The Al Bataeh Football Club’s Senior Stage Sector announced its plan for the start of the new season 2024-2025 , during the meeting held by Mohammed Obaid bin Shanah Al Ketbi , member of the Board of Directors and general supervisor of the sector with the team administrators and technical staff, at the company’s headquarters at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium in Sharjah , in the presence of Obaid Khamis Al Mahrez , the sector supervisor , Captain Khaled Ahmed , the technical supervisor , and Ahmed Abdel Aziz Al Kukherdi , the company’s executive director..

Bin Chenna welcomed the newly joined members of the sector in their various positions , while he thanked the group that has been present since the previous season for their great efforts and revealed their great ambitions for the new season and for the various teams to achieve what the administration aspires to… Bin Chenna appealed to those responsible for the teams to take care of the young people on and off the field.

Ahmed Abdul Aziz Al-Kukherdi, Executive Director, confirmed that they are keen to implement the will of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Ruler of Sharjah, to pay attention to the stages and Sunni groups in all aspects, and stressed the necessity of following an administrative approach that is in line with the demands of the Sharjah Sports Council and the UAE Professional Association , while Al-Kukherdi stressed The importance of the presence of all age groups in the first team matches to strengthen the youngsters’ connection to the club, experience the atmosphere of the professional league, and support the first team.

Sector Supervisor Obaid Khamis Al Mahrezi demanded that everyone work according to his specialty, stressing their endeavor to achieve successes at the level of all teams, stressing the need to follow institutionalism at work, praising the administrators and trainers belonging to the sector, expressing his great confidence in their abilities to lead the sector towards the right path..

Captain Khaled Ahmed, the technical supervisor of the sector, revealed their plan to develop the club on the digital level by documenting the teams’ activities, whether training or matches, via the digital system in the club, and reviewed the technical plan that the sector will follow during the current season.

Al-Bataeh came out with a 1-1 draw against the Ukrainian side team Crave Bass FC in their first match in the camp which currently held in Slovenia , Al-Bataeh owes credit to its Brazilian defender , Rafael Pereira , (who recently joined the team) , who scored the goal in the 55th minute of the match.

Croatian coach Goran Tomic tried to get the greatest possible technical benefit from the match as it was the team’s first preparatory experience in the preseason camp , and he checked the readiness of his squad in preparation for the new football season , Goran checked the technical and physical capabilities of the players who joined the team during the summer transfer period..

Al-Bataeh started his preparatory camp in Slovenia last Sunday July 14 , and the team remained in intensive morning and evening training during which the technical staff implemented the physical program before entering into the tactical details.

Goran Tomic , the technical director of Al-Bataeh has identified six matches to be played during the camp and it has been decided that the second match will be against the NK Bistrica team on July 24 , while the third match will be against the Saudi side team Al-Fateh on the 27th of the same month , and the fourth match will be against the Hungarian Naqi Kaniza team on 31 of the same month, and the fifth match will be against the Saudi Al-Khaleej team on August 3, while the sixth match will be against the Saudi side Damac team on August 6 , while the last match will be against the Slovenian team NK Karada on August 7.

The team delegation is expected to return to the country next August 8 to continue preparations at its stadium in Sharjah in preparation for competing in the competitions of the 2024 football season.

Al Bataeh continued its superiority over the Emirates team and beat it 3-2, during the match that took place between them at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium in Sharjah, within the matches of the 26th round of the ADNOC Professional League, to reach Al Bataeh 34 points, to climb to eighth place in the standings.

Alvaro de Oliveira ensured the first goal for AlBataeh in the 19th minute, taking advantage of the pass of his colleague Paulo Enrique, which is the sixth goal for the Brazilian player in this season, and Alvaro was not satisfied with scoring only and played the role of the manufacturer when he helped his colleague Mohammed Rashid score the second goal with a cross put by Rashid in the goal at the 21st minute.

