La Viena FC
La Viena FC is an Egyptian football club based in Assiut, Beni Swef. The club currently plays in the Egyptian Second Division.[1] The club was founded "under the mindset" of the founders of now dissolved club Al-Assiouty SC as per the official site of the club.
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Full name | La Vienna Football Club |
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Founded | 2020 |
Ground | Al Assiouty Sport Stadium |
Capacity | 1,000 |
Owner | Mohamed Al-Assiouty |
Manager | George Gallidi |
League | Egyptian Second Division (Group A) |
Website | Club website |
Founded in 2020, it is considered to be as one of the newest football clubs in Egyptian Football.
Club Foundation
On December 12, 2019, the club president of Al-Assiouty FC announced that he was going to relaunch the club after Al-Assiouty sport was rebranded into Pyramids Football Club. Now the former Al-Assiouty FC chairman Mahmoud Al Assiouty, announced that the club will be relaunched under the “Al-Assiouty 2020” project and will change its name to La Viena FC.[2]
Early Years
The club began its journey rising through its fourth and third division seasons back-to-back.
2020-21 Season

On April 24th in the 2020-21 Egyptian Fourth Division Season, they officially made it to the Third Division. They were congratulated by former Assiyout Club Pyramids FC.[3] The club chose to stay in their home ground Al-Assiyouty Sport stadium for their inaugural season and would stay in the same ground for their upcoming seasons.
2021-22 Season

In the 2021-22 Egyptian Third Division Season, they topped group D beating out Fayoum Y.C. pre-maturely with a 16-point difference and 5 games remaining, automatically sealing them promotion.[4] making them the second club in history next to Ceramica Cleopatra FC, to achieve promotion two years in a row after competing in the third and fourth divisions.
2022-23 Season

They would hire Hungarian George Gallidi as their head coach when promotion was sealed. the 2022-23 Egyptian Second Division season seemed to be competitive as El-Ghouna FC and Petrol Asyut SC are in a close race for promotion with them.[5]
Egypt Cup
Throughout this time, they managed to reach the Egypt Cup round of 32 on three different occasions, they lost the first time to Ismaily SC 2-1 in the 2020-21 season, then in the 2021-22 season they lost 1-0 to the club that was once owned by their current owners and a club that was formerly based in the Assiyout reigon, Pyramids FC.[6] The third appearance was against ENppi SC, in the 2022-23 season where they would lose 3-0 .[7]
Reference List
- "365 Club Profile". www.365scores.com. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
- Ismail, Ali (2019-12-12). "Al-Assiouty announce relaunching project, to be named La Viena FC". KingFut. Retrieved 2023-05-15.
- "Pyramids congratulate La Viena FC for promotion to third division". القاهرة 24 (in Arabic). 2021-04-04. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- "ممر شرفي من أبو كساه للاعبي لافيينا عقب الصعود لدوري الدرجة الثانية". القاهرة 24 (in Arabic). 2022-02-13. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- "الدرجة الثانية - لافيينا يشعل مجموعة الصعيد وينفرد بالصدارة على حساب بترول أسيوط". FilGoal.com (in Arabic). 2023-03-20. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- "لافيينا يصعد إلى دور الـ 32 بكأس مصر للمرة الثانية في تاريخه". القاهرة 24 (in Arabic). 2021-12-22. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
- "First comments from La Viena FC DOC, after Egypt Cup Round-of-32 Draw". فيتو (in Arabic). 2023-05-01. Retrieved 2023-05-18.