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Al-Ahly
Full name	Al-nady Al-Ahly Lel-ryada Albadaneya
Nickname(s)	Red Devils, The Reds, The Red Castle
Founded	1907
Ground	Mokhtar El-tetch, Cairo, Egypt
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	Hassan Hamdy
Manager	Manuel Jose de Jesus
League	Egyptian League
2006-07	Egyptian League, 1st
Home colours 　 Away colours

Al-Ahly (Arabic: النادى الاهلى للرياضة البدنية ) is an Egyptian football club founded and headed by the English gentleman Mitchell Ince in April, 1907 in Cairo, Egypt. The club has risen from popular roots to become one of Africa’s best clubs. Al-Ahly best known as the “people’s club”, is believed to have 40 million supporters, making them the most popular club in Egypt. Al-Ahly football time is the team of the century for his outstanding records he had in the 20th century.

Al-Ahly, which means "national" in Arabic, is the most crowned club in Egypt, having won the Egyptian League thirty-one times and the Egyptian Cup thirty-four times. Moreover, Al-Ahly is one of the good club sides in Africa.

AL-Ahly began to dominate the Egyptian game in the 40s due to its popularity among people and rulers of Egypt at that period. But it was not until the 80s that the Red Devils truly emerged to the African level, winning the top club competition in 1982 and 1987. They triumphed again in 2001 and 2005 under the coaching of the Portuguese Manuel Jose and now, less than three years into his record-breaking second stint, Ahly have added another continental crown in an undefeated streak that has gone beyond 50 matches. Currently Al-Ahly is in in the final and set to defend its title, although the chances are fading away after the draw with Safaxien in Cairo.

Al-Ahly has a fierce rivalry with local rivals Al-Zamalek; the derby matches are so intense, that foreign referees are brought in to officiate the game. It is a well known fact that Al-Ahly is supported by 70 % of Egypt's middle and working classes. While the first Ahly president (Mitchell Ince) carried the british passport, Al-Zamalek was founded by a belgian, hence the deep hatred between the two set of fans that can be compared to Celtic-Rangers

Contents 1 History 1.1 The idea 1.2 The name 1.3 Colours 1.4 Logo 1.5 Presidents 1.6 Managers 1.7 Captains 2 Stadium 2.1 Mokhtar El-Tetch Stadium 2.2 Cairo International Stadium 3 Honours 3.1 Egyptian Championships 3.2 African Championships 3.3 Arab Championships 3.4 Al-Ahly's Championships From 1907 till present (year by year) 4 Current Squad 4.1 Technical Staff 5 Board of Directors 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

The idea of establishing Al-Ahly was aroused by Mitchel Ince. He shared the idea with Edrees Rageb Pasha, Omar Sultan Pasha, Ismaeel Serry, Abdul El Khalek Tharwat, and Ameen Samy. They came together with the idea to establish a club for high school students to spend their spare time, as the Union was formed for political reasons in the first place. They decided to establish a company with five thousand Egyptian Pounds.

The higher administrative committee (The Board) chose Englishman Mitchel Ince as the first president of Al-Ahly in order to get the blessings of the occupation authorties and to help obtain suitable land (from the government) for establishing the club.

The first official meeting of higher administrative committee was held in April 24, 1907, in Anas' residence, as Mitchel Ince as chairman and Omar Lotfi, Edrees Rageb Pasha, Ismaeel Serry, and Ameen Sammy as members and Mohamed Sherif as a secretary. Ince remained president until April 2, 1908.

It is worth mentioning that Al-Ahly has a great rivalery with Al-Zamalek club of Egypt. Both teams exchanged several players throughout their history leading to a lot of disputes and challenges. They have met more than 80 times in derbies. The biggest score was for Al-Zamalek defeating Al-ahly 6:0 in the Egyptian Cup in 1944.

On February 25, 1908, Ameen Samy suggested the name Ahly Athletic Club (National Athletic Club), as it was founded to contain High School Students who were the main pillar for the resistance against British occupation of Egypt. So, it was founded as an Egyptian national club to unite these students, and named Al-Ahly to represent nationalism with the literal meaning of the word. Ahly is considered the first club founded for Egyptians in Egypt and was established during British occupation of Egypt.

El-Ahly derived its color from the early 20th century Flag of Egypt. Story of the color goes back to year 1911 when the jersey was linear striped in red and white. Then, it was changed to a half red-a half white linear jersey ,until it rests at the red color only as it was the color of the Egyptian flag in the reign period of Abbas Helmy the second at that time.

Al-Ahly’s logo was designed on November 3, 1917 by Mohammad Sherif Sabry Bek, a member in the club at that time and was the King Farouk uncle. The logo was adorned with the king’s crown which was the symbol of reign in the upper part.

