| Club: | Al Ain |
| Season: | 2009–10 |
| Ownertitle: | President |
| Chairman: | Hazza Bin Zayed |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Winfried Schäfer Rachid Benmahmoud
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| Cup1: | President's Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Semi-finals |
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| League Topscorer: | José Sand (24) |
| Season Topscorer: | José Sand (33) |
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| Prevseason: | 2008–09 |
| Nextseason: | 2010–11 |
The 2009–10 season was Al Ain Football Club's 42nd in existence and the club's 35th consecutive season in the top-level football league in the UAE.
Al Ain began this season by winning the Super Cup. To continue his career at winning competitions, after a Great achievement in last season, at winning two titles in two weeks., Etisalat Emirates Cup and UAE President Cup.
During the summer transfer window, Al Ain Club signing with Emerson for 2 years from Flamengo, and with the player Jose Sand from Lanús at $10 million for 4 years, Also signed a contract with Ittihad kalba goalkeeper Yousef Abdulrahman at $10 million for 5 years .
On 18 January, During The winter transfer window opened, Al Ain Club signing the Asian foreigner and the four professional player in the team Lee Ho from Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma till the end of the season, and he was given the number 50.
| width=10% | No. | width=10% | Pos. | width=60% | Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Waleed Salim | |||
| 5 | DF | Ismaeel Ahmed | |||
| 19 | DF | Mohanad Salem | |||
| 44 | DF | Fares Jumaa | |||
| 80 | DF | Mohammed Fayez | |||
| 10 | MF | Jorge Valdivia | |||
| 27 | MF | Salem Abdullah | |||
| 26 | MF | Saif Mohammed | |||
| 7 | MF | Ali Al-Wehaibi | |||
| 8 | FW |  Emerson | |||
| 9 | FW |  José Sand |
| No. | Position | Player | From | Fee | Date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yousif Al Bairaq | Ittihad Kalba | Undisclosed | [1] | |||
| 9 | José Sand | Lanús | €9,280,000 | [2] | |||
| 8 | Emerson | Flamengo | €1,600,000 | [3] | |||
| 50 |  Lee Ho | Seongnam | Free transfer | [4] |
| No. | Position | Player | To | Fee | Date | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Al Wasl | Undisclosed | [5] | ||||
| 29 | Al Jazira | €610,000 | [6] | ||||
| 6 | Baniyas | €410,000 | [7] | ||||
| 1 | Al Wahda | Undisclosed | [8] | ||||
| 16 | Baniyas | Undisclosed | [9] | ||||
| — | Mahboob Juma | Ajman | Free transfer | [10] | |||
| 14 | Baniyas | Undisclosed | |||||
| 99 | Unattached | ||||||
| 25 | Baniyas | Undisclosed | [11] | ||||
| 77 | Al Wasl | Undisclosed | [12] |
| Name | To | Start date | End date | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Ahmad Khalfan | Al Wasl | 19 June 2009 | End of Season | [13] | ||
| 33 |  Soufiane Alloudi | Raja | 19 August 2009 | End of Season | [14] |
| Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Replaced by | Date of appointment | Position in table | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Winfried Schaefer | Sacked | 2 December 2009 | Rachid Benmahmoud (Caretaker) | 2 December 2009 | 3rd | |
| Rachid Benmahmoud | Caretaker | 11 December 2009 | 11 December 2009 | 4th | ||
| Sacked (poor ACL performances) | 14 April 2010[15] | Abdulhameed Al Mistaki (Coach U17) (Caretaker) | 14 April 2010[16] [17] | 3rd |
See main article: 2009–10 UAE Pro League.
See main article: 2009–10 Etisalat Emirates Cup.
See main article: 2009–10 UAE President's Cup.
See main article: 2010 AFC Champions League group stage.
Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted alphabetically by surname when total goals are equal.
| Pos. | Player | Pro League | President's Cup | League Cup | Champions League | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 24 | 5 | 4 | 33 | ||
| 2 | FW | 9 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 3 | MF | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||
| 4 | MF | 3 | 3 | ||||
| FW | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| DF | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | MF | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| MF | 2 | 2 | |||||
| MF | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| FW | 2 | 2 | |||||
| MF | 2 | 2 | |||||
| DF | 2 | 2 | |||||
| 4 | DF | 1 | 1 | ||||
| DF | 1 | 1 | |||||
| MF | 1 | 1 | |||||
| MF | 1 | 1 | |||||
| DF | 1 | 1 | |||||
| MF | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Own goals (from the opponents) | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Totals | 57 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 78 |