The 15th edition of the UAE Football League ADNOC Professional League will start on Friday and end on May 26, 2023.

The first round of the competition starts tomorrow as the Al Ain team sets off to defend their title in the hospitality of the Ajman team. Al Wasla’s guest.

The tour continues on Saturday where Al Dhafra meets Al Nasr and Al Jazeera hosts Dibba’s team and the tour concludes with a summit meeting between Al Ahly and Sharjah’s youth.

In the new season, the Al Bata’e team participates in the professional league for the first time in its history after 3 years in the first division, and the Dibba Al Fujairah team returns to the professional league after an absence of 3 seasons spent in the first division.

Teams have prepared for the new season with several outside camps in 6 European countries (Netherlands, Austria, Serbia, Germany, Slovenia and Turkey) after two previous seasons where outside camps were cut due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Emirates Football Association has authorized the return of 100% stadium capacity to fans, while emphasizing a number of precautions, standards and conditions that must be observed.

The new version of the competition will also increase the number of foreign players to 5 foreign players in each team, as well as change the composition of players registered in the category “eligible to represent national teams”, which was previously called the category “residents and statesmen”, also up to 5 players.

Also, the League allowed to register in each match only 8 players from the categories of foreign players and players eligible to represent teams, while a maximum of 6 of them entered the field.

The decision was made to reduce the number of players registered in the first team; Become 30 players of all categories starting from the current 2022-2023 season, reduced to 25 players starting from the 2023-2024 season.