Club timeline

2013 — The founding decree

26 May 2013

• The decree establishing the club is issued.
• The first Fujairah International Open Taekwondo Championship is launched.
• Cage Warriors Fight Night 8 is hosted.

2014 — The club’s first two medals abroad

• The club’s first international participation, and the first two medals in its history.
• Bronze for Ali Rashed Ali Al Mesmari and bronze for Rashed Obaid Nasser Al Mesmari at the Thailand Open.

2015 — More disciplines

• Boxing and judo join the club’s disciplines.
• The first Gulf Youth Boxing Championship is hosted; Abdullah Al Mesmari wins gold at 64 kg.
• The Olympic camp for Asian and Oceanian referees is hosted, with 100 international referees from 35 countries, ahead of Rio 2016.
• The first cooperation agreement with the Fujairah Educational Zone, to discover talent.

2016 — The Olympic Champion project

• H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi’s project to prepare an Olympic champion is launched.
• The Fujairah International Open Taekwondo Championship is upgraded to G2, the first Gulf tournament to earn that ranking.
• 60 talents are selected from more than 128 athletes.
• Wrestling joins.

2017 — The President’s Cup

• The taekwondo team wins the President’s Cup after topping the overall standings.
• Jiu-jitsu joins and begins its activity.
• The first Fujairah International Jiu-Jitsu Pro Championship is organised.

2018 — The first excellence shield

• The first club outside Abu Dhabi and Dubai to win the overall taekwondo excellence shield.
• The World Taekwondo Team Championships are hosted.
• The Taekwondo Grand Prix Final is hosted for the first time.
• The Future Generations programme is launched with 249 children and juniors.
• World Taekwondo’s annual awards gala is held in Fujairah for the first time.

2019 — Past a thousand participants

• Four disciplines added at once: archery, fencing, karate and triathlon.
• The Asia-Pacific Senior Judo Championships are hosted for the first time, with 286 athletes from 39 countries.
• The Fujairah International Triathlon is launched with 220 athletes.

2020 — A record 2,000 participants

• 2,000 athletes from 43 countries take part in the Fujairah championship.
• The first Arab Taekwondo Cup is launched.
• Two golds with the national team: Yasser Samir (juniors, under 48 kg) and Badriya Mohammed (junior women, under 46 kg).

2021 — Standing firm through the pandemic

• Remote training keeps the sessions going through the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Swimming joins the club’s disciplines.

2022 — Back on the world’s podiums

• The Women’s Épée Fencing World Cup is hosted for the first time, with 186 fencers from 38 countries.
• The archery team finishes first at the Arab Clubs Championship in Tunisia (50 clubs), with 13 medals: 5 gold, 5 silver, 3 bronze.
• The second Arab Taekwondo Cup, with 738 athletes.
• Karate’s first official appearance with the national team in West Asia: silver for Nada Ahmed and bronze for Khalid Abdullah, among 450 athletes from 11 countries.
• The Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi Ramadan Martial Arts Tournament is launched.

2023 — Three shields in one season

• The first UAE club to hold the judo, fencing and taekwondo excellence shields in a single season.
• A record haul of 1,151 medals: 348 gold, 363 silver, 440 bronze, 125 of them international.
• The Fatima bint Mubarak Women’s Sports Award, Best Team category.
• The Women’s Fencing World Cup, with 224 fencers from 47 countries, part of the Paris 2024 qualifiers.
• First place at the third Arab Taekwondo Cup.
• The Karate Youth League is hosted in the UAE for the first time, with 1,620 athletes from 67 countries.
• Four medals at Riyadh 2023: gold for Faris Al Balushi, bronze for Al Hayam Al Balushi and Mahra Abdullah in fencing, and bronze for Hussein Al Shammar in boxing.
• First place at the Arab Clubs Taekwondo Championship in Egypt.
• The Best Arab Club award, in the category of achievements with global, Arab and local impact.

2024 — The first Guinness record

• A Guinness World Record for the largest taekwondo lesson, with 302 participants.
• The first UAE gold in the history of the Asian Fencing Championships: Faris Al Balushi, cadet foil, in Bahrain.
• The first Arab gold at the Wuxi Grand Slam in China: Ahmed Khamis, also named best athlete.
• The first excellence shield in swimming, with 17 national records broken.
• The first club in the Middle East to adopt virtual-reality taekwondo.
• 14 medals with the UAE delegation at the Bahrain Gymnasiade: 5 gold, 5 silver, 4 bronze.

2025 — The second Guinness record

• The largest taekwondo championship in the world, with 2,332 athletes.
• The World Cadet Championships, hosted in the region for the first time, with 811 athletes from 93 countries, the largest edition ever.
• A record 1,839 medals: 1,708 national and 131 international.
• The first UAE women’s medal at the Asian Taekwondo Championships: bronze for Majda Al Ketbi, under 44 kg, in Malaysia.
• The first excellence shield in triathlon.
• Bronze at the SPIA Awards 2025 for best sporting event, for the championship’s eleventh edition.
• The International Excellence Award for social responsibility, in the United Kingdom.

2026 — Top of the Middle East awards

• First place at the SPIA Awards 2026 for the Middle East’s sporting event of the year.
• The sixth Arab Taekwondo Cup, ranked G1, with 1,283 athletes from 22 Arab countries.
• The Fencing World Cup for cadet and junior foil, with more than 250 fencers from 32 countries, and senior épée, with more than 550 fencers from 60 countries.
• The first UAE medal in the under-20 category at a Fencing World Cup: bronze for Faris Al Balushi in Costa Rica.
• Bronze for Mohammed Bek (under 73 kg) at the Qingdao Judo Grand Prix, on the road to Los Angeles 2028.
• The Community Empowerment Initiative award at the GovTech Innovation Awards 2026, for digital transformation and artificial intelligence.