Egyptian national soccer team

This article is about the Egyptian men's national soccer team, the women's team is described under Egyptian national women's soccer team .

Arab Republic of Egypt
Jumhūriyyat Misr al-ʿarabiyya

Nickname (s)	Pharaohs
Association	Egyptian Football Association
confederacy	CAF
Technical sponsor	adidas
Head coach	Hossam El Badry (since 2019)
captain	Essam El-Hadary
Record scorer	Hossam Hassan (68)
Record player	Ahmed Hassan (184)
Home stadium	Cairo International Stadium
FIFA code	EGY
FIFA rank	51st (1420 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
statistics
First international match Italy 2-1 Egypt ( Gent , Belgium ; August 28, 1920)
Biggest win Egypt 13-0 Saudi Arabia ( Casablanca ; September 3, 1961)
Biggest defeat Egypt 3:11 Italy ( Amsterdam , Netherlands ; June 10, 1928)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	3 ( first : 1934 )
Best results	Round of 16 1934
African Championship
Participation in the finals	24 ( first : 1957 )
Best results	African champions 1957 , 1959 , 1986 , 1998 , 2006 , 2008 , 2010
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	2 ( first : 1999 )
Best results	Preliminary round 1999, 2009
(As of January 14, 2017)

The Egyptian national football team is subordinate to the Egyptian Football Association . As the first team from the African continent, they took part in a soccer World Cup in 1934 , but the team failed in the first round with 2: 4 to Hungary . A second time Egypt was able to qualify for the World Cup in 1990, but failed in the preliminary round. From 1958 to 1970 the Egyptian national soccer team started under the name United Arab Republic (between 1958 and 1961 jointly with Syria ).

Egypt won the first African Championship in 1957 and repeated the success in 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008 and 2010; thus Egypt is the sole record holder of the title. In 2010 the team was the first to win the African Championship for the third time in a row. In 1992, Egypt also won the Arab Cup title .

By winning the Africa Cup for the third time in a row, Egypt moved up 14 places in the FIFA world rankings in February 2010 and was placed there as the best African team until February 2011, when Egypt fell back to 3rd place among the African teams.

In Arabic , the Egyptian national soccer team is literally the selection / national team of Egypt for soccer ( Arabic منتخب مصر لكرة القدم, DMG muntaḫab maṣr li-kurat al-qadam ) or short selection / national team ( muntachab ). In Egypt and abroad, the team, like Egyptian athletes in general, also has the nickname " Pharaohs " ( Arabic الفراعنة, DMG farāʿina ).

Tournaments

Olympic games

The Egyptian team played their first international game at the Olympic Games in 1920. The biggest international defeat also occurred at the Olympic Games: In the game for 3rd place in 1928 against Italy (3:11).

1908 in London	not participated
1912 in Stockholm	not participated
1920 in Antwerp	Preliminary round
1924 in Paris	Quarter finals
1928 in Amsterdam	Fourth
1936 in Berlin	Round of 16
1948 in London	Round of 16
1952 in Helsinki	Round of 16
1956 in Melbourne	boycotted after qualification
1960 in Rome	Preliminary round
1964 in Tokyo	Fourth
1968 in Mexico City	not qualified
1972 in Munich	not qualified
1976 in Montreal	not qualified
1980 in Moscow	boycotted after qualification
1984 in Los Angeles	Quarter finals
1988 in Seoul	not qualified

Football World Cup

→ Main article : Egyptian national soccer team / World Cups

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated
1934	Italy	Round of 16	Hungary	13.	James McRea
1938	France	withdrawn
1950	Brazil	not participated
1954	Switzerland	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy failed
1958	Sweden	withdrawn
1962	Chile	withdrawn
1966	England	withdrawn				All 15 African teams withdrew from the qualification as FIFA only allowed the teams from Africa, Asia and Oceania one place in the final round.
1970	Mexico	not participated
1974	BR Germany	not qualified				Tunisia failed in the first round of qualification , but they also failed to qualify.
1978	Argentina	not qualified				In the qualification in the 4th round, Tunisia failed again.
1982	Spain	not qualified				In the qualification in the 3rd round, Morocco failed, but they could not qualify either.
1986	Mexico	not qualified				In the qualification in the semi-finals again failed to Morocco .
1990	Italy	Preliminary round	Netherlands , Ireland , England	20th	Mahmoud El-Gohary	After 2 draws against the Netherlands and Ireland and one defeat against England, eliminated as bottom of the group
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualifiers in the first round of Zimbabwe failed, but that could not qualify well.
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round, Tunisia failed again.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				Failed in the qualification in the 2nd round at Senegal .
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the second round at the Ivory Coast failed.
2010	South Africa	not qualified				In the qualification in the 3rd round in the play-off against Algeria failed.
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification in the play-offs to Ghana failed.
2018	Russia	Preliminary round	Russia , Uruguay , Saudi Arabia		Héctor Cúper	Eliminated after 3 defeats as bottom of the group.
2022	Qatar

