Zamalek SC (volleyball)

Zamalek
Full name	Zamalek Volleyball Club
Short name	ZSC
Nickname	The White Knights
Founded	1952
Ground	The Covered Hall (Abdelrahman Fawzy); (Capacity: 4,000)
Chairman
Captain	Reda Heikel
League	Egyptian Volleyball League
2018/2019	second Place
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home	Away

Zamalek Volleyball Club (Arabic: نادى الزمالك للكرة الطائرة) commonly known as Zamalek V.C, is an Egyptian volleyball club based in Cairo. The club is the volleyball department of Zamalek SC, and was founded in 1952. It plays in the Egyptian Volleyball League.

In the 1962-63 season,^[1] Zamalek participated in the CEV Champions League.^[2]

History[]

Zamalek is one of the most prominent reasons for the spread of the sport of volleyball in Egypt, where Dr. Mahmoud Al-Farnawani, who is an academy graduate of Zamalek, had a great impact, as he began to train a large number of players and teach them the basics of volleyball in order to become professional players, Zamalek was the first Egyptian team to participate in the Volleyball Club World Cup FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship held in Qatar Doha as the 2009 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship as African League champion and to be the only Egyptian team to win a match in the Club World Cup so far when it won the 2009 edition over Plataneros de Corozal, Puerto Rican with a score of 3-2, the result of the sets was 25-13 and 25-14 & 21-19. With this victory, Zamalek became the first Egyptian team to participate in this tournament, and it became the first and only Egyptian team so far to achieve A victory in a FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship. And the second participation of Zamalek in the 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship, which was also held in Qatar, and this was the last time that the team participated in the World Volleyball Club Championship.

Honours[]

Domestic competitions[]

Egyptian Volleyball league

Champions (26): 1959/60, 1961/62, 1962/63,^[3] 1963/64,^[4] 1964/65, 1965/66,^[5] 1968/69,^[6] 1969/70, 1970/71,^[7] 1971/72,^[8] 1972/73,^[9] 1973/74, 1974/75,^[10] 1978/79,^[11] 1985/86,^[12] 1987/88, 1988/89, 1990/91, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98, 2000/01, 2004/05, 2007/08, 2014/15.^[13]

Egyptian Cup

Winners (6): 1989, 1994, 2000, 2009, 2016, 2021

Egyptian Super Cup

Winners (1): 2002

International competitions[]

African Clubs Championship

Winners (5): 1984, 1987, 2008, 2009, 2012

African Volleyball Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (1): 2006

FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship

5th place: 2009, 2012

Regional competitions[]

Arab Clubs Championship

Winners (2): 1986,^[14] 1993

Last Titles[]

2012 African Volleyball Clubs Champions[]

#	Round	Team	Score
1	Group Stage	Force Terrestre	3-0 25-(12-19-20)
2		Prisons Service	3-0 25-(18-18-22)
3		Alahly Tripoli	3-0 25-(23-19) (29-27)
4		Omni Sport	3-0 25-(16-20-16)
5	Quarter Final	ES Tunis	3-0 25-(23-21-20)
6	Semi Final	OMK El-Milia	3-1 25-(22-19-14)
7	Final	Etoile Sportive du Sahel	3-1 25-(17-18) (31-29)

Squad[]

^[15] Head coach: Mohamed Ellakany

Mohamed abdelmonem (Captin)

Reda Hekel

Mohamed mohsen

Rashad shebl

Ahmed Yousef Afifi

Ahmed Dronka

Seif Abed

Ahmed fathy (te7a)

Mostafa Mohamed

Ashraf M. Ellakany

Hisham Yousri

Ahmed Diaa

Mohamed Elmahdy

Mohamed Reda

Home arena[]

Location	Arena's name	Period
Giza	Abdulrahman Fawzi Hall	1986–present

Abdulrahman Fawzi Hall

When Zamalek SC 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 in 1970s, later they began working to build the covered hall, which was established in 1986, which they named of Abdulrahman Fawzi Hall, in the honour of one of the legend of Zamalek SC, he was the first ever Arab and African footballer to score at the FIFA World Cup, when he scored twice for Egypt in their 4–2 loss against Hungary in 1934, he is also Egypt's top goalscorer at the FIFA World Cup.

The opening ceremony of Abdulrahman Fawzi Hall was held with the opening ceremony of the 5th Arab Volleyball Championship in 1986, which was won by Zamalek volleyball team for the first time in the club's history, defeating MC Alger in the final which was held in Abdulrahman Fawzi Hall.

References[]

External links[]

Official website

[1] "يشارك الزمالك في بطولة أوروبا للكرة الطائرة بصفته بطلآ للجمهورية".

[2] "Champions League 1962/63 » classification".

[3] "الزمالك بطلآ لدوري الجمهورية".

[4] "الزمالك يفوز بدوري الطائرة".

[5] "الزمالك بطل الجمهورية للعام السادس علي التوالي".

[6] "الزمالك بطل الدوري الممتاز للكرة الطائرة".

[7] "الزمالك بطلاً لدوري الكرة الطائرة للمرة التاسعة".

[8] "الزمالك يهزم الأهلي و يفوز ببطولة الدوري الممتاز".

[9] "الزمالك يهزم الأهلي و يفوز ببطولة الدوري الممتاز للمرة الحادية عشر في تاريخه".

[10] "الزمالك يتوج بطلآ للدوري الممتاز بعد أنسحاب الأهلي".

[11] "الزمالك بطلآ للدوري المصري الممتاز بعد الفوز علي الأهلي في المباراة النهائية".

[12] "الزمالك بطلآ للدوري الممتاز".

[13] "رسميًّا.. الزمالك بطلاً لدوري الكرة الطائرة". albawabhnews.com. 22 April 2015. Retrieved 2015-06-14.

[14] "الزمالك بطلآ للأندية العربية للكرة الطائرة".

[15] "بعثة الكرة الطائرة تطير لتونس للمشاركة في البطولة الأفريقية". el-zamalek.com. Retrieved 2015-06-14.

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