Al Masry

Full name	Al Masry Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	Boss of the Canal (Zaeem Al Qanāh) The Green Eagles (El Nosour El Khodr) The Pharaonic Horus
Short name	MAS, MSC
Founded	18 March 1920; 104 years ago (1920-03-18)
Ground	Borg el-Arab Stadium
Capacity	86,000
Chairman	Kamel Abou Ali
Coach	Ali Maher
League	Egyptian Premier League
2022–23	Egyptian Premier League, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Al Masry's active sections
Football	Handball	Athletics
Swimming	Field hockey

Al Masry Sporting Club ( Arabic: النادي المصري للألعاب الرياضية) is an Egyptian sports club based in Port Said, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team that competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest tier of the Egyptian football league system.

Al Masry has never won the league, but won their one Egyptian Cup in 1998. The club plays their home matches at the Port Said Stadium, with a capacity of 17,988.

History

Founded on 18 March 1920 by a group of Egyptians in Port Said, it was the first club for Egyptians in a city that already had many clubs for the foreign communities living there.

In February 2012 the Port Said Stadium disaster took place, where rioting Masry fans caused the deaths of 72 rival fans, and hundreds of injuries. 69 Masry fans were convicted, with 26 receiving the death penalty, and numerous others receiving life sentences.

After the riots, the remainder of the 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League season was cancelled by the Egyptian Football Association. Al Masry decided to refrain from competing in the 2012–13 season as a sign of respect to the relatives of the victims of the disaster, although it obtained a decision from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) confirming the club's right to participate in the Egyptian Premier League and all other activities of the Egyptian Football Association. ^[1] Nevertheless, 2012–13 season was not completed and was cancelled due to the political situation in Egypt.

Al Masry resumed participation in the Egyptian Premier League in the 2013–14 season; the club suffered from inconsistent performance and results for two consecutive seasons, although it maintained its position in the Egyptian Premier League. Al Masry started the 2015–16 season under the coaching of the Egyptian former player of the team Hossam Hassan, who adopted a new policy depending on youth and unknown players. That season the team came in at fourth place in the Egyptian Premier League and succeeded to qualify to the CAF Confederation Cup after 14 years of absence from African completions.

Colours and crest

Al Masry's crest is composed of a green pharaonic Horus eagle that holds the Sun disk over its head in between its two upraised wings; the crest was inspired by the shape of Tutankhamun's pendants referring to challenge and strength, so the team is nicknamed the green eagles. The club's main colours, green and white come from Egypt's flag after the Egyptian Revolution of 1919 as a symbol of patriotism. ^[2]

Stadiums

Al Masry formerly played their home games at a small stadium in Port Said, but its capacity was too small for the club's support. As a consequence, Al Masry built its own new stadium which is named Port Said Stadium in 1953 and was officially inaugurated in 1955. ^[3]

Sayed Metwally Complex

Sayed Metwally Complex

Location	Port Said, Egypt
Owner	Al Masry SC
Operator	Al Masry SC
Capacity	No Seats
Surface	Grass
Construction
Renovated	2011
Tenants
Al Masry SC Al Masry Juniors and all other youth levels

The Sayed Metwally Complex is the training center of Egyptian multi-sport club Al Masry SC. It has two grass pitches and is mainly used by the senior squad and the youth teams. It was renovated in 2011 to be ready to host the training sessions of the first team and its friendly matches. In November 2013 Al Masry board of directors took a decision to name the pitches after the club's late president Sayed Metwally who remained in the office for almost 26 years. ^[4]

Presidents

Name	From	To
/ Sir Ahmed Hosny [5]	1920	1925
Mohamed El-Tobshy	1925	1930
Sir Awad Fakosa	1930	1935
Ibrahim Youssef Lehita	1935	1940
/ / Abd El Rahman Pasha Lotfi	1940	1964
Major General Khalil Tarman	1964	1967
/ Abd El Hamid Hussien	1971	1974
Mohamed Moussa	1974	1978
Ahmed Fouad El-Makhzangy	Feb 1978	Dec 1979
Major General Ibrahim El-Mor	May 1980	Aug 1980
/ Sayed Metwaly	1980	1988
Major General Ibrahim El-Mor	1988	1989
Sayed Metwaly	1989	1991
Adel El-Gazar	March 1991	May 1991
Sayed Metwaly	1991	1997
Kamel Abou-Aly	Aug 1997	Dec 1997
Abd El wahab Kouta	Jan 1998	2002
Sayed Metwaly	Sept 2002	2008
Aly Fragallah	2008	2009
Kamel Abou-Aly	2009	2013
Yasser Yehia	2014	July 2015
Samir Halabia	23 July 2015	2022
Kamel Abou-Aly	2022	Present

Honours

• Egypt Cup
  • Winners (1): 1998
  • Runners-up (9): 1927, 1945, 1947, 1954, 1957, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2017
• Sultan Hussein Cup
  • Winners (3): 1933, 1934, 1937
  • Runners-up (1): 1938
• Egyptian Confederation Cup
  • Winners (1): 1992 (shared record)
  • Runners-up (1): 1989
• Egyptian League Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 2023
• Canal Zone League
  • Winners (17): 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948 (record)

Performance in CAF competitions

• PR = Preliminary round
• FR = First round
• SR = Second round
• PO = Play-off round
• QF = Quarter-final
• SF = Semi-final

