Egypt national under-23 football team

Egypt U-23
Nickname(s)	الفراعنة (The Pharaohs)
Association	Egyptian Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	UNAF (North Africa)
Head coach	Shawky Gharieb
Home stadium	Cairo International Stadium
FIFA code	EGY
First colours	Second colours
Olympic Games
Appearances	11 (first in 1920)
Best result	Fourth Place (1928, 1964)
Africa U-23 Cup of Nations
Appearances	3 (first in 2011)
Best result	Winners (2019)
African Games
Appearances	7 (first in 1973)
Best result	Gold Medal (1987, 1995)

The Egypt national under-23 football team (Arabic: منتخب مصر الأوليمبى), nicknamed The Pharaohs (Arabic: الفراعنة), is the national team of Egypt Under-23 and is administered by the Egyptian Football Association. The team's main objectives are to qualify and play at the All-Africa Games and Olympic Games. As of Tokyo 2020, players need to be born on or after 1 January 1997 but the team may be supplemented with 3 over-age players.

They have qualified for the Olympics games 15 times- a record for the African Continent.

History

Egypt's history in Olympic football is one of the longest outside of Europe. The team's first appearance was in Antwerp where they played one match against Italy. This was the first official international match for the Pharaohs as they lost 2-1 on August 20, 1920. Egypt would later qualify for 9 straight tournaments from 1920 to 1964. The Pharaohs achieved Fourth Place in Amsterdam 1928 and Tokyo 1964. This means that Egypt is the best team that never won a medal at the Olympics (most 4th place finishes without a higher finish).

However, since FIFA decided to make the Olympic football an under 23-year tournament, Egypt has only qualified thrice (Barcelona 1992, London 2012 and Tokyo 2020), reaching the quarterfinals in 2012.

Egypt qualified to the 2012 Olympics after beating Senegal in the Bronze Metal Match. They missed out on the 2016 Olympics but reached the 2020 Olympics.

Competitive records

Olympic Games record

Football at the Olympic Games
Appearances: 12								Qualified : 14
Year/Host	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Athens 1896	No football tournament
Paris 1900 - Stockholm 1912	Did Not Participate
Antwerp 1920	First round	1	0	0	1	1	2	No Qualification
Paris 1924	Quarter-final	2	1	0	1	3	5
Amsterdam 1928	Fourth Place	4	2	0	2	12	19
Los Angeles 1932	No football tournament
Berlin 1936	First Round	1	0	0	1	1	3	No Qualification
London 1948	First Round	1	0	0	1	1	3
Helsinki 1952	First Round	2	1	0	1	6	7
Melbourne 1956	Withdrew from Finals							2	2	0	0	9	3
Roma 1960	First Round	3	0	1	2	4	11	4	3	0	1	11	5
Tokyo 1964	Fourth Place	6	2	1	3	18	16	4	3	1	0	14	6
Mexico 1968	Withdrew from Qualifiers
Munich 1972	Did Not Qualify							2	1	0	1	2	3
Montreal 1976	Did Not Qualify							2	0	1	1	1	2
Moscow 1980	Withdrew from Finals							4	1	3	0	7	4
Los Angeles 1984	Quarter-final	4	1	1	2	5	5	6	3	2	1	6	3
Seoul 1988	Did Not Qualify							4	2	1	1	7	2
Total	9/19	24	7	3	14	51	71	28	15	8	5	57	28
Barcelona 1992	First Round	3	1	0	2	5	6	6	4	2	0	11	3
Atlanta 1996	Did Not Qualify							4	2	1	1	5	4
Sydney 2000								8	4	3	1	15	9
Athens 2004								6	0	0	6	1	13
Beijing 2008								4	1	2	1	6	4
London 2012	Quarter-final	4	1	1	2	6	8	9	5	1	3	12	6
Rio de Janeiro 2016	Did Not Qualify							1	1	0	0	4	0
Tokyo 2020	Qualified
Total	2/6	7	2	1	4	11	14	37	16	9	12	54	39

Prior to the 1992 Olympic Games campaign, the Olympic football tournament was open to full senior national teams.
Egypt withdrew from the 1956 Football tournament and boycotted the 1980 Olympics after qualifying for both.

All-Africa Games record

All-Africa Games
Appearances: 7
Year/Host	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Brazzaville 1965	Did not qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lagos 1973	Bronze Medal	5	3	0	2	12	12
Algiers 1978	Withdrew after Round 1	3	2	1	0	6	2
Nairobi 1987	Gold Medal	5	3	1	1	7	5
Cairo 1991	Fifth Place	4	1	1	2	5	6
Harare 1995	Gold Medal	5	4	0	1	8	3
Johannesburg 1999	Didn't qualify
Abuja 2003	Group Stage	3	0	0	3	2	6
Algiers 2007	Group Stage	3	0	0	3	4	8
Maputo 2011	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-
Brazzaville 2015	Withdrew	-	-	-	-	-	-

Total	7/11	28	13	3	12	44	39

Prior to the Cairo 1991 campaign, the All-Africa Games was open to full senior national teams

Africa U-23 Cup of Nations

Africa U-23 Cup of Nations
Appearances: 3
Year/Host	Round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
Morocco 2011	Bronze Medal	5	3	0	2	7	4
Senegal 2015	Group Stage	3	0	2	1	3	4
Egypt 2019	Champions	5	5	0	0	11	4
Total	3/3	12	7	2	3	19	11

