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Arab Contractors Sporting Club known as Al Moqaweloon Al Arab المقاولون العرب is an Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian football club based in Nasr City
Nasr City
Nasr City is a district of Cairo, Egypt. It is located to the east of the Cairo Governorate and consists mostly of condominiums. It was established in the 1960s as an extension to neighboring suburb of Heliopolis. The establishment of the district was part of the Egyptian Government's plan to...

, Cairo
Cairo
Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

. Founded in 1973, the club is owned by the construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...

 and engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 contracting
General contractor
A general contractor is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and communication of information to involved parties throughout the course of a building project.-Description:...

 company, The Arab Contractors
The Arab Contractors
The Arab Contractors ) is an Egyptian construction and engineering contracting company, specializing in civil engineering and public works projects.The company also owns the Arab Contractors SC....

. It plays in the Egyptian Premier League
Egyptian Premier League
The Egyptian Premier League is an Egyptian professional league for football clubs and represents the top flight of Egyptian football. The championship consists of nineteen competing teams in a home and away league system. It is currently known as the Etisalat Egyptian Premier League, after the...

.

History

The 1983 Championship success is noted for the presence of African football stars such as Joseph-Antoine Bell
Joseph-Antoine Bell
Joseph-Antoine Bell, sometimes referred to as JoJo Bell is a former Cameroonian international football goalkeeper, one of the best African goalkeepers of all time...

 (Cameroon), Karim Abdul Razak
Karim Abdul Razak
Karim Abdul Razak Tanko is a Ghanaian football coach and former midfielder. He played for several clubs in the 1970s and 1980s, notably the local club Asante Kotoko and the New York Cosmos in the defunct North American Soccer League ....

 (Ghana) and Ishmael Dyfan (Sierra Leone). Famous Egyptian players who participated in this event and played for Egyptian National Team are Aly Shehata, Mohammed Radwan, Hamdy Nouh and Nasser Mohammed Aly.

Achievements

  • African Cup Winners' Cup
    African Cup Winners' Cup
    The African Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1975 and merged with the CAF Cup in 2004 to form the CAF Confederations Cup...

    : 3
1982, 1983, 1996

First Egyptian Team to win this Championship.
  • CAF Super Cup
    CAF Super Cup
    The CAF Super Cup is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The competition was first held in 1993 and is organised by the Confederation of African Football...

    : 0
Finalist : 1996

  • Arab Cup Winners' Cup
    Arab Cup Winners' Cup
    The Arab Cup Winners' Cup was a football competition that started in 1989 and merged with the Arab Club Champions Cup in 2002 to form the Prince Faysal bin Fahad Tournament for Arab Clubs. It was a competition between the winning clubs of national cup competitions in Arab nations.- Finals...

    : 0
Finalist : 1991

  • Egyptian Premier League
    Egyptian Premier League
    The Egyptian Premier League is an Egyptian professional league for football clubs and represents the top flight of Egyptian football. The championship consists of nineteen competing teams in a home and away league system. It is currently known as the Etisalat Egyptian Premier League, after the...

    : 1
1983

  • Egyptian Cup
    Egyptian Soccer Cup
    The Egypt Cup is the main "knockout" football cup competition in Egypt. It was created in 1921, and was not played only between 1968 and 1971 due to the Six-Day War, in 1973–74 due to October War and in 1979–80, 1981–82, 1986–87 and 1993–94....

    : 3
1990, 1995, 2004

  • Egyptian Super Cup
    Egyptian Super Cup
    The Egyptian Super Cup is an Egyptian association football trophy contested in an annual match between the champions of the Egyptian Premier League and the winners of the Egyptian Cup. If a team wins The Double , then the Double winner plays the Premier League runner-up...

    : 1
2004

Performance in CAF competitions

  • CAF Cup Winners' Cup: 6 appearances
1982 - Champion
1983 - Champion
1984 - Semi-Finals
1991 - Quarter-Finals
1996 - Champion
1997 - Quarter-Finals

  • CAF Confederation Cup
    CAF Confederation Cup
    The CAF Confederation Cup is an international club association football competition run by the Confederation of African Football.-Qualification:...

