2020–21 Egypt Cup

The 2020–21 Egypt Cup was the 89th edition of the oldest recognised football tournament in Africa. It is sponsored by Tiger Chips, and known as the Tiger Egypt Cup for sponsorship purposes. It started with the First Preliminary Round on 12 January 2021, and concluded with the final on 21 July 2022.

2020–21 Egypt Cup

Tournament details
Country	Egypt
Dates	12 January – 6 February 2021 (qualifying competition) 11 February – 19 October 2021 (main competition)
Teams	174 (overall) 156 (qualifying competition) 32 (main competition)
Defending champions	Al Ahly
Final positions
Champions	Zamalek (28th title)
Runners-up	Al Ahly
Confederation Cup	Pyramids[a]
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	83 (2.96 per match)
Awards
Best player	Youssef Obama (3 goals)
← 2019–20 2021–22 → All statistics correct as of 21 July 2022.

Egyptian Premier League side Al Ahly are the defending champions, having defeated Tala'ea El Gaish in the final.

The competition was originally scheduled to start in November 2020, but was postponed to early 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt.

Teams

Round	Clubs remaining	Clubs involved	Winners from previous round	New entries this round	Leagues entering at this round
Qualifying phase[b]
First Preliminary Round	174	110+2	none	112	Egyptian Third Division Egyptian Fourth Division
Second Preliminary Round	119	90+11	55+2	44	Egyptian Second Division
Third Preliminary Round	74	56	45+11	none	none
Fourth Preliminary Round	46	28	28	none	none
Main competition
Round of 32	32	32	14	18	Egyptian Premier League
Round of 16	16	16	16	none	none
Quarter-finals	8	8	8	none	none
Semi-finals	4	4	4	none	none
Final	2	2	2	none	none

Round and draw dates

The schedule is as follows.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First match date
Qualifying phase	First Preliminary Round	5 January 2021	12 January 2021
	Second Preliminary Round	13 January 2021	17 January 2021
	Third Preliminary Round		31 January 2021
	Fourth Preliminary Round		5 February 2021
Main competition	Round of 32	6 February 2021	11 February 2021
	Round of 16		8 March 2021
	Quarter-finals		29 April 2021
	Semi-finals		TBD
	Final		TBD

Format

Participation

The Egypt Cup begin with a round of 32 teams. The 18 teams of the Egyptian Premier League, along with the 14 winning teams qualified from the Fourth Preliminary Round of the 2020–21 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds.

Draw

The draw for the main competition was held at the Egyptian Football Association headquarters in Gezira, Cairo on 6 February 2021.^[2]

The 32 participating teams were separated into 3 pots. Pot 1 included the 15th placed team from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League alongside the 3 promoted teams from the 2019–20 Egyptian Second Division, Pot 2 included the top 14 teams from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League, and Pot 3 included all 14 teams who qualified to the competition through the qualifying rounds.

Teams from Pot 1 were drawn against each other, while teams from Pot 2 were drawn against teams from Pot 3.

Usually, the Egypt Cup defending champions and the Egyptian Premier League winners are placed in different paths, so both teams can face each other only in the final. However, since Al Ahly won both the cup and the league last season, the club was placed in the "league path" while the league runners-up, Zamalek, were placed in the "cup path".

Pot	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Teams	Ceramica Cleopatra Ghazl El Mahalla National Bank of Egypt Wadi Degla	Al Ahly Aswan ENPPI El Entag El Harby El Gouna Ismaily Al Ittihad Al Masry Misr Lel Makkasa Al Mokawloon Al Arab Pyramids Smouha Tala'ea El Gaish Zamalek	Ashmoun Coca-Cola Dikernis Haras El Hodoud Ittihad Nabarouh KIMA Aswan La Viena El Mansoura Al Nasr Nogoom Al Obour Petrojet El Qanah Sohag

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If still tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time will be played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match will be decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss will decide who takes the first penalty. A total of seven players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to three substitutions being allowed during regulation.

All matches will be played on venues selected by the Egyptian Football Association.

Champion qualification

The winners of the Egypt Cup will earn automatic qualification for the 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup. If they have already qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup or CAF Champions League through their position in the Egyptian Premier League, then the spot will go to the cup runners-up. If the cup runners-up also qualified for an African competition through their league position, then the spot will be given to the fourth placed team in the league.

Following the postponement of numerous match in the competition throughout the season, the competition was not finished by the CAF deadline for associations to submit participating teams in next season's African competitions. As a result, the Egyptian Football Association announced that Pyramids, who were at fourth place after 29 rounds (the last completed round in the 2020–21 Egyptian Premier League before the CAF deadline), would take the cup winners slot and would represent Egypt in the 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup instead of the cup winners.

