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Egypt

National team · Egypt

«The Pharaohs»

90 Matches
47 wins
28 draws
15 losses
138–73 Goals
+65 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Form W 22 Jun · Away New Zealand · 3:1 D 27 Jun · Home Iran · 1:1 D 3 Jul · Away Australia · 1:1 L 7 Jul · Away Argentina · 2:3 D 25 Sep · Home Angola · 0:0 W 29 Sep · Away South Sudan · 5:0

No fixture on the calendar carries more weight for Egypt than the one against Algeria. The two sides met in a 2010 World Cup qualifying play-off in Khartoum that turned violent among the travelling supporters, and the aftermath poisoned relations between the federations for years afterward. Matches against Tunisia sit in the same bracket, argued over across North Africa long before either side steps onto the pitch.

The Egyptian Football Association took shape on 3 December 1921, though the national side, known as the Pharaohs, had already played its first international a year earlier, losing to Italy at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. What followed was decades of dominance in African football rather than on the world stage: seven Africa Cup of Nations titles, three of them won back to back between 2006 and 2010, a run no other side has matched. Hassan Shehata coached that side through all three finals, with Hossam Hassan captaining the team and, in the years before, scoring more goals for Egypt than anyone else — 69 of them across a career that ran from 1985 to 2006. Hassan returned to the national team in February 2024, this time as head coach.

The World Cup has told a different story. Egypt reached the Round of 16 in 1934, in just its second-ever international tournament appearance, then waited until 1990 to qualify again, and again in 2018, when Mohamed Salah's form carried much of the campaign. Both those later trips ended in the group stage. Only in 2026 did the Pharaohs get back to the knockout rounds, falling to Argentina. Home games now split between the 86,000-capacity Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria and Cairo's own international stadium, but no ground has yet hosted the one prize that has eluded this generation: a Egypt team that has ruled its continent for a century still has no World Cup quarter-final to its name.

Latest results

Fixtures and results
4 Oct Friendlies South Africa H
29 Sep Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification South Sudan A 5:0 W
25 Sep Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification Angola H 0:0 D
7 Jul World Cup Argentina A 2:3 L
3 Jul World Cup Australia A 1:1 D
27 Jun World Cup Iran H 1:1 D

Standing

Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification

Group stage · Africa Cup of Nations - Qualification - Group B

# Team M W D L Goals Pts
1 Egypt 2 1 1 0 5:0 4
2 Malawi 1 1 0 0 2:1 3
3 Angola 1 0 1 0 0:0 1
4 South Sudan 2 0 0 2 1:7 0
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Team statistics

matches counted in total: 90
90 Matches
47 wins
28 draws
15 losses
138–73 Goals
+65 Difference
1.5 Scored per game
Match outcomes matches counted in total: 90
47wins: 47 · 52% 28draws: 28 · 31% 15losses: 15 · 16%
wins draws losses
Scored and conceded last matches
22 Jun · Away New Zealand · 3:1
27 Jun · Home Iran · 1:1
3 Jul · Away Australia · 1:1
7 Jul · Away Argentina · 2:3
25 Sep · Home Angola · 0:0
29 Sep · Away South Sudan · 5:0
scored — above the line conceded — below the line
Metric Total Home Away
Matches 90 48 42
Scored 138 80 58
Conceded 73 37 36
Scored per game 1.5 1.7 1.4
Conceded per game 0.8 0.8 0.9
Difference +65 +43 +22

Key players

by appearances over the last year
Emam Ashour Midfielder 10 Matches Omar Khaled Mohamed Abd Elsala Marmoush Forward 10 Matches Mostafa Ahmed Abdelaziz Mohamed Shobeir Goalkeeper 10 Matches Mohamed Hany Gamal Eldemerdash Defender 10 Matches Zizo Midfielder 10 Matches Tarek Alaa Defender 9 Matches Ibrahim Adel Ali Mohamed Hassan Forward 9 Matches Haissem Hassan Midfielder 9 Matches

Squad of Egypt

by appearances over the last year
Number Player Position Age Matches
8 Emam Ashour Midfielder 10
22 EG Omar Khaled Mohamed Abd Elsala Marmoush Forward 27 10
1 Mostafa Ahmed Abdelaziz Mohamed Shobeir Goalkeeper 10
3 Mohamed Hany Gamal Eldemerdash Defender 10
25 Zizo Midfielder 10
24 Tarek Alaa Defender 9
20 Ibrahim Adel Ali Mohamed Hassan Forward 9
12 Haissem Hassan Midfielder 9
19 Marwan Attia Fahim Ghallab Midfielder 9
16 Mahdi Soliman Goalkeeper 9
5 Rami Hisham Abdel Aziz Rabia Defender 9
21 Mahmoud Saber Midfielder 9
4 Hossam Abdelmaguid Abdelsalam Abdelmaguid Defender 8
13 Ahmed Mohamed Abou El Fotouh Mohamed Defender 8
9 Hamza Abdelkarim Forward 8
11 M. Zico Midfielder 8
15 Karim Hafez Ramadan Seif El Din Defender 8
17 Mohanad Mostafa Ahmed Abdelmonem Midfielder 8
2 Yasser Ibrahim Defender 8
7 Mahmoud Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan Forward 8
10 Mohamed Salah Forward 7
26 Mohamed Ala Goalkeeper 7
1 Mohamed El-Shenawy Goalkeeper 7
14 Hamdi Fathy Abdelhalim Abdul Fattah Midfielder 7
6 Mohamed Abdelmonem Defender 6
18 Nabil Donga Midfielder 6
18 Ali Mahmoud Midfielder 2
2 O. Fayed Defender 2
26 M. Alaa Goalkeeper 2
7 Islam Issa Elsayed Mohamed Ateya Midfielder 2
7 Osama Faisal Ahmed Abdelhady El Traawy Forward 1
21 Khaled Sobhy Defender 1
15 Ahmed Nabil Ashour Abdelaal Midfielder 1
9 Nasser Mansi Forward 1
11 Mostafa Mohamed Ahmed Abdallah Forward 1

Fixtures of Egypt

Honours of Egypt

  • Africa Cup of Nations 1957, 1959, 1986, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010 7
  • Arab Games 1953, 1965, 1992, 2007 4
  • African Games 1987 1
  • FIFA Arab Cup 1992 1
  • Mediterranean Games 1955 1

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