    : 1 appearance
2005
CAF Confederation Cup 2005
The CAF Confederation Cup 2005 started with the preliminary round that was played in January and February 2005. FAR Rabat of Morocco beat Dolphins F.C. of Nigeria in the final.-Preliminary round:1st legs played 30 January 2005....

 - Group Stage

Current Squad 2009/2010

Notable players

Serginho Chulapa
Serginho Chulapa
Sérgio Bernardino, also known as Serginho or Serginho Chulapa was an association footballer who played striker.-Career:...

 Joseph-Antoine Bell
Joseph-Antoine Bell
Joseph-Antoine Bell, sometimes referred to as JoJo Bell is a former Cameroonian international football goalkeeper, one of the best African goalkeepers of all time...

 Ramy Adel
Ramy Adel
Ramy Adel is an Egyptian footballer, who currently plays as a center-back for Egyptian Premier League club El Gouna FC-Club career:...

 Saad Abdel Baky Sherif El Baily
Sherif El Baily
Sherif El Bialy is an Egyptian-American footballer who lasted played for first division Belgian team Lierse S.K..El Bialy played collegiate soccer for Rutgers University.-Youth:...

 Mohamed Fahim Alaa Abdel Ghany
Mahmoud Shiko Abdel Halim Ahmed Salah Hosny
Ahmed Salah Hosny
Ahmed Salah Mohammed Hosny Hassan is a footballer from Egypt who played for Zhejiang Lucheng and the Egypt national football team. Recently, Hosny has worked with Amr Diab and Hamaki in composing songs in their music albums.- References :...

 Samir Kamouna
Samir Kamouna
Samir Ibrahim Kamouna is a retired Egyptian professional football player and international defender. He last played for Petrojet Club.-Clubs:Al Arab Al-Ahly 1...

 Tamer Mostafa Mohamed Mazhar Abdel Rahman Abdel Sattar Sabry
Abdel Sattar Sabry
Abdel Sattar Sabry , known as Sabry, is a retired Egyptian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.-Club career:A skilled offensive player, Sabry started playing with Al-Mokawloon al-Arab, moving abroad in 1997–98 to represent Austria's FC Tirol Innsbruck. He started 1999–2000 in the Greek...

 Ramy Said
Mohamed Sedik
Mohamed Sedik
Mohamed Sedik is an Egyptian footballer. He now plays in the Defender position for Itesalat.- Titles as a player :5 For Ahly1 Egyptian League 1 Egyptian Cup 1 Egyptian Super Cup...

 Ali Shehata Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman is a retired Egyptian footballer. He played as a midfielder for Al-Masry and the Egyptian national team.Soliman made several appearances for the Egypt national football team, including participating in the 1988 and 1992 , He also played in the 1990 FIFA World Cup finals.- Honours...

 Sameh Youssef Robert Akaruye
Robert Akaruye
Robert Akaruye is a Nigerian football player. He previously played for Sivasspor in Turkey.-Career:The Al Ahed striker suffered on Monday the 14 December 2009 in a serious car accident on the road to the Beirut airport, whether the 28-year-old Nigerians can ever play again is questionable...

 Joshua Izuchukwu
Joshua Izuchukwu
Joshua Izuchukwu Onyeachonam is a Nigerian football player, who last played for Nea Salamis Famagusta FC.-References:...

 Kabiru Musa
Kabiru Musa
Musa Kabiru is a Nigerian football midfielder currently playing for Al-Mokawloon Al-Arab.- Career :He began his career with Federal University of Technology Yola and later Bayero University Kano, before signing for Kaduna United F.C..Musa Kabiru joined the Egyptian club, Al-Mokawloon Al-Arab,...

 John Utaka
John Utaka
John Chukwudi Utaka is a Nigerian footballer who played as a striker for Montpellier of the Ligue 1. He is the older brother of Peter Utaka, who plays for OB in Denmark.- Club career :...



Notable coaches

Hassan Shehata
Hassan Shehata
Hassan Shehata is an Egyptian football coach and former player, currently the head coach of the Zamalek SC.He was the head coach Egyptian national team from 2004 to 2011...

 (2004-05) Ghanem Sultan (2005) Mohamed Radwan (2005-06), (2008-09) Taha Besry (2006-07) Alaa' Nabeel (2007-08) Mahmoud Amer (2009-)
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