Future FC

Future Football Club (Arabic: نادي فيوتشر لكرة القدم), formerly known as Coca-Cola FC, is an Egyptian professional football club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system. They are commonly associated with ‘Left wing values’ (as known in england), along with other clubs in the UK such as Everton, Celtic and Wrexham. This opposes to their rivals Pyramids FC who openly portray ‘Right wing values’. Egyptian politics is commonly brought into their game today.

For the Cayman Islander football club with a similar name, see Future SC.
Future FC
Full nameFuture Football Club
نادي فيوتشر لكرة القدم
Short nameFFC, FUT
Founded2011 (2011) as Coca-Cola FC
2 September 2021 (2021-09-02) as Future FC
GroundAl Salam Stadium
Capacity30,000
ChairmanWalid Zaki
ManagerAli Maher
LeagueEgyptian Premier League
2021–225th

History

The club was owned by the Egyptian branch of The Coca-Cola Company since its establishment in 2011 until 2021.[1] Coca-Cola's last season under that name witnessed their promotion to the 2021–22 Egyptian Premier League for the first time in their history, as they finished top of their group in the 2020–21 Egyptian Second Division.[2]

On 2 September 2021, Future company for sports investments announced the acquisition of the club for a reported fee of £E80 million (approximately €4 million), and renamed the club to Future FC.[3] In their first season Future finished 5th in the league but still qualified to the CAF confederation cup due to the EFA submitting the list of teams qualifying to the CAF champions league and confederation cup early as per CAF requirements. Future FC also managed to win the Egyptian league cup in their first season

Current squad
As of 26 January 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Egypt EGY Mahmoud Hamdy
3 FW Guinea GUI Hadji Barry
4 DF Egypt EGY Mahmoud Rizk
5 DF Egypt EGY Mahmoud Marei
6 DF Egypt EGY Ali Elfil
7 MF Egypt EGY Mohamed Farouk
9 FW Egypt EGY Marwan Mohsen
10 MF Egypt EGY Nasser Maher
11 DF Egypt EGY Tarek Taha
13 DF Cameroon CMR Joseph Ngwem
14 MF Egypt EGY Mohanad Lasheen
15 FW Tunisia TUN Aymen Sfaxi
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 GK Egypt EGY Mahmoud Genesh (Vice-captain)
17 MF Egypt EGY Karim Nedved (on loan from Al Ahly)
18 FW Egypt EGY Omar El Said
19 FW Egypt EGY Mostafa El Badry (on loan from Al Ahly)
20 DF Egypt EGY Saad Samir (on loan from Al Ahly) (captain)
22 FW Morocco MAR Abdelkabir El Ouadi
21 DF Egypt EGY Mahmoud Shaaban
24 MF Egypt EGY Mohamed Reda
25 GK Egypt EGY Mohamed Tarek
27 MF Egypt EGY Ghanam Mohamed
29 DF Egypt EGY Omar Kamal
30 FW Egypt EGY Ahmed Atef

Performance in CAF competitions
  • FR = First round
  • SR = Second round
Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup FR  Uganda BUL Jinja 1–0 0–0 1–0
SR  Sierra Leone Kallon 2–0

Honours

References
  1. "آخرها كوكاكولا.. مليارات على المستطيل الأخضر في مصر". al-ain.com (in Arabic). 2 July 2021.
  2. "Coca-Cola FC secure historic promotion to Egyptian Premier League". kingfut.com. 2 July 2021.
  3. Ali, Ahmad Gamal (2021-09-03). "Sports investment company take over newly-promoted Coca-Cola FC". KingFut. Retrieved 2021-09-08.


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