Al Ahly Sports Hall () is one of

Al Ahly SC Al-Ahly Sporting Club (), commonly known as Al-Ahly, is an List of football clubs in Egypt, Egyptian professional sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional Association football, football team which curren ...

club's buildings, and a

multi-purpose arena A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used for multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a design philosophy that stres ...

in Cairo, Egypt. It is used by the

Al Ahly (basketball) Al Ahly is an Egyptian basketball club of Al Ahly SC, located in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, that plays in the Egypt Basketball Super League. Currently, two of its athletes play for the Egypt men's national basketball team. The team is a part ...

Al Ahly (handball) Al Ahly Handball Club () is one of Al Ahly Sporting Club's sections that represent the club in Egypt as well as in international handball competitions. Al Ahly's Handball team was founded in 1959. The Al Ahly handball team has participated in ...

, and Al Ahly (volleyball) sections of the club.

History

When Al Ahly started to create the teams of handball, basketball and volleyball, they saw it was important to build an arena to host the home matches of these teams, The first time they started to make the designs and searching for funds was 1978, and because of some funding problems the project was postponed.

Opening ceremony

After many year of waiting Al Ahly finally built its sports hall arena and on February 4, 1994 Al Ahly officially opened the hall in an opening ceremony. The ceremony started with a words from Al Ahly chairman

Saleh Selim Mohamed Saleh Mohamed Selim (; 11 September 1930 – 6 May 2002) was an Egyptian football executive, former football player and an actor. He was the 13th president of Al Ahly SC. Nicknamed "El Maestro", for taking Al Ahly's football team to nu ...

and declared that the name of the hall would be "Prince Abdallah El Faisal Hall". The first game held at Al Ahly Sports Hall was basketball friendly game between Al Ahly and Ittihad Alex.

Al Ahly Main Hall

Al Ahly Main hall is supplied with 2.500 Chair and taraflex ground. The Main hall is using for all home matches for handball, basketball, and volleyball and also for home matches for females teams and youth junior teams. It also used for some concerts and entertainment events.Al Ahly concerts music

Al Ahly Sub-Hall

This sub hall is used for warming up and trainings of sports team and also hosts some of games matches when the main hall is busy with other games at the same time.

International sports events

The arena has hosted the following international sports events : * IHF Super Globe 2007 * African Clubs Championship 2003, 2009, 2011, 2018, 2019, 2024 * Women's African Clubs Championship 2018, 2019, 2024 * African Basketball Cup Winners' Cup 1998 * FIBA Africa Basketball League 2004, 2016 * African Handball Super cup 2023, 2025 * African Women's Handball Super Cup 2025 * African Men's Handball Cup Winners' Cup 2018, 2023, 2025 * African Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup 2018, 2023, 2025

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