2009–10 Al Ahly SC season

The 2009–10 Al Ahly SC season was the 53rd edition in the Egyptian Premier League. Al-Ahly was looking to defend their fifth title in a row.

Al-Ahly

2009–10 season
Chairman	Hassan Hamdy
Manager	Hossam El-Badry
Egyptian Premier League	1st
Egypt Cup 2010	Round of 16
Egyptian Super Cup 2009	Runners-up
CAF Champions League	Semi-finals
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Pre-season games

Al-Ahly announced that the six fixtures of their 2009 pre-season would be in Germany and England.^[1] On July 3, 2009, Al-Ahly played their first pre-season match in Gelsenkirchen, Germany against FC Gelsenkirchen.^[2] Later that day, Al-Ahly also played their first match of the Zayton Cup against the Turkish team Galatasaray, and 3 days later they played the German Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The last match was on July 11 against the Moroccan team Wydad Casablanca.^[3] After their match against Haras El Hodood in the Egyptian Super Cup, Al-Ahly's 23 players went to London to play in the Wembley Cup against Celtic and Barcelona on 24th and 26 July.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F - A	Scorers
3 July 2009	FC Gelsenkirchen	A Gelsenkirchen	5 - 0[2]	3 Ahmed 'Manga' Nabil, Hany El-Agazy, Osama Hosny
5 July 2009	Galatasaray	A LTU Arena	0 - 1[4]	Barış Özbek (P) 33'
24 July 2009	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	A LTU Arena	0 - 2[4]	Burak Kaplan 3', Tranquillo Barnetta 90'
11 July 2009	Wydad Casablanca	A LTU Arena	2 - 0[4]	Mostafa Shebeita (P) 40', Mohamed Samir (P) 52'
24 July 2009	Celtic	A Wembley	0 - 5[5]	Massimo Donati 31', Scott McDonald 2 38'(P) 59', Shaun Maloney 49', Chris Killen 83'
26 July 2009	Barcelona	A Wembley	1 - 4[5]	Bojan Krkic 16', Hany El-Agazy 31', José Manuel Rueda 41', Jeffrén Suárez 56', Pedro 67'

Egyptian Super Cup

Main article: Egyptian Super Cup

As the Egyptian Premier League 2008–09 champions, Al-Ahly kicked off the 2009–10 season with the traditional match in the Egyptian Super Cup against 2009 Egypt Cup champion Haras El Hodood on July 21.

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers
21 July 2009	Haras El Hodood	N	0 - 2[6]	Ahmed Hassan Mekky 5', Ahmed Abdel-Ghani 85'

Egyptian Premier League

Al-Ahly's opening game of the Egyptian Premier League 2009–10 was on August 6 against Ghazl El-Mehalla. Al-Ahly's coach Hossam El-Badry, who took over the club following the departure of Portuguese Manuel José at the end of the previous season, employed an unusual 4-4-2 formation. Despite the bad opening of the season in the super cup defeat against Haras El Hodood Al-Ahly beat Ghazl El-Mehalla 2–0. Ahmed Hassan made the opening score after 40 minutes and Francis Doe brought the score up to two 66 minutes into his Egyptian Premier League debut.^[7] The next game was a narrow 2–1 win over Ittihad El-Shorta in an unbroadcast game on 19 August. Former Ahly player Ahmed Galal scored the first goal of the game after 31 minutes, but 4 minutes later Ahly's player Ahmed Hassan scored equalizing the score. In the second-half substitute Hussein Yasser scored Al-Ahly's second goal in the 80th minute to secure Ahly's second win of the season.^[8]

On 23 August, Al-Ahly played their third match of the season against Haras El Hodood in a 1–1 draw, Haras El Hodood player Ahmed Salama scored the opener 69 minutes in and Ahmed Hassan scored the equalizer nine minutes later.^[9]

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	League position
6 August 2009	Ghazl El-Mehalla	H	2 - 0[7]	Ahmed Hassan 40', Francis Doe 60'	2nd
19 August 2009	Ittihad El-Shorta	A	1 - 2[8]	Ahmed Galal 31', Ahmed Hassan 34', Hussein Yasser 80'	2nd
23 August 2009	Haras El Hodood	H	1 - 1[9]	Ahmed Salama 69', Ahmed Hassan 78'	2nd

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Ahly (C)	30	18	11	1	47	23	+24	65	2011 CAF Champions League
2	Zamalek	30	16	7	7	43	26	+17	55
3	Ismaily	30	11	15	4	34	25	+9	48	2011 CAF Confederation Cup
4	Petrojet	30	13	8	9	42	37	+5	47[a]
5	Police Union	30	12	11	7	35	24	+11	47[a]

Source: FIFA.com
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. Petrojet and Police Union are ranked based on the results of the two matches played between them.

CAF Champions League

Group stage

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
JS Kabylie	6	4	2	0	6	2	+4	14
Al-Ahly	6	2	2	2	8	9	−1	8
Ismaily	6	2	0	4	7	8	−1	6
Heartland	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

18 July 2010

15:00 UTC+1

Heartland	1 – 1	Al-Ahly
Bello Musa Kofarmata 49'	[10]	Mohamed Aboutrika 75' (pen.)

Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri

Referee: Badara Diatta (Senegal)

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1 August 2010

20:30 UTC+3

Al-Ahly	2 – 1	Ismaily
Mohamed Talaat 58' Wael Gomaa 90+3'		Mohamed Abougrisha 80'

Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Koman Coulibaly (Mali)

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15 August 2010

22:00 UTC+1

JS Kabylie	1 – 0	Al-Ahly
Mohamed Khoutir-Ziti 25'

Stade 1er Novembre, Tizi Ouzou

Referee: Kokou Djaoupe (Togo)

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29 August 2010

21:30 UTC+2

Al-Ahly	1 – 1	JS Kabylie
Gedo 22'		Saad Tedjar 29'

Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Kaoma Wellington (Zambia)

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12 September 2010

20:00 UTC+3

Al-Ahly	2 – 1	Heartland
Ahmed Fathy 20' Mohamed Fadl 48'		Emmanuel Nwachi 56'

Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Amanuel Ayob Russom (Eritrea)

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19 September 2010

18:00 UTC+3

Ismaily	4 – 2	Al-Ahly
Abdallah El-Shahat 5' Ahmed Ali 36', 74' Moatasem Salem 70'		Mohamed Barakat 35' Mohamed Talaat 87'

Ismailia Stadium, Ismailia

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

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Semi-finals

3 October 2010

19:30 UTC+2

Al-Ahly	2 – 1	Espérance ST
Ashour  34' Fadl 38' Shehab El Din  52' Fathy 68'		Ayman Bin Amor  36' Hechri  71' Darragi 72'

Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee: El Raay Adel (Libya)

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17 October 2010

19:30 UTC+1

Espérance ST	1 – 0	Al-Ahly
Eneramo 1' Traoui 63' Darragi 75'		Ashour  11' Sherif Abdel-Fadil  28' Barakat  30' Gomaa  34' Ghaly  52'

Stade 7 November, Rades

Referee: Joseph Lamptey (Ghana)

Ahly 2–2 Espérance on aggregate. Espérance won on away goals rule and advances to the 2010 CAF Champions League final.

2009–2010 Squad

As September 12, 2009. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  EGY Amir Abdelhamid 2 DF  EGY Mohamed Samir 3 MF  EGY Wael Shafik 4 DF  EGY Ateya El-Belqasy 5 DF  EGY Ahmad El-Sayed 6 DF  EGY Sherif Abdel-Fadil 7 FW  EGY Mohamed Fadl 8 MF  EGY Mohamed Barakat 9 FW  EGY Emad Moteab 10 FW  EGY Ahmed Belal (Captain) 12 MF  ANG Gilberto 14 DF  EGY Sayed Moawad 15 DF  EGY Ahmed Ali 16 FW  EGY Mohamed Talaat 17 MF  EGY Ahmed Hassan 18 FW  EGY Osama Hosny (Vice-captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 DF  EGY Abdullah Farouk 20 DF  EGY Mohamed Khalaf 21 GK  PLE Ramzi Saleh 22 MF  EGY Mohamed Aboutrika 23 MF  EGY Mostafa Shebeita 24 MF  EGY Ahmed Fathy 25 MF  EGY Hossam Ashour 26 DF  EGY Wael Gomaa 27 MF  EGY Moataz Eno 28 GK  EGY Ahmed Adel Abd El-Moneam 29 FW  LBR Francis Doe 30 FW  EGY Hany El-Agazy 31 MF  ALG Amir Sayoud — MF  EGY Alaa Shaaban

Transfers

• Players in / out

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee / Note
13 May 2009	DF	Mohamed Khalaf	Al-Nasr Cairo
15 May 2009	DF	Wael Shafik	Semouha
22 May 2009	DF	Ateya El-Belqasy	Olympi	Undisclosed
31 May 2009	FW	Mohamed Fadl	Ismaily	Free agent
23 June 2009	MF	Amir Saayoud	Al-Ahli Dubai	Undisclosed
25 June 2009	MF	Alaa Shaaban	El Hammam	Undisclosed
01 July 2009	FW	Emad Moteab	Al-Ittihad	Loan return
14 July 2009	FW	Francis Doe	D.C. United	Undisclosed
31 July 2009	DF	Sherif Abdel-Fadil	Ismaily	€0.2m + Ahmad Sedik
1 January 2010	GK	Sherif Ekramy	El Gouna

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee / Note
25 May 2009	DF	Abdel Hamid Ahmed	El Gouna	Loan return
1 June 2009	FW	Flávio Amado	Al-Shabab	€2.75m
4 June 2009	DF	Emad El-Nahhas		Retired
4 June 2009	DF	Shady Mohamed	Ittihad	Free agent
16 June 2009	DF	Ramy Adel	El Gouna	Undisclosed
16 June 2009	FW	Ahmed Hassan Farag	El-Shorta	€0.25m
24 June 2009	MF	Hassan Mostafa	Zamalek	Free agent
25 June 2009	MF	Hussein Ali	El Gouna	€0.25m
31 July 2009	MF	Ahmad Sedik	Ismaily	In Sherif Abdel-Fadil deal
27 January 2010	MF	Hussein Yasser	Zamalek	Free agent

See also

• Al-Ahly