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Egyptian History In Soccer World Cup

Egypt In World Cup Qualifiers	Egypt In World Cup
Egyptian Squad in World Cup 1934	Egyptian Squad in World Cup 1990
Egyptian Squad in World Cup 2018	Egyptian refrees in Mondial

Egypt's Record in World Cup Qualifications

Played	Won	Draws	Lost	Goals Scored	Goals Against
102	58	21	23	178	95

Combined World & African Cup Qualification matches are counted as world cup qualifiers

Players' Stats Scorers

Qualified for World Cup 1934

16 Mar 1934 / Egypt 7:1 Palestine / Home (Moustafa Kamel Taha 24", 57" - Mokhtar ElTetch 34", 37", 48" - Mohamed Latif 45", 55")

6 Apr 1934 / Palestine 1:4 Egypt / Away (Mohamed Latif 1" / Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetch 8", 22" / Abdel Rahman Fawzy 35")

World Cup 1938

Egypt was set to play vs Romania on Dec 17th, 1937 but withdrew in protest of match date

World Cup 1954

13 Nov 1953 / Egypt 1:2 Italy / Home(Mohamed Diab El-Attar "Diba" 23")

24 Jan 1954 / Italy 5:1 Egypt / Away (Alaa El-Hamouly 32")

World Cup 1974

8 Dec 1972 / Egypt 2:1 Tunisia / Home (Ali Khalil 10" / Sayed Abdel Razek "Bazouka" 71")

17 Dec 1972 / Tunisia 2:0 Egypt / Away

World Cup 1978

First Round

29 Oct 1976 / Egypt 3:0 Ethiopia / Home (Mahmoud El-Khateeb 4", 19", 77")

14 Nov 1976 / Ethiopia 1:2 Egypt / Away (Mahmoud El-Khateeb 12", 73")

Second Round

6 Feb 1977 / Kenya 0:0 Egypt / Away

27 Feb 1977 / Egypt 1:0 Kenya / Home (Ali Khalil 13")

Third Round

15 Jul 1977 / Egypt 2:0 Zambia / Home (Farouk Gaafar 29" / Mohamed Abdullah "Hamama" 49")

31 Jul 1977 / Zambia 0:0 Egypt / Away

Final Round

8 Oct 1977 / Nigeria 4:0 Egypt / Away

21 Oct 1977 / Egypt 3:1 Nigeria / Home(Moustafa Abdou 11", 27" / Mokhtar Mokhtar 50")

25 Nov 1977 / Egypt 3:2 Tunisia / Home (Farouk Gaafar 25" Pen / Moustafa Abdou 53" / Mahmoud El-Khateeb 82")

11 Dec 1977 / Tunisia 4:1 Egypt / Away (Ahmed Abdel Baquy)

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Tunisia	4	2	1	1	7	4	5
2	Egypt	4	2	0	2	7	11	4
3	Nigeria	4	1	1	2	5	4	3

World Cup 1982

First Round: Ghana withdrew, Egypt had a walkover

Second Round:Libya withdrew, Egypt had a walkover

Third Round

26 Apr 1981 / Morocco 1:0 Egypt / Away

8 May 1981 / Egypt 0:0Morocco / Home

World Cup 1986

First Round

28 Aug 1984 / Egypt 1:0 Zimbabwe / Home (Alaa Mayhoub)

30 Sep 1984 / Zimbabwe 1:1 Egypt / Away (Emad Soliman 34')

Second Round

5 Apr 1985 / Egypt 1:0 Madgascar / Home (Emad Soliman 63")

21 Apr 1985 / Madgascar 1:0 (2-3 P) Egypt

Third Round

12 Jul 1985 / Egypt 0:0 Morocco

28 Jul 1985 / Morocco 2:0 Egypt / Away

Qualified for World Cup 1990

Second Round

6 Jan 1989 / Egypt 2:0 Liberia / Home (Alaa Mayhoub 25' -Mohamed Ramadan 44')

21 Jan 1989 / Malawi 1:1 Egypt / Away (Hesham Abdel Rasoul 60') (Kayira)

10 Jun 1989 / Kenya 0:0 Egypt / Away

25 Jun 1989 / Liberia 1:0 Egypt / Away (Debah)

11 Aug 1989 / Egypt 1:0 Malawi / Home (Hesham Abdel Rasoul 28')

26 Aug 1989 / Egypt 2:0 Kenya / Home (Hesham A.Rasoul 58' / Ibrahim Hassan 62')

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Egypt	6	3	2	1	6	2	8
2	Liberia	6	2	2	2	2	3	6
3	Malawi	6	1	3	2	3	4	5
4	Kenya	6	1	3	2	2	4	5

