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Al Ahly Football Club (lit. 'The National Club'), commonly referred to as Al Ahly, is an Egyptian professional football club based in Cairo. It is the most successful football club worldwide based on total trophies won. Its professional football team plays in the Egyptian Premier League, founded on 24 April 1907, as a gathering place for Cairo's Student Unions.

Al Ahly has a record of 42 national league titles, 37 national cup titles and 12 national super cup titles, The club has never been relegated to the Egyptian Second Division. Al Ahly is the most successful club in Africa and is one of the continent's giants.

In international competitions, the club has won a record 10 CAF Champions League titles, a CAF Confederation Cup, a record eight CAF Super Cups, a record four African Cup Winners' Cups, an Afro-Asian Club Championship, an Arab Club Champions Cup, an Arab Cup Winners' Cup, a record two Arab Super Cups, and has won three bronze medals in the FIFA Club World Cup. With 24 continental titles, Al Ahly is the most successful football club in African history, and was voted by CAF as African club of the 20th century.

The idea of establishing Al Ahly in the first 10 years of the 20th century was raised by Omar Lotfy who was a student in the Egyptian Law School during his presidency of the High School Students Club, which was established in 1905. The establishment of a club of high school students was for political reasons, and the students needed a sports club to gather them for leisure and exercise.

He discussed the idea of establishing the club with a group of friends who were enthusiastic about it, and in 1907 Al Ahly was established.