Al Ain FC in international football

Al Ain FC is an Emirati football club in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates that competes in the UAE Pro League, it has contested in various international competitions and has won two titles so far. It has made the most appearances in the AFC Champions League out any other team in the United Arab Emirates and is by far the only team in the UAE to win a Champions League title after winning the 2003 Asian CL Final.

Omar Abdulrahman, Asamoah Gyan Al Ain's top goalscorer in AFC Champions League with 18 goals

History[]

Al Ain first contested participation was in 1995 Asian Cup Winners' Cup were they lost to Kazma SC 1–6 on aggregate. Al Ain won their first international title in the after finishing first in a round-robin tournament, however only two years later Al Ain would win its first major international title after beating BEC Tero Sasana 2–1 on aggregate, Al Ain became the first Emirati team to win the Asian Cup and is by far the only UAE side to do so in present time. Al Ain would qualify for the final of the ACL twice only to lose both finals. Al Ain also qualified for the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup Final were they lost to Real Madrid CF 1–4.

Overall record[]

As of 24 September 2020. Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

International competitions[]

Asian Cup Winners' Cup[]

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1995	Second round	Kazma	0–4	0–2	0–6
1999–2000	First round	Al-Jaish	1–2	1–0	2–2 (a)
2001–2002	Second round	Al-Wehdat	2–0	1–2	3–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Sadd	2–1	0–1	2–2 (a)

Asian Club Championship[]

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1998–99	First round	Oman	5–2	2–0	7–2
	Second round	Al-Ansar	3–1	0–1	3–2
	Group Stage	Köpetdag Aşgabat	6–1		1st
		Esteghlal	0–1
		Al-Hilal	1–0
	Semi-Finals	Júbilo Iwata	2–2 (p) (2–4)
	Third place match	Dalian Shide	3–2
2000–01	First round	Al-Zawraa	4–0	1–2	5–2
	Second round	Persepolis	2–2 (a.e.t.)	0–2	2–4

AFC Champions League[]

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2003[1]	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	1–0		1st
		Al-Sadd	2–0
		Esteghlal	3–1
	Semi-Finals	Dalian Shide	4–2	3–4	7–6
	Final	BEC Tero Sasana	2–0	0–1	2–1
2004[2]	Quarter-Finals	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–1	1–4	1–5
2005[3]	Group Stage	Al-Wahda	3–0	3–2	1st
		Sepahan	3–2	1–1
		Al-Shabab	3–0	0–1
	Quarter-Finals	PAS Tehran	1–1	3–3	4–4 (a)
	Semi-Finals	Shenzhen	6–0	0–0	6–0
	Final	Al-Ittihad	1–1	2–4	3–5
2006[4]	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	2–0	1–2	1st
		Mash'al	2–1	1–1
		Al-Minaa	2–1	2–1
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Qadsia	2–2	0–3	2–5
2007[5]	Group Stage	Al-Shabab	0–2	0–2	3rd
		Al-Ittihad	1–1	0–0
		Sepahan	3–2	1–1
2010[6]	Group Stage	Pakhtakor	0–1	2–3	4th
		Sepahan	2–0	0–0
		Al-Shabab	2–1	2–3
2011[7]	Play off round	Sriwijaya	4–0
	Group Stage	FC Seoul	0–1	0–3	3rd
		Hangzhou Greentown	1–0	0–0
		Nagoya Grampus	3–1	0–4
2013[8]	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	3–1	0–2	3rd
		Esteghlal	0–1	0–2
		Al-Rayyan	2–1	1–2
2014[9]	Group Stage	Lekhwiya	2–1	5–0	1st
		Al-Ittihad	1–1	1–2
		Tractor Sazi	3–1	2–2
	Round of 16	Al-Jazira	2–1	2–1	4–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Ittihad	2–0	3–1	5–1
	Semi-Finals	Al-Hilal	2–1	0–3	2–4
2015[10]	Group Stage	Al-Shabab	0–0	1–0	1st
		Naft Tehran	3–0	1–1
		Pakhtakor	1–1	1–0
	Round of 16	Al-Ahli	3–3	0–0	3–3 (a)
2016[11]	Group Stage	El-Jaish	1–2	1–2	2nd
		Al-Ahli	1–0	2–1
		Nasaf Qarshi	2–0	1–1
	Round of 16	Zob Ahan	1–1	2–0	3–1
	Quarter-Finals	Lokomotiv Tashkent	0–0	1–0	1–0
	Semi-Finals	El-Jaish	3–1	2–2	5–3
	Final	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	1–1	1–2	2–3
2017[12]	Group Stage	Zob Ahan	1–1	3–0	1st
		Bunyodkor	3–0	3–2
		Al-Ahli	2–2	2–2
	Round of 16	Esteghlal	6–1	0–1	6–2
	Quarter-Finals	Al-Hilal	0–0	0–3	0–3
2018[13]	Play off round	Malkiya	2–0
	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	2–1	0–0	2nd
		Al-Rayyan	1–1	4–1
		Esteghlal	2–2	1–1
	Round of 16	Al-Duhail	2–4	1–4	3–8
2019[14]	Group Stage	Al-Hilal	0–1	0–2	4th
		Esteghlal	1–2	1–1
		Al-Duhail	0–2	2–2
2020[15]	Play off round	Bunyodkor	1–0
	Group Stage	Sepahan	0–4	0–0	4th
		Al-Nassr	1–2	1–0
		Al-Sadd	3–3	0–4
2021[16]	Play off round	Foolad	0–4

