Ghazl El Mahalla SC

Ghazl Al-Mehalla

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Full name	Ghazl El Mahalla Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	El Fallahen (team) The Blue Ghoasts (supporters)
Founded	1936 (1936)
Ground	El Mahalla Stadium, El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt.
Ground Capacity	20,000
Chairman	Ahmed Maher
Head Coach	Ashraf Kasem
League	Egyptian Second Division
2014–15	1st (Group C) "Promoted"
Home colours Away colours

Ghazl El Mahalla Sporting Club is an Egyptian football club based in El-Mahalla El-Kubra. They are members of the Egyptian Premier League. They won the Egyptian Premier League once in 1973. Ghazl Mahalla history has witnessed many achievements , most significantly during the age of the Golden Generation which led the team to reach the final of the African championship African Champions League in 1974, only beaten in the final by CARA Brazzaville from the People's Republic of the Congo. The team also reached the final of the Egypt Cup six times, won the third place in the championship of the Arab Clubs Champions Cup in Tunisia in 1996.

Honors

• Egyptian Premier League
  • Winners (1) 1972–73
  • Runners up (1) 1975–76
• Egyptian Soccer Cup
  • Runners up (6) 1975, 1979, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2001
• Egyptian Super Cup
  • Runners up (1) 2001

Performance in CAF competitions

• African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances

1974: Finallist

1975: Semi-Finals

• CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

2002 – Quarter-Finals

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Amr Al Ahmadi 2 MF Ahmed Ghanem Soltan 3 MF Hassan Awad 4 DF Amr Ramadan 6 DF Amr El-Safty 7 FW Mahmoud Bazid 8 DF Mahmoud Sobhi 9 FW Reda Metwally 11 FW Mohammed Samara 12 MF Nouhoun Thiam 15 MF Adel Abdelaziz 16 DF Islam Siam

No. Position Player 17 FW Ahmed Galal 19 FW Samuel Owusu 20 DF Mohamed Ramdan 21 MF Abdulrahman Mohi } 22 MF Mohamed Sadek 23 MF Mohamed Abdel Wahed 24 DF Raed Mansi 26 FW Khaled Kassab 33 MF Marzouk Salah 35 DF Ahmed Khalil 37 MF Seif Yehia 42 MF James Anthony Lam

Managers

• Sherif El-Khashab (March 21, 2009 – Aug 26, 2009)
• Mohamed Radwan (Aug 27, 2009–??)
• Salah El-Nahy (Aug 19, 2011 – Oct 20, 2011)
• Ibrahim Youssef (Oct 25, 2011 – April 26, 2013)
• Abd El-Latif El-Doumany (April 26, 2012 – June 12, 2013)
• Farouk Gaafar (Sept 9, 2013 – Jan 19, 2014)
• Ashraf Kasem (Jan 30, 2014–)
• Mohamed Fayz (Jan 30, 2015–)

External links

• Ghazl El-Mehalla SC official funs website