Al Ahly (volleyball)


Al Ahly Volleyball Club, also called "The Masters" is one of Al Ahly SC club's sections that represent the club in Egypt and in international volleyball competitions. The club team section has been based in Cairo since 1932. Al Ahly volleyball team can be considered the greatest team in Africa and the Middle East. It has played in the Egyptian Volleyball League without interruption since 1957. Al Ahly is the most titled club in the Egyptian Volleyball league with 29 titles. Also, the team has participated in African Clubs Championship since 1980 and achieved the title 13 times.
Al Ahly has participated in FIVB Club World Championship three times in 2010, 2011 and 2015, the team was qualified in 2003 but the FIVB canceled it. Al Ahly is the only Egyptian team that achieved four trophies in the same season, and the only African team that won the Champions League and Winner's Cup in the same season. In 1981 Al Ahly won the Afro-European volleyball championship, which was held in Netherlands.
Al Ahly is the most titled club in the world with international trophies and 19 titles, ahead of famous Russian and Italian clubs.
Al Ahly has a great record of 56 consecutive wins without defeat from 20 November 2009 until 16 December 2010.

History

Ahly Volleyball team was founded in 1932.
First Champion Head Coach: Abd Latif Ibrahim
Assistant Coach: Sayed Mostafa
The first Championship for Ahly team in Egyptian Volleyball League in 1966–67

Ahly First Matches

DateTeamResultHallAhly Squad
1 Sep 1933Misr Algedida Greek's Team3–1 AhlyAhly CourtAziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Mostafa Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar
3 Oct 1933Christian's youth club3–1 AhlyAhly CourtAziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Abdel monaem Wahbey - Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar
18 Oct 1933Misr Algedida Greek's Team3–1 AhlyGreek's CourtAziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Mostafa Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar - Mohamed Fahmey

Most consecutive volleyball victories in all competitions

Beside the total domination of Al Ahly over Africa and being the most crowned club with international trophies all over the world Al Ahly also own the most winning streak known on the volleyball history
Al Ahly is having a 101 win on the row recording a no lose streak for the last 3 years till now
This chain has started on 5 April 2017, During this unbelievable record Al Ahly has been titled with the Egyptian League 2 times, Egyptian Cup 2 times and African Club Championship 2 times
During this chain also Al Ahly has won 18 successive matches with the result 3–0 without losing any set
The total sets won during this streak are 303 sets while losing only 20
The 101 wins details were as follow
82 matches has ended as 3–0, 16 matches with 3–1 and only 2 matches finished with the result 3–2.
36 different teams have been beaten by Al Ahly during this streak, Aviation club is having the most losses by 9 games
Mohamed Moselhy the ex. Al Ahly player was the coach of the team during the whole streak by leading a total of 37 players whom participated during the whole three years and 101 matches

Honours

National achievements

1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1989–90, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19.
1976–77, 1981–82, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1995–96, 1998–99. 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19

International Achievements

The times Al Ahly have won more than one trophy during one season.
RecordNumberSeasons
Quadruple 41995–96, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2009–10.
Treble 61986/78, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2010–11, 2017–18, 2018–19.
Double 161976–77, 1989–90, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2010–2011, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19.

Current squad

Depth chart

Transfers

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Transfers for the 2018-19 season

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Transfers for the 2016–17 season

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  • Mohamed Amin
  • Mohamed Kamel
  • Mohamed El Mahdy
  • Mohamed Ketat
  • Marawan Mohamed

Technical and managerial staff

NameRoleNationality
Mohamed MeselheyHead Coach Egyptian
Tamer MagdeyCoach Egyptian
Mahmoud GomaaAssistant Coach Egyptian
Mohammed ZakryiaTechnical analyst Egyptian
Khaled Abu ZeinaTeam Manager Egyptian
Ayman AliAssistant Team manager Egyptian
Ehab Fakr EldeenPhysiotherapist Egyptian
Haitham EldabaaPhysiotherapist Egyptian
Abd ELRahman MekkiMasseur Egyptian

The Most titled clubs with International Trophies">Clubs with the most international titles in volleyball">The Most titled clubs with International Trophies

