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| Full name | Ghazl El Mahalla Sporting Club | ||
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| Short name | GMH | ||
| Founded | 1 October 1936 | ||
| Ground | Ghazl El Mahalla Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 14,564 | ||
| Chairman | Osama Khalil | ||
| Head coach | Khaled Eid | ||
| League | Egyptian Premier League | ||
| 2021-22 | 14th of 18 | ||
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Ghazl El Mahalla Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي غزل المحلة الرياضي), commonly referred to as El Mahalla or simply Mahalla, is an Egyptian football club based in El Mahalla El Kubra. They compete in the Egyptian Second Division, the second-highest tier of the Egyptian football league system.
They are one of seven teams to have won the Egyptian Premier League, having won it once, in the 1972–73 season. The history of Ghazl El Mahalla has witnessed many achievements, most significantly during the era of the golden generation of the club which led the team to reach the finals of the African Cup of Champions Clubs (later known as CAF Champions League) in 1974, only beaten in the final by CARA Brazzaville from the Republic of the Congo. The team also reached the final of the Egypt Cup six times, but did not manage to win any.