2005–06 Al Ain FC season

Al Ain
2005–06 season
President	Mohammed Bin Zayed
Manager	Milan Máčala; (from 7 January 2005); (until 1 January 2006); Mohammad El Mansi*; (from 1 January 2006); (until 27 May 2007)
Stadium	Tahnoun bin Mohammed
UAE Football League	4th
President's Cup	Winners
Federation Cup	Winners
AFC Champions League	; 2005: Runner-ups; 2006: Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Rami Yaslam (8); All: Nenad Jestrović (14)
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	← 2004–05 2006–07 →
	All statistics correct as of 21 May 2006.

The 2005–06 season was Al Ain Football Club's 38th season in existence and the club's 31st consecutive season in the top-level football league in the UAE.

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Football League	1 September 2005	21 May 2006	Matchday 1	4th	22	13	2	7	42	23	+19	059.09
President's Cup	27 December 2005	3 April 2006	Round of 16	Winners	6	5	1	0	12	5	+7	083.33
Federation Cup	10 November 2005	27 February 2006	Group stage	Winners	4	3	0	1	11	5	+6	075.00
2005 ACL	14 September 2005	5 November 2005	Quarter-finals	Runner-ups	6	1	4	1	13	9	+4	016.67
2006 ACL	8 March 2006	17 May 2006	Group stage	Quarter-finals ^{[note 1]}	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	066.67
Total					44	26	8	10	88	48	+40	059.09

Last updated: 21 May 2006
Source: Competitions

UAE Football League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
2	Al Ahli	22	14	5	3	44	24	+20	47	Qualification for Championship Playoff
3	Al Jazira	22	14	3	5	43	35	+8	45
4	Al Ain	22	13	2	7	42	23	+19	41	Qualification for 2007 AFC Champions League^{[lower-alpha 1]}
5	Al Nasr	22	11	2	9	50	35	+15	35
6	Al Shabab	22	10	4	8	40	39	+1	34

Source: rsssf.com
Notes:

↑ Al Ain qualified to the 2007 AFC Champions League as winners of the 2005–06 UAE President's Cup.

Matches

1 September 2005 1	Al Ain	1–0	Al Nasr	Al Ain
20:20	Tejada File:Soccerball shade.svg 77'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi

7 September 2005 2	Al Jazira	2–1	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
20:15	Ogbeche File:Soccerball shade.svg 67', 89'	Report	R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 50'	Stadium: Mohammed bin Zayed Referee: Khaled Al-Doukhi

6 October 2005 4	Dibba Al-Hisn	0–4	Al Ain	Dibba Al-Hisn
21:30		Report	Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 1' Tejada File:Soccerball shade.svg 62' Al-Wehaibi File:Soccerball shade.svg 70' Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 81'	Stadium: Dibba Stadium Referee: Khaled Al-Doukhi

17 October 2005 5	Al Ain	1–0	Sharjah	Al Ain
21:30	Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 14'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

20 November 2005 7	Al Ain	6–2	Baniyas	Al Ain
16:50	S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 12', 85' R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 67' Ishak File:Soccerball shade.svg 79' Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 82', 89'	Report	Restrepo File:Soccerball shade.svg 17' Dogbé File:Soccerball shade.svg 60'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Salah Amen

26 November 2005 8	Al Shabab	2–1	Al Ain	Dubai
19:10	Adel .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' S. Saad File:Soccerball shade.svg 51'	Report	Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 32'	Stadium: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Referee: Mohamed Al Junaibi

7 December 2005 9	Al Ain	2–1	Al Shaab	Al Ain
19:10	Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 31' N. Khamis File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'	Report	Nabil .I File:Soccerball shade.svg 50'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi

14 December 2005 10	Al Wahda	4–1	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
19:15	I. Matar File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' Maurito File:Soccerball shade.svg 60' Mitrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 72' A. Jumaa File:Soccerball shade.svg 79'	Report	R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 68'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Referee: Mohamed Omar

21 December 2005 11	Emirates	0–1	Al Ain	Ras al-Khaimah
16:45		Report	F. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 59'	Stadium: Emirates Club Stadium Referee: Ali Al Mulla

1 January 2006 3	Al Ain	1–2	Al Ahli	Al Ain
18:30	R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 89'	Report	Kamburov File:Soccerball shade.svg 10', 88'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