Pos.TeamTitlesContinentalTrophies
1 Al Ahly SC20CAVB' African Clubs Championship + ' African Volleyball Cup Winners' Cup
2 CSKA Moscow16CEV' CEV Champions League + ' Cev Super Cup
3 Modena Volley13CEV' CEV Champions League + ' CEV Cup + ' CEV Challenge Cup + ' Cev Super Cup
4 Volley Treviso12CEV' CEV Champions League + ' CEV Cup + ' CEV Challenge Cup + ' Cev Super Cup
5 Pallavolo Parma10CEV' CEV Champions League + ' CEV Cup + ' CEV Challenge Cup + ' Cev Super Cup + ' FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
6 Trentino Volley9CEV CEV Champions League + CEV Cup + FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
7 VC Zenit-Kazan7CEV' CEV Champions League + ' FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
8 Sada Cruziero7CSV' Men's South American Volleyball Club Championship + ' FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
9 Cucine Lube Civitanova7CEV' CEV Champions League +' CEV Challenge Cup + ' FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship
10 Piemonte Volley7CEV' CEV Cup +' CEV Challenge Cup + Cev Super Cup

Men's African Competition Records

Men's Arab Competition Records

YearArab Clubs Championship
1978
1979Did not hold
1980Did not hold
1981Did not hold
1982Did not hold
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987Champion
1988Did not hold
1989
1990Did not hold
1991Did not hold
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996Runner-Up
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001Champion
2002Champion
2003
2004Did not hold
2005Champion
2006Champion
2007
2008
2009Runner-Up
2010Champion
2011
2012
2013withdraw from semifinals
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020Champion

2017–2018 The trilogy Season

The road to Egy league trophy

The road to The African Title">African Clubs Championship (volleyball)">The African Title

The road to Egy Cup Title

Derby Record

Al Ahly VB Vs. Zamalek VB is the derby of Egyptian volleyball competitions, in 2009–12010 the derby competition set a special record: Al Ahly VB won 6 times in same season during 4 consecutive months without any losses against Zamalek VB.
NumDateResultSetsCompetition
11 Jan 20103–2,,,, Egyptian League
25th Fab 20103-1,,, Egyptian League
324 March 20103-1,,, Egyptian League
41 April 20103-1,,, Egyptian Cup Final
512 April 20103-1,,, Egyptian League
629 April 20103-1,,, African Championship Final

Head coaches

This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.
DatesName
→ 2016- Current Mohamed Meselhy
→ 2015–2016 Ahmed Zakarya
→ 2009–2015 Ibrahim Fakhr Eldeen
→ 2005–2009 Noor Atia
→ 2001–2004 Foaud Abd Elsalam
→ 1995–2001 Ibrahim Fakhr Eldeen
→ 1993–1995 Tawfik Shehab
→ 1985–1993 Foaud Abd Elsalam
→ 1984–1985 Hesham Badrawey
→ 1981–1984 Ibrahim Fakhr Eldeen
→ 1980–1981 Tawfik Shehab
→ N/A Ali Refaay
→ N/A Tawfik Shehab
→ N/A Waheed Hendawy
→ N/A Abd Ellatif ibrahim

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

PeriodKit supplierShirt sponsors
2006–2009 Puma Vodafone / Juhayna / Chevrolet / Coca-Cola
2009–2011 Adidas Vodafone / Juhayna / Chevrolet / Coca-Cola
2011–2015 Adidas Etisalat / Juhayna / Chevrolet
2015–2017 Diadora Vodafone / Juhayna / Huawei / Shell Helix /
/ Domino's Pizza
2017–2018 Hummel Vodafone / Juhayna / Huawei / Shell Helix /
/ Domino's Pizza
2018–2019 Hummel Vodafone / LAVA / TORNADO
2019–2020 Kelme WE / TIGER / GLC Paints
/ Shell Helix

Home arena

When Al Ahly began to create the teams of Handball, Basketball, and Volleyball, they saw the importance to build an arena to host the home matches of these teams. They first began to make the designs and search for funds in 1978, but due to some funding problems, the project was postponed. Later, on 4 February 1994, Al Ahly opened its sports hall officially under Al Ahly Chairman Saleh Selim.
Opening Ceremony
After many years of waiting Al Ahly finally achieved the dream and built its sports hall arena, * on 4 February 1994 Al Ahly officially opened its hall in a big opening ceremony. The ceremony began with opening words from Al Ahly Chairman at that time Saleh Selim and declared that the name of the hall would be "Prince Abdalla El Faisal Hall" due to his contributions to Al Ahly. His son Mohammed El Faisal received a commemorative medal.
The first game held on Al Ahly sports hall was a basketball game between Al Ahly and Ithhadd Alex, after that they played a Futsal match between Al Ahly old players against El Esmailly old players. Mahmoud ElKhatib and Aly Abu Greisha participated at that match.

Notable players