Why we play on Saturdays.

The UAE football calendar doesn't treat Saturday the same way England or Spain do. Friday is prayer day. Saturday is family day. Sunday is the return-to-work.

We play Saturday evenings, under the lights, at 19:30. The logic is simple: it's the one window of the week where the widest slice of Dubai families can come to the ground. The afternoon heat is gone. The Sunday alarm is still twelve hours away.

The east stand - the terrace we're building as the supporters' end - will fill on Saturdays with the families who will define this club's first ten years. That's the call we made in the boardroom last year, and it's the call we'll defend when broadcast partners inevitably ask for a Friday slot.