13 January 2006 12	Al Nasr	0–1	Al Ain	Dubai
19:30		Report	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 5'	Stadium: Al Maktoum Stadium Referee: Ali Al Mulla

22 January 2006 13	Al Ain	4–0	Al Jazira	Al Ain
17:15	F. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 51' S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 69' R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 87'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

26 January 2006 6	Al Wasl	2–3	Al Ain	Dubai
18:45	Majidi File:Soccerball shade.svg 17' Hassan .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 88'	Report	F. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' Jumaa .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 25' Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 31'	Stadium: Zabeel Stadium Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi

30 January 2006 14	Al Ahli	1–0	Al Ain	Dubai
19:40	Shah File:Soccerball shade.svg 24'	Report		Stadium: Rashid Stadium Referee: Mohamed Al Junaibi

12 March 2006 15	Al Ain	0–0	Dibba Al-Hisn	Al Ain
20:10		Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Bader Abdullah

16 March 2006 16	Sharjah	2–1	Al Ain	Sharjah
17:45	Al Kass File:Soccerball shade.svg 37' Barbosa File:Soccerball shade.svg 42'	Report	Jumaa .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 56'	Stadium: Sharjah Stadium Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

7 April 2006 17	Al Ain	2–1	Al Wasl	Al Ain
17:55	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 21', 22'	Report	I. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 35'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Khaled Al-Doukhi

16 April 2006 18	Baniyas	2–5	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
18:00	Fareed .I File:Soccerball shade.svg 55' Yousif .J File:Soccerball shade.svg 87'	Report	R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 18', 37' G. Harib File:Soccerball shade.svg 52' Al-Wehaibi File:Soccerball shade.svg 76' S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'	Referee: Mohamed Al-Zarouni

21 April 2006 19	Al Ain	1–2	Al Shabab	Al Ain
20:15	Ali .M File:Soccerball shade.svg 14', 63'	Report	Al-Wehaibi File:Soccerball shade.svg 90'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Mohamed Omar

7 May 2006 20	Al Shaab	0–0	Al Ain	Sharjah
19:40		Report		Stadium: Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium Referee: Abdullah Mohammed Al-Shehhi

11 May 2006 21	Al Ain	1–0	Al Wahda	Al Ain
19:45	S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 75'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

21 May 2006 22	Al Ain	5–0	Emirates	Al Ain
18:15	Ishak File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 20' S. Rashed File:Soccerball shade.svg 39' Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 58' Salem .AFile:Soccerball shade.svg 85'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Ali Al Mulla

UAE President's Cup

27 December 2005 Round of 16	Al Hamriyah	0–3	Al Ain	Dubai
18:30		Report	Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 28', 65' R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 85'	Stadium: Zabeel Stadium Referee: Yaseen Al Mansoori

Quarter-finals

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Ain	3	2	1	0	4	2	+2	7
Sharjah	3	2	0	1	6	5	+1	6
Dubai	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
Al Wasl	3	0	0	3	0	3	−3	0

Source: rsssf.org

4 February 2006 1	Al Ain	1–1	Dubai	Abu Dhabi
19:35	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 12'	Report	Farhan File:Soccerball shade.svg 34'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Referee: Ali Al Mulla

7 February 2006 2	Al Ain	1–0	Al Wasl	Abu Dhabi
19:40	R. Yaslam File:Soccerball shade.svg 86'	Report		Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi

10 February 2006 3	Sharjah	1–2	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
17:25	Barbosa File:Soccerball shade.svg 2'	Report	S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 55', 58'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Referee: Mohamed Omar

Semi-finals

27 March 2006	Al Ain	3–2	Al Nasr	Abu Dhabi
19:20	Al-Wehaibi File:Soccerball shade.svg 9', 42' Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 48'	Report	M. Ibrahim File:Soccerball shade.svg 47' Mosalam .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 64'	Stadium: Al Nahyan Stadium Referee: Mohamed Omar

Final

3 April 2006	Sharjah	1–2	Al Ain	Abu Dhabi
16:40	Nekounam File:Soccerball shade.svg 64'	Report	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 61' Al-Wehaibi File:Soccerball shade.svg 80'	Stadium: Zayed Sports City Referee: Ali Al-Badwawi

