The Egyptian Super Cup is Egyptian football's annual match contested between the champions of the Egyptian Premier League season and the holders of the Egypt Cup. If the Egyptian Premier League champions also won the Egypt Cup then the cup runners-up provide the opposition.
For the first time in 14 years, since the launch of the local Egyptian Super Cup in 2001, the game will be held outside of Egypt.
Al-Zamalek FC won the first super cup title. It was also the first team to win the Egyptian Cup in the 1921/1922 season. Al-Zamalek also won its second super cup title in 2002, the last cup it won. Al-Zamalek’s third super cup game was in 2003. In 2004, Al-Zamalek played against the Arab Contractors team once again. At the time, the latter surprised everyone and beat Al-Zamalek 4-2.
In 2005, Al-Ahly began to take full control over this local tournament, and it also dominated most domestic and continental championships. The team was nicknamed the “club of the century” in Africa. During this season, Al-Ahly beat ENPPI 1-0 after playing for extra time. Al-Ahly lost a Super Cup match only once, so far, in 2009, when playing against Haras El-Hodood. One year later, Al-Ahly took its revenge and beat Haras El-Hodood in 2010. The next season, in 2012, Al-Ahly won again, this time against ENPPI. Al-Ahly Ultras fans tried to prevent the 2012 game from taking place after the famous incident of Port Said.
Al-Ahly is a leader in the tournament, in which it played nine times. The football club won eight times and only lost once. As mentioned earlier, Al-Ahly has the largest participation record in the Super Cup, with eight wins and a single loss, a success rate of approximately 89%. It is followed by Al-Zamalek, which participated six times, of which it won twice. ENPPI is the third biggest participant in the Egyptian Super Cup. ENPPI participated three times, and lost all matches. Ironically, they were all against Al-Ahly (2005, 2006, 2012). Arab Contractors and Haras El-Hodood both participated twice in the Super Cup. Each won one game. Arab contractors won against Al-Zamalek, and lost the other game against the same team. Haras El-Hodood won once against Al-Ahly and lost to the same team the second time. Only seven teams participated in the 12 rounds of the Egyptian Super Cup.
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Al-Ahly dominated most tournaments during the period, between 2001 and 2015. Al-Zamalek was, as usual, the runner up. Penalties were held in three games. During the 12 Super Cup games, 22 goals were scored, an average of at least two goals in each match. Al-Ahly, of course, is the highest scoring team, as it scored eight times and received four goals. Al-Zamalek, on the other hand, scored five goals, totalling seven goals over six games. The biggest win was in favour of the Arab Contractors (4-2) at the expense of Al-Zamalek.
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Here's a summary of team performances in the Egyptian Super Cup:
| Team | Participations | Wins | Losses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Ahly | 9 | 8 | 1 |
| Al-Zamalek | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| ENPPI | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Arab Contractors | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Haras El-Hodood | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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Al-Ahly, Egyptian professional football (soccer) club based in Cairo. Al-Ahly is one of Africa’s most successful and best-supported football clubs. The team is nicknamed the “Red Devils” for its red jerseys. In December 2000 the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) awarded Al-Ahly the title of African Club of the Century. Al-Ahly was formed in 1907 as a sports club for Egyptian high-school students. Egypt was occupied by British forces at the time, and an Englishman, Mitchel Ince, was the club’s first president. The club took part in local and regional competitions, including the Sultan Hussein Cup, which was contested from 1917 until 1938. Al-Ahly won that competition seven times.
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The Egyptian League (now called the Egyptian Premier League) began in the 1948-49 season, and Al-Ahly won the league’s first title. It would not lose a league championship until 1960, when Al-Ahly’s fiercest rival, Zamalek SC, won its own first league title. In total, Al-Ahly has won 42 Egyptian league championships, including eight in a row, beginning with the 2004-05 season. It has also won the Egypt Cup 36 times and the Egyptian Super Cup (a newer competition started in 2001 and played between the winners of the Egyptian Premier League and the winners of the Egypt Cup) a record 11 times. Al-Ahly used to play in the relatively small Mokhtar El-Tetsh Stadium but now uses Cairo International Stadium, which seats more than 74,000 spectators. The club shares the stadium with Zamalek SC. Games between the two sides are often extremely tense and watched by football fans from all over Egypt. In February 2012 Al-Ahly’s passionate fans (known as the “Ultras”) were at the centre of one of the deadliest disasters in football history.
Immediately following a 3-1 loss to the Al-Masry club in Port Said, Al-Masry fans stormed the pitch and opposing stands, and 74 people died in the attack and subsequent rush to the stadium exits. Many suspected that the attack was organized and politically motivated, as it took place nearly one year after a notable clash during the Egypt uprising of 2011-a number of Al-Ahly Ultras had been prominent protesters in Tahrir Square against the Hosni Mubarak regime-and many of the storming Al-Masry fans were armed with weapons (including knives, swords, and clubs). As a result of the riot, the remainder of the 2011-12 Egyptian Premier League season was canceled.
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