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El Gouna FC
Full nameEl Gouna Football Club
نادي الجونة لكرة القدم
Nickname(s)The Gounies
Short nameGOU, GFC
Founded2003; 21 years ago (2003)
GroundKhaled Bichara Stadium
Capacity12,000
ChairmanSamih Sawiris
ManagerReda Shehata
LeagueEgyptian Premier League
2023–2412th
Current season

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

History

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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.[citation needed]

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.[citation needed]

In the 2022-23 season, El Gouna won promotion back to the Premier Division after one season.[1]

Records and statistics

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Season I II Pts. Pl. W T L GS GA Diff. Egypt Cup Notes
2008–09 1 (Group A) 64 pts 30 18 10 2 54 17 +37 Round of 16 Promoted
2009–10 12 34 pts 30 8 10 12 26 32 −6 Round of 16
2010–11 11 34 pts 30 8 10 12 26 33 −7 Quarter Final
2011–12 not finished 22 pts 16 5 7 4 22 18 +4 not held
2012–13 not finished 14 pts 15 3 5 7 12 19 -7 Runner-up
2013–14 5 (Group 1) 26 pts 20 7 5 8 17 16 +1 Round of 32
2014–15 16 46 pts 38 10 16 12 33 35 -2 Round of 16 Relegated
2015–16 4 (Group A) 33 pts 20 9 6 5 24 15 +9 5 Preliminary round
2016–17 3 (Group A) 58 pts 32 16 10 6 48 31 +17 Round of 32
2017–18 1 (Group A) 71 pts 30 21 8 1 63 22 +41 Round of 16 Promoted
2018–19 14 38 pts 34 8 14 12 38 52 -14 Round of 32
2019–20 13 37 pts 34 10 7 17 32 45 -13 Round of 32
2020–21 12 38 pts 34 8 14 12 36 41 -5 Round of 16

Players

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Current squad

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As of 12 October 2023[2]

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 Egypt EGY Mahmoud El Gharabawy
2 GK Egypt EGY Islam Tarek
4 DF Egypt EGY Mahmoud El Gazzar
5 DF Egypt EGY Louay Wael (2nd captain)
7 FW Egypt EGY Mahmoud Shabrawy
8 MF Egypt EGY Amr Abdelfattah
9 FW Egypt EGY Mohamed Ragab
10 MF Egypt EGY Islam Roshdi
12 MF Egypt EGY Ahmed Amer
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 MF Egypt EGY Nour El Sayed (captain)
15 FW Egypt EGY Mohamed Abdelgawad
17 MF Egypt EGY Amr Barakat
18 MF Egypt EGY Islam Abdelnaim
19 FW Egypt EGY Mohamed Nasser
30 DF Egypt EGY Amr El Saadawy
33 DF Egypt EGY Zeyad El Geushy
44 MF Egypt EGY Islam Tamer
66 GK Egypt EGY Karim Nabil
MF Egypt EGY Mohamed Rizk

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
No. Pos. Nation Player

Managers

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

References

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  1. ^ https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/6/503121/Sports/Gouna-FC-promoted-to-Egypt-topflight-after-final-r.aspx [bare URL]
  2. ^ "El Gouna: Squad". Egyptian Premier League. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
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Independent websites

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