No	Name	From	To
1	Mitchel Ince	24 Apr 1907	01 Apr 1908
2	Aziz Pasha Ezzat	02 Apr 1908	09 Feb 1916
3	Abd El-Khalik PashaTharwat	09 Feb 1916	14 Feb 1924
4	Gaafar Pasha Wali	14 Feb 1924	07 Jul 1940
5	Mohamed Pasha Taher	07 Jul 1940	02 Febr 1941
-	Jaafar Pasha Wali	03 Feb 1941	02 Jan 1944
6	Ahmed Pasha Hasanain	03 Jan 1944	19 Feb 1946
7	Ahmed Pasha Abboud	19 Feb 1946	19 Dec 1961
8	Salah Eldine El-Desouky	19 Dec 1961	15 Dec 1965
9	Gen. Abd El-Mohsen Mortagy	15 Dec 1965	13 Jul 1967
10	Dr. Ibrahim Kamel El-Wakeel	13 Jul 1967	8 Nov 1972
-	Gen. Abd El-Mohsen Mortagy	08 Nov 1972	12 Dec 1980
11	Saleh Selim	12 Dec 1980	16 Dec 1988
12	Mohamed Abdou Saleh El-Wahsh	16 Dec 1988	06 Feb 1992
-	Saleh Selim	06 Feb 1992	06 May 2002
13	Hassan Hamdy	06 May 2002	Present

01- Gamil Osman 02- Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetch 03- Labib Mahmoud 04- Hussein El-Far 05- Mohamed El-Guindi 06- Moustafa Kamel Mansour 07- Foad Sedki 08- Ahmed Mekawi 09- Mohamed Abdou Saleh El-Wahsh 10- Abdel Aziz Hammami 11- Foad Shaaban 12- Both 13- Freitz 14- Jitcos 15- John McBride 16- Brosicz 17- Horvatek 18- Tadicz 19- Nandor Hidegkuti

20- Kalotcai 21- Mahmoud El-Gohary 22- Don Rivey 23- Mahmoud El-Sayes 24- Taha Ismail 25- Jeff Buttler 26- Anwar Salama 27- Detrich Waitsa 28- Michael Evert 29- Shawky AbdelShafy 30- Alan Harris 31- Reiner Holman 32- Reiner Zobel 33- Hans-Jürgen Dörner (Dixie) 34- Manuel José de Jesus 35- Jo Bonfrere 36- Fathi Mabrouk 37- António Oliveira 38- Manuel José de Jesus

01- Hussein Hegazi 02- Ali El-Hassany 03- Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetch 04- Mohamed Ali Rasmi 05- Ahmed Soliman 06- Amin Shoa'air 07- Moustafa Kamel Mansour 08- Saleh El-Sawwaf 09- Hussein Madkour 10- Mohamed El-Guindi 11- Ahmed Mekawi 12- Abdel Galil Hemaida 13- Saleh Selim 14- Rifaat El-Fanageely 15- Taha Ismail 16- Mimi El-Sherbini 17- Essam Abdel Monem

18- Hany Moustafa 19- Anwar Salama 20- Hassan Hamdy 21- Moustafa Younis 22- Moustafa Abdou 23- Mahmoud El-Khateeb 24- Thabet El-Batal 25- Taher Abozeid 26- Ahmed Shobair 27- Osama Orabi 28- Ibrahim Hassan 29- Hossam Hassan 30- Walid Salah El-Din 31- Hady Khashaba 32- Essam El-Hadary 33- Shady Mohamed 34- Osama Hosny 35- Ahmed Al Sayed

Image:Http://www.worldstadiums.com/stadium pictures/middle east/egypt/cairo ahly.jpg

• Capacity: 8,000
• Place: El-Gezira, Cairo
• Inauguration: 1909

Mukhtar Al-Tetsh Stadium is Al-Ahly’s training ground, located in Al-Ahly Club in El-Gezira and used currently as a training ground.

• Capacity: 75,000
• Place: Heliopolis, Cairo
• Inauguration: 1960

Cairo international Stadium is the formal ground for Al-Ahly since 1970's.

• Egyptian League, 31 times(Egyptian Record)

Years: 1948/49 - 1949/50 - 1950/51 - 1952/53 - 1953/54 - 1955/56 - 1956/57 - 1957/58 - 1958/59 - 1960/61 - 1961/62 - 1974/75 - 1975/76 - 1976/77 - 1978/79 - 1979/80 - 1980/81 - 1981/82 - 1984/85 - 1985/86 - 1986/87 - 1988/89 - 1993/94 - 1994/95 - 1995/96 - 1996/97 - 1997/98 - 1998/99 - 1999/00 - 2004/05 - 2005/06

• Egyptian Cup, 34 times(Egyptian Record)

Years: 1923/24 - 1924/25 - 1926/27 - 1927/28 - 1929/30 - 1930/31 - 1936/37 - 1939/40 - 1941/42 - 1942/43 - 1944/45 - 1945/46 - 1946/47 - 1948/49 - 1949/50 - 1950/51 - 1952/53 - 1955/56 - 1957/58 - 1960/61 - 1965/66 - 1977/78 - 1980/81 - 1982/83 - 1983/84 - 1984/85 - 1988/89 - 1990/91 - 1991/92 - 1992/93 - 1995/96 - 2000/01 - 2002/03 - 2005/06

• Egyptian Super Cup, 3 times(Egyptian Record)