Current squad and recent call ups

Current squad

Coach: Shawky Gharieb

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Omar Radwan	(1997-07-31)31 July 1997 (aged 22)	El Gouna
2	4FW	Amar Hamdy	(1999-03-07)7 March 1999 (aged 20)	Al Ahly
3	2DF	Mahmoud Saber	(1998-02-20)20 February 1998 (aged 21)	El Gouna
4	2DF	Osama Galal	(1997-09-17)17 September 1997 (aged 22)	ENPPI
5	2DF	Mohamed Abdel Salam	(1997-10-01)1 October 1997 (aged 22)	Zamalek
6	3MF	Mohamed Sadek	(1997-07-06)6 July 1997 (aged 22)	Ismaily
7	4FW	Salah Mohsen	(1998-09-01)1 September 1998 (aged 21)	Al Ahly
8	3MF	Nasser Maher	(1997-02-08)8 February 1997 (aged 22)	Smouha
9	4FW	Nasser Mansi	(1997-11-16)16 November 1997 (aged 21)	Tala'ea El Gaish
10	3MF	Ramadan Sobhi	(1997-01-23)23 January 1997 (aged 22)	Al Ahly
11	4FW	Mostafa Mohamed	(1997-11-28)28 November 1997 (aged 21)	Zamalek
12	3MF	Akram Tawfik	(1997-11-08)8 November 1997 (aged 22)	El Gouna
13	2DF	Karim El-Eraky	(1997-11-29)29 November 1997 (aged 21)	Al Masry
14	4FW	Ahmed Yasser Rayyan	(1998-01-01)1 January 1998 (aged 21)	El Gouna
15	4FW	Emam Ashour	(1998-02-20)20 February 1998 (aged 21)	Zamalek
16	1GK	Omar Salah	(1998-01-10)10 January 1998 (aged 21)	Smouha
17	2DF	Ahmed Ramadan	(1997-03-23)23 March 1997 (aged 22)	Wadi Degla
18	3MF	Ghanam Mohamed	(1997-03-12)12 March 1997 (aged 22)	El Entag El Harby
19	3MF	Abdel Rahman Magdy	(1997-09-12)12 September 1997 (aged 22)	Ismaily
20	2DF	Ahmed Abou El Fotouh	(1998-03-22)22 March 1998 (aged 21)	Smouha
21	1GK	Mohamed Sobhy	(1999-07-15)15 July 1999 (aged 20)	Zamalek

Recent results and forthcoming fixtures

Matches played in last 12 months, as well as any future scheduled matches.

2019

8 March International Friendly	Egypt	2–0	Malawi	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Gamal 45+2' (pen.) El Gohary 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Referee: Mohamed El Hanafy (Egypt)

22 March International Friendly	Egypt	2–0	United States	Murcia, Spain
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Rayyan 40' Sadek 80'	Report		Stadium: Pinatar Arena

26 March International Friendly	Egypt	0–1	Netherlands U-21	Murcia, Spain
15:00 CET (UTC+1)		Report	Gakpo 54'	Stadium: Pinatar Arena Referee: Salvador Lax Franco (Spain)

9 June International Friendly	Uzbekistan	2–0	Egypt	Andijan, Uzbekistan
18:00 UZST (UTC+5)	Abdukhalikov 32' Ganiev 90+3'	Report		Stadium: Soghlom Avlod Stadium

11 June International Friendly	Uzbekistan	3–2	Egypt	Andijan, Uzbekistan
18:30 UZST (UTC+5)	Kobilov 17' (pen.) Ganiev 49' Abdukhalikov 66'	Report	Abdel Salam 82' Rayyan 90+2'	Stadium: Soghlom Avlod Stadium

7 September International Friendly	Egypt	4–1	Saudi Arabia	Suez, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Taher 3' (pen.) Ramadan 13' (pen.) Abou El Fotouh 26' Mohsen 49'	Report	Al Amri 30'	Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour (Egypt)

10 September International Friendly	Egypt	1–0	Saudi Arabia	Cairo, Egypt
19:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Galal 6'	Report		Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)

11 October International Friendly	Egypt	1–1	South Africa	Ismailia, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Rayyan 10'	Report	Malepe 16' (pen.)	Stadium: Ismailia Stadium Referee: Mohamed Maarouf (Egypt)

13 October International Friendly	Egypt	1–0	South Africa	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Ramadan 29' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

8 November 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations Group A	Egypt	1–0	Mali	Cairo, Egypt
19:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Mostafa 29'	Report		Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Georges Gatogato (Burundi)

11 November 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations Group A	Ghana	2–3	Egypt	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Yeboah 6' Obeng 46'	Report	Mostafa 17' Ramadan 82' Rayyan 88'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Daouda Guèye (Senegal)

14 November 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations Group A	Egypt	2–1	Cameroon	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Mostafa 28', 51'	Report	Ayuk 38'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Andofetra Rakotojaona (Madagascar)

19 November 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations Semi-finals	Egypt	3–0	South Africa	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	Ramadan 59' (pen.) Magdy 84', 89'	Report		Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Daouda Guèye (Senegal)

22 November 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations Final	Egypt	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Ivory Coast	Cairo, Egypt
20:00 CAT (UTC+2)	El Eraky 37' Ramadan 114'	Report	Doumbia 89'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Andofetra Rakotojaona (Madagascar)

2020

25 March 2020 (2020-03-25) 2020 Afro-Asian U-23 Champions Cup	South Korea	v	Egypt	Sangju, South Korea
				Stadium: Sangju Civic Stadium

29 March 2020 (2020-03-29) 2020 Afro-Asian U-23 Champions Cup	Egypt	v	South Korea	Cairo, Egypt
				Stadium: Cairo International Stadium

Former squads

References