Africa's most successful football club, Egypt's Al Ahly is 110 years old

Africa’s most successful and world’s second most successful football club, Al Ahly is 110 years old.

The oldest Egyptian club based in the capital Cairo was founded on April, 24, 1907 and has a record 132 trophies making them second together with FC Barcelona, behind Real Madrid C.F.

“Happy Birthday to one of the oldest and most popular in Egypt, Africa and the world: 110 years of success for Al-Ahly club,” FIFA tweeted on Saturday.

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Al Ahly, which is the second oldest in Africa after Algeria’s Club Sportif Constantinois (CS Constantine) founded on June 26, 1898, has won the Bronze medal in FIFA Club World Cup 2006, 1 Afro-Asian Cup title, a record 38 national titles, 35 national cups, 8 CAF Champions League titles among other national and continental championships.

They play their home matches in the Cairo International Stadium that has a capacity of 75,000.

TITLES

FIFA Club World Cup

• Third place (1): 2006

Afro-Asian Club Championship

• Winners (1): 1988

CAF Champions League

• Winners (8): 1982, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013 (record)
• Runners-up (2): 1983, 2007

African Cup Winners’ Cup

• Winners (4): 1984, 1985, 1986, 1993 (record)

CAF Confederation Cup

• Winners (1): 2014

CAF Super Cup

• Winners (6): 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014. (record)
• Runners up (2): 1994, 2015

Arab Champions League

• Winners: (1) 1996
• Runners-up: (1) 1997

Arab Cup Winners’ Cup

• Winners: (1) 1994

Arab Super Cup

• Winners: (2) 1997, 1998

Egyptian Premier League

• Winners: (38) 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–00, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2015–16 (record)
• Runners up: (11) 1966–67, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2014–15

Egypt Cup (33 solo titles and 2 titles in conjunction with Zamalek SC in 1943 and 1958)

• Winners: (35) 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1937, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1966, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007 (record)
• Runners up: (15) 1926, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938, 1944, 1952, 1959, 1973, 1976, 1997, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2016

Egyptian Super Cup

• Winners: (9) 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015 (record)
• Runners up: (2) 2009, 2017

Cairo League

• Winners: (16) 1924–25, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1941–42, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1957–58 (record)

United Arab Republic Cup

• Winners: (1) 1961 (record)

Egyptian Federation Cup

• Winners: (1) 1989 (Shared record)

Sultan Hussein Cup

• Winners: (7) 1922–23, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1937–38 (record)