Short answers, pulled from the story.
The UAE national football team played their first match on the 17th of March 1972 against Qatar at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, winning 1-0 with the only goal scored by Ahmed Chowbi.
The UAE made one FIFA World Cup appearance, at the 1990 tournament in Italy. They lost all three group-stage matches, scored two goals, conceded eleven, and finished without a point.
The UAE's best Asian Cup result is runners-up, achieved in 1996 when they hosted the tournament and lost the final to Saudi Arabia on penalties, with the shootout ending 4-2. They also finished third at the 2015 edition.
Ali Mabkhout is the UAE's all-time top scorer with 85 goals from 115 appearances across a career from 2009 to 2023. Adnan Al-Talyani is second with 52 goals from a record 161 caps.
The UAE won the Arabian Gulf Cup twice, in 2007 under manager Bruno Metsu and in 2013 under Mahdi Ali. The 2013 triumph saw them win all five matches without conceding a single defeat.
The UAE's main rivals are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, and Iran. The Saudi Arabia fixture is sometimes called the "clash of titans", while the Qatar rivalry has been intensified by the Qatar diplomatic crisis and heated incidents at major tournaments.