Pyramids FC

Pyramids FC
	Pyramids FC
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Basic data
Surname	Pyramids Football Club
Seat	Cairo
founding	2008 (as Al Assiouty Sport)
Colours	Light Blue
president	Hossam El Badry
Website	pyramidsfc.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Ante Čačić
Venue	June 30th Stadium
Places	30,000
league	Egyptian Premier League
2018/19	3rd place

The Pyramids Football Club ( Arabic : نادي بيراميدز لكرة القدم), or Pyramids FC for short , is an Egyptian football club based in Cairo , Egypt . The club currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League , the highest division in the Egyptian football league system.

history

Al Assiouty Sport 2008-2018

Al Assiouty Sport was founded in Assiut in 2008 . The club rose to the Egyptian Premier League for the first time in 2014 after winning the playoffs for promotion games. In the 2017/18 season, the club finished 9th.

Pyramids FC from 2018

In the summer of 2018, the club was taken over by the Minister of Sports of Saudi Arabia Turki Al-Sheikh with the aim of establishing a franchise that will dominate Egyptian football in the future. The club was therefore relocated from Assiut to the capital Cairo and renamed Pyramids FC. On June 28, 2018, the former coach of Al Ahly Cairo , Hossam El Badry , was announced as chairman of the club, Ahmed Hassan as spokesman and supervisor of the football team, Hady Khashaba as football director and former Botafogo coach Alberto Valentim as the new coach. In the following transfer period, the club spent more than 40 million euros on new players. Such investments were the highest ever made by an Egyptian or African football team.

In September 2018, Turki Al-Sheikh announced his exit from the project after just three months. The reason for this was alleged insults from opposing fans. On July 4, 2019, the businessman Salem Al Shamsi from the United Arab Emirates bought the association.