El Ittihad Alexandria

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	Alexandria Stadium Alexandria, Egypt
Capacity	13,660
Chairman	Mahmoud Mashaly
Manager	Mokhtar Mokhtar
League	Egyptian Premier League
2014–15	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

Total number of Honors: 38

• Egypt Cup: 6

1926, 1936, 1948, 1963, 1973, 1976

• Sultan Hussein Cup: 5

• Alexandria League: 27

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 9 Feb 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 Ahmed El-Sayed 7 DF Mahmoud Farag 8 DF Mohamed Adel 9 FW Mohamed Abdelmaguid 10 MF Youssef Obama 11 MF Ahmed Elalfi 14 MF Karim Mansh 15 MF Mostafa Gaber 17 DF Mohamed Abdelrazak 18 MF Alieu Darbo 20 DF Hany Saïd 21 FW Hermann Kouao 22 MF Ashour El Adham 23 GK Mahmoud Al Sayed 24 DF Amr Nabil

No. Position Player 25 DF Ahmed Nassr 28 FW Mohamed Shaarawy 29 DF Mahmoud Shaaban 31 MF Mohamed El Minyawi 32 DF Mahmoud Shaaban 33 FW Akram Abd Rabo 35 MF Khamis Hosny 38 FW Patrick Ngoma 39 GK Amr Khalil - DF Mohamed Fawzi - DF Mohamed Khalaf - DF Omar Yehia - DF Gamal Hassanen - DF Mahmoud Bazid - MF Kamal Ali - FW Jaques Bisan - FW Ahmed Mamdouh

Managers

Diethelm Ferner (July 1, 2000 – June 30, 2002) Mohamed Omar (Jan 2002 – July 02) Rainer Zobel (Nov 4, 2002 – Dec 31, 2003) Mohamed Omar (May 2003 – April 04) 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