Emirates (airline) Cricket Club. Emirates were also the major sponsor of the Kings XI Punjab (Season 2,3 and 4) and Deccan Chargers (Season 5) and Rajasthan Royals (Season 11) teams of Indian Premier League, the largest domestic cricket tournament in the world. Emirates Airlines was also a sponsor of FIFA and the FIFA World Cup, but stopped its sponsorship in early 2015, due to allegations of corruption and bribery within FIFA, as well as FIFA's questionable decision to award the 2022 FIFA World Cup to Qatar. Since the 2006–07 season, it has been the primary shirt sponsor of Arsenal, Hamburger SV and
Emirates fleet 1985 to 1987. The planned phaseout of Emirates' older large Airbus widebodies started in February 2011, starting with the retirement of two Airbus A330-200s from its fleet. The last Airbus A340-500 was withdrawn from service on 31 March 2016 after operating a final flight from Kabul to Dubai. The first Boeing 777-300ER (registration A6-EBD) was withdrawn from use on 27 March 2017 after performing its final flight for Emirates as EK724 from Addis Ababa, and is now leased by ALC to VIM Airlines with registration VP-BIN. Emirates does plan to retire their older 777-300ER airframes in 2017. Emirates intends to