The projects that saw the light in the sports season 2002/2003 included the establishment of a new football school near the club, which furnished several playgrounds for footballers under 8-12 years based on the limitless attention paid by the club to this vital and significant sector that represented the future of football for the club. The football school thereby became a new addition to the club.

Beside these mammoth projects, a new restaurant for the club was set up while the external fence and the club’s entrances were refurbished according to a modern style enabling them to be a bright front for Al Ain Club.

In addition, work started in maintaining the different branches of the club so as to keep pace with the civilised development and construction boom at Al Ain Club.



After the first phase of development, which was implemented during the 2002/2003 season had been completed, the management of Al Ain Club formed a firm development plan for setting up a world Olympic swimming-pool and an indoor football hall and maintaining the indoor hall at Al Qattara in addition to many future projects.

As seen above, Al Ain Club with its leadership and management is always seeking to be distinguished and highly developed with a drive to be abreast of the events taking place world-wide so as to be always in the lead in all fields.



Al Ain’s famous violet jersey has also a story, as it passed through three stages. It began with green and white when the club came into existence in 1968. When Al Ain and Al Tadhamun clubs were combined into one club in 1974 and during the sessions held for agreeing on the combination, it was only natural for each club to stick to its slogans and colours. Al Ain Club’s people succeeded in imposing the name of the club, which bore the name of the city, on the new club and the red jersey that was used by Al Tadhamun Club became that of Al Ain Club. The red jersey continued to be used between the 1974/75 season until the beginning of the 1976/77 season.

While the senior team was holding a camp in Morocco in preparation for the new season, a friendly tournament was organised by the Moroccan Al Widad Club with the participation of France’s Nice Club, Portugal’s Lisbon Club and Belgium’s Anderlecht Club.

During the matches, the violet jersey of the Anderlecht Club received the admiration of Al Ain delegation, and hence the idea of changing the colour of the team’s jersey into violet.

The idea was presented to Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, who approved it and the jersey was officially changed into violet by the beginning of the 1977/78 season.