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2020–21 Egypt Cup qualifying rounds

All of the competing teams that are not members of the Egyptian Premier League had to compete in the qualifying rounds to secure one of 14 available places in the Round of 32. The qualifying phase began with the First Preliminary Round on 12 January 2021, and concluded with the Fourth Preliminary Round on 6 February 2021.

Round of 32

All matches were played between 11 and 24 February 2021, except matches involving teams participating in African competitions (Al Ahly, Pyramids and Zamalek) were postponed and played on 13 March and 14 April 2021. This round includes one team from the Egyptian Fourth Division, La Viena, the lowest ranking side left in the competition. La Viena also became the first club from the lowest league in the Egyptian football league system to qualify for the main round of the Egypt Cup in the competition's history; having participated in all preliminary qualifying rounds.

All times are CAT (UTC+2).

ENPPI (1) v Ittihad Nabarouh (3)

11 February 2021 (2021-02-11)	ENPPI (1)	2–1	Ittihad Nabarouh (3)	Al Salam City, Cairo
14:30	Kasem 57' Galal 67'	Report	Ibrahim 90+1'	Stadium: Al Salam Stadium Referee: Mahmoud Roushdy

Wadi Degla (1) v National Bank of Egypt (1)

11 February 2021 (2021-02-11)	Wadi Degla (1)	3–1	National Bank of Egypt (1)	El Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo
14:30	Antwi 21' Helal 55' Jorginho 90+3'	Report	Dabash 42'	Stadium: El Sekka El Hadid Stadium Referee: Mohamed Hassan

Al Mokawloon Al Arab (1) v Petrojet (2)

13 February 2021 (2021-02-13)	Al Mokawloon Al Arab (1)	1–3	Petrojet (2)	Al Salam City, Cairo
14:30	Hamdy 90'	Report	El Sayed 14' Felix 49' Metwalli 65'	Stadium: Al Salam Stadium Referee: Mohamed Abou Khater

El Gouna (1) v KIMA Aswan (2)

13 February 2021 (2021-02-13)	El Gouna (1)	6–1	KIMA Aswan (2)	El Gouna, Hurghada
14:30	Shabrawy 19' Mbombo 48', 75', 88' A. Abdel Fattah 70' Abdel Naim 80'	Report	M. Abdel Fattah 90+2'	Stadium: Khaled Bichara Stadium Referee: Mohamed El Qelawi

Al Ittihad (1) v Nogoom (2)

14 February 2021 (2021-02-14)	Al Ittihad (1)	2–1	Nogoom (2)	El Max, Alexandria
14:30	Kamar 3' (pen.) El Deeb 89' (pen.)	Report	Hammam 58'	Stadium: Haras El Hodoud Stadium Referee: Mahmoud Wafa

El Entag El Harby (1) v Coca-Cola (2)

14 February 2021 (2021-02-14)	El Entag El Harby (1)	0–1	Coca-Cola (2)	Nasr City, Cairo
14:30		Report	Abdel Wahed 90+2' (pen.)	Stadium: Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium Referee: Mohamed El Tabei

Ismaily (1) v La Viena (4)

14 February 2021 (2021-02-14)	Ismaily (1)	2–1	La Viena (4)	Suez City, Suez
14:30	Shilongo 52', 84'	Report	El Zenary 64' (o.g.)	Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Sabry Ibrahim

Al Masry (1) v El Mansoura (2)

15 February 2021 (2021-02-15)	Al Masry (1)	3–0	El Mansoura (2)	Shatby, Alexandria
14:30	Kamal 44', 89' Amutu 78'	Report		Stadium: Alexandria Stadium Referee: Sobhy El Amrawy

Smouha (1) v Dikernis (2)

16 February 2021 (2021-02-16)	Smouha (1)	4–0	Dikernis (2)	Qortasa, Damanhour
14:30	Abdel Kader 27' El Ouadi 58' Nsibambi 69' Hassan 71'	Report		Stadium: Ala'ab Damanhour Stadium Referee: Mahmoud Desouky

Tala'ea El Gaish (1) v El Qanah (2)

18 February 2021 (2021-02-18)	Tala'ea El Gaish (1)	3–1	El Qanah (2)	Suez City, Suez
14:30	Shehata 23' El Fil 45' Bouzas 62'	Report	Hamdy 86'	Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Mohamed Bakr

Ceramica Cleopatra (1) v Ghazl El Mahalla (1)

22 February 2021 (2021-02-22)	Ceramica Cleopatra (1)	2–0	Ghazl El Mahalla (1)	El Max, Alexandria
14:30	Omran 50' Rayyan 70'	Report		Stadium: Haras El Hodoud Stadium Referee: Wael Farhan

Misr Lel Makkasa (1) v Ashmoun (3)

