Tersana SC

Tersana Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الترسانة للألعاب الرياضية‎) is an Egyptian sports club based in Meet Okba, Giza, Egypt. It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest league in the Egyptian football league system.[1]

For the Libyan club, see Al Tarsana SC.

Tersana

Full name	Tersana Sporting Club نادي الترسانة للألعاب الرياضية
Nickname(s)	The Hammers
Short name	TER
Founded	1921 (1921)
Ground	Tersana Stadium, Giza, Egypt
Capacity	15,000
Chairman	Tarek El saed
Manager	Coshare
League	Egyptian Second Division
2018–19	Egyptian Second Division (Group B), 2nd
Home colours Away colours

Tersana's most important accomplishments include winning the Egypt Cup title six times and the Egyptian league title once. On the continental side, Tersana also participated in the CAF Cup Winners' Cup once in 1987 and was eliminated in the second round by Tunisian Espérance. The first leg, played in Cairo, ended with a draw, while the second leg, played in Tunisia ended in a 0–2 loss.

History

The Tersana SC was established in 1921, when Egypt was a British protectorate, by English Major Slauter. He became the first president of the club which was based first in Bulaq, then to Agouza, and to its current headquarters in Mit Okba in 1958.

The main reason for its establishment was to serve the staff of the Maritime Administration (currently the Ministry of Irrigation), so it was called Tersana. Blue uniforms were chosen to represent the sea.

There are different explanations for the nickname 'Hammers', typically signifying the hardness of the team. The most famous legend involves the team recruiting a number of former fedayeen. The nickname was popularized by sports critics Abdul Majid Noman and Najib Almstkawi after the intervention of defender Fouad Gouda, causing injury on foot Saleh Selim.

Record

Top scorers in Egyptian Premier League

By season

Season	Player	Goals
1949–50	Hamdeto Ahmed	10
1953–54	Abdel Nabi Mahmoud	21
1956–57	Hamdi Abdel Fattah	22
1957–58	Hamdi Abdel Fattah	19
1959–60	Hamdi Abdel Fattah	14
1961–62	Moustafa Reyadh	20
1962–63	Hassan El-Shazly	29
1963–64	Moustafa Reyadh	26
1964–65	Hassan El-Shazly	23
1965–66	Hassan El-Shazly	18
1974–75	Hassan El-Shazly	34

Total goals for Tersana

#	Player	Goals
1	Hassan El-Shazly	176
2	Moustafa Reyadh	123
3	Hamdi Abdel Fattah	92
4	Mohamed Ramadan	40
5	Badawi Abdel Fattah	39
6	Mahmoud Hassan	38
7	Gamal Abdel Halim	31
8	Abdel Nabi Mahmoud	30
9	Mohamed Aboutraika	27
10	Abdel Mohsen El-Tonsi	22

Egyptian caps

#	Player	Caps	Goals
1	Hassan El-Shazly	62	42
2	Moustafa Reyadh	46	21
3	Mohamed Ramadan	41	10
4	Hamza Abdel Moula	31	2
5	Hassan Ali	29	0
6	Ali Maher	28	10
7	Hamdi Abdel Fattah	22	9
8	Mohamed Aboul Ezz	18	1
9	Mahmoud Hassan	16	5
10	Shaker Abdel Fattah	14	2

Formal records

• Egyptian Premier League
  • Tersana holds the record for highest goals in a single season with 71 in 1963–64.
  • Hassan El-Shazly has the highest goals by a player with 34 in 1974–75.

• • Hassan El-Shazly has the most hat-tricks with ten.
  • Hassan El-Shazly is top league scorer with 176 goals.
  • Hassan El-Shazly won top scorer in record four seasons

• Africa Cup of Nations
  • Hassan El-Shazly has the most hat-tricks with two, in Nigeria 1963 and Ivory Coast 1970.
  • Hassan El-Shazly is most valuable player in 1963.
  • Hassan El-Shazly is top scorer in 1963 with six goals
  • Hassan El-Shazly is top Egyptian scorer and fourth top scorer with 12 goals
• 1964 Summer Olympics
  • Moustafa Reyadh is second top scorer with 8 goals
  • Moustafa Reyadh is the only Egyptian player to score 6 goals in one match

Rivalry

The Mit Okba Derby is a football match between Tersana SC and Zamalek SC. The two Egyptian clubs have been rivals since their creations, and have both contested in the Egyptian Premier League, the country's top-flight football league.

