List of Al Ahly SC records and statistics

Al Ahly Sporting Club (Arabic: النادي الأهلى للرياضة البدنية), commonly referred to as AlAhly, is an Egyptian professional football club based in Cairo, It is known as "The Club of the Century" in African football.^[1] It is best known for its professional football team that plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the top tier in the Egyptian football league system, and is the most decorated football club in the world.^[2][3] It was founded on 24 April 1907, as a gathering place for Cairo's Student Unions.

Mahmoud El Khatib Al Ahly's all-time top-scorer with 159 goals in all competitions

Al Ahly has a record of 44 national league titles, 39 national cup titles, and 15 national super cup titles, making them the most decorated club in Egypt. In addition, Al Ahly has never been relegated to the Egyptian Second Division. In international competitions, the club has won a record twelve CAF Champions League titles, a CAF Confederation Cup, a record Eight CAF Super Cups, a record four African Cup Winners' Cups, an Afro-Asian Club Championship, an Arab Club Champions Cup, an Arab Cup Winners' Cup, a record two Arab Super Cups, and won a bronze medal in the 2006, 2020, 2021 and 2023 Club World Cup.

Honours

Al Ahly winning the 2023 Egyptian Super Cup raised the club's trophy count to 155, making them the most decorated club in the world. This includes 26 continental titles. Al Ahly won the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1982 and 1987. Following the tournament's rebranding as the CAF Champions League, Al Ahly triumphed again in 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008 under the coaching of the Portuguese Manuel José,^[4] in 2012 under Hossam El-Badry, in 2013 under Mohamed Youssef, and in 2020 and 2021 under Pitso Mosimane. This makes them the most decorated team in continental competitions in Africa with eleven Champions League titles, as well as one CAF Confederation Cup, four African Cup Winners' Cups, eight CAF Super Cups and one Afro-Asian Club Championship. At local level, Al Ahly has won more titles than any other club, with 44 Egyptian Premier League titles, 39 Egypt Cups, 15 Egyptian Super Cups, 7 Sultan Hussein Cups and 17 Cairo League titles, along with winning the cup of the United Arab Republic on one occasion and the Egyptian Confederation Cup once as well.^[5][6]

Domestic (124 titles)

Type	Competition	Titles	Winning Seasons	Runners Up
Egyptian	Egyptian Premier League	44	1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2022–23, 2023–24	1966–67, 1977–78, 1983–84, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2014–15, 2020–21
	Egypt Cup	39	1923–24, 1924–25, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1936–37, 1939–40, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1955–56, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1965–66, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2016–17, 2019–20, 2021–22, 2022–23	1925–26, 1931–32, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1943–44, 1951–52, 1958–59, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1996–97, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2020–21
	Egyptian Super Cup	15	2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024	2009, 2016, 2019, 2020
	Sultan Hussein Cup	7	1922–23, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1928–29, 1930–31, 1937–38	1927–28, 1933–34, 1934–35, 1935–36
	Cairo League	17	1924-25, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1930-31, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38, 1938-39, 1941-42, 1942-43, 1945-46, 1947-48, 1949–50, 1953-54, 1957–58
	Egyptian Confederation Cup	1	1989
	United Arab Republic Cup	1	1960-1961

Africa (25 titles)

Type	Competition	Titles	Winning Seasons	Runners Up
CAF	CAF Champions League	12	1982, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2022-23, 2023-24	1983, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2021-22
	African Cup Winners' Cup	4	1984, 1985, 1986, 1993	–
	CAF Confederation Cup	1	2014	–
	CAF Super Cup	8	2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2021 (May), 2021 (December)	1994, 2015, 2023, 2024

Worldwide (6 titles)

Type	Competition	Titles	Winning Seasons	Runners Up
Intercontinental	African-Asian-Pacific Cup	1	2024
	Afro-Asian Cup	1	1988
UAFA	Arab Club Champions Cup	1	1996	1997
	Arab Cup Winners' Cup	1	1994	–
	Arab Super Cup	2S	1997, 1998	–

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Awards & recognitions

• CAF Club of the 20th Century: 2001
• African Inter-Club Team of the Year (6): (2005), (2006), (2008), (2012), (2013), (2023)
• Globe soccer Top Titles Winners in the Middle East: 2020
• Globe Soccer for The Best Middle East Club: 2023
• First place in the monthly international rankings of football history and strength (2): June 2006, July 2007
• Certificate of Conformity to International Standards (ISO 9001:2015): 2020

