Article 15 settles the ranking of positions in the event of equality in points

Al-Bataeh's victory in the 23rd round settles the relegation struggle and forces Dibba and Al Dhafra to leave the 'professionals'

Al-Bataeh has not tasted winning the league since round 11. Cinematographer: Osama Abu Ghanem

The match between Al Bataeh and Dibba Al Fujairah, which will bring them together at ten tomorrow evening in the opening of the 23rd phase of the ADNOC Professional Football League, may decide the identity of the relegated to the amateur league.

Al Bataeh are in 12th place with 18 points, followed by Dibba Al Fujairah with 12 points, while Al Dhafra are in 14th and last place with only eight points.

Al-Bataeh's victory over Dibba will ensure that the conflict is finally resolved on the professional seats with the departure of Al Dhafra and Dibba from the Professional League, and their relegation to the amateur league.

In the event of victory, Al-Bataeh will raise its score to 21 points, with a full difference of nine points, with three games remaining in the league, but this will not be enough for Dibba team to survive, and if it wins, against the loss of Al-Bataeh, the latter will enjoy the advantage of direct confrontations that come in his favor, as he has also won the first leg against Dibba in the 11th round with a goal without reply.

Article 15 of the Competitions Regulations stipulates that if two or more clubs are equal in the same number of points, the positions in the standings table shall be determined according to the club that scored the most points in matches between clubs with equal number of points, then the club that achieved the highest goal difference in matches between clubs with equal number of points, and then the club that scored the most goals in matches between clubs with equal points.

If Al-Bataeh reached the 21st point, Al Dhafra will have been officially relegated to the amateur league, and if it wins against Khorfakkan in the match that will bring them together tomorrow, as the difference between it and Al-Bataeh will remain at 10 points, with nine points remaining in the competition.

Al Dhafra's chance seems theoretically the most difficult of the three teams fighting for survival, as it needs to win the remaining four matches in the league, with Al Bataeh losing 11 of the remaining points in the league, and his third rival for the survival seat Dibba Al Fujairah does not get more than seven points from the matches that await him in the league.

Dibba Al Fujairah is in dire need to win against Al Bataeh in tomorrow's match to revive its hopes of survival, as the difference between the two teams will be reduced to only three points, which will increase the difficulty of the struggle for relegation during the next rounds in the league, in which Al Bataeh awaits heavy-caliber confrontations, with Al Jazira, Al Nasr and Al Ain, while Dibba will play with Al Nasr, Sharjah and Al Dhafra respectively.

Dibba Al-Fujairah rose up in the last two rounds, by getting four points from the victory over Khorfakkan with a goal without a response, and a positive draw with Al-Wahda with a goal for each team, to return the team from afar and ignite the struggle for survival, after it was close to decisiveness two rounds ago.

On the other hand, Al-Bataeh is still suffering from a series of unpositive results with a big loss in the last round of Shabab Al-Ahli with a clean treble, to remain the only team that did not know the taste of victories in the second round of the competition.

The last victory of Al-Bataeh in the league in the round of 11, and was at the expense of Dibba, when he beat him with a goal without reply, and since that time the team has not known the taste of victories, despite the strong levels it offers in the competition.

The remaining matches for the three teams

- Al-Bataeh plays with (Dibba, Al-Jazeera, Al-Nasr and Al-Ain).

- Dibba plays with (Al-Bataeh, Al-Nasr, Sharjah and Al-Dhafra).

- Al Dhafra plays with (Khorfakkan, Ajman, Al Jazira and Dibba).