El Gouna FC

El Gouna FC
Full name El Gouna Football Club
نادي الجونة لكرة القدم
Founded 2003 (2003)
Ground El Gouna Stadium
Chairman Egypt Samih Sawiris
Manager Hesham Zakareya
League Egyptian Premier League
2017–18 Second Division, 1st (Group A)
Website Club website

El Gouna Football Club (Egyptian Arabic: نادي الجونة لكرة القدم‎, Nady El Gouna), is an Egyptian football club based in El Gouna and is named after the great Greek amateur football player Mihalis Gounalakis, Red Sea, Egypt. The club is currently playing in the Egyptian Premier League for the season 2018/2019.

The club's first season was in the Egyptian Fourth Division in 2003–04, where they achieved their first title and secured the promotion to the Egyptian Third Division. In the next season of the Third Division, 2004–05, El Gouna accomplished the same feat and promoted to the Egyptian Second Division. In the 2008–09 season of the Second Division the club managed to promote to the Egyptian Premier League for the first time in the club's history.

The team ended the 2017-18 campaign finishing top of the Egyptian Second Division (Group A) after their 1–0 away win against Al Salam on 11 April 2018. El Gouna will play in the Premier League for the fifth time in the club's history, having played four seasons in the top flight before with the 2014–15 season being the most recent.

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
23 Egypt GK Haitham Mohamed
99 Egypt GK Omar Radwan
13 Cameroon DF Joseph Ngwem
99 Egypt DF Kareem Salem
33 Egypt DF Amr Seadawy
12 Egypt DF Ahmed Aly
11 Egypt DF Hossam Zein
4 Egypt DF Ahmed Saeed "Okka"
5 Egypt DF Loay Wael
6 Egypt DF Mohamed Abu Srei'
3 Egypt DF Khaled Sobhi
25 Ethiopia MF Gatoch Panom
No. Position Player
24 Egypt MF Ahmed Shennawy
8 Egypt MF Mostafa Gaber
30 Egypt MF Mohamed Mohsen Leila
20 Egypt MF Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek
10 Egypt MF Islam Roshdy
7 Egypt MF Mahmoud Shabrawy
18 Egypt MF Ahmed Magdy
29 Ivory Coast MF Abdoulaye Coulibaly
17 Egypt MF Mohamed Nady
19 Egypt MF Mohamed Abdel Gawad
15 Egypt FW Mohamed Nagy Geddo
27 Egypt FW Salah Khattab

Managers

  • Egypt Ismail Youssef (Nov 1, 2007 – Oct 2, 2010)
  • Egypt Anwar Salama (Oct 10, 2010 – April 12, 2013)
  • Germany Rainer Zobel (April 12, 2013 – Jul 12, 2015)
  • Germany Stefan Florian Rieger (Jun 1, 2016 - April, 2017 )
  • Egypt Hesham Zakareya (May, 2017 - present)
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