Sharjah, UAE – The International Federation of Mini-Football classification placed the UAE national team in first place in Asia, third in the Arab world, and sixteenth in the world.
The Azerbaijan national team topped the ranking of international teams, followed by the Serbian national team and the Romanian national team. While the Libyan team came in twelfth place, and its Moroccan counterpart came in seventeenth place.
Sarmad Al-Zadjali, Executive Director of the Mini-Football Committee, confirmed that the new international classification is linked to the last international participations in 5 years. Explaining that the positions obtained by the UAE national team are based on its participation in 5 international tournaments and its qualification to the quarter-finals of the 2023 World Cup. Then he participated in the 2025 Asian Championship, where he won third place, and secured his place in the 2025 Azerbaijan World Cup. In addition to winning fourth place in the 2025 Uzbekistan International Championship, all of which contributed to raising his ranking.
He pointed out that international and continental participations, wins, goals and draws have specific point calculations in the international classification. Explaining that the UAE national team is on the cusp of advanced stages during the coming period after the boom that the game has recently witnessed. Organizing many local tournaments such as the league and the Emirates Cup. In addition, the Emirati team, Berengrave United, won the title of the first edition of the 2025 Asian Club Mini-Football Championship.
