El Gouna Football Club () is an Egyptian
football
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club based in the city of
El Gouna, Egypt. The club currently plays in the
Egyptian Premier League
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, the highest league in the
Egyptian football league system
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.
History
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
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. In the next season of the Third Division,
2004–05, El Gouna accomplished the same feat and promoted to the
Egyptian Second Division
The Egyptian Second Division () was an Egyptian semi-professional football league representing the second tier of the Egyptian football league system until 2023. It was administered by the Egyptian Football Association. It was below the top profes ...
. In the
2008–09 season of the Second Division the club managed to promote to the
Egyptian Premier League
The Egyptian Premier League (), also known as the Nile League () for sponsorship reasons, after the addition of title sponsor Nile Developments, is a professional association football league in Egypt and the highest level of the Egyptian football ...
for the first time in the club's history.
The team ended the 2017–18 campaign finishing top of the
Egyptian Second Division
The Egyptian Second Division () was an Egyptian semi-professional football league representing the second tier of the Egyptian football league system until 2023. It was administered by the Egyptian Football Association. It was below the top profes ...
(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.
In the
2022-23 season, El Gouna won promotion back to the
Premier Division after one season.
Records and statistics
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Managers
*
Ismail Youssef (1 November 2007 – 2 October 2010)
* Anwar Salama (10 October 2010 – 12 April 2013)
*
Rainer Zobel (12 April 2013 – 12 July 2015)
* Stefan Florian Rieger (1 June 2016 – 31 December 2016)
* Hesham Zakareya (1 July 2017 – 27 November 2018)
*
Hamada Sedki (28 November 2018 – 30 June 2019)
*
Reda Shehata (30 June 2019 – 9 July 2019) (Caretaker)
*
Nebojša Milošević (9 July 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'')
References
External links
Independent websites
El Gouna FCat Egyptian Premier League
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Football clubs in Egypt
Egyptian Second Division clubs
Association football clubs established in 2003
2003 establishments in Egypt
Egyptian Premier League clubs
Sport in Hurghada