Al-Ittifaq FC () is an Emirati football club currently competing in the UAE First Division.
Stadium Al-Ittifaq plays its home matches for the season 2026-27 at Al Aweer Stadium - Shabab Al Ahli in Dubai, with a seating capacity of 4,260 seats.
History The club was founded in 2020 and began playing in the UAE Second Division. It earned promotion to the First Division In the 2024–25 season.
Under the ownership of Pietro Laterza, the Club sits alongside AC ChievoVerona of Serie D — one of Italian football’s most storied names — within a single ownership group built on the Tre Elle Group investments across real estate, hospitality, energy and sport.
Al-Ittifaq FC was founded in Dubai in 2020 with a clear purpose: to build a professional, ambitious football club. Operating as Nojoom Al-Ittifaq Sports Services LLC, the Club is a FIFA-approved organisation with deep roots in the UAE football ecosystem. Following promotion to the UAE First Division for the 2025-26 season, and with the arrival of visionary new ownership, world-class players and an internationally recognised coaching staff, the Club’s ambitions now reach all the way to the UAE Pro League.
This dual ownership was created deliberately, to foster genuine synergies between UAE and European football, both institutionally and in terms of concrete opportunities for players and staff. In practice, this relationship gives Al-Ittifaq access to Chievo Verona’s coaching methodology, scouting network and football operations expertise, while offering promising UAE-based talent a credible pathway into European football through training exposure, loan opportunities and shared recruitment intelligence. The two clubs already compete against each other on the pitch — including a pre-season friendly at Chievo’s Bottagisio training centre in Verona — and share players, staff and know-how across both footballing cultures. Over the life of this strategy, the Group relationship will be formalised into a structured framework covering joint scouting, coaching exchange, player pathways and commercial cooperation
Current squad As of UAE First Division League:
References
External links UAE FA profile Global Sports Archive profile