Final Round

8 Oct 1989 / Algeria 0:0 Egypt / Away

17 Nov 1989 / Egypt 1:0 Algeria / Home (Hossam Hassan 4')

Player Participation

All 8 Games
Ahmed El Kass
Ahmed Shobair
Ibrahim Hassan
7 Games
Gamal Abdel Hamid
Hany Ramzy
Hesham Abdel Rasoul
6 Games
Ahmed Ramzy
Hossam Hassan
Magdi Abdel Ghani
5 Games
Ashraf Quassem
Rabei Yassin
4 Games
Hesham Yakan
3 Games
Badr Ragab
Saber Eid
Taher Abouzaid
Tarek Soliman
2 Games
Ayman Shawki
Yasser Farouk
1 Game
Alaa Mayoub
Ismail Youssef
Khaled Eid
Mohamed Abdel Azim "Azeema"
Mohamed Abdel Galil
Mohamed Ramadan

Player Who Missed the World Cup Squad

Hesham Abdel Rasoul "due to a major car accident"
Badr Ragab
Yasser Farouk
Khaled Eid
Mohamed Abdel Azim "Azeema"
Mohamed Abdel Galil
Mohamed Ramadan

World Cup 1994

First Round

Egypt was denied qualification being forced to a replay with Zimbabwe in Lyon, France . Game ended 0/0 while Egypt needed to repeat Cairo's discarded 2/1 win

11 Oct 1992 / Egypt 1:0 Angola / Home (Hossam Hassan 63')

25 Oct 1992 / Togo 1:4 Egypt / Away (Hossam Hassan 32', 89' Pen / Ayman Mansour 24' / Hani Ramzy 80' Pen)(Saliou 78')

20 Dec 1992 / Zimbabwe 2:1 Egypt / Away (Ahmed El-Kass 64') (P.Ndlovu 46' / A.Sawu 49')

18 Jan 1993 / Angola 0:0 Egypt / Away

31 Jan 1993 / Egypt 3:0 Togo / Home (Hossam Hassan 58' / Yasser Ezzat 83' / Ahmed El-Kass 89')

28 Feb 1993 / Egypt 2:1 Zimbabwe / Home (Ashraf Quasem 32' Pen / Hossam Hassan 40') (A. Sawu 5')

Replay Match : 15 Apr 1993 / Egypt 0:0 Zimbabwe / Neutral: Lyon (France)

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Egypt	6	4	1	1	11	4	9
2	Zimbabwe	6	4	1	1	9	6	9
3	Angola	5	1	2	2	3	4	4
4	Togo	5	0	0	5	2	11	0

World Cup 1998

Second Round Group 2

8 Nov 1996 / Egypt 7:1 Namibia / Home (Ali Maher 1", 15", 69" / Ahmed Hassan 11" / Ibrahim Hassan 34" / Hossam Hassan 72", 83")

12 Jan 1997 / Tunisia 1:0 Egypt / Away

6 Apr 1997 / Liberia 1:0 Egypt / Neutral in Ghana

26 Apr 1997 / Namibia 2:3 Egypt / Away (Hossam Hassan 77", 89" / Hady Khashaba 79" Pen)

8 Jun 1997 / Egypt 0:0 Tunisia / Home / World Cup Qualifiers

17 Aug 1997 / Egypt 5:0 Liberia / Home / World Cup Q. / (Hady Khashaba 21" Pen / Hesham Hanafy 24" / Abdel Sattar Sabry 46" / Samir Kamouna 68" / Hazem Emam 77")

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	Pts
1	Tunisia	6	4	2	0	14
2	Egypt	6	3	1	2	10
3	Liberia	6	2	2	2	8
4	Namibia	6	0	1	5	1

World Cup 2002

First Round

20 Apr 2000 / Egypt 2:0 Mauritius / Home (Mohamed Emara 14" / Mohamed Farouk 75")

23 Apr 2000 / Egypt 4:2 Mauritius / Home (Samir Kamouna 4" Pen / Mohamed Farouk 71", 73" / Walid Salah Salah Abdel Latif 90+2")

Second Round Group 3

9 Jul 2000 / Senegal 0:0 Egypt / Away

28 Jan 2001 / Egypt 0:0 Morocco / Home

24 Feb 2001 / Namibia 1:1 Egypt / Away (Ibrahim Said 89")

11 Mar 2001 / Egypt 5:2 Algeria / Home (Mohamed Barakat 6" / Abdel Sattar Sabry 16" / Abdel Zaher El-Saqua 38" / Tarek El-Said 88", 89")