Years: 2003 - 2005 - 2006

• Sultan Hussein Cup, 7 times

Years: 1922/23 - 1923/24 - 1925/26 - 1926/27 - 1928/29 - 1930/31 - 1938/39

• Cairo League, 5 times

Years: 1938/39 - 1941/42 - 1942/43 - 1947/48 - 1949/50

• United Arab Republic League, 1 time

Year: 1960/1961

• CAF Champions League, 5 times (Current Champion)

Years: 1982 - 1987 - 2001 - 2005 - 2006

• African Cup Winners' Cup, 4 times(African Record)

Years: 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1993

• African Super Cup, 3 times

Years: 2002 - 2006 - 2007

• Afro-Asian Cup, 1 time

Year: 1989

• Afro-European Cup, 1 time

Year: 2001

• Arab Champions' Cup, 1 time

Year: 1996

• Arab Cup Winners Cup, 1 time

Year: 1995

• Arab Super Cup, 2 times

Years: 1997 - 1998

As of July 31, 2006.

Number	Nationality	Pic	Player	Birthdate	Position	Year Joined Club	Previous Club
Goalkeepers
1			Essam El-Hadary	15/01/1973	GK	1996	Damietta
26			Amir Abdul Hamid	24/04/1979	GK	2003	Al-Ahly Youth
28		Image:Naderelsaid.gif	Nader El-Sayed	31/12/1972	GK	2005	Al-Masry
Defenders
2			Islam El-Shater	16/01/1976	RB	2004	Al-Zamalek
4			Emad El Nahas	15/02/1976	CB	2004	Al-Ismaily
5			Ahmed El-Sayed	30/10/1980	CB	1987	Al-Ahly Youth
6			Ahmed Sedik	--/--/----	RB	2006	Asmant Assuit
7			Shady Mohamed	29/11/1977	CB	1998	Al-Koroum
26			Wael Gomaa	03/08/1975	CB	2001	Ghazl El-Mahala
30			Mohamed Sedik	25/11/1978	CB	2006	Al-Zamalek
Midfielders / Wingers
8			Mohamed Barakat	07/09/1976	CAM	2004	El-Ismaily
10			Wael Reyad	02/08/1982	RAM	1997	Al-Ahly Youth
11		Image:TarekElsaid.JPG	Tarek El-Said	07/04/1978	LM	2006	Al-Zamalek
12			Sebastiao Gilberto	21/09/1982	LM	2002	Atlético Petróleos Luanda
13		Image:Akouty.jpg	Akouty Mansah	15/04/1983	DM	2005	Al-Masry
14			Hassan Mostafa	20/10/1979	DM	2004	Itthad
17			Tarek Saad	--/--/----	AM	2006	El Sharkeyah Lelddukhan
20			Mohamed Shawky	05-10-1981	DM	2003	Al-Masry
21			Mohamed Abdullah	23/5/1981	RM	2005	Al-Ismaily
22		Image:Abotrika.jpg	Mohamed Abo Treka	07/01/1978	AM	2004	Tersana
24			Ahmad Hassan	12/04/1979	CM	2004	El Sharkeyah Lelddukhan
29			Amr Samaka	22/05/1983	AM	2005	Tersana
31			Hossam Ashour	09/03/1986	CM	1999	Al-Ahly Youth
Forwards
9			Emad Motab	20/02/1983	CF	1999	Al-Ahly Youth
18			Osama Hosny	18/06/1982	CF	1986	Al-Ahly Youth
23			Flavio	20/12/1979	CF	2005	Atlético Petróleos Luanda
29			Ramy Rabia	--/--/----	CF	2006	El Sharkeyah Lelddukhan

Head Coach:	Manuel José de Jesus
Assistant Coach:	Hossam El-Badry
2º Assistant Coach:	Alaa Mayhob
Goalkeepers Coach:	Ahmed Nagy
Club Doctor:	Ehab Aly

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President:	Hassan Hamdy
Vice-president:	Mahmoud El-Khateeb
Treasurer:	Mahmoud Baganed	BOD Members:	Khaled Mortagy El-Amry Farouk Hisham Said Khaled El-Darandaly Mohamed AbdElwahab Mohamed Elghazawy Rania Elwany Mahmoud Fahmy Yassin Mansour Mohamed Shawky
General Manager:	Moharam El-Ragheb

• Egyptian Soccer League
• Egyptian Soccer Cup
• Egyptian Super Cup

• BBC News article referencing "Club of the Century"
• BBC News article referencing unbeaten streak

• Al-Ahly Official Site
• Ahly fans site
• Al-Ahly's First website
• Ahlynews.com
• El-Ahly Fans Site
• ALL ABOUT EGYPTIAN PLAYERS

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Egyptian Premier League 2006 v • d • e

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Al-Ahly • Ismaily • Ittihad • Assiut Petrol • Al-Masry • Mokawloon al-Arab • Zamalek • Olympic Suez Cement • El-Jaish • ENPPI • Ghazl Al-Mehalla • Sawahel • Tanta • Tersana • Petrojet