Al Nasr Sporting Club ( ar, نادي النصر للألعاب الرياضية), is an Egyptian football club based in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...
, Egypt. The club is currently playing in the
Egyptian Second Division, the second highest league in the
Egyptian football league system The Egyptian football league system refers to the hierarchically interconnected league system (league pyramid) for association football in Egypt. All divisions are bound together by the principle of promotion and relegation. The system consists of ...
.
History
Al Nasr was very close to promote to the
Egyptian Premier League for its first time ever during the
2008–09 Egyptian Second Division
Egyptian Second Division 2008–09 is the 2008–09 season of the Egyptian Second Division competition. A total of 48 teams are divided into 3 groups based on geographical distribution. The top team of each group promotes to the highest Egyptian fo ...
season; but a 2–2 draw with
Suez Cement in the last week secured the promotion spot for
El Entag El Harby to the
2009–10 Egyptian Premier League instead. However, Al Nasr were able to finally clinch promotion for the first time in their history during the
2013–14 Egyptian Second Division season.
[Said, Tare]
"Egypt 2008/09"
RSSSF
The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around th ...
. Retrieved on 17 June 2010. Al Nasr ended that season in second place.
Current squad
Egyptian Football Association (EFA) rules are that an Egyptian team can only have 3 foreign born players in the squad.
( ''captain'')
References
External links
Official Club Page
Egyptian Second Division
Football clubs in Egypt
Football clubs in Cairo
1958 establishments in Egypt
Association football clubs established in 1958
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