UAE Federation Cup

Group stage

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Al Ain	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3	3
Sharjah	2	1	0	1	2	5	−3	3

Source: rsssf.org

10 November 2005 1	Sharjah	2–1	Al Ain	Sharjah
16:50	Salim .S File:Soccerball shade.svg 59' Barbosa File:Soccerball shade.svg 63'	Report	Ishak File:Soccerball shade.svg 37'	Stadium: Sharjah Stadium Referee: Musallam Ahmad

17 January 2006 2	Al Ain	4–0	Sharjah	Al Ain
17:00	Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 43' (p) F. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 50' Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 60' Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 89' (p)	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Referee: Mohamed Al-Zarouni

Semi-finals

23 February 2006	Al Jazira	2–2 (a.e.t.) (1–4 p)	Al Ain	Dubai
17:30	Ogbeche File:Soccerball shade.svg 65' Koutouan File:Soccerball shade.svg 113'	Report	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 70' Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 102'	Stadium: Zabeel Stadium Referee: Fareed Al-Marzouqi

Final

27 February 2006	Al Wahda	1–4	Al Ain	Dubai
17:35	Mitrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 4'	Report	Mohamed .R File:Soccerball shade.svg 36' Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 44' Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 69' (p), 83'	Stadium: Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum Referee: Mohamed Al-Zarouni

2005 AFC Champions League

Quarter-finals

14 September 2005 First leg	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	1–1	Iran PAS	Al Ain
	Nosrati File:Soccerball shade.svg 43' (o.g.)		Borhani File:Soccerball shade.svg 24'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

21 September 2005 Second leg	PAS Iran	3–3 (4–4a agg.)	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Tehran
	Borhani File:Soccerball shade.svg 34', 47' Traoré File:Soccerball shade.svg 75'		Tejada File:Soccerball shade.svg 61' (pen.) H. Saeed File:Soccerball shade.svg 83', 84'	Stadium: Shahid Dastgerdi Stadium

Semi-finals

28 September 2005 First leg	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	6–0	China Shenzhen Jianlibao	Al Ain
	S. Khater File:Soccerball shade.svg 4', 81' Nwoha File:Soccerball shade.svg 10', 22', 77' Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 28'			Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

12 October 2005 Second leg	Shenzhen Jianlibao China	0–0 (0–6 agg.)	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Shenzhen
				Stadium: Shenzhen Stadium

Final

26 October 2005 First leg	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	1–1	Saudi Arabia Al-Ittihad	Al Ain
	Msarri File:Soccerball shade.svg 50'		Kallon File:Soccerball shade.svg 85' (pen.)	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed

2006 AFC Champions League

Group stage

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United Arab Emirates Al Ain	6	4	1	1	10	6	+4	13
Saudi Arabia Al-Hilal	6	3	1	2	12	7	+5	10
Uzbekistan Mash'al	6	2	2	2	7	11	−4	8
Iraq Al-Minaa	6	0	2	4	6	11	−5	2

Source: afcchampionsleague.com

8 March 2006	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	2–0	Saudi Arabia Al-Hilal	Al Ain
	F. Ali File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 49'	Report		Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Attendance: 12,500

22 March 2006	Mash'al Uzbekistan	1–1	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Karshi
	Mirholdirshaev File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+4'	Report	Diaky File:Soccerball shade.svg 15'	Stadium: Markaziy Stadium Attendance: 10,000

12 April 2006	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	2–1	Iraq Al-Minaa	Al Ain
	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 14', 33' (pen.)	Report	Jabbar File:Soccerball shade.svg 15'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Attendance: 9,000

27 April 2006	Al-Minaa Iraq	1–2	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Hawally
	Falah File:Soccerball shade.svg 7'	Report	Kelly File:Soccerball shade.svg 64' (pen.) Diaky File:Soccerball shade.svg 66'	Stadium: Mohammed Al-Hamad Stadium Attendance: 250

4 May 2006	Al-Hilal Saudi Arabia	2–1	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Riyadh
	Camacho File:Soccerball shade.svg 33' Al-Shalhoub File:Soccerball shade.svg 86' (pen.)	Report	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 49'	Stadium: King Fahd II Stadium Attendance: 60,000

17 May 2006	Al Ain United Arab Emirates	2–1	Uzbekistan Mash'al	Al Ain
	Jestrović File:Soccerball shade.svg 35', 45'	Report	Kholmurodov File:Soccerball shade.svg 23'	Stadium: Tahnoun bin Mohammed Attendance: 7,000

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Advanced to next round but the cup continued in next season.

