Misr Lel Makkasa SC

Misr lel-Makkasa Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي مصر للمقاصة الرياضي), commonly known as Makkassa, is an Egyptian sports club based in Faiyum, Egypt. The club is related to Misr lel-Makkasa Company (Misr for Central Clearing, Depository and Registry).^[1]

Makkasa

Full name	Misr lel-Makkasa Sporting Club
Founded	1937; 88 years ago (1937)
Ground	Faiyum Stadium
Capacity	20,000
President	Mohamed Abdel Salam
Head coach	Mohamed Abdel-Galil
League	Egyptian Second Division
2021–22	Egyptian Premier League, 18th
Website	www.makasasc.com
Home colours Away colours

Misr lel-Makkasa is mainly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Egyptian Second Division, the second highest league in the Egyptian football league system.

The club was formerly known as Hweidi Club and El-Fara'na before the current name was adopted.

History

Football record

After few attempts, Misr eventually gained promotion to the Egyptian Premier League from the Second Division in 2009–10 for the first time in its history. It earned promotion after a 2–0 win against Wadi El Gedid FC at home ground.^[2] Misr Lel Makasa came top on its group ahead of Telephonaat Bani Suweif FC.^[3][4] El Mekkasa finished 2016–17 Egyptian Premier League in the second position to be the second time for the team to finish in the top four and first time to qualify to the CAF Champions League.

Performance in CAF competitions

• PR = Preliminary round
• FR = First round
• SR = Second round
• PO = Play-off round

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2016	CAF Confederation Cup	PR	Ethiopia	Defence Force	3–0	3–1	6–1
		FR	DR Congo	CS Don Bosco	3–1	0–1	3–2
		SR	Algeria	CS Constantine	3–1	0–1	3–2
		PO	Libya	Al Ahli Tripoli	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
2018	CAF Champions League	PR	Senegal	Génération Foot	0–0	0–2	0–2

Current 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 Mohamed Koko 2 DF  EGY Ahmed Abdelaziz 3 DF  EGY Mohamed Desouki 4 MF  EGY Hesham Mohamed 5 MF  EGY Abdallah Magdy 6 MF  EGY Mostafa Shebeita 7 MF  EGY Emad Fathy 8 DF  EGY Asem Said 9 FW  EGY Basem Morsy 10 MF  EGY Salah Ashour 11 FW  MAD Paulin Voavy 12 DF  EGY Hosny Fathy (Captain) 14 MF  EGY Ahmed Adel 15 MF  UGA Khalid Aucho 16 GK  EGY Mahmoud Hamdy 17 DF  EGY Essam Sobhy

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  ETH Shimelis Bekele 20 MF  EGY Mahmoud El Ghazali 21 MF  EGY Ali Wezza 22 DF  EGY Osama Azab 24 MF  EGY Mohamed Makhlouf 25 GK  EGY Beltagy Samir 26 GK  EGY Mahmoud Abdel Monsef 27 MF  LBY Muftah Taktak 30 FW  EGY Ahmed Meteb 31 DF  EGY Fares Tarek 32 MF  EGY Ziad Ashraf 35 MF  MAR Ahmed Marchuh 36 DF  EGY Ahmed Sabeha 38 DF  EGY Mohamed Adel 42 MF  EGY Khaled Mostafa — MF  EGY Islam Saleh

Managers

• Ahmed Abdel Halim (July 1, 2009 – May 23, 2010)
• Tarek Yehia (June 6, 2010 – Oct 3, 2012)
• Mohamed Abdel-Galil (Oct 6, 2012 – Feb 27, 2013)
• Hossam Hassan (Feb 26, 2013 – May 28, 2013)
• Tarek Yehia (May 27, 2013 – 2014)
• Ehab Galal (July 19, 2014 – 2017)
• Talaat Youssef (Feb 17, 2019 – April 20, 2019)
• Jamal Omar (April 22, 2019 – June 9, 2019)
• Mido (June 10, 2019 – Jan 21, 2020)
• Jamal Omar (caretaker) (Jan 21, 2020 – Jan 31, 2020)
• Emmanuel Amunike (Jan. 31, 2020 – Feb. 29, 2020)
• Ehab Galal (Feb. 29, 2020 – Sept. 22, 2020)
• Ali Ashour (Sept. 22, 2020 – Oct. 12, 2020)
• Jamal Omar (caretaker) (Oct. 12, 2020 – Nov. 26, 2020)
• Ehab Galal (Nov. 26, 2020 – Mar. 19, 2021)
• Mohamed Azima (Mar. 24, 2021 – Jun. 28, 2021)
• Mohamed Abdel-Galil (Jun. 29, 2021 – present)