El Sayed Ateya: Tanta SC sign former Zamalek goalkeeper on free transfer from Seid El Mahalla

Tanta SC have completed the signing of Egyptian goalkeeper El Sayed Ateya from Seid El Mahalla on a free transfer, with the move officially registered to start on 2026-07-05. The 25-year-old joins the club after a short spell at Seid El Mahalla, returning to his home region in Egypt with his contract at Tanta currently recorded without a fixed end date.

The deal sees Ateya move within Egyptian football, with both clubs listed in a domestic competition recorded as N/A for league designation, and no transfer fee changing hands. His market value at the time of the switch is not stated, with the last available valuation data from 2023 indicating he had previously been assessed at up to 50,000 during his time at Zamalek SC before later being listed at zero with El Nasr Tadeen.

Born in Mahalla on 13 Feb 2001, Ateya arrives at Tanta as a right-footed specialist goalkeeper, adding depth and experience to their options in goal. Although details of his appearances and statistics for the most recent season are not available in the data, his regular movement between clubs in recent years underlines that he has remained active within senior professional setups. No specific recent match, opponent, scoreline or performance figures are provided in the records, and there are no confirmed current-season appearance totals or clean-sheet statistics.

Ateyas latest move continues a notably itinerant early career across Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. After emerging at Baladiyat El Mahalla, he joined Zamalek SC U21 in 2018, earning promotion to Zamaleks first team in 2022. His market value rose to 50,000 during that spell, reflecting his status as a promising young goalkeeper at one of Egypts most prominent clubs.

In 2023 he left Zamalek SC for El Nasr Tadeen, where his listed market value dropped to zero, a sign of limited external valuation at that point rather than a formal fee being recorded. A subsequent transfer to El Shorta followed at the start of 2024, before a move abroad to United Sport FC in the United Arab Emirates later that year. That stint in the UAE represents the only confirmed period in his career so far outside Egypt, although the competition he played in there is also listed as N/A in the data.

Ateya returned to Egypt with Seid El Mahalla in 2025, staying just one season before this latest switch to Tanta SC. With his current contract at Tanta showing no expiry date, there remains the possibility that, depending on future agreements or non-renewal, he could eventually become a free agent again. For now, though, the transfer is fully confirmed, not speculative, and places him back in familiar surroundings in the MahallaTanta corridor.

At 25, with experience in several Egyptian clubs and one spell in the United Arab Emirates, Ateya is entering what are typically prime years for a goalkeeper. How he establishes himself at Tanta SC, in a competition currently logged as N/A but within Egypt, will be central to determining whether he can rebuild the market value he held at Zamalek and redefine his reputation after a series of short-term moves.