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Al Shabab Al Arabi Club (Dubai)

was an Emirati football club based in Dubai

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ513493 ↗
Source-derived summary

Al Shabab Al Arabi Club (Arabic: نادي الشباب العربي دبي), or simply Al Shabab, was an Emirati professional football and basketball club based in Dubai, that competed in the UAE Pro League. The club was founded in 1958.

In 2017, the club merged with Dubai CSC to join Al Ahli Dubai, which was rebranded as Shabab Al Ahli Club.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958. The account is most persuasive where Shabab, Arabi and Club can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as was an Emirati football club based in Dubai. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q513493. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Al Shabab Al Arabi Club (Dubai)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.