Tala'ea El Gaish SC

Tala'ea El Gaish Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي طلائع الجيش الرياضي, lit. 'Army Vanguard'), also known as Army, is an Egyptian sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the top league in the Egyptian football league system.

Tala'ea El Gaish

Full name	Tala'ea El Gaish Sporting Club
Nickname(s)	Army's Vanguards (زعيم اندية الجيش)
Founded	1997; 27 years ago (1997)^[1]
Ground	Gehaz El Reyada Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Chairman	Mohamed Farid
Manager	Emad El Nahhas
League	Egyptian Premier League
2022–23	14th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The club also has a representative men's basketball team that competes in the Egyptian Basketball Super League.^[2]

Honours

National

• Egyptian Super Cup
  • Winners: 2020–21

Current squad

As of 15 September 2023^[3]

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 Omar Radwan 3 DF   EGY Ahmed Ayman Mansour 4 DF   EGY Mohamed Fathallah 5 MF   EGY Farid Shawky (on loan from Al Masry) 6 DF   EGY Khaled Stouhi 7 DF   EGY Yehia Hamed 8 MF   EGY Ahmed Abdel Rahman Zola 9 FW   EGY Khaled Kamar 10 MF   EGY Ashraf Magdy 11 FW   EGY Karim Tarek 12 MF   EGY Islam Mohareb 14 DF   EGY Mahmoud Waheed 15 MF   EGY Hassan Magdy 17 MF   EGY Ali El Zahdi

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 GK   EGY Ahmed Masoud 19 MF   EGY Ahmed Samir 20 MF   EGY Ali Hamdy 21 FW   EGY Ahmed Meteb 22 MF   EGY Mostafa Khawaga 23 MF   EGY Abdel Rahman Osama 24 MF   EGY Mohamed Sherif 25 DF   EGY Mohamed Diab 28 MF   EGY Karim Halawa 31 DF   EGY Mohamed Samir 35 FW   EGY Fares Hatem 36 FW   EGY Marwan Osman — GK   EGY Emad El Sayed

Managers

• Talaat Youssef (July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2008)
• Farouk Gaafar (Jan 10, 2008 – Jan 5, 2013)
• Emad Soliman (Feb 16, 2013 – Feb 14, 2014)
• Helmy Toulan (March 12, 2014 – June 18, 2014)
• Ahmed Samy (interim) (June 18, 2014 – Jul 20, 2014)
• Anwar Salama (Aug 17, 2014–)
• Tarek Yehia (12 November 2019 – 19 January 2020)
• Abdul-Hamid Bassiouny (19 January 2020 – 3 November 2020)
• Tarek El Ashry (3 November 2020 – 31 August 2022)
• Alaa Abdel Aal (31 August 2022 – 2 November 2022)
• Mohamed Youssef (3 November 2022 – Present)

Other departments

Basketball

The club is currently active in the Egyptian Super League.

Handball

The club is currently active in the Egyptian Professional League

Honors

• Egyptian Professional League: 2007
• Egypt Cup runners-up: 2013, 2018, 2019

Volleyball

The club is currently active in the Egyptian Men's Volleyball League

Honors

• Egyptian Volleyball League [ar]: 2015–16, 2016–17
• Egypt Cup: 2014–15, 2016–17
• African Clubs Championship: 2016
• Arab Clubs Championship runners-up: 2015

References

1. "Egypt – List of Foundation Dates joe Geesh and Andy Gall co founder the club". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF). 21 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
2. Al Geish Army basketball team
3. "الفريق الأول" [First team]. Tala'ea El Gaish SC. Retrieved 20 July 2023.

External links

Independent websites

• Tala'ea El Gaish SC at Egyptian Premier League