Baseball United, the first professional baseball league focused on the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent, announced expansion of its two UAE-based franchises to support the sport in other regions of the Middle East.
The Dubai Wolves will now be called the Arabia Wolves, and the Abu Dhabi Falcons have been renamed the Mid East Falcons, to reflect their expanded territories.
The two clubs will retain their original colors, emblems, and brand identities, while their letter-marks and word-marks will be changed to incorporate the new Arabia and Mid East nomenclature.
“Over the past two years of building within the region, we continue to be inspired by the growing number of avid and emerging baseball fans across the GCC,” said Kash Shaikh, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Baseball United.
“About 7 percent of the GCC population are now baseball fans, which gives us a strong foundation of nearly five million fans across the Arabian Peninsula,” he added.
Shaikh said these fans are young, educated, and active across sports and social media, and they all want teams they can call their own – franchises that have a local feel, presence, and identity.
“By evolving our founding Middle East franchises to encompass the entire region, we will now be able to connect with fans more meaningfully in all six GCC countries,” he said.
The Arabia Wolves and Mid East Falcons join the Mumbai Cobras and Karachi Monarchs as Baseball United’s founding franchises.
Baseball United expands with Saudi franchises
The league recently announced it would add three new franchises within Saudi Arabia later this year, which will take the total number of franchises to eight for its first full season, slated to begin in the winter of 2025.
Baseball United’s inaugural All-Star Showcase last November were the first-ever professional baseball games in the history of the Middle East and South Asia.
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