El Ittihad Alexandria

"Alexandrian Union" redirects here. For the basketball team, see El Ittihad Alexandria (basketball).

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 (1914-08-04)
Ground	Alexandria Stadium Alexandria, Egypt
Ground Capacity	13,660
Chairman	Mahmoud Mashaly
Manager	Leonel Pontes
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 team 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	0–31	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 11 October 2015.

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 MF Abdel Rahman Farouk 5 DF Ahmad Sayed 6 DF Amr Nabil 7 DF Mahmoud Farag 8 DF Mohamed Adel 9 MF Hesham Shehata 10 DF Mohamed Saïd 11 DF Ahmed Nassr 12 MF Ahmed Hamada 27 MF Youssef Obama 17 MF Basem Eid 19 FW Tarek Salim 20 DF Hany Saïd 23 MF Ramadan Ahmed

No. Position Player 26 GK Amr Mahmoud 29 MF Khamis Hosny 30 FW Paulo César 31 MF Mohamed Ahmed 32 DF Mahmoud Shaban 33 FW Akram Abd Rabo 34 GK Mahmoud Al Sayed 35 FW Patrick Ngoma 36 MF Hassan Tarek 37 MF Yousef Mohamed 39 MF Ashour El Adham 40 FW Mostafa Gaber 41 MF Mohamed Al Sayed 50 DF Omar Yehia 51 FW Luís Soares

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 –

See also

• Egyptian Premier League
• Egypt Cup
• Sultan Hussein Cup

External links

• Official site