Egypt's main sport is
football. People in
Egypt gather around to watch various Egyptian clubs and the
Egyptian national football team play almost on a daily basis.The most commonly known Egyptian clubs are
El Ahly and
El Zamalek of
Cairo. For the
Egyptian Premier League the main competition is split between these two teams making majority of Egyptians rooting for either team, calling themselves Ahlaweyeen or Zamalkaweyeen in the Egyptian own dialect of Arabic, leaving the minority rooting for the rest of the teams in the league. These two teams create the greatest football rivalry in Africa.