Ghazl El Mahalla SC

Ghazl Al-Mehalla

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
2015–16	Premier League, 18th (Relegated)
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 – Finalist

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 2 DF Mohamed Elbaaly 3 DF Mostafa Kalosha 4 DF Ahmed El Sisi 5 MF Mohamed Mohsen 6 DF Khaled Abdelrazek 7 FW Youssef Hassan 8 DF Mohamed Ramadan 9 FW Mahdi Sobhi 10 MF Gharib Fathi 11 FW Khaled Mayez 12 MF Ahmed Abdelaal 13 GK Mohamed Fawzi 14 MF Walid Badran 15 DF Osama Ragab 17 DF Ibrahim Hassan 18 FW Ramadan Rabie 19 FW Mohamed Khalifa 20 FW Khaled Kassab 21 DF Ahmed Abdelrahman

No. Position Player 22 MF Mohamed Yehia 23 MF Islam Gamal 24 MF Hamed Feisal 25 MF Hossam Ghaly 31 FW Khaled El Akhmim DF Mahmoud Abdou MF Ahmed Khalil MF Abdallah Abdelkader MF Hamada Galal MF Mohamed Sobhi MF Ehab Abouzeid MF Mahmoud El Amiri MF Moataz Mahrous MF Mohamed El Suefi MF Said Kamal MF Ahmed Hamza FW Ahmed Galal FW Nour Mekki

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)
• Abdel-Latif El-Doumany (April 26, 2012 – June 12, 2013)
• Farouk Gaafar (Sept 9, 2013 – Jan 19, 2014)
• Ashraf Kasem (Jan 30, 2014 – June 15, 2014)
• Mohamed Fayz (Jan 30, 2015–)

External links

• Ghazl El-Mehalla SC official funs website