
| Lowest | 140 (September 1981) |
| First international | |
 United Arab Emirates 4–0 Qatar  (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; March 17, 1972) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Brunei 0–14 United Arab Emirates (B. S. Begawan, Brunei; April 14, 2001) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
United Arab Emirates 0–8 Brazil  (Abu Dhabi, UAE; November 12, 2005) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1990) |
| Best result | Group stage, 1990 |
| Asian Cup | |
| Appearances | 9 (first in 1980) |
| Best result | Second Place, 1996 |
| Confederations Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 1997) |
| Best result | Group Stage, 1997 |
The United Arab Emirates national football team (Arabic: منتخب الإمارات العربية المتحدة لكرة القدم) represents the United Arab Emirates in association football and is controlled by the United Arab Emirates Football Association, the governing body for football in United Arab Emirates and competes in AFC. They were for a time managed by legendary English manager Don Revie.
United Arab Emirates' home ground varies. Most home games have been played at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi with Abu Dhabi's Al Jazira Stadium and Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium in Al Ain as other venues
It has made one World Cup appearance, in 1990 in Italy, but lost all three of its games to Colombia, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Two years later the UAE took fourth place in the 1992 Asian Cup, and runner-up in 1996 as hosts of the tournament. In both tournaments their final match was lost on penalty kicks. They also won the Gulf Cup of Nations on two occasions – in 2007 when they won a title for the first time in their history and then in 2013. They finished third in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup and will be hosting the next AFC Asian Cup in 2019.
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