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2020–21 Egyptian Super Cup
The 2020-21 Egyptian Super Cup (also known as the 2020–21 SAIB Egyptian Super Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 18th Egyptian Super Cup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season's Egyptian Premier League and Egypt Cup. It was played at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria, Egypt, on 21 September 2021, contested by Al Ahly SC, Al Ahly and Tala'ea El Gaish SC, Tala'ea El Gaish. Since Al Ahly won the Treble (association football), treble in the previous season (league, cup and 2019–20 CAF Champions League, CAF Champions League), Tala'ea El Gaish were awarded a spot in this season's super cup as the 2019–20 Egypt Cup runners-up. This was the last edition where the cup runners-up participate in the super cup if one team won the Double (association football), double in the previous season. Starting from the 2021–22 edition, the league runners-up would participate instead. Tala'ea El Gaish won the match 3–2 on Penalty shoot-out (association fo ...
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Al Ahly SC
Al-Ahly Sporting Club (), commonly known as Al-Ahly, is an List of football clubs in Egypt, Egyptian professional sports club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional Association football, football team which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest tier in the Egyptian football league system. The club is renowned for its consistent success at both domestic and continental levels, regularly contending in Confederation of African Football, CAF tournaments. Founded on 24 April 1907 by Omar Lotfy and cofounded by Yahia Baher, Al-Ahly has a record of 45 Egyptian Premier League titles, 39 Egypt Cup titles and 15 Egyptian Super Cups. Al-Ahly is List of football clubs by competitive honours won, the most successful club in Confederation of African Football, Africa. In international competitions, Al-Ahly has won a record 12 CAF Champions League titles, 1 CAF Confederation Cup, a record of 8 CAF Super Cups, a record of 4 African Cup Winner ...
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Treble (association Football)
A treble in association football is achieved when a club team wins three trophies in a single season. A continental treble involves winning the club's top-level domestic league competition, main domestic cup competition, and main continental trophy. Although winning a second-tier continental trophy (e.g. Europa League) has also been described as a continental treble, it is not as widely accepted. A domestic treble involves winning three national competitions—including the league title, the primary cup competition, and one secondary competition, such as a league cup. Competitions which consist of a single match or a two-leg match are not normally counted as part of a continental treble (e.g., the FA Community Shield, Supercopa de España, Supercoppa Italiana, Trophée des Champions, DFL-Supercup, UEFA Super Cup, Recopa Sudamericana, FIFA Club World Cup, Intercontinental Cup and others). Continental trebles This list includes clubs who have won their country's top-tie ...
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2017 Arab Club Championship
The 2017 Arab Club Championship was the 27th season of the Arab World's inter-club football tournament organised by UAFA, and the first season since it was renamed from the UAFA Club Cup to the Arab Club Championship. The competition was won by Tunisian club Espérance de Tunis, who defeated Jordanian side Al-Faisaly 3–2 after extra time in the final to secure a joint-record third title. Allocation of entries The following team entries allocation was announced by the Union of Arab Football Associations on 20 June 2016. Each association was given entry either to the qualifying play-off or to the group stage based on the FIFA World Ranking of the associations on 2 June 2016. Only teams who were champions or runners-up of either their nation's league or one of their nation's cup competitions were allowed to participate in the tournament. ;Notes Teams The following 20 teams from 18 associations entered the competition. ;Notes Venues The following ...
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2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup
The 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 17th edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Egypt from 24 September to 16 October 2009. The tournament was initially going to take place between 10 and 31 July. However, the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup was played mid-year, resulting in both that year's U-20 and U-17 World Cups being played at the end of the year. The tournament was won by Ghana after they defeated Brazil on penalties in the final, becoming the first African team to win the tournament. Player eligibility Only players born on or after 1 January 1989 were eligible to compete. Venues Qualification Twenty-three teams qualified for the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. As the host team, Egypt received automatic entry to the cup, bringing the total number of teams to twenty-four for the tournament. :1.Teams that made their debut. Match officials Squads Allocation of teams to groups Teams were allocated to groups on the basis of geographical sprea ...
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FNB Stadium
First National Bank Stadium or simply FNB Stadium, also known as Soccer City and The Calabash, is an association football (soccer) and Rugby union stadium located in Nasrec, bordering the Soweto area of Johannesburg, South Africa. The site is managed by Stadium Management South Africa (SMSA) and is home of Kaizer Chiefs F.C. in the South African Premier Soccer League as well as the venue for key fixtures for the South Africa national football team. It is located next to the South African Football Association headquarters (''SAFA House'') where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup are housed. Designed as the main association football stadium for the 2010 World Cup, the FNB Stadium became the largest stadium in Africa with a capacity of 94,736. However, its maximum capacity during the 2010 FIFA World Cup was 84,490 due to reserved seating for the press and VIPs. The stadium is also known by its nickname "The Calabash" due to its ...
