Al Ittihad Alexandria Club

Al-Ittihad Alexandria

Full name	Al-Ittihad Alexandria Club
Nickname(s)	Seed El Balad (Master of the country) Za'eim El Thaghr (The team)
Founded	August 4, 1914
Ground	Borg el-Arab Stadium Borg el-Arab, Egypt
Capacity	86,000
Chairman	Mahmoud Mashaly
Manager	Mokhtar Mokhtar
League	Egyptian Premier League
2015–16	Egyptian Premier League, 14th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Al-Ittihad Alexandria is an Egyptian football club that plays in the Egyptian Premier League. The team was founded in 1914 in Alexandria. It has the third largest number of fans in Egypt, after Al Ahly and Zamalek. The club is the first club that rushed to endorse the idea of founding the Egyptian Football Association in 1921 which contributed to increased popularity in Alexandria.

Honors

• Egypt Cup: 6

1926, 1936, 1948, 1963, 1973, 1976

• Sultan Hussein Cup: 1

1935

Regional

• Alexandria Zone League: 27 (record)

From 1927 to 1953

Performance in CAF competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1975	African Cup Winners' Cup	1		Saint George	2–0	0–0	2–0
		QF		Tonnerre Yaoundé	4–0	0–3^1	w/o
1977	African Cup Winners' Cup	2		MO Constantine	3–1	0–1	3–2
		QF		Rangers International	2–0	0–0	2–0
		SF		Tonnerre Yaoundé	1–0	0–2	1–2
1979	African Cup Winners' Cup	1		Gor Mahia	w/o
2006	CAF Confederation Cup	Round of 32		Rayon Sports	3–0	0–1	3–1
		Round of 16		Espérance	1–0	0–1	1–1 (3–4 p)

Notes:

• ¹ The match was abandoned at the 70' minutes after Al Ittihad players walked off to protest the officiating with Tonnerre Yaoundé leading 3–0; Al Ittihad were disqualified from the tournament due to their action and Tonnerre Yaoundé advanced to the next round.

Current squad

As of 15 November 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK El-Hany Soliman 3 DF Hesham Shehata 4 MF Abdelrahman Farouk 5 DF Ahmad El-Sayed 6 DF Mohamed Atwa 7 DF Kabonga 8 DF Mohamed Adel 9 FW Mohamed Abdelmaguid 10 FW Khaled Kamar 11 MF Ahmed El Alfi 12 DF Hazem Emam 13 DF Mostafa Kalosha 14 MF Nour El Sayed 15 FW Mohamed Salem

No. Position Player 16 GK Amr Khalil 17 MF Ahmed El Sheikh 18 MF Khamis Hosni 19 FW Kabongo Kasongo 20 DF Bazoka 21 MF Khaled El Khandour 22 MF Clatous Chama 23 GK Mahmoud Al Sayed 24 DF Amr Nabil 27 DF Mahmoud Shaaban 28 MF Mohamed Ossama 30 MF Hassan Tarek 37 MF Hussein Khaled

Managers

Diethelm Ferner (July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2002) Mohamed Omar (Jan 2002 – July 2) Rainer Zobel (Nov 4, 2002 – Dec 31, 2003) Mohamed Omar (May 2003 – April 4) Mohamed Salah (July 2004 – Oct 04) Slobodan Pavković (July 2006 – Dec 06) Mohamed Omar (Dec 2006 – Aug 07) Mohamed Salah (Sept 2007 – Jan 08) Taha Basri (Jan 1, 2008 – Aug 26, 2009) Cabralzinho (Sept 4, 2009 – Nov 21, 2010) Mohamed Amer (Nov 22, 2010 – April 6, 2011) Ahmed Sary (April 2011)

José Maqueda (Aug 2, 2011 – Dec 1, 2012) Ahmed Sary (Dec 16, 2012 – March 12, 2013) Jose Kléber (March 20, 2013 – May 12, 2013) Ahmed Sary (May 12, 2013 – July 22, 2013) Talaat Youssef (July 23, 2013 – Dec 16, 2013) Mounir Oukala (interim) (Dec 21, 2013 – Dec 31, 2013) Denis Lavagne (Dec 31, 2013–14) Talaat Youssef (Aug 2014 – Oct 2014) Hossam Hassan (Oct 2014 – July 2015) Stoycho Mladenov (July 2015 – Nov 2015) Leonel Pontes (Nov 2015 – March 2016) Mokhtar Mokhtar (March 2016 –

See also

• Egyptian Premier League
• Egypt Cup
• Sultan Hussein Cup

References

External links

• Official site