Colors
Al Ahly's home kit, since the club's founding, has always been the familiar red shirt with white shorts. The team's away kit is the dark blue shirt with dark blue shorts, although the team formerly played with white shorts in the away kit. The old away kit used until the 90s was a green shirt with white shorts and green socks. In 2008, Al Ahly unveiled their third kit for the first time since the club's founding. It was first used in a match against bitter rivals Zamalek SC. The kit is composed of Ahly's home shirt and black shorts. It is still currently in use as a third kit and is still worn by the team in all Al-Ahly versus Zamalek Derbies. This is due to the fact that Zamalek SC wears a white home kit, with two red stripes on the shirt. If Al-Ahly wore their home kit in the derby matches, there would be only a small difference in the shirt colour and no difference in the shorts' colour.
| Season | Kit providers | Sponsors |
|---|---|---|
| 1993/94-1999/00 | Adidas | Coca-Cola |
| 2000/01 | Nike | |
| 2001/02-2003/04 | Vodafone | |
| 2004/05-2008/09 | Puma | |
| 2009/10-2010/2011 | Adidas | |
| 2011–Present | Etisalat Egypt |
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—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
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The other asks if we demand quarter?
If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
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We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part of the fighting.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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—Claude Monet (1840–1926)