Monday 22 December 2025 – 01:41 AM
The report of the State Council Commissioners in the lawsuit filed by Hussein Labib, President of the Zamalek Club, which bears No. 5193 of the year 80, regarding the cancellation of the decision of the head of the October Parks City Authority No. 1173, dated 11/61205, including the withdrawal of the Zamalek Club plot of land in October, revealed its recommendations, which came in accepting the lawsuit in form, rejecting it in substance, and obliging the plaintiff to pay the expenses.
It stated: The plaintiff, in his capacity, filed the present suit according to an announced document deposited with the clerk of the Administrative Judicial Court in Cairo on 10/22/2025 and requested at its conclusion – for the reasons stated therein – a ruling first to accept the lawsuit in form, and secondly and as an urgent matter to suspend the implementation of the contested decision issued by the October Parks City Authority No. 1174 dated 6/11/2025 regarding the withdrawal of plot No. (122) with an area of 129,634 acres allocated to the Zamalek Club to build a branch of the club on it, and all the consequences that result from that, most notably restoring the situation to what it was before the implementation of the contested decision dated 8/19/2025 and enabling the club to receive the land and begin implementing the project, and considering the period from 8/19/2025 until the date of receipt as an additional pause period. The duration of the implementation and termination of the works and considering them as part of the original duration of the project implementation, and all the consequences that arise from that.
Third: Regarding the matter of canceling the contested decision issued by the October Parks City Authority No. 1174 dated 6/11/2025, in what it contained regarding the withdrawal of plot No. (122) with an area of 129,634 acres, which was allocated to the Zamalek Club to build a branch of the club on it, and all the consequences that would result from that, most notably restoring the situation to what it was before the implementation of the contested decision on 8/19/2025 and enabling the club to receive the land and begin implementing the project. The period from 8/19/2025 until the date of receipt is considered a stopping period in addition to the period of implementation and termination of the works, and it is considered part of the original duration of project implementation, with all the consequences that result from that.
The plaintiff stated, as an explanation of the lawsuit, that on 7/13/2014, a contract was concluded between the New Urban Communities Authority and the Zamalek Sports Club, according to which the club was allocated a plot of vacant land with an area of 129,634 acres in the Sixth of October City to establish a club branch on it, and the club paid the full price of the land.
In view of the desire of the club’s board of directors to increase the construction percentage of the project and to modify the activity of an area of 20 acres from a service activity to an investment activity, the club submitted a request to the defendant authority to obtain its approval. The authority’s approval was issued for the two amendments, and the club paid in exchange for the improvement, changing the activity, and increasing the construction percentage an amount of 40,150,000 pounds. Pursuant to this, the Minister of Housing, Utilities and New Urban Communities’ Decision No. (1084) was issued on 9/22/2024 by approving the amendment to the detailed plan for the plot of land in question. The aforementioned ministerial decision included that the club commit to submitting a condensed timetable for the completion of the project within the original and additional periods specified, with the termination date being on 12/16/2025. Following that, a directive was issued by the Presidency of the Republic on 8/4/2025 to take the necessary measures towards considering the beginning of the two-year deadline – which was previously granted as a supplementary one. A final addition to end all construction and complete all work on the plot of land that is the subject of the dispute – from the date of issuance of Ministerial Resolution No. (1084) dated 9/22/2024, as the plaintiff was surprised, in his capacity, by the presence of people claiming to be affiliated with the October Parks City Authority on the plot of land to implement Resolution No. (1174) dated 6/11/2025, which included withdrawing the land in question, without notifying the club of taking the withdrawal procedures or attributing any violations to it, despite the expiration of the specified period for implementation. In accordance with the aforementioned ministerial decision and presidential directive, the plaintiff, in his capacity, took the initiative to submit two grievances to both the Minister of Housing and the head of the main grievances committee of the defendant authority, without receiving a response, which led him to file the present lawsuit in order to rule on the aforementioned requests.