Statistics

Goalscorers

As of 21 May 2006

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.

Rank	Pos.	Player	Football League	President's Cup	Federation Cup	2005 ACL	2006 ACL	Total
1	FW	Serbia Nenad Jestrović	4	2	3	0	5	14
2	FW	Nigeria Onyekachi Nwoha	7	2	1	3	0	13
3	MF	United Arab Emirates Rami Yaslam	8	2	0	0	0	10
4	MF	United Arab Emirates Subait Khater	5	2	0	2	0	9
5	MF	United Arab Emirates Shehab Ahmed	2	1	1	2	0	6
5	MF	United Arab Emirates Ali Al-Wehaibi	3	3	0	0	0	6
7	FW	United Arab Emirates Faisal Ali	3	0	1	0	1	5
7	MF	Brazil Kelly	0	0	3	0	2	5
9	FW	Panama Luis Tejada	2	0	0	2	0	4
10	FW	United Arab Emirates Naseeb Ishak	2	0	1	0	0	3
11	MF	United Arab Emirates Ibrahim Diaky	0	0	0	0	2	2
	MF	United Arab Emirates Helal Saeed	0	0	0	2	0	2
	DF	United Arab Emirates Jumaa Abdullah	2	0	0	0	0	2
14	MF	United Arab Emirates Gharib Harib	1	0	0	0	0	1
	DF	United Arab Emirates Ali Msarri	0	0	0	1	0	1
	FW	United Arab Emirates Nasser Khamis	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	United Arab Emirates Salem Abdullah	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	United Arab Emirates Sultan Rashed	1	0	0	0	0	1
	MF	United Arab Emirates Mohamed Rashed	0	0	1	0	0	1
Own goals (from the opponents)			0	0	0	1	0	1
Totals			42	12	11	13	10	88

References

↑ "ماتشالا : إخترت العين رغم إغراءات العروض الأخرى" (in العربية). alainclub.com. Archived from the original on 2005-01-24.
↑ "هنأ نفسة على الثقة الغالية وقاد المران الأول" (in العربية). alainclub.com. Archived from the original on 2005-02-01.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "العين يودع مـاتـشـالا" (in العربية). Al-Ittihad. January 2006.

External links

Al Ain FC official website (in English and Arabic)

[table_note_res_AFCCL0.66688369059324-5] Al Ain qualified to the 2007 AFC Champions League as winners of the 2005–06 UAE President's Cup.

[continued-4] 1.0 ^1.1 Advanced to next round but the cup continued in next season.

[ماتشالا_:_إخترت_العين_رغم_إغراءات_العروض_الأخرى-1] "ماتشالا : إخترت العين رغم إغراءات العروض الأخرى" (in العربية). alainclub.com. Archived from the original on 2005-01-24.

[هنأ_نفسة_على_الثقة_الغالية_وقاد_المران_الأول-2] "هنأ نفسة على الثقة الغالية وقاد المران الأول" (in العربية). alainclub.com. Archived from the original on 2005-02-01.

[العين_يودع_مـاتـشـالا-3] 3.0 ^3.1 "العين يودع مـاتـشـالا" (in العربية). Al-Ittihad. January 2006.

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5 November 2005 Second leg	Al-Ittihad Saudi Arabia	4–2 (5–3 agg.)	United Arab Emirates Al Ain	Jeddah
	Kallon File:Soccerball shade.svg 2' Noor File:Soccerball shade.svg 33' Job File:Soccerball shade.svg 57' Al-Dokhi File:Soccerball shade.svg 69'		Shehab .A File:Soccerball shade.svg 55' (pen.) Tejada File:Soccerball shade.svg 90'	Stadium: Prince Abdullah Al Faisal

2005–06 Al Ain FC season

Contents

Competitions

Overview

UAE Football League

League table

Matches

UAE President's Cup

Quarter-finals

Group B

Semi-finals

Final

UAE Federation Cup

Group stage

Group D

Semi-finals

Final

2005 AFC Champions League

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

2006 AFC Champions League

Group stage

Group B

Statistics

Goalscorers

References

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