ADNOC Pro League Title Night

Lighting design for Al Ain’s ADNOC Pro League title night at Hazza bin Zayed Stadium. The venue geometry presented a long throw from FOH and a constrained rigging structure, which shaped the plot from the first draft.

Clean, functional, properly lit for camera. We delivered the lighting design together with the full technical drawing package — plans, sections and rigging plots drawn to scale — and pre-visualised the rig before load-in, so the crew knew every angle and every hanging position before doors opened.

The season. Al Ain took the 2025–26 ADNOC Pro League unbeaten — twenty-one wins, five draws, no defeats, 68 points, ten clear of Shabab Al Ahli. The title was mathematically secured with two rounds to spare and confirmed on the final matchday with a 4–0 win over Dibba, through goals from Soufiane Rahimi, Laba Kodjo, Erik Jorgens and Yahya bin Khalek. It was the club’s fifteenth league championship and its thirty-ninth official title overall, extending its record as the most decorated club in UAE football.

The night. The trophy was presented at Hazza bin Zayed Stadium on 16 May 2026 by H.H. Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Al Ain Region, alongside H.E. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Sheikh Sultan bin Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and Dr Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of ADNOC. The academy sides from under-15 through under-23 were honoured on the same stage. Beyond the trophy ceremony the build covered stadium lighting, LED and screen content, staging and set, and a chair-pixel layer through the seating bowl — installed and focused across a load-in that had to leave the pitch untouched.