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1999	African Cup Winners' Cup	FR	Sudan	Al Merrikh	1–0	0–1	1–1 (4–3 p)
		SR	Ghana	Asante Kotoko	1–0	0–1	1–1 (4–2 p)
		QF	DR Congo	AS Dragons	3–0	0–1	3–1
		SF	Tunisia	Club Africain	0–4	0–0	0–4
2002	CAF Cup	FR	Kenya	Mathare United	2–0	2–0	4–0
		SR	Botswana	Botswana Defence Force XI	2–0	2–4	4–4 ( a)
		QF	Madagascar	AS Adema	2–0	1–0	3–0
		SF	Algeria	JS Kabylie	1–0	0–2	1–2
2017	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Nigeria	Ifeanyi Ubah	1–0	0–1	1–1 (3–0 p)
		FR	Mali	Djoliba	w/o	0–2	w/o [a]
		PO	Uganda	KCCA	1–0	0–1	1–1 (3–4 p)
2018	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Zambia	Green Buffaloes	4–0	1–2	5–2
		FR	Tanzania	Simba	0–0	2–2	2–2 ( a)
		PO	Gabon	CF Mounana	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Group B	Mozambique	UD Songo	2–0	1–1	2nd
			Sudan	Al Hilal	2–0	1–1
			Morocco	RS Berkane	1–0	0–0
		QF	Algeria	USM Alger	1–0	1–0	2–0
		SF	DR Congo	AS Vita Club	0–0	0–4	0–4
2018–19	CAF Confederation Cup	FR	Burkina Faso	Salitas	0–2	0–0	0–2
2019–20	CAF Confederation Cup	FR	Zanzibar	Malindi	3–1	4–1	7–2
		PO	Seychelles	Côte d'Or	2–0	4–0	6–0
		Group A	Mauritania	FC Nouadhibou	1–0	3–2	2nd
			Nigeria	Enugu Rangers	4–2	1–1
			Egypt	Pyramids	1–2	0–2
		QF	Morocco	RS Berkane	2–2	0–1	2–3
2021–22	CAF Confederation Cup	SR	Uganda	URA	1–0	0–0	1–0
		PO	Nigeria	Rivers United	1–0	1–2	2–2 ( a)
		Group C	DR Congo	TP Mazembe	2–0	0–2	2nd
			Cameroon	Coton Sport	2–0	0–0
			Congo	AS Otohô	1–0	0–1
		QF	Morocco	2–1	0–1	2–2 ( a)

Notes

Performance in Arab competitions

• Arab Cup Winners' Cup: 1 appearance

1999 – Bronze Medalist

• Arab Champions League: 1 appearance

2008 – First Round

IFFHS rankings

Players

Current squad

As of 31 January 2024 ^[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   EGY Essam Tharwat 3 DF   ALG Imadeddine Boubekeur 4 DF   EGY Mohamed Dabash 7 DF   EGY Karim El Eraki 8 MF   EGY Amr Moussa ( captain) 9 FW   EGY Amr Marei 10 MF   EGY Hassan Ali 13 DF   EGY Amr El Saadawy 14 MF   TUN Elyes Jelassi 17 DF   EGY Hussein Al Sayed 18 FW   ALG Abderrahim Deghmoum 19 MF   EGY Mahmoud Hamada 20 MF   NGA Emeka Christian Eze 22 MF   EGY Ahmed El Sheikh 27 GK   EGY Mahmoud Gad 28 FW   TUN Fakhreddine Ben Youssef

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 MF   TUN Mootez Zaddem (on loan from Espérance de Tunis) 30 MF   EGY Islam Abou Slemma 31 GK   EGY Mohamed Shehata 35 MF   EGY Ahmed Shadad 37 FW   CMR Franck Mbella Etouga 38 DF   EGY Islam Al Mazayen 39 MF   EGY Zyad Farag 40 MF   EGY Osama El Gazzar — GK   EGY Ihab El Aiady — DF   EGY Karim Alaa — DF   EGY Mohamed Gad — MF   EGY Islam Ateia — MF   EGY Mostafa Abou El Hassan — MF   EGY Ragab Omran — MF   EGY Sherif Dabo — FW   EGY Mohamed El Gamal

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Manager	Ali Maher
General Coach	Mohammed Abdul-Kareem
Assistant coach	Saif Dawood
Goalkeeper Coach	Mostafa Fathi
Football Director	Vacant
Administrator	Mahmoud Gaber
Club Doctor
Physiotherapist	Ahmed Sameh
Masseur	Yousry Sadek
Masseur	Hussien Hassan
Masseur	Mohamed Ayad

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Captains

Managers

Other sports

Al Masry SC also competes in other sports, such as handball, athletics, swimming, gymnastics, billiards, table tennis and field hockey.

Al Masry FM Radio

Al Masry FM is the official radio station of the club; it was launched as an Internet radio station on 28 December,^{[ year missing]} making it Egypt's first radio station belonging to a club.^{[ citation needed]}

Sponsors

• Nike
• Presentation Sports
• WE
• GLC
• SAIBBank
• OPPO
• EGYPTAIR

See also

• Egyptian Premier League
• Egypt Cup
• Sultan Hussein Cup

References

External links

• Official website

Independent websites

• Al Masry SC at Egyptian Premier League