نادي رمال الصحراء
A Dubai football club. Founded 2025. Runners-up in UAE Division 3 at the first attempt, and promoted into UAE Division 2 for 2026/27.
من الصحراء. من دبي.
The brief was clear from day one: build it right, not fast. We look for players who are genuine and hardworking - people whose character counts for as much as their ability on the pitch. Talent earns a trial; it is honesty, humility and hard work that earn a place here. A squad, not a collection of names.
What we are building is bigger than any result. It is a community - families on the touchline, young players who can see a path, and a group who turn up for one another every week.
In ten years we want Rimal Al-Sahra to be known as a club that produces authentic homegrown talent in the UAE - a genuine pathway from grassroots into the UAE Pro League and further afield into the global game. On the pitch, we want our players to reach the UAE national team and raise the profile of Emirati football around the world.
Off the pitch the vision looks further. Not every player who enters our pathway will turn professional, so we support our communities with an academic structure alongside the football, and prepare our people for the world beyond sport.
The mission is to sustainably grow and support the infrastructure of sport in the UAE: win football matches, develop young people, build a commercial business. Our commercial growth will be genuine - a credible story rather than an unstable promise.
Our values begin with a foundation of discipline - doing whatever is required, whether others are watching or not. We want to display humility in everything we do; we are always grounded, and our collective goals sit ahead of individual success.
We have unlimited ambition. We do not want to settle for the required level. What is next? What can we do better?
At all times we are accountable, for our own actions and for the people closest to us. Whether good or bad, a problem shared is not a problem solved.
One of the most important principles we hold across the club is self-motivation. We want our people to achieve success because they want to do it, not because of external circumstances. The people around us matter, but self-motivation will conquer skill.
Honesty ties everything together. This is what makes us unique in this space.
Our values are so important to us. They have set the tone for the development of our entire club structure, and we push them through everything we do, at all levels of the club and the business.
Rimal Al-Sahra SC is founded in Dubai. Amber, bronze, sand - set from day one.
The falcon crest is finalised. Puma signed as kit manufacturer for the 25/26 home and away shirts.
Players sign for the inaugural season. A squad of 21 drawn from across the globe.
Pre-season training begins at Jebel Ali Sports Complex ahead of the UAE Division 3 campaign.
A 3-2 home win over The Football Circle in the club's first competitive fixture - the first points in the club's history.
P32 W22 D3 L7, 69 points - runners-up in UAE Division 3.
The youth programme goes live in partnership with Empire Football Club - UAE FA Youth National League squads from U11 to U19 at the Jebel Ali Sports Complex.
Rich Peniket, part of the coaching staff in the club's debut season, is appointed to lead the first team.
Promotion from UAE Division 3 takes the first team into UAE Division 2 for the 2026/27 season.
The home shirt takes its colour from the desert dunes of Dubai; the away shirt goes the other way.
A complete development structure from a player's first touch of the ball through to senior professional football. Every stage is designed to connect, with the flexibility to fit a player in wherever they join - players progress through a structured journey rather than a collection of teams.
Our first team is made up of fifteen nationalities and competes in UAE Division Two following promotion in year one. The Centre of Excellence is the top level of our youth provision, running from Under 11 to Under 19. Our development centres compete across Dubai's leading local leagues, and our community partnerships are the entry point to everything we do.
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Jebel Ali Sports Complex, Dubai
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First team
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Mudon, Dubai
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Anyone joining the club at any level steps into an environment they can be proud of, from day one. Players get high-level coaching and support, families get a welfare offering built for young athletes, and our community gets value at every level.
Players also develop inside a genuinely international environment. Our squads bring together people and talent from around the world, and learning to compete and communicate across cultures is part of the process. It is one of the advantages of developing young people in Dubai, and we use it deliberately rather than treating it as a coincidence.
Beyond football, we take the whole person seriously. An academic structure sits alongside the pathway, because not every player who joins us will turn professional and everyone deserves to be ready for what comes next. Families are kept close to the process, and honesty is integral at all times.
A falcon rising from a dune. The falcon is the UAE. The dune is Dubai. Amber, bronze and sand - the colours of the desert at dusk.
Designed in April 2025, and embroidered on every shirt since.
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Read →Our home is Jebel Ali Sports Complex in Dubai. Kick-off is usually 19:30 on Saturdays, when the temperature drops and the floodlights come on. Entry is free to everyone - just turn up.
Jebel Ali is also the base for our academy and Centre of Excellence squads. Alongside it, Ashmount School in Dubai is our second venue for club programming.
The club
We are not a brand. We are a club - built in Dubai, for the long run.
— Rimal Al-Sahra SC
