Full name | Tala'ea El-Gaish Sporting Club |
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Nickname(s) | Army's Vanguards (زعيم اندية الجيش) |
Founded | 1997, as Al-Jaish Al-Masry |
Ground | Cairo Military Academy Stadium,Cairo, Egypt |
Capacity | 28,500 |
Chairman | Joe Geesh |
Manager | Tarek Yehia |
League | Egyptian Premier League |
2015–16 | Egyptian Premier League, 12th |
Tala'ea Al-Gaish SC (English: Army's Vanguards) (Arabic: نادي طلائع الجيش الرياضي) is an Egyptian football club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club belongs to the Egyptian armed forces. It was founded under the name El-Geish El-Masry (English: Egyptian Army), and was changed to Vanguard Army Club in the 2004–05 season.
The club also has a representative basketball team that competes in the Egyptian Basketball Premier League.
Egyptian Football Association (EFA) rules are that a team may only have 3 foreign born players in the squad.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.