Al Ahly Volleyball Club (Arabic: النادي الاهلي للكرة الطائرة), also called "The Masters" (Arabic: الماسترز) is one of Al Ahly SC club's sections that represent the club in Egypt and in international volleyball competitions. The club team section has been based in Cairo since 1932. Al Ahly volleyball team can be considered the greatest team in Africa and the Middle East. It has played in the Egyptian Volleyball League without interruption since 1957. Al Ahly is the most titled club in the Egyptian Volleyball league with 29 titles. Also, the team has participated in African Clubs Championship since 1980 and achieved the title 13 times.
Al Ahly has participated in FIVB Club World Championship three times in 2010,[1][2] 2011[3][4][5] and 2015,[6][7][8] the team was qualified in 2003 but the FIVB canceled it. Al Ahly is the only Egyptian team that achieved four trophies in the same season, and the only African team that won the Champions League and Winner's Cup in the same season. In 1981 Al Ahly won the Afro-European volleyball championship,[9] which was held in Netherlands.
Al Ahly is the most titled club in the world with international trophies and 19 titles (here), ahead of famous Russian and Italian clubs.
Al Ahly has a great record of 56 consecutive wins without defeat from 20 November 2009 until 16 December 2010.
First Champion Squad: Amr Elwaney - - Abd Elkhalek Wahba - Adley Mostafa - Abd El Rahman Elwakeel - Foaud Abd Elsalam - Nabih Salah - Aymen Ghzlan - Adel Abd El Maksood - Tawif Shehab - Mohamed El Sherief - Nezar ElZein - Eid Abd Elmalak -
First Champion Head Coach: Abd Latif Ibrahim
Assistant Coach: Sayed Mostafa
The first Championship for Ahly team in Egyptian Volleyball League in 1966–67
Ahly First Matches
in 1933 Al Ahly started to play some friendly matches[10]
Date
Team
Result
Hall
Ahly Squad
1 Sep 1933
Misr Algedida Greek's Team
3–1 Ahly
Ahly Court
Aziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Mostafa Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar
3 Oct 1933
Christian's youth club
3–1 Ahly
Ahly Court
Aziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Abdel monaem Wahbey - Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar
18 Oct 1933
Misr Algedida Greek's Team
3–1 Ahly
Greek's Court
Aziz Fahmy - Ahmed Shoaeer - Aziz Barsom - Mostafa Kamel - Rasmey - Mokhtar - Mohamed Fahmey
Most consecutive volleyball victories in all competitions
Beside the total domination of Al Ahly over Africa and being the most crowned club with international trophies all over the world Al Ahly also own the most winning streak known on the volleyball history
Al Ahly is having a 101 win on the row recording a no lose streak for the last 3 years till now
This chain has started on 5 April 2017, During this unbelievable record Al Ahly has been titled with the Egyptian League 2 times, Egyptian Cup 2 times and African Club Championship 2 times
During this chain also Al Ahly has won 18 successive matches with the result 3–0 without losing any set
The total sets won during this streak are 303 sets while losing only 20
The 101 wins details were as follow
82 matches has ended as 3–0, 16 matches with 3–1 and only 2 matches finished with the result 3–2.
36 different teams have been beaten by Al Ahly during this streak, Aviation club is having the most losses by 9 games
Mohamed Moselhy the ex. Al Ahly player was the coach of the team during the whole streak by leading a total of 37 players whom participated during the whole three years and 101 matches
Al Ahly VB Vs. Zamalek VB is the derby of Egyptian volleyball competitions, in 2009–12010 the derby competition set a special record: Al Ahly VB won 6 times in same season during 4 consecutive months without any losses against Zamalek VB.
Num
Date
Result
Sets
Competition
1
1 Jan 2010
3–2
(25–18), (23–25), (23–25), (30–28), (16–14)
Egyptian League (Regular Season)
2
5th Fab 2010
3-1
(28–26), (23–25), (25–20), (25–23)
Egyptian League (Regular Season)
3
24 March 2010
3-1
(25–20), (20–25), (31–29), (25–22)
Egyptian League (Playoffs)
4
1 April 2010
3-1
(25–27), (25–20), (25–18), (25–22)
Egyptian Cup Final
5
12 April 2010
3-1
(22–25), (38–36), (25–19), (25–21)
Egyptian League (Playoffs)
6
29 April 2010
3-1
(25–20), (21–25), (25–16), (25–15)
African Championship Final
Head coaches
This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.
When Al Ahly 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 and search for funds in 1978, but due to some funding problems, the project was postponed. Later, on 4 February 1994, Al Ahly opened its sports hall officially under Al Ahly Chairman Saleh Selim.[citation needed]
Opening Ceremony
After many years of waiting Al Ahly finally achieved the dream and built its sports hall arena, * in 4 February 1994 Al Ahly officially opened its hall in a big opening ceremony. The ceremony began with opening words from Al Ahly Chairman at that time Saleh Selim and declared that the name of the hall would be "Prince Abdalla El Faisal Hall" due to his contributions to Al Ahly. His son Mohammed El Faisal received a commemorative medal.[citation needed]
The first game held on Al Ahly sports hall was a basketball game between Al Ahly and Ithhadd Alex, after that they played a Futsal match between Al Ahly old players against El Esmailly old players. Mahmoud ElKhatib and Aly Abu Greisha participated at that match.[citation needed]