Tersana SC won the league title in the 1962–63 season, while Zamalek won the title 12 times. The largest winning margin in this derby was 7–3 for Zamalek, in the 1962–63 season.

Statistics

Competition	Total	Tersana Wins	Draws	Zamalek Wins	Tersana Goals	Zamalek Goals
Egyptian Premier League	91	11	19	61	65	167
Egypt Cup	16	5	3	8	15	23
Sultan Hussein Cup	2	2	0	0	2	0
October League	2	1	0	1	2	2
Total	111	19	22	70	84	192

Achievements

• Egyptian Premier League
  • Winners (1): 1962–63
  • Runners up (5): 1948–49, 1949–50, 1959–60, 1963–64, 1974–75
• Egypt Cup
  • Winners (6): 1923, 1929, 1954, 1965, 1967, 1986
  • Runners up (3): 1950, 1956, 1966
• Sultan Hussein Cup
  • Winners (2): 1928, 1930
  • Runners up (2): 1926, 1931
• Cairo League
  • Winners (1): 1932–33
  • Runners up (4): 1930–31, 1933–34, 1947–48, 1949–50

Performance in the Egyptian Premier League

Season	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Position	Group	Notes
1948–49	21	11	5	5	33	24	9	27	Runner up
1949–50	19	10	3	6	31	24	7	23	Runner up
1950–51	18	8	4	6	17	14	3	20	4th
1952–53	18	9	2	7	42	38	4	20	4th
1953–54	18	10	1	7	54	27	27	21	3rd
1955–56	20	4	8	8	22	31	−9	16	8th
1956–57	26	9	7	10	36	39	−3	25	7th
1957–58	14	7	3	4	36	18	18	17	4th	Group A
1958–59	18	7	7	4	32	24	8	21	3rd
1959–60	18	11	5	2	39	20	19	27	Runner up
1960–61	18	6	8	4	28	23	5	20	3rd
1961–62	18	12	1	5	36	21	15	25	3rd
1962–63	27	19	3	5	66	41	25	41	Champion	Group B
1963–64	24	16	3	5	71	34	37	35	Runner up	Group A
1964–65	22	10	7	5	48	28	30	27	3rd
1965–66	21	9	5	7	37	27	10	23	4th
1966–67	22	11	6	5	31	20	11	28	3rd
1972–73	22	9	6	7	18	18	0	24	6th
1974–75	34	22	8	4	43	19	24	52	Runner up
1975–76	22	10	6	6	32	18	14	26	6th	Group B
1976–77	28	9	8	11	22	26	-4	26	8th
1977–78	26	9	7	10	18	21	-3	25	9th
1978–79	22	7	7	8	11	19	-8	21	8th
1979–80	30	10	7	13	17	25	-8	27	11th
1980–81	26	5	9	12	21	28	-7	19	12th
1981–82	26	6	9	11	14	23	-9	21	11th		Relegation
1983–84	22	6	7	9	15	21	-6	19	8th
1984–85	22	9	5	8	26	21	5	23	5th
1985–86	22	8	7	7	17	15	2	23	6th
1986–87	22	8	10	4	18	16	2	34	3rd
1987–88	22	6	7	9	25	27	-2	25	6th
1988–89	22	10	2	10	25	25	0	32	5th
1990–91	34	11	13	10	25	24	1	35	9th
1991–92	26	2	14	10	16	28	-12	18	13th		Relegation
1993–94	26	6	9	11	19	27	-8	21	12th		Relegation
1995–96	30	5	10	15	16	35	19	25	14th		Relegation
2000–01	26	6	9	11	33	45	-12	27	11th
2001–02	26	8	6	12	36	45	9	30	8th
2002–03	26	8	6	12	32	43	11	30	10th
2003–04	26	6	8	12	31	39	-8	26	11th
2004–05	26	6	7	13	25	42	-17	25	13th		Relegation
2006–07	30	6	13	11	26	28	-2	31	12th
2007–08	30	8	8	14	30	40	-10	32	11th
2008–09	30	5	9	16	29	45	-16	24	15th		Relegation
Egyptian Premier League	1046	380	295	371	1319	1216	103	1137