6 May 2001 / Egypt 1:0 Senegal / Home (Ahmed Hossam "Mido" 38")

30 Jun 2001 / Morocco 1:0 Egypt / Away

13 July 2001 / Egypt 8:2 Namibia / Home (Tarek El-Said 4" / Mohamed Barakat 37", 72" / Abdel Hamid Bassiouny 39", 42" 44" / Mohamed Salah Abougreisha 77" / Abdel Sattar Sabry 87")

21 July 2001 / Algeria 1:1 Egypt / Away (Ahmed Hossam "Mido" 60" Pen)

R	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Senegal	8	4	3	1	14	2	15
1	Morocco	8	4	3	1	8	3	15
2	Egypt	8	3	4	1	16	7	13
4	Algeria	8	2	2	4	11	13	8
5	Namibia	8	0	2	6	3	26	2

World Cup & African Cup 2006

First team qualifiy to World Cup, first three teams other than Egypt (Host) qualify for African Cup

Second Round Group C

6 Jun 2004 / Sudan 0:3 Egypt / Away (Abdel Halim Ali 9' / Mohamed Aboutraika 52' / Mohamed Abdel Wahab 88')

20 Jun 2004 / Egypt 1:2 Cote d'Ivoire / Home (Mohamed Aboutraiaka 55')

4 Jul 2004 / Benin 3:3 Egypt / Away (Ahmed Hassan 65' / Mohamed Aboutraiaka 75' / Hassan Moustafa 80')

5 Sep 2004 / Egypt 3:2 Cameroon / Home (Mohamed Shawki 45' / Ahmed Hassan 73' (Pen) / Tarek El-Sayed 88')

8 Oct 2004 / Libya 2:1 Egypt / Away (Amr Zaki 51')

27 Mar 2005 / Egypt 4:1 Libya / Home (Ahmed Hossam "Mido" 55' / Emad Motean 56', 81' / Ahmed Hassan77')

5 Jun 2005 / Egypt 6:1 Sudan / Home (Abdel Halim Ali 8', 32' / Amr Zaki 29',50' / Tarek El-Sayed 63' / Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek 72')

19 Jun 2005 / Cote d'Ivoire:2:0 Egypt / Away

4 Sep 2005 / Egypt 4:1 Benin / Home (Amr Zaki 12', 16', 83' / Ahmed Hossam Mido 72')

9 Oct 2005 / Cameroon 1:1 Egypt / Away (Mohamed Shawki 79')

No	]Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Cote d'Ivoire	10	7	1	2	20	7	22	Qualified for World Cup & African Cup
2	Cameroon	10	6	3	1	18	10	21	Qualified for African Cup
3	Egypt	10	5	2	3	26	15	17	Host of African Cup
4	Libya	10	3	3	4	8	10	12	Qualified for African Cup
5	Sudan	10	1	3	6	6	22	6
6	Benin	10	1	2	7	9	23	5

World Cup & African Cup 2010

Second Round Group 12

01 Jun 2008 / Egypt 2:1 DR.Congo / Home-(Amr Zaki 69' / Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek 80')--&--Malawi 8:1 Djibouti

06 Jun 2008 / Djibouti 0:4 Egypt / Away-(Amr Zaki 40' / Hosni Abd Rabbou 47' Pen / Ahmed Hassan 55' / Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek 65')--&--RD.Congo 1:0 Malawi

14 Jun 2008 / Malawi 1:0 Egypt / Away--&--Djibouti 0:6 RD.Congo

22 Jun 2008 / Egypt 2:0 Malawi / Home-(Emad Moteab 17', 50')--&--RD.Congo 5:1 Djibouti

07 Sep 2008 / RD.Congo 0:1 Egypt / Away--(Mohamed Aboutraika 31')--&--Djibouti 0:3 Malawi

10 Oct 2008 / Egypt 4:0 Djibouti--(Emad Moteab 19' / Ahmed Hassan 50' / Mohamed Aboutraika 66' / Own Goal "Reyadh Said" 90') / Home--&--Malawi 2:1 RD.Congo

R	Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pnts
1	Egypt	6	5	0	1	13	2	15
2	Malawi	6	4	0	2	14	5	12
3	DR. Congo	6	3	0	3	14	6	9
4	Djibouti	6	0	0	6	2	30	0

Final Round Group C (First team qualifies for World Cup and first 3 teams for African Cup of Nations)