African Cup of Nations

1957 in Sudan	African champions
1959 in Egypt	African champions
1962 in Ethiopia	2nd place
1963 in Ghana	3rd place
1965 in Tunisia	withdrawn
1968 in Ethiopia	withdrawn
1970 in Sudan	3rd place
1972 in Cameroon	not qualified
1974 in Egypt	3rd place
1976 in Ethiopia	4th Place
1978 in Ghana	not qualified
1980 in Nigeria	4th Place
1982 in Libya	withdrawn
1984 in Ivory Coast	4th Place
1986 in Egypt	African champions
1988 in Morocco	Preliminary round
1990 in Algeria	Preliminary round
1992 in Senegal	Preliminary round
1994 in Tunisia	Quarter finals
1996 in South Africa	Quarter finals
1998 in Burkina Faso	African champions
2000 in Ghana / Nigeria	Quarter finals
2002 in Mali	Quarter finals
2004 in Tunisia	Preliminary round
2006 in Egypt	African champions
2008 in Ghana	African champions
2010 in Angola	African champions
2012 in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2013 in South Africa	not qualified
2015 in Equatorial Guinea	not qualified
2017 in Gabon	2nd place
2019 in Egypt	Round of 16

African Nations Championship

• 2009 : Withdrawn in qualification
• 2011 - 2016 : not participated
• 2018 : Qualification is underway

Current squad

The table names the players who were in the squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia .

• Performance data as of June 25, 2018 (after the game against Saudi Arabia )

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut
goalkeeper
Sherif Ekramy	07/01/1983	16	0	al Ahly Cairo	2013
Essam El-Hadary	January 15, 1973	159	0	al Taawoun FC	1996
Ahmed El-Shenawy	05/14/1991	5	0	al Ahly Cairo	2018
Defense
Mohamed Abdel-Shafy	07/01/1985	55	1	al-Fateh	2009
Ayman Ashraf	04/09/1991	5	1	al Ahly Cairo	2016
Ahmed Elmohamady	09/09/1987	83	2	Aston Villa	2007
Ahmed Fathy	11/10/1984	131	3	al Ahly Cairo	2002
Ali Gabr	01/10/1989	25th	1	West Bromwich Albion	2011
Mahmoud Hamdy	06/01/1995	1	0	al Zamalek SC	2018
Ahmed Hegazy	01/25/1991	48	1	West Bromwich Albion	2011
Saad Samir	04/01/1989	10	0	al Ahly Cairo	2014
midfield
Mohamed Elneny	07/11/1992	65	5	Arsenal FC	2011
Omar Gaber	01/30/1992	23	0	Los Angeles FC	2002
Tarek Hamed	October 24, 1988	27	0	al Zamalek SC	2013
Sam Morsy	09/10/1991	6th	0	Wigan Athletic	2016
Abdallah Said	07/13/1985	41	6th	Kuopion PS	2008
Trezeguet	10/01/1994	29	2	Kasımpaşa Istanbul	2014
Storm
Kahraba	04/13/1994	25th	3	Ittihad FC	2013
Marwan Mohsen	02/26/1989	25th	4th	al Ahly Cairo	2011
Mohamed Salah	06/15/1992	60	37	Liverpool FC	2011
Shikabala	05.03.1986	32	2	al-Raed	2013
Ramadan Sobhi	01/23/1997	27	1	Stoke City	2015
Amr Warda	09/17/1993	20th	0	Atromitos Athens	2015

