Al Ahly Sports Hall


Al-Ahly Sports Hall is one of Al-Ahly club's buildings, and a multi-purpose arena in Cairo, Egypt. It is used by the basketball, handball, and volleyball sections of the club.

History

When Al-Ahly started to create the teams of handball, basketball and volleyball, they saw it was important to build an arena to host the home matches of these teams, The first time they started to make the designs and searching for funds was 1978, and because of some funding problems the project was postponed.

Opening ceremony

After many year of waiting Al-Ahly finally built its sports hall arena and on February 4, 1994 Al Ahly officially opened the hall in an opening ceremony. The ceremony started with a words from Al Ahly chairman Saleh Selim and declared that the name of the hall would be "Prince Abdallah El Faisal Hall". The first game held at Al-Ahly Sports Hall was basketball friendly game between Al-Ahly and Ittihad Alexandria.

Al-Ahly Main Hall

Al-Ahly Main Hall is supplied with 2,500 seats and taraflex ground. The Main Hall is used for all home matches for handball, basketball and volleyball and also for home matches for females teams and youth junior teams. It is also used for some concerts and entertainment events.

Al-Ahly Sub-Hall

This sub hall is used for warming up and trainings of sports team and also hosts some of games matches when the main hall is busy with other games at the same time.

International sports events

The arena has hosted the following international sports events :
The first African Men's Handball Cup Winners' Cup final at Al-Ahly Main Hall took place in 2018. It was won by Al-Ahly. The second one took place in 2023 and was won by Zamalek. The third one took place in 2025 and was won by Al-Ahly after defeating Zamalek 31-28 in front of a crowd of 1,843.