29 Mar 2009 / Egypt 1:1 Zambia--(Amr Zaki 27')

7 Jun 2009 / Algeria 3:1 Egypt -(Mohamed Aboutraika 87")

5 Jul 2009 / Egypt 3:0 Rwanda -(Mohamed Aboutraika 66', 90+4" / Hosni Abd Rabbou 77" Pen)

5 Sep 2009 / Rwanda 0:1 Egypt -(Ahmed Hassan 67')

10 Oct 2009 / Zambia 0:1 Egypt-(Hosni Abd Rabbou 69")

14 Nov 2009 / Egypt 2:0 Algeria-(Amr Zaki 2" / Emad Moteab 90+5")

R	Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pnts
1	Egypt	6	4	1	1	9	4	13
1	Algeria	6	4	1	1	9	4	13
3	Zambia	6	1	2	3	2	5	5
4	Rwanda	6	0	2	4	1	8	2

Qualification Playoff in SUDAN

18 Nov 2009 / Egypt 0:1 Algeria

World Cup 2014

Second Round Group 7

1 Jun 2012 / Egypt 2:0 Mozambique (Mahmoud Fathallah 56" / Mohamed Zidan 68")

10 Jun 2012 / Guinea 2:3 Egypt (Mohamed Aboutraika 58", 67" Pen / Mohamed Salah 90+5")

26 Mar 2013 / Egypt 2:1 Zimbabwe (Hosni Abd Rabbou 64" / Mohamed Aboutraika 87" Pen)

9 Jun 2013 / Zimbabwe 2:4 Egypt (Mohamed Aboutraika 5" / Mohamed Salah 41", 76", 83")

16 Jun 2013 / Mozambique 0:1 Egypt (Mohamed Salah 40")

10 Sep 2013 / Egypt 4:2 Guinea (Hossam Ghali 38" / Mohamed Aboutraika 51" Pen / Mohamed Salah 83" / Amr Zaki 87")

Final Playoff

15 Oct 2013 / Ghana 6:1 Egypt (Mohamed Aboutraika 41" Pen)

19 Nov 2013 / Egypt 2:1 Ghana (Amr Zaki 25" / Mohamed Nagui "Geddo" 84")

Qualified for World Cup 2018

Round 1

14 Nov 2015 / Chad 1:0 Egypt

17 Nov 2015 / Egypt 4:0 Chad (Mohamed El-Nenni 5" / Abdullah El-Said 10" / Ahmed Hassan "Koka" 36", 40")

Final Round (Group E)

3 Oct 2016 / Congo 1:2 Egypt / Away / (Mohamed Salah 41" / Abdullah El-Said 58")

13 Nov 2016 / Egypt 2:0 Ghana / Home / (Mohamed Salah 43" Pen / Abdullah El-Said 86")

31 Aug 2017 / Uganda 1:0 Egypt / Away

5 Sep 2017 / Egypt 1:0 Uganda / Home / (Mohamed Salah 6")

8 Oct 2017 / Egypt 2:1 Congo / Home / (Mohamed Salah 63", 90+4" Pen)

6 Nov 2017 / Ghana 1:1 Egypt / Away / (Mahmoud Abdel Razek "Shikabala" 61")

R	Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pnts
1	Egypt (Q)	6	4	1	1	8	4	13
2	Uganda	6	2	3	1	3	2	9
3	Ghana	6	1	4	1	7	5	7
4	Congo	6	0	2	4	5	12	2

World Cup 2022

Round 2 (Group F)

1 Sep 2021 / Egypt 1:0 Angola / Home / (Mohamed Magdi "Afsha" 5" Pen)

5 Sep 2021 / Gabon 1:1 Egypt / Away / (Moustafa Mohamed 90")

8 Oct 2021 / Egypt 1:0 Libya / Home / (Omar Marmoush 49")

11 Oct 2021 / Libya 0:3 Egypt / Away / (Ahmed Aboul Fotouh 40" / Moustafa Mohamed 45+4" / Ramadan Sobhi 72")

12 Nov 2021 / Angola 2:2 Egypt / Away / (Mohamed El-Nenni 45+1" / Akram Tawfik 59")

16 Nov 2021 / Egypt 2:1 Gabon / Home / (Mohamed Magdi "Afsha" 4" Pen / Own Goal "Johann Obiang" 74")

R	Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pnts
1	Egypt (Q)	6	4	2	0	10	4	14
2	Gabon	6	2	1	3	7	8	7
3	Libya	6	2	1	3	4	7	7
4	Angola	6	1	2	3	6	8	5

