Pyramids FC
Association football club in Egypt
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Pyramids Football Club (Arabic: نادي بيراميدز لكرة القدم or نادي الأهرام لكرة القدم) is an Egyptian professional football club based in New Cairo, Cairo Governorate, The club is mainly known for its professional team, that competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system.[1] Formed in 2008 as Al Assiouty Sport in Assiut, the club was bought and moved to Cairo by Turki Al-Sheikh in 2018. Later on, Salem Al Shamsi purchased the club in July 2019.
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| Full name | Pyramids Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 2008 as Al Assiouty Sport | |||
| Ground | 30 June Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 30,000 | |||
| Owner | Salem Al Shamsi | |||
| Chairman | Mamdouh Eid | |||
| Manager | Krunoslav Jurčić | |||
| League | Egyptian Premier League | |||
| 2024–25 | Egyptian Premier League, 7th of 21 | |||
| Website | pyramidsfc | |||
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History
Al Assiouty Sport
The club was formed as Al Assiouty Sport in Assiut in 2008.[2] The club was promoted to the Egyptian Premier League for the first time in 2014,[3] but finished 19th and were relegated in their first season.[4] They won Group A of the Second Division in 2016–17 and were promoted back to the Premier League.[5]
Pyramids FC era: 2018–present
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In the summer of 2018, the Chairman of the Saudi Sports Authority Turki Al-Sheikh bought Al Assiouty Sport.[2][6] The team's name was changed to Pyramids FC, and the club moved almost 400 km from Assiut to Cairo.[7] Hossam El-Badry was announced as chairman of the club, Ahmed Hassan as spokesman and football team supervisor, Hady Khashaba as football director and former Botafogo coach Alberto Valentim as the new manager.[8]
In their first season under the new name, Pyramids finished the 2018–19 Egyptian Premier League in third place,[9] qualifying for the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup, and reached the 2019 Egypt Cup Final, where they lost 3–0 to Zamalek.[10] In July 2019, the Emirati businessman Salem Al Shamsi acquired the ownership of the club.[11]
First participation in African tournaments (2020–present)
Competing in a continental tournament for the first time, Pyramids reached the final of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup despite starting the competition in its preliminary rounds. After beating Étoile du Congo, CR Belouizdad, and Young Africans in the qualifiers they went on to top their group in the First Round, containing Enugu Rangers, FC Nouadhibou, and Al-Masry, winning all bar one of their games.[12] In the quarter-final they beat Zanaco 3–1 over two legs, and then won 1–0 against Horoya in the semi-final.[12] In the final, held in Rabat, they lost 1–0 to Moroccan side RS Berkane.[13] In the league, Pyramids again finished third,[14] in a season disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, again qualifying for the following season's CAF Confederation Cup.
On 25 December 2023, in the Egyptian Super Cup semi-final, Pyramids lost on penalty kicks to Modern Future, failing to achieve their first championship.[15] On 30 August 2024, the club achieved their first-ever title following a 1–0 win over ZED in the 2024 Egypt Cup final.[16]
African glory (2025)
In the 2024–25 season, Pyramids FC topped the regular season standings but ultimately finished second in the Championship play-offs, with Al-Ahly claiming the top spot.[17] On April 25, 2025, they made history by reaching the Champions League final for the first time, overcoming South African side Orlando Pirates with a 3–2 aggregate victory.[18] They went on to claim their maiden CAF Champions League title by defeating another South African club, Mamelodi Sundowns, also with a 3–2 aggregate score.[19][20]
Honours
Domestic
Continental
- CAF Champions League
- Champions (1): 2024–25
- CAF Super Cup
- Champions (1): 2025
- CAF Confederation Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2019–20
Intercontinental
- FIFA African–Asian–Pacific Cup
- Champions (1): 2025
- FIFA Challenger Cup
- Runners-up (1): 2025
Pyramids Women
Pyramids have a women's club. They the formation of the women's team in 2022, and they currently compete in Egyptian Women's Premier League
Television channel
Pyramids FC TV was an Egyptian sports television channel owned by Pyramids FC and Turki Al-Sheikh, launched in 2018 and closed in the same year
Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors
Statistics
Performance in competitions
| Year | EPL | Egypt Cup | Egyptian Super Cup | CAF Champions League | CAF Super Cup | CAF Confederation Cup |
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| 2018–19 | Third place | Runners-up | did not enter | did not enter | did not enter | did not enter |
| 2019–20 | Third place | Quarter-finals | Runners-up | |||
| 2020–21 | Third place | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | |||
| 2021–22 | Runners-up | Runners-up | Quarter-finals | |||
| 2022–23 | Runners-up | Semi-finals | Runners-up | Quarter-finals | ||
| 2023–24 | Runners-up | Champions | Third place | Group stage | did not enter | |
| 2024–25 | Runners-up | Runners-up | Third place | Champions | Champions |
Performance in CAF competitions
- PR = Preliminary round
- FR = First round
- SR = Second round
- PO = Play-off round
- QF = Quarter-final
- SF = Semi-final
| Match won | Match drawn | Match lost | Champions | Runners-up |
- Notes
- Tie was played as a one-legged fixture at a neutral venue in Morocco due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa.
Players
Current squad
- As of 3 February 2026
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers
- As of 1 June 2025
| Name | Nationality | From | To | P | W | D | L | Win % | Notes |
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| Alberto Valentim |  Brazil |
1 July 2018 | 16 August 2018 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 66.67 | [21] |
| Ricardo La Volpe |  Argentina |
17 August 2018 | 29 October 2018 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 42.86 | [22] |
| Hossam Hassan |  Egypt |
29 October 2018 | 25 January 2019 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 54.55 | [23] |
| Ahmed Hassan (interim) | Egypt |
25 January 2019 | 5 February 2019 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| Ramón Díaz | Argentina |
5 February 2019 | 31 May 2019 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 61.54 | |
| Sébastien Desabre |  France |
8 July 2019 | 19 December 2019 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 63.16 | [24] |
| Abdel Aziz Abdel Shafy (interim) | Egypt |
20 December 2019 | 27 December 2019 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | [25] |
| Ante Čačić |  Croatia |
26 December 2019 | 1 November 2020 | 33 | 21 | 3 | 9 | 63.64 | [26] |
| Rodolfo Arruabarrena | Argentina |
11 November 2020 | 30 June 2021 | 37 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 48.65 | [27] |
| Takis Gonias |  Greece |
29 June 2021 | 11 September 2021 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 41.67 | [28] |
| Ehab Galal | Egypt |
11 September 2021 | 24 April 2022 | 27 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 62.96 | |
| Takis Gonias | Greece |
25 April 2022 | 4 January 2023 | 39 | 24 | 5 | 10 | 61.54 | |
| Jaime Pacheco |  Portugal |
5 January 2023 | 5 February 2024 | 58 | 31 | 14 | 13 | 53.45 | |
| Krunoslav Jurčić | Croatia |
7 February 2024 | present | 82 | 55 | 19 | 8 | 67.07 | |