El Gouna FC

El Gouna Football Club (Arabic: نادي الجونة لكرة القدم‎), is an Egyptian association football club based in El Gouna, Hurghada, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system.

El Gouna FC
Full nameEl Gouna Football Club
نادي الجونة لكرة القدم
Nickname(s)The Gounies
Short nameGOU, GFC
Founded2003 (2003)
GroundEl Gouna Stadium
Capacity14,000
ChairmanSamih Sawiris
ManagerReda Shehata
LeagueEgyptian Premier League
2019–20Egyptian Premier League, 13th
WebsiteClub website

The club's first league 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.

Players

Current squad
As of 1 February 2019

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 Mahmoud El Gharabawy
2 DF  EGY Islam Gaber (on loan from Al Ahly U-23)
3 DF  EGY Khaled Sobhy
4 DF  EGY Ahmed Said (Captain)
5 DF  EGY Louay Wael
7 FW  EGY Mahmoud Shabrawy
8 MF  UGA Allan Kyambadde
9 FW  EGY Ahmed Hassan Mekky (on loan from Smouha)
10 FW  EGY Islam Roshdi
11 DF  EGY Hossam Zein
12 DF  EGY Ahmed Ali
13 DF  CMR Jonathan Ngwem
14 MF  EGY Ahmed Eid
15 FW  EGY Mohamed Nagy (Vice-captain)
16 MF  EGY Sherif Dabo (on loan from Pyramids)
17 FW  EGY Mohamed Nadi
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF  EGY Ahmed Magdy
19 FW  EGY Mohamed Abdel Gawad
20 FW  EGY Ahmed El Alfi (on loan from Al Ittihad)
22 MF  EGY Mohamed Mohsen Leila
23 GK  EGY Haitham Mohamed
25 MF  ETH Gatoch Panom
27 FW  EGY Islam Abdel Naim (on loan from Tala'ea El Gaish)
28 MF  CIV Serge Aka
29 FW  EGY Salah Khattab
31 MF  EGY Akram Tawfik (on loan from Al Ahly)
33 DF  EGY Amr Saadawy (on loan from Al Ahly)
34 MF  EGY Ahmed Abaza (on loan from Zamalek U-23)
39 FW  EGY Ahmed Yasser Rayyan (on loan from Al Ahly)
42 DF  EGY Mahmoud El Gazzar (on loan from Al Ahly)
66 GK  EGY Karim Ahmed
70 MF  EGY Ahmed Hamdy (on loan from Al Ahly)
99 GK  EGY Omar Radwan (on loan from Al Ahly)

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW  NGA Chisom Chikatara (at Tala'ea El Gaish until 30 June 2019)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  EGY Karim Salem (at El Shams until 30 June 2019)

Managers
  • Ismail Youssef (November 1, 2007 – October 2, 2010)
  • Anwar Salama (October 10, 2010 – April 12, 2013)
  • Rainer Zobel (April 12, 2013 – July 12, 2015)
  • Stefan Florian Rieger (June 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016)
  • Hesham Zakareya (July 1, 2017 – November 27, 2018)
  • Hamada Sedki (November 28, 2018 – June 30, 2019)
  • Reda Shehata (June 30, 2019 – July 9, 2019) (Caretaker)
  • Nebojša Milošević (July 9, 2019 – 10 December 2019)
  • Reda Shehata (10 December 2019 – 25 December 2019) (Caretaker)
  • Pedro Barny (27 December 2019 – 14 September 2020)
  • Reda Shehata (14 September 2020 – Present)


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