International matches against German-speaking national soccer teams

	date	place	Home team	result	Visiting team
1.	June 22, 1924	Vienna	Austria	3: 1	Egypt
2.	June 28, 1926	Esch on the Alzette	Luxembourg	1: 1	Egypt
3.	December 28, 1958	Cairo	Egypt	2: 1	FRG
4th	5th January 1962	Cairo	Egypt	1-0	Austria
5.	4th September 1966	Karl Marx City	GDR	6-0	Egypt
6th	July 9, 1969	Rostock	GDR	7-0	Egypt
7th	19th December 1969	Cairo	Egypt	1: 3	GDR
8th.	December 14, 1988	Cairo	Egypt	1: 3	Switzerland
9.	February 13, 1989	Cairo	Egypt	0: 4	GDR
10.	February 28, 1990	Cairo	Egypt	0-0	Austria
11.	April 11, 1990	Karl Marx City	GDR	2-0	Egypt

So far there has been no meeting with Liechtenstein. A game against Germany planned for November 18, 2009 was canceled because Egypt had to play a playoff game against Algeria for the World Cup qualification . Instead, Germany played against Ivory Coast .

Record international player

Ahmed Hassan has not only been Egypt's record international player since January 25, 2010, but has also played the most international matches of all male football players .

rank	Surname	Calls	position	Period
01.	Ahmed Hassan	184	midfield	1995-2012
02.	Hossam Hassan	178 (169)	attack	1985-2006
03.	Essam El-Hadary	159	goalkeeper	1996-2018
04th	Ahmed Fathy	132 (133)	midfield	2002–
0	Ibrahim Hassan	131 (130)	Defense	1989-2002
06th	Hany Ramzy	123 (124)	Defense	1988-2003
07th	Wael Gomaa	114 (111)	Defense	2001-2013
08th.	Ahmed Abdou El-Kass	112 (107)	Storm	1987-1997
0	Abdel Zaher El-Saqua	112	Defense	1997-2010
10.	Mohamed Yassin	109 (96)	midfield	1982-1991
11.	Ahmed Shobair	107 (101)	midfield	1984-1996
12.	Nader El-Sayed	104	goalkeeper	1992-2005
13.	Hosni Abd-Rabou	102 (97)	midfield	2004-2014
14th	Mohamed Abo Treka	100	midfield	2001-2013

Note: In August and September 2013, FIFA (numbers in brackets if different) and RSSSF added more Egyptian players to the list of players with at least 100 games and changed the data of previously listed players. Swell:

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period	World Cup goals	AC gates
01.	Hossam Hassan	67	176	0.38	1985-2006	0	11
02.	Mohamed Salah	43	68	0.63	2011–	2	4th
03.	Hassan Ahmed El-Shazly	42 (40)	62 (57)	0.68	1961-1975		12
04th	Mohamed Abo Treka	38	100	0.38	2001-2013		6th
05.	Ahmed Hassan	33	184	0.18	1995-2012		8th
06th	Amr Zaki	30th	63	0.48	2004-2013		6th
07th	Emad Moteab	28	70	0.4	2004-2015		5
08th.	Ahmed Abdou El-Kass	25th	112	0.22	1989-1997	0	3
09.	Gamal Abdel Hamid	24 (22)	79 (74)	0.3	1979-1993		3
	Mahmoud El-Khatib	24 (18)	54 (43)	0.44	1974-1986		2

Swell:

Trainer

• Ljubiša Broćić (1954–1955)
• Dettmar Cramer (1971–1974)
• Burkhard Pape (1975-77)
• Dezső Bundzsák (1979)
• Mircea Rădulescu (1993–1994)
• Ruud Krol (1995–1996)
• Marco Tardelli (2004)
• Hassan Shehata (2004-2011)
• Héctor Cúper (2015-2018)
• Javier Aguirre (2018-2019)
• Hossam El Badry (2019–)

See also

• List of international matches for the Egyptian national soccer team
• Egyptian national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Egyptian national soccer team (U-20 men)

Web links

• Official Website (Arabic)
• Page with detailed statistics (English)
• Tarek Said, Hassanin Mubarak: Egyptian National Team Coaches , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , August 21, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
3. ↑ dfb.de: Ivory Coast new international opponent
4. ↑ FACT Sheet FIFA Century Club (as of December 4, 2019) (PDF; 656 kB)
5. ↑ Egypt - Record International Players (as of November 18, 2019)
6. ^ ^{A b} Egyptian Players With Highest National Team Appearances
7. ↑ Goalscoring for Egypt National Team (as of November 18, 2019)