El Raja SC

Association football club in Mersa Matruh, Egypt

Football club

El Raja SC

Full name

El Raja Sporting Club
نادي الرجاء الرياضي

Short name

RAJ

Founded

1999; 25 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

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.

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. 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