Final Round

25 Mar 2022 / Egypt 1:0 Senegal / Home / (Own Goal "Saliou Ciss" 4")

29 Mar 2022 / Senegal 1:0 (E.T.) (3-1 P) Egypt / Away

Egyptian National Team Scorers in World Cup Qualifiers Last updated 29-3-2022
Player	Goals Scored
Mohamed Aboutraika	14
Amr Zaki	12
Mohamed Salah	11
Hossam Hassan	10
Ahmed Hassan	7
Emad Moteab	6
Mahmoud El-Khateeb	6
Mahmoud Mokhtar El-Tetch	5
Ahmed Hossam "Mido"	4
Hosni Abd Rabbou	4
Abdel Halim Ali	3
Abdel Sattar Sabry	3
Abdullah El-Said	3
Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek	3
Ali Maher	3
Hesham Abdel Rasoul	3
Mohamed Barakat	3
Mohamed Farouk	3
Mohamed Latif	3
Moustafa Abdou	3
Tarek El-Said	3
Abdel Hamid Bassiouny	3
Ahmed El-Kass	2
Ahmed Hassan "Koka"	2
Alaa Mayhoub	2
Ali Khalil	2
Emad Soliman	2
Farouk Gaafar	2
Hady Khashaba	2
Ibrahim Hassan	2
Mohamed El-Nenni	2
Mohamed Magdi "Afsha"	2
Mohamed Shawki	2
Moustafa Kamel Taha	2
Moustafa Mohamed	2
Samir Kamouna	2
Tarek El-Sayed	2
Abdel Rahman Fawzy	1
Abdel Zaher El-Saqua	1
Ahmed Abdel Baquy	1
Ahmed Aboul Fotouh	1
Akram Tawfik	1
Alaa El-Hamouly	1
Ashraf Quassem	1
Ayman Mansour	1
Hani Ramzy	1
Hassan Moustafa	1
Hazem Emam	1
Hesham Hanafy	1
Hossam Ghali	1
Ibrahim Said	1
Mahmoud Abdel Razek "Shikabala"	1
Mahmoud Fathallah	1
Mohamed Abdel Wahab	1
Mohamed Abdullah "Hamama"	1
Mohamed Diab El-Attar "Diba"	1
Mohamed Emara	1
Mohamed Nagui "Geddo"	1
Mohamed Ramadan	1
Mohamed Salah Abougreisha	1
Mohamed Zidan	1
Mokhtar Mokhtar	1
Omar Marmoush	1
Ramadan Sobhi	1
Sayed Abdel Razek "Bazouka"	1
Walid Salah Salah Abdel Latif	1
Yasser Ezzat	1
Own Goals	3
	178

Egypt's Record in World Cup Finals

Played	Won	Draws	Lost	Goals Scored	Goals Against
7	0	2	5	5	12

Player Stats - Scorers

World Cup 1934 - Italy (Details)

1/8th Final

Hungary 4/2 Egypt (Abdel Rahman Fawzi 2

World Cup 1990 - Italy (Details)

First Round Group F

Egypt 1/1 Holland (Magdi Abdel Ghani -83" Pen)

Egypt 0/0 Ireland

Egypt 0/1 England

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	England (Q)	3	1	2	0	2	1	4
2	Ireland (Q)	3	0	3	0	2	2	3
3	Holland (Q)	3	0	3	0	2	2	3
4	Egypt	3	0	2	1	1	2	2

World Cup 2018 - Russia (Details)

First Round Group H

Egypt 0/1 Uruguay

Russia 3/1 Egypt (Mohamed Salah -73" Pen)

Egypt 1/2 Saudi Arabia (Mohamed Salah -22")

Rank	Country	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	Pts
1	Uruguay (Q)	3	3	0	0	5	0	9
2	Russia (Q)	3	2	0	1	8	4	6
3	Saudi Arabia	3	1	0	2	2	7	3
4	Egypt	3	0	0	3	2	6	0

Egyptian Refrees in Mondials

Referees

Egyptian Refrees in World Cup	Year of Mondial
1-Youssef Mohamed	Italy 1934
2-Ali Kandeel (Twice)	England 1966 - Mexico 1970
3-Mostafa Kamel Mahmoud	West Germany 1974
4-Gamal El-Ghandour	France 1998 & Korea/Japan 2002
5- Essam Abdel Fattah	Germany 2006
6- Gehad Graisha	Russia 2018

Assistant Referees

Egyptian Assitant Refrees in World Cup	Year of Mondial
1-Wagih Ahmed	Korea/Japan 2002