The match witnessed a great awakening for the UAE team, which is the two goals of Al-Bataeh, and was able to reduce the difference through a penalty kick successfully carried out by Paco Alcacer at the 45+7 minute, this goal increased the enthusiasm of the guests and opened their appetite to score more goals, and they had what they wished, and they were able to score the equalizer through Lethri Silva in the 58th minute, but the end came happy for Al-Bataeh and was caused by substitute Wiberti Silva, who scored the third goal for Al-Bataeh, on which the match ended.

Croatian coach Goran Tomic said that his team will finally play Emirates match after a number of postponements for various reasons , and added during the introductory press conference: Finally, we will play this match against Emirates after many postponements, and our main goal is to get out of this match with full points, knowing that it will not be an easy match because Emirates is also looking for points.

He continued his speech during the press conference, saying: I believe in the capabilities of my team and all the players and the great focus with which they will play the match, in order to achieve a result that makes everyone happy, revealing at the same time that there are no absences in the list that plays the match, stressing that he will not choose the starting lineup before the last training.

He continued: “We will play two matches against Emirates in three days, and these conditions are not easy, but whether the atmosphere or the lack of time between the two games is imposed on the two teams together, not just us, and we will try to achieve our goal of getting the full points.”

For his part, Cameroonian striker Anatole Abang confirmed that they prepared themselves in a good way for the Emirates match, revealing that all players are ready to play it with great enthusiasm, indicating that they will go to the Emirates Stadium with confidence in their ability to return with a positive result.

The player continued during the introductory press conference: “Our main goal is to win in order to reach the largest number of points before the end of the season and we are all excited and desire to achieve this, but I will not promise to score in the match, but I promise you diligence and work to help my team to win.”

At the end of his speech, Anatole said: “I am somewhat satisfied with what I have done during the current season, but I am not satisfied with my scoring tally, and this is not what I aspired to in terms of the number of goals, but in general I am happy with my return with the team during the current season.”

AlBataeh was satisfied with one point out of his match against Hatta, which took place at Khalid bin Mohammed Stadium in Sharjah on Monday, for the 24th round of the ADNOC Pro League, where the match ended 1-1, and the goal of AlBataeh was scored by team captain Mohammed Ahmed, one minute before the end of the match, to raise the team’s score to 28 points in ninth place.

AlBataeh dominated the match from the first minutes in order to score an early goal, for fear of any surprises from the guests, but the full defensive way in which Hatta played deprived him of reaching the goal, as the spaces were closed in front of Anatol and Ahmed Khalil, with a tight defensive block.

The guests surprised AlBataeh with a goal in the 23rd minute, due to a defensive error, making the ball tumble into the net of goalkeeper Darwish Mohammed, and the companions of Ahmed Khalil tried to equalize before the end of the first half and led many attacks on the Hatta goal that lacked the final touch, to end the first half with the progress of the guests.

The technical level rose in the second half, and the two teams exchanged attacks, with a clear advantage for AlBataeh, who launched a violent attack on the Hatta goal in order to modify the result, so that captain Mohammad Ahmed took care of this task and scored the rescue goal with a header from a corner by the captain inside the net one minute before the end of the match.

AlBataeh drew against Bani Yas, 3-3, during the match that took place between them at AlShamkha Stadium, for the 23rd round of the ADNOC Pro League, to raise Al-Bataeh’s score to 27 points in ninth place.

AlBataeh excelled in the first half and succeeded in scoring two goals through Cameroonian Anatoly, who opened the goals from a quick counter-attack, and Brazilian Paulinho from a penalty kick awarded by the referee after obstruction from Suhail AlNoobi to Malian Sekou Baba.

Bani Yas rose up in the second half, taking advantage of the decline in the level of AlBataeh, which seemed lax on his players, as Taulant Severi was able to reduce the difference after turning Suarez’s corner with his head in the Al-Bataeh goal.

Youssef Nyakati equalized for the hosts after taking advantage of a defensive error to single out the goal and shoot to the right of the goalkeeper.

Injury time witnessed great excitement when Nyakati succeeded in snatching the third goal for BaniYas in the 93rd minute, and at a time when everyone thought that “AlSamawi” was on his way to snatch the match points, the substitute Mohammed Rashid returned AlBataeh in the result and scored the third equalizer in the 95th minute.