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
Ground	El Mahalla Stadium, El-Mahalla El-Kubra, Egypt.
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 13 GK Mohamed Fawzi 2 DF Mohamed Elbaaly 3 DF Mostafa Kalosha 15 DF Osama Ragab 6 DF Khaled Abdelrazek 21 DF Ahmed Abdelrahman 17 DF Ibrahim Hassan 4 DF Ahmed El Sisi 8 DF Mohamed Ramadan 12 MF Ahmed Abdelaal 24 MF Hamed Feisal 25 MF Hossam Ghaly 5 MF Mohamed Mohsen 10 MF Gharib Fathi 14 MF Walid Badran 22 MF Mohamed Yehia 23 MF Islam Gamal 31 FW Khaled El Akhmim 11 FW Khaled Mayez

No. Position Player 19 FW Mohamed Khalifa 20 FW Khaled Kassab 7 FW Youssef Hassan 9 FW Mahdi Sobhi 18 FW Ramadan Rabie 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)
• Abd El-Latif El-Doumany (April 26, 2012 – June 12, 2013)
• Farouk Gaafar (Sept 9, 2013 – Jan 19, 2014)
• Ashraf Kasem (Jan 30, 2014– Jun 15, 2014)
• Mohamed Fayz (Jan 30, 2015–)

External links

• Ghazl El-Mehalla SC official funs website