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UAE vs Iraq: match report
United Arab Emirates hosted Iraq at Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium on Thursday 13 November 2025, in the WCQ - AFC. Shaun Evans is the referee.
Result and scorers
UAE 1-1 Iraq. Goals: Ali Al-Hamadi 10' for Iraq; Luan Pereira 18' for UAE. Attendance: 32,008.
Key moments (contains the result)
- 10' Goal: Ali Al-Hamadi (Iraq)
- 18' Goal: Luan Pereira (UAE)
- 71' Yellow card: Aimar Sher (Iraq)
Line-ups
UAE 4-4-1-1
Coach: Cosmin Olaroiu
- 17 Khalid Eisa GK
- 16 Marcus Meloni DEF
- 3 Lucas Pimenta DEF
- 5 Alaeddine Zouhir DEF
- 2 Ruben Amaral DEF
- 20 Luanzinho FWD
- 15 Yahia Nader MID
- 6 Abdalla Ramadan MID
- 23 Sultan Adill Alamiri FWD
- 14 Nicolas Gimenez MID
- 9 Harib Abdalla Suhail MID
Bench
- 10 Caio FWD
- 7 Ali Saleh FWD
- 21 Bruno FWD
- 13 Mohammed Rabii DEF
- 11 Caio Canedo FWD
- 1 Adel Al Hosani GK
- 22 Hamad Abdulla GK
- 19 Khaled Aldhanhani DEF
- 4 Kouame Autonne DEF
- 8 Richard Akonnor DEF
- 12 Gaston Suarez MID
- 18 Majid Rashid MID
Iraq 4-4-2
Coach: Graham Arnold
- 12 Jalal Hassan GK
- 3 Hussein Ali DEF
- 5 Akam Hashem DEF
- 4 Zaid Tahseen DEF
- 23 Merchas Doski DEF
- 8 Aimar Sher MID
- 17 Ali Jasim FWD
- 16 Amir Al-Ammari MID
- 21 Marko Lawk Farji FWD
- 9 Ali Al Hamadi FWD
- 10 Mohanad Ali FWD
Bench
- 18 Ayman Hussein FWD
- 11 Hasan Abdulkareem FWD
- 7 Sherko Gubari MID
- 14 Zidane Iqbal MID
- 15 Ahmed Yahya DEF
- 22 Ahmed Basil Basil GK
- 1 Fahad Talib GK
- 6 Manaf Younis DEF
- 2 Mustafa Saadoun DEF
- 19 Kevin Yakob MID
- 20 Osama Rashid MID
- 13 Hussein Ali FWD
Previous meetings
- Thursday 24 March 2022: Iraq 1-0 United Arab Emirates
- Tuesday 12 October 2021: United Arab Emirates 2-2 Iraq
- Tuesday 12 January 2021: United Arab Emirates 0-0 Iraq
- Tuesday 5 September 2017: Iraq 1-0 United Arab Emirates
- Tuesday 15 November 2016: United Arab Emirates 2-0 Iraq