GCC Champions League[]

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1985	Group Stage	Al Ahli	0–2	4–1	3rd
		Fanja	2–3	1–2
1995	Round robin	Kazma	0–0		5th
		Al Arabi	1–2
		Al Shabab	1–1
		Dhofar	0–0
		Riffa	0–2
2001[17]	Round robin	Al-Riffa	2–1		C
		Al-Salmiya	2–1
		Al-Gharafa	1–0
		Dhofar	1–0
		Al-Ittihad	0–2

Arab Club Champions Cup[]

Season	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2018–19	First round	ES Sétif	1–2	1–0	2–2 (a)

FIFA Club World Cup[]

Season	Round	Club	Result
2018	First round	Team Wellington	3–3 (p) (4–3)
	Second round	Espérance de Tunis	3–0
	Semi-Finals	River Plate	2–2 (p) (5–4)
	Final	Real Madrid	1–4

Record by country[]

Country	Club	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Algeria	ES Sétif	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	2	0
Argentina	River Plate	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Subtotal		1	0	1	0	2	2	0
Bahrain	Al-Riffa	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
	Malkiya	1	1	0	0	2	0	+2
Subtotal		2	2	0	0	4	1	+3
China	Dalian Shide	3	2	0	1	10	8	+2
	Shenzhen	2	1	1	0	6	0	+6
	Z.E. Greentown	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
Subtotal		7	4	2	1	17	8	+9
Indonesia	Sriwijaya	1	1	0	0	4	0	+4
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	4	0	+4
Iran	Esteghlal	10	2	3	5	15	13	+2
	Foolad	1	0	0	1	0	4	–4
	Naft Tehran	2	1	1	0	4	1	+3
	PAS Tehran	2	0	2	0	4	4	0
	Persepolis	2	0	1	1	2	4	–2
	Sepahan	8	3	4	1	10	10	0
	Tractor Sazi	2	1	1	0	5	3	+2
	Zob Ahan	4	2	2	0	7	2	+5
Subtotal		31	9	14	8	46	41	+5
Iraq	Al-Zawraa	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3
	Al-Minaa	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
Subtotal		2	3	0	1	9	4	+5
Japan	Júbilo Iwata	1	0	1	0	2	2	0
	Nagoya Grampus	2	1	0	1	3	5	–2
Subtotal		3	1	1	1	5	7	–2
Jordan	Al-Wehdat	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Kuwait	Al-Qadsia	2	0	1	1	2	5	−3
	Al-Salmiya	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1
	Kazma	2	0	0	2	1	6	−5
Subtotal		5	1	1	3	5	12	−7
Lebanon	Al-Ansar	2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	3	2	+1
New Zealand	Team Wellington	1	0	1	0	3	3	0
Subtotal		1	0	1	0	3	3	0
Oman	Dhofar	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
	Oman	2	2	0	0	7	2	+5
Subtotal		3	3	0	0	8	2	+6
Qatar	Al-Duhail	6	2	1	3	12	13	–1
	Al-Gharafa	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1
	Al-Rayyan	4	2	1	1	8	5	0
	Al-Sadd	5	2	1	2	7	9	–2
	El-Jaish	4	1	1	2	7	7	0
Subtotal		20	9	4	8	35	36	–1
Saudi Arabia	Al-Ahli	4	2	2	0	7	5	+2
	Al-Hilal	14	6	2	6	12	16	–4
	Al-Ittihad	7	2	2	3	10	11	–1
	Al-Nassr	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
	Al-Shabab	8	3	1	4	8	9	–1
Subtotal		35	14	7	14	39	43	–4
South Korea	FC Seoul	2	0	0	2	0	4	–4
	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	4	0	1	3	3	8	–5
Subtotal		6	0	1	5	2	12	–10
Spain	Real Madrid	1	0	0	1	1	4	–3
Subtotal		1	0	0	1	1	4	–3
Syria	Al-Ittihad	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
	Al-Jaish	2	1	0	1	2	2	0
	Al-Wahda	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4
Subtotal		6	3	2	1	9	5	+4
Thailand	Police Tero	2	1	0	1	2	1	+1
Subtotal		2	1	0	1	2	1	+1
Tunisia	Espérance de Tunis	1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	3	0	+3
Turkmenistan	Köpetdag Aşgabat	1	1	0	0	6	1	+5
Subtotal		1	1	0	0	6	1	+5
United Arab Emirates	Al-Jazira	2	2	0	0	4	2	+2
	Shabab Al-Ahli	2	0	2	0	3	3	0
Subtotal		4	2	2	0	7	5	+2
Uzbekistan	Bunyodkor	3	3	0	0	7	2	+5
	Lokomotiv Tashkent	2	1	1	0	1	0	+1
	Mash'al	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1
	Nasaf	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2
	Pakhtakor	4	1	1	2	4	5	–1
Subtotal		13	7	4	2	18	10	+8
Total		152	63	40	50	234	199	+35

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