23 February 2021 (2021-02-23)	Misr Lel Makkasa (1)	2–0	Ashmoun (3)	El Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo
14:30	Taktak 10' (pen.), 38'	Report		Stadium: El Sekka El Hadid Stadium Referee: Ibrahim Mahgoub

Aswan (1) v Sohag (2)

24 February 2021 (2021-02-24)	Aswan (1)	3–1	Sohag (2)	Abbassia, Cairo
14:30	Abdel Zaher 51' Magdy 78' Reda 90+3'	Report	Khalil 90+2'	Stadium: Police Academy Stadium Referee: Galal Ahmed

Pyramids (1) v Al Obour (3)

13 March 2021 (2021-03-13)[c]	Pyramids (1)	4–1	Al Obour (3)	New Cairo, Cairo
17:00	Issa 5' Ramadan 73' (pen.) Adel 79' Antwi 90+5'	Report	Shehata 49' (pen.)	Stadium: 30 June Stadium Referee: Hesham El Fallal

Al Ahly (1) v Al Nasr (2)

14 April 2021 (2021-04-14)[d]	Al Ahly (1)	2–1	Al Nasr (2)	Shatby, Alexandria
21:30	Soliman 45+2' Bwalya 83'	Report	El Saidy 54'	Stadium: Alexandria Stadium Referee: Mohamed Abbas

Zamalek (1) v Haras El Hodoud (2)

14 April 2021 (2021-04-14)[e]	Zamalek (1)	3–1	Haras El Hodoud (2)	Suez City, Suez
21:30	Obama 19' Alaa 51' (pen.), 68' (pen.)	Report	Youssef 9'	Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Amr Ramadan

Round of 16

Matches were played between 8 March and 25 September 2021. All matches were initially scheduled to be played between 15 and 23 April 2021. One match involving two teams from the Egyptian Second Division was moved to 8 March 2021 to avoid scheduling conflicts, while unconfirmed matches at that time (involving winning teams from round of 32 fixtures featuring Al Ahly, Pyramids and Zamalek) were postponed to a later date. This round included two teams from the Egyptian Second Division, Coca-Cola and Petrojet, the lowest ranking sides left in the competition.

All times are CAT (UTC+2).

Petrojet (2) v Coca-Cola (2)

8 March 2021 (2021-03-08)	Petrojet (2)	0–0 (a.e.t.) (4–3 p)	Coca-Cola (2)	El Sayeda Zeinab, Cairo
14:30		Report		Stadium: El Sekka El Hadid Stadium Referee: Tarek Samy
	Penalties
	Abdel Razek Moawad Abdel Kawi Kanu Felix		Abdel Aziz Arafat Serge Yousri Salem

Wadi Degla (1) v Al Ittihad (1)

15 April 2021 (2021-04-15)	Wadi Degla (1)	1–0	Al Ittihad (1)	Suez City, Suez
21:30	Helal 58'	Report		Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Nader Kamar El Dawla

Al Masry (1) v Tala'ea El Gaish (1)

15 April 2021 (2021-04-15)	Al Masry (1)	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Tala'ea El Gaish (1)	Shatby, Alexandria
21:30	Gomaa 30' (pen.), 92' Amutu 107'	Report	A. Gamal 60'	Stadium: Alexandria Stadium Referee: Tarek Magdy

Misr Lel Makkasa (1) v Ceramica Cleopatra (1)

20 April 2021 (2021-04-20)	Misr Lel Makkasa (1)	2–1	Ceramica Cleopatra (1)	Nasr City, Cairo
21:30	Hesham 1' Morsy 45'	Report	Cobbinah 90+3'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Referee: Walid Abdel Razek

Aswan (1) v El Gouna (1)

23 April 2021 (2021-04-23)	Aswan (1)	1–0	El Gouna (1)	New Cairo, Cairo
21:30	El Halwani 88'	Report		Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Referee: Mohamed Youssef

Zamalek (1) v Ismaily (1)

27 May 2021 (2021-05-27)	Zamalek (1)	1–0	Ismaily (1)	Suez City, Suez
21:00	Bencharki 41'	Report		Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Amin Omar

Smouha (1) v Pyramids (1)

24 September 2021 (2021-09-24)[f]	Smouha (1)	1–3	Pyramids (1)	Suez City, Suez
19:00	El Ouadi 70'	Report	Ben Youssef 45' El Said 47' Ramadan 90+6' (pen.)	Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Amin Omar

Al Ahly (1) v ENPPI (1)

25 September 2021 (2021-09-25)[g]	Al Ahly (1)	1–0	ENPPI (1)	Shatby, Alexandria
19:00	S. Mohsen 74'	Report		Stadium: Alexandria Stadium Referee: Mahmoud El Banna

Quarter-finals

First match in this round was played on 29 April 2021. This round includes one team from the Egyptian Second Division, Petrojet, the lowest ranking side left in the competition.