Performance in CAF competitions

• FR = First round
• SR = Second round

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1964–65	African Cup of Champions Clubs	SR	Ethiopia	Cotton Factory	w/o[lower-alpha 1]
1987	African Cup Winners' Cup	FR	Rwanda	Mukura Victory Sports	5–0	1–1	6–1
		SR	Tunisia	Espérance de Tunis	0–0	0–2	0–2

Notes

1. Cotton Factory won on walkover after Tersana withdrew.

Performance in Arab competitions

• Arab Club Championship: 1 appearance
  • 1987 – Fourth place

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Result
1987	Arab Club Championship	Group Stage		Al-Jaish	1 – 0
				JE Tizi Ouzou	0 – 0
				Al-Hilal	0 – 0
				Al-Arabi	3 – 1
		Semi-finals		Ittihad	0 – 1
		3rd Place		JE Tizi Ouzou	1 – 2

Board of directors

Position	Staff
President	Ahmed Gabr
Vice-president	Salah Abdel Fattah
Treasurer	Ayman Ali
Member	Ahmed Salman
Member	Ragab Abdel Latif
Member	Ahmed El-Khateb
Member	Naser Afify
Member	Mohamed Hasan El-Shazli
Member	Ghalia Hasan

Current 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 — GK  EGY Ahmed Khattab — GK  EGY Amr Gaber — DF  EGY Belal Salem — DF  EGY Ahmed Emad — DF  EGY Bassam Hassan — DF  EGY Mohamed Salah — DF  EGY Ahmed Ibrahem — DF  EGY Mohamed Ateya — DF  EGY Amar Mohsen — DF  EGY Hesham Ragab — DF  EGY Karim Zekry — DF  EGY Nour El-Garhi — MF  EGY Amr Samir

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  EGY Sherif Dabo — MF  EGY Ahmed Hisham — MF  EGY Abdel Rahman Magdi — MF  EGY Moustafa Damdam — MF  EGY Moustafa Naser — MF  EGY Karem Fathalla — MF  EGY Hussein Ghouniem — MF  EGY Mohamed El-Shami — MF  EGY Khaled Rabea — FW  EGY Abdalla Naser — FW  EGY Wa'el Abdel Fattah — FW  EGY Mahmoud Zanati

Current technical staff

Position	Name
Manager	Alaa Nouh
Assistant manager	Yasser Farouk
First-team coaches	Mo'men Abdel Ghafaar
Goalkeeping coach	Hassan Ali
Chart Loads	Hussein Mohamed
Director of Players Affairs	Hossam Mabrouk
Administrative	Hatem Mohamed
Administrative	Ibrahim Hassan
Injury Specialist	Sayed Hamed

Notable players

Abdel Halim El-Hamalawi Abdel Kader Mohamed Abdel Khair Saleh Abdel Nabi Mahmoud Ahmed Nagui Ali Maher Ali Mohamed Riad Badawi Abdel Fattah Fathi Baioumy Gamal Abdel Halim

Hamdeto Ahmed Hamdi Abdel Fattah Hamza Abdel Moula Hassan Ali Hassan Allouba Hassan El-Shazly Hossam Hassan João Rafael Kapango Mahmoud El-Shaghbi Mahmoud Hassan

Mahmoud Fouad Mohamed Abdel Wahed Mohamed Aboul Ezz Mohamed Aboutraika Mohamed Ramadan Mouhanad Boushi Mohei Sharshar Moustafa Reyadh Raafat Mekki Shaker Abdel Fattah

References

1. "Tersana faces El-Mostakbal in decisive second division game". EgyptToday. Retrieved 2 February 2019.

External links

• Tersana History (Egyptianfootball.net)