El Raja SC

This article is about the club based in Mersa Matruh, Egypt. For the club based in Casablanca, Morocco, see Raja CA.

El Raja Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الرجاء الرياضي), simply known as El Raja, is an Egyptian football and sports club based in Mersa Matruh, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Third Division, the third-highest league in the Egyptian football league system.

El Raja SC

Full name	El Raja Sporting Club نادي الرجاء الرياضي
Short name	RAJ
Founded	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Ground	MS Matruh Stadium
Chairman	Saad Abou Sondouq
Manager	Ramadan El Sayed
League	Egyptian Third Division
2017–18	Egyptian Premier League, 16th (relegated)
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Current squad

Egyptian Football Association (EFA) rules are that a team may only have 3 foreign born players in the squad. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  EGY Ahmed Khair 2 DF  EGY Youssef Mansour 3 DF  EGY Saad Kamel 7 MF  EGY Mohamed Abdullah 8 MF  EGY Mahmoud Qurany 9 MF  EGY Ahmed El Akily 12 GK  EGY Mohamed El Mougi 15 DF  EGY Mohamed Abo Asa 16 GK  EGY Ibrahim Issa 17 DF  EGY Islam Abdulghani 18 FW  EGY Ahmed Atef Socrate 19 MF  EGY Ibrahim El Shaieb 20 FW  EGY Ehab El Masry

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 DF  EGY Bassem Eid 23 MF  EGY Mahmoud Fathi 24 DF  EGY Ali Hussien 26 MF  EGY Mahmoud Samir 27 FW  EGY Ahmed Haggag 28 MF  EGY Mohamed Montaser 30 GK  EGY Ahmed Farouk 31 FW  EGY Hamada Naser 32 DF  EGY Abdel Hamid Samy 33 MF  EGY Islam El Foly 34 FW  EGY Hamada El Ghanam 38 MF  EGY Rizk Abdelhalim 66 MF  EGY Mahmoud Abdelaatty

notable players

• Omar Kaboré

• Dimitri Nguile

• Mansou Kouakou

• Mahmoud Abdel Aati
• Ahmed Abdelaal
• Bassam Abou Hadid
• Islam Abou Ouffa
• Islam Adel
• Emad Alaa
• Mahmoud Ateya
• Adel Belal
• Hany El Agazy
• Ali El-Araby
• Nader El Ashry
• Mohamed El Baaly
• Karim El Deeb
• Mostafa El Gamal
• Mahmoud El Maghriby
• Shawky El Said
• Mahmoud El Zonfouly
• Mahmoud Farag
• Wael Farrag
• Hesham Fathallah
• Mohamed Fathy
• Ahmed Felix
• Islam Gaber
• Islam Abdel Ghani
• Ahmed Gomaa

• Ahmed Haggag
• Ibrahim Helal
• Mohamed Ibrahim
• Ramzy Khaled
• Mohamed Magdy
• Mohamed Mamdouh
• Milo
• Mohamed Mohsen
• Karim Munch
• Amr Nabil
• Ibrahim Rakha
• Hesham Ramadan
• Ahmed Sabri
• Mohamed Sadek
• Tarek Salem
• Tarek Salim
• Ahmed Samy
• Alaa Shaaban
• Islam Tarek
• Mohamed Tarek

• Stephen Baffour
• Emmanuel Odoi

• Formose Mendy

• Ballah Somah

• Nico Dao
• Mamadou Keita
• Mamadou Kouyate

• Emmanuel Adole
• Jabril Lawal

• Rabee Al Abdallah

• Ghazi Chellouf

notable coaches

• Ayman El Mizzayn (2011–2014)
• Khaled Eid (2014)
• Mohamed Abdel-Samiea (2014)
• Samir Kamouna (2014–2016)
• Ahmed El Agouz (2017)
• Khaled El Kamash (2017)

External links

• El Raja SC at Soccerway