All times are CAT (UTC+2).

Wadi Degla (1) v Petrojet (2)

29 April 2021 (2021-04-29)	Wadi Degla (1)	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Petrojet (2)	New Cairo, Cairo
21:30	Jorginho 84'	Report	Ibrahim 88' El Nubi 111'	Stadium: Petro Sport Stadium Referee: Mohamed Salama

Aswan (1) v Al Masry (1)

31 May 2021 (2021-05-31)	Aswan (1)	2–2 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p)	Al Masry (1)	Shatby, Alexandria
19:00	Reda 89' A. Magdy 90+3'	Report	El Saghiry 18' (o.g.) Salah 49'	Stadium: Alexandria Stadium Referee: Ahmed Gamal
	Penalties
	Reda Gaber El Saghiry Yehia El Halwani		Grendo Moussa Shedid Amutu Antar

Zamalek (1) v Misr Lel Makkasa (1)

22 June 2021 (2021-06-22)	Zamalek (1)	2–0	Misr Lel Makkasa (1)	Suez City, Suez
19:00	Obama 57', 61'	Report		Stadium: Suez Stadium Referee: Ahmed El Ghandour

Al Ahly (1) v Pyramids (1)

26 June 2022 (2022-06-26)[h]	Al Ahly (1)	2–1	Pyramids (1)	Cairo
21:30	Taher M. Taher 18' Hossam Hassan 90'	Report	Ramadan Sobhi 90+4'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium

Semi-finals

The matches are expected to be played in 2022. This round includes one team from the Egyptian Second Division, Petrojet, the lowest ranking side left in the competition.

All times are CAT (UTC+2).

Zamalek (1) v Aswan (1)

23 May 2022 (2022-05-23)	Zamalek (1)	2–1	Aswan (1)	Cairo
21:00	Mahmoud Alaa 35' Obama 36'	Report	Mohamed Gedo 9'	Stadium: Arab Contractors Stadium

Al Ahly (1) v Petrojet (2)

2 July 2022 (2022-07-02)	Al Ahly (1)	2–0	Petrojet (2)	Alexandria
21:00	Afsha 8' Abdelmonem 72'	Report		Stadium: Borg El Arab Stadium

Final

Main article: 2021 Egypt Cup Final

All times are CAT (UTC+2).

Al Ahly (1) v Zamalek (1)

21 July 2022 (2022-07-21)	Al Ahly (1)	1–2	Zamalek (1)	Cairo
21:00	Hassan 55'	Report	Zizo 5' Ashour 29'	Stadium: Cairo International Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland)

Bracket

The following is the bracket which the Egypt Cup resembles. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out.

	Round of 32 11 February – 14 April 2021				Round of 16 8 March – 25 September 2021				Quarter-finals 29 April 2021 – 26 June 2022				Semi-finals 23 May 2022 – 2 July 2022				Final 21 July 2022
	Al Ahly	2
	Al Nasr	1
					Al Ahly	1
					ENPPI	0
	ENPPI	2
	Ittihad Nabarouh	1
									Al Ahly	2
									Pyramids	1
	Smouha	4
	Dikernis	0
					Smouha	1
					Pyramids	3
	Pyramids	4
	Al Obour	1
													Al Ahly	2
													Petrojet	0
	Wadi Degla	3
	National Bank of Egypt	1
					Wadi Degla	1
					Al Ittihad	0
	Al Ittihad	2
	Nogoom	1
									Wadi Degla	1
									Petrojet (a.e.t.)	2
	Al Mokawloon Al Arab	1
	Petrojet	3
					Petrojet (p)	0 (4)
					Coca-Cola	0 (3)
	El Entag El Harby	0
	Coca-Cola	1
																	Al Ahly	1
																	Zamalek	2
	Zamalek	3
	Haras El Hodoud	1
					Zamalek	1
					Ismaily	0
	Ismaily	2
	La Viena	1
									Zamalek	2
									Misr Lel Makkasa	0
	Misr Lel Makkasa	2
	Ashmoun	0
					Misr Lel Makkasa	2
					Ceramica Cleopatra	1
	Ceramica Cleopatra	2
	Ghazl El Mahalla	0
													Zamalek	2
													Aswan	1
	Aswan	3
	Sohag	1
					Aswan	1
					El Gouna	0
	El Gouna	6
	KIMA Aswan	1
									Aswan (p)	2 (5)
									Al Masry	2 (4)
	Al Masry	3
	El Mansoura	0
					Al Masry (a.e.t.)	3
					Tala'ea El Gaish	1
	Tala'ea El Gaish	3
	El Qanah	1

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