Wadi Degla Sporting Club ( ar, نادي وادي دجلة الرياضي) is an Egyptian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

club based in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...

. The club is related to Wadi Degla Holding, a construction company established in 1994. In 2009–10, it was promoted to the

Egyptian Premier League The Egyptian Premier League ( ar, الدوري المصري الممتاز), also known as WE Egyptian Premier League (WE EPL) after the addition of title sponsor WE, is a professional association football league in Egypt and the top level of th ...

for the first time in its history.

History

2009–10 Egyptian Second Division Egyptian Second Division 2009–10 is the 2009–10 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 ...

, Wadi Degla made history. The team defeated El-Sekka El-Hadid 3–1 in the last week of the competition to seal promotion to the highest level of football in Egypt,

, for the first time in its history.Maher, Hate
"Wadi Degla promoted to Premier League"
Filgoal, 12 May 2010. Retrieved on 12 May 2010. It took Wadi Degla only one season to promote from the second division to the premier league. This is a historical achievement that was only reached once before by

Al-Mokawloon Al-Arab Al Mokawloon Al Arab Sporting Club ( ar, نادي المقاولون العرب الرياضي), shortly known as El Mokawloon (The contractors) locally, is an Egyptian sports club based in Nasr City, Cairo, and owned by the prominent constructio ...

(a.k.a. Arab Contractors) in 1981.

Satellite clubs

Wadi Degla has a large youth football academy. It is a similar project to that of

ASEC Mimosas The Association Sportive des Employés de Commerce Mimosas, literally Mimosas Commerce Employees' Sporting Association, is an Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian Association football, football club based in Abidjan. The club is also known as ''ASEC Mimosas A ...

. The club has a close relationship with England's

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Football Club. The following clubs are affiliated with Wadi Degla: *

Lierse Koninklijke Lierse Sportkring (), often simply known as Lierse, was a Belgian professional football club from the city of Lier in the Antwerp province. Lierse have won four championship titles and two Belgian Cups. Lierse was one of the six Be ...

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Honours

League

Egyptian Second Division The Egyptian Second Division ( ar, الدوري المصري الدرجة الثانية) (a.k.a. The Egyptian Professional League B, arz, الدوري المصري الممتاز ب) is an Egyptian professional football league representing the se ...

*Winners: 2009–10

Cups

Egypt Cup The Egypt Cup (also known as Egyptian FA Cup, formerly King Farouk Cup) is the main knockout football cup competition in Egypt. List of finals The following table provides a summary of seasons: Notes: * The Winner and Runner-up of 1960–61 Eg ...

*Runners-up:

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Performance in CAF competitions

*FR = First round *SR = Second round

Performance in domestic competitions

Current squad

Out on loan

Managers

Hesham Zakaria Hesham is a common male given name and surname. In Arabic it means "generous", though in some instances there may not be any connection with the Arabic. It is not to be confused with the similar-looking but unrelated name Hashim "هاشم". Notabl ...

(1 July 2007 – 23 May 2010) *

Walter Meeuws Walter Meeuws (born 11 July 1951) is a Belgian former footballer and manager. Playing career During his career he played for K. Beerschot V.A.C., Club Brugge K.V., R. Standard de Liège, AFC Ajax, K.V. Mechelen. He earned 46 caps for the Belgiu ...

(24 May 2010 – 30 June 2012) *

(1 July 2012 – 31 December 2012) * Mohamed Gamal (1 January 2013 – 5 April 2013) *

Hany Ramzy Hany Guda Ramzy ( ar, هانى جودة رمزى ) (born 10 March 1969) is an Egyptian football coach and former defender. Early life Ramzy was born in Abdeen region of Cairo to Coptic Orthodox parents. He has one sister, Miriam. Ramzy be ...

(6 April 2013 – 12 January 2014) *

(13 January 2014 – 1 October 2014) *

Hamada Sedki Mohamed Yahia Sedki, known as Hamada Sedki ( ar, حمادة صدقي; born 25 August 1961) is an Egyptian footballer. He played as a central defender for Al Ahly SC, Al Ahly from 1986 to 1993, winning 25 international caps. Currently, he is a Man ...

(1 October 2014 – 14 January 2016) *

Patrice Carteron Patrice Carteron (born 30 July 1970) is a French former professional football player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Saudi club Al-Ettifaq. Some of his previous managerial posts include the Mali national team, TP Mazembe ...

(15 January 2016 – 15 November 2016) * Mido (15 November 2016 – December 2017) *

Tarek El Ashry Tarek El Ashry ( ar, طارق العشري) is an Egyptian football coach who was last the manager of the Egyptian Premier League team Tala'ea El Gaish SC. He established his name as a young manager by winning three cup titles. In addition, he ...

(17 January 2018 – May 2018) *

Takis Gonias Takis Gonias ( gr, Τάκης Γκώνιας; born 6 October 1971) is a Greek football manager and a former player. Playing career Club Gonias began his career at local club ''Panathinaikos Kyriaki'' (not to be confused with Athens-based club Pa ...

(12 June 2018 – 10 February 2020) * Mustafa Al-Kharoubi (Caretaker) (10 February 2020 – 20 February 2020) *

Nikodimos Papavasiliou Nikodimos "Nikki" Papavasiliou ( el, Νικόδημος Παπαβασιλείου; born 31 August 1970) is a Cypriot football manager and former international midfielder. He is currently the manager of National Bank of Egypt in the Egyptian Pr ...

(20 February 2020 – 21 January 2021) * Mario Salas (1 February 2021 – 27 May 2021) * Abdul Baki Jamal (27 May 2021 – ''present'')

Women

Wadi Degla women SC, the women's team won the 2020 Egyptian Women's Premier League for the 11th time and will feature in the inaugural

CAF Women's Champions League The CAF Women's Champions League (french: Ligue des Champions Féminine de la CAF; ar, دوري أبطال إفريقيا للسيدات), sometimes abbreviated as ''CAF WCL'', is an annual international women's association football club compet ...

References

External links

* {{Egyptian Premier League Football clubs in Egypt Football clubs in Cairo Association football clubs established in 2002 2002 establishments in Egypt