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Zamalek SC
Zamalek Sporting Club (), commonly referred to as Zamalek, is an List of football clubs in Egypt, Egyptian Club based in Cairo, Egypt. The club is best known for its professional men's Association football, football team, which plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the top tier of the Egyptian football league system. The club is renowned for its consistent success at both domestic and continental levels, regularly contending in Confederation of African Football, CAF tournaments. Founded on 5 January 1911 as Cairo International Sports Club (Zamalek) colloquially El Qāhirah El Mokhtalat Club or El Mokhtalat Club, the club has traditionally worn a white home kit since its inception. They won their first championship title in 1913. The club is one of the most widely supported in Africa and the Middle East. Zamalek is credited to be the only Egyptians, Egyptian club to participate in the Sultan Hussein Cup as a sign of resistance to the British Empire, British presence in Egypt and ...
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Al Ittihad Alexandria Club
Al Ittihad Alexandria Club (), locally known as El Ittihad El Skandary, is an Egyptian sports club based in Alexandria. The club is mainly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system. Founded in 1914 in Alexandria, the club is one of the oldest and most popular football clubs in Egypt. Al Ittihad was the first club that rushed to endorse the idea of founding the Egyptian Football Association in 1921, which significantly contributed to increasing the club's popularity in Alexandria. Its famous Chairman was Tawfik Abouhashem. Highlights *1906 Establishment of a club under the name of the club of the Union headed by Hassan Ismail. *1908 Change the name of the club from Union club to the Union National Club. *1910 Creation of United Champions Club headed by Abu Zeidi. *1912 Abdo El Hamami heads the United Champions Club. *1912 The merger of the National Union Club with El ...
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Egypt National Football Team
The Egypt national football team (), nicknamed Pharaohs (), represents Egypt in men's FIFA, international Association football, football, and is governed by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA), the governing body of football in Egypt. Egypt is Africa's oldest national football team and has won the Africa Cup of Nations a Africa Cup of Nations records and statistics, record seven times. The team has made three appearances in the FIFA World Cup and was the first-ever African and Middle Eastern team to make such an appearance. Their former goalkeeper Essam El Hadary also holds the record for the oldest player to have played at a World Cup. Internationally, Egypt national under-20 football team, Egypt became a 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship#Final ranking, bronze medalist at the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, 2001 FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, Argentina. History The first Egyptian national football team was constituted in 1920, the first ...
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Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northern coast of Egypt, the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to Egypt–Israel barrier, the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to Egypt–Sudan border, the south, and Libya to Egypt–Libya border, the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, list of cities and towns in Egypt, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the List of African countries by population, third-most populous country in Africa and List of countries and dependencies by population, 15th-most populated in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories o ...
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Borg El Arab Stadium 1
The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. They are cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a hive mind called "The Collective". The Borg co-opt the technology and knowledge of other alien species to the Collective through the process of " assimilation": forcibly transforming individual beings into "drones" by injecting nanoprobes into their bodies and surgically augmenting them with cybernetic components. The Borg's ultimate goal is "achieving perfection".Star Trek: First Contact Aside from being recurring antagonists in the '' Next Generation'' television series, they are depicted as the main threat in the film '' Star Trek: First Contact''. In addition, they played major roles in the '' Voyager'' and ''Picard'' series. The Borg have become a symbol in popular culture for any juggernaut against which "resistance is futile" – a common phrase uttered by the Borg. Concept The Borg represented a new antagonis ...
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Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' (; ), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second-oldest after '' Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, as well as editions in English a ...
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Youm7
''Youm7'' (, , meaning ''The Seventh Day'') is an Egyptian privately owned daily newspaper. It was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since May 2011. It is published in Arabic. The paper was twice selected by ''Forbes Middle East'' as having the most effective news website in the Middle East. ''Youm7'' reportedly has the most-visited website of any Egyptian newspaper. On 6 October 2013 it launched an English news website called The Cairo Post. History Founding and profile ''Youm7'' was first published as a weekly paper in October 2008 and has been published daily since 31 May 2011. Editor Khaled Salah said shortly after the paper's expansion to daily publication that ''Youm7'' "supports the popular need for a civil state and will strive to present facts to readers without political bias and with credible representation of diverse views." According to internet information service Alexa Internet, 59% of visitors to ''Youm7's'' website ...
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