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The UAE Beach Soccer League is the First Division of beach soccer in the UAE since 2012. It is the top beach soccer association league in United Arab Emirates. Contested by 12 clubs, it operates on a system of play-offs with a national cup and a super cup.

The League, starting on February 17th, 2012 for its unofficial debut, featured up to 15 teams played all along the country in three different venues. The current format of the league, the SPONSOR Beach Soccer League, had been established in the 2012-2013 season with 12 clubs from four Emirates participating (Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Fujairah and Sharjah). The league season starts in late December and ends in late March while the National Cup is played in November.

The winner of the league will play against the winner of the national Cup in late December, right before the start of the league, competing for the UAE Super Cup.

Each year since 2011, the Samsung Inter-Continental Beach Soccer Cup is held by Dubai and this will be a mix of national and international soccer games.

Beach Soccer and the UAE
Beach Soccer was initiated by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) in 1992 with the organization of the first world championship in Copacabana (Rio de Janeiro). To its credit, BSWW also organized the first Pro Beach Soccer Tour in 1996 and Euro Beach Soccer League.

In 2005, FIFA recognized BSWW as the major force behind the creation and growth of Beach Soccer across the world. In the recent times, Beach Soccer as a sport and entertainment product has been getting serious interest from a variety of stakeholders such as national federations, broadcasters, corporate brands etc. Beach Soccer has gained increased share of voice in terms of popularity with the participation of internationally renowned players such a Brazilian Junior Negao, Portugal’s Alan and Madjer and the Spanish star Amarelle.

Beach Soccer is viewed by significant number of fans across 170 countries worldwide. Due to its natural setting at picturesque beaches coupled with artistic football action, Beach soccer is one of the fastest growing professional sports in the world positioned as a major showcase for international commercial opportunity.

In 2006, the national team was created and since then, it won successively in 2007 and 2008 the AFC Beach Soccer Championship, held from 2006 to 2009 in Dubai. The most successful nation is the United Arab Emirates and Japan, who have won the tournament two of the five times. Dubai also held the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in 2009 and the aim of this league was to develop and grow the sport of Beach Soccer in UAE.

In 2010, UAE won the Asian Beach Games in Muscat, Oman beating Oman 2-1 at penalty shootouts. In 2012, they lost 4-3 to Iran during the quarter-finals.

Foundation
With the support and patronage of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Dubai Sports Council, Beach Soccer has found an extremely warm home in the Asian resort, and the fruits of this passion are felt stronger year after year. Capital Marketing FZ LLC bought the rights from the Government of Dubai and Dubai Sports Council for the period 2012-2017 and will establish the first official edition of a national beach soccer league across the UAE.

International Recognition
The recently crowned Champions of the UAE Beach Soccer League, Al Ahli, have made a significant step forward in their International projection, after joining the toughest clubs competition of the Beach Soccer panorama: the Mundialito de Clubes. The Dubai-based club hit the sand in the second edition of the event, which happened in May 2012 in the Arena de Guarapiranga. The challenge was huge and the club finished last of its group after losing to Corinthians, Lokomotiv Moscow (winner of this edition ) and Sporting Clube Portugal.

Meanwhile, Al Ahli was not the only Emirati presence in Sao Paulo during the tournament as three of its players have been roped in by international teams that are participating in the competition: Ali Karim (Al Nasr's star striker) playing for Seattle Sounders, Humaid Jamal (GK) with Lokomotiv Moscow and Ahmed Dad (GK) with Sporting Lisbon.

List of champions

 * 2011-2012: Al Ahli
 * 2012-2013: -

Clubs
The following table lists the performance of each club describing winners of the Championship.

League Awards
This is the list of the UAE Beach Soccer League Awards season by season.

National team
In May 2006, newborn Emirati national team first participated in Group B of AFC Beach Soccer Championship in Dubai. They lost in group stage to China and Bahrain. But it took only one year to seal its first success during the AFC Beach Soccer Championships in 2007. During the final, they defeat Japan 4-3 and in 2008, they beat Japan again.

2010 Beach Soccer Worldwide Tour
The BSWW Tour is a series of competitions that allow national teams to compete in beach soccer in a round-robin format over the summer months.

UAE played against Morocco (defeat 7-3), Oman (victory 4-1) and Switzerland (defeat 3-2 after penalty shootouts).

Asian Beach Games
In 2008, UAE lost 3-1 to Oman but reached again the final in 2010 with a victory 4-3 after penalty shootouts over Oman. Recently, in 2012, UAE was eliminated during the quarter finals by later winners Iran (4-3) and left the competition early after finishing second of its group behind Lebanon.

Intercontinental Cup
In November 2011, Dubai hosted the first of its kind Samsung Intercontinental Cup. Like the FIFA Confederations Cup in football, it is contested by the holders of each of the six Beach Soccer continental championships (UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, CAF, AFC, OFC), along with the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup holder and the host nation, to bring the number of teams up to eight.

It is held since 2011 in Dubai. Joan Cusco, President of Beach Soccer Worldwide, described Dubai as the second home for the sport during a press conference at Burj Al Arab on June 7th, 2012 after signing a deal that will see Dubai host to the next five Intercontinental Cup competitions.

In those cases where a qualified team meets more than one of the qualification criteria (World Cup champions and European champions for example), another team will be invited to tournament.