All-time statistics

All stats correct as of 26 December 2021.^[7]

Competition	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	Win %
Egyptian Premier League	1,590	1,073	355	162	067.48
African Competitions	384	199	101	84	051.82

Players records

• Youngest first-team player: Ramadan Sobhi – 17 years, 34 days (against Ghazl El Mahalla SC, 2013–14 Egyptian Premier League, 6 February 2014)

Most appearances

Competitive, professional matches only. Goals (in parentheses) included in total.^[8][9][10]

	Name	Years	League	Cup	Africa	World Cup	Other	Total
1	Hossam Ashour	2003–2020	292 0(3)	037 0(0)	0156 0(0)	11 (0)	016 0(0)	512 00(3)
2	Hady Khashaba	1991–2006	301 0(26)	043 0(5)	057 0(3)	000 0(0)	040 0(1)	444 0(42)
3	Essam El Hadary	1996–2008	306 0(0)	0017 0(?)	91 0(1)	003 0(0)	04 0(0)	421 00(1)
4	Osama Orabi	1982–1999	280 0(?)	00? 0(?)	00? 0(?)	000 0(0)	00? 0(?)	400 0(?)
5	Wael Gomaa	2001–2014	241 0(11)	018 0(0)	0114 0(4)	011 0(0)	015 0(0)	399 0(16)
6	Ahmed Fathy	2007–2014 2015–2020	224 0(16)	021 (4)	0103 0(5)	7 0(0)	010 0(1)	364 0(26)
7	Shady Mohamed	1999–2009	203 00(6)	025 0(1)	089 0(3)	07 0(0)	013 0(1)	337 0(11)
8	Emad Moteab	2003–2018	190 0(75)	024 0(19)	093 0(28)	009 0(2)	004 0(0)	320 0(124)
9	Ahmed Shobair	1980–1997	222 0(0)	032 0(0)	049 0(0)	000 0(0)	012 0(0)	316 00(0)
10	Moustafa Abdou	1972–1987	234 0(43)	0? 0(?)	0? 0(?)	000 0(0)	000 0(0)	311 0(?)

Top goalscorers

All Competitions

Ranking	Name	Nationality	Years	Matches	Goals	Percentage%
1	Mahmoud El Khatib	Egypt	1972–1988	275	159	0.57
2	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	1984-1990 1992–2000	301	142	0.47
3	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	2004–2014	287	126	0.44
4	Emad Moteab	Egypt	2003–2018	320	124	0.39
5	Mokhtar El Tetsh	Egypt	1922–1940	119	112	1.19
6	Saleh Selim	Egypt	1948–1962 1963–1967	202	100	0.49
7	Ahmed Mekkawi	Egypt	?	137	95	0.74
8	El Sayed Ateya (Toto)	Egypt	?	133	88	0.69
9	Taha Ismail	Egypt	1958–1970	199	81	0.41
10	Walid Soliman	Egypt	2011–2022	313	75	0.44

League

Ranking	Name	Nationality	Years	Goals
1	Mahmoud El Khatib	Egypt	1972–1988	109
2	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	1984–1990 1992–2000	109
3	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	2004–2014	79
4	Saleh Selim	Egypt	1948–1962 1963–1967	78
5	El Sayed Ateya (Toto)	Egypt	?	75
6	Emad Moteab	Egypt	2003–2018	75
7	Taha Ismail	Egypt	1958–1970	64
8	Ahmad Belal	Egypt	2000–2005 2007–2010	55
9	Abdallah El Said	Egypt	2011–2018	50
10	Felix Aboagye	Ghana	1993–1998	47

Africa

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Ranking	Name	Nationality	Years	Goals
1	Mahmoud El Khatib	Egypt	1972–1988	37
2	Mohamed Aboutrika	Egypt	2004–2014	32
3	Emad Moteab	Egypt	2003–2018	28
4	Walid Soliman	Egypt	2011–2022	20
5	Mohamed Barakat	Egypt	2004–2013	18
6	Flávio Amado	Angola	2005–2009	18
7	Hossam Hassan	Egypt	1984–1990 1992–2000	17
8	Ayman Shawky	Egypt	1984–1995	15
9	Walid Azaro	Morocco	2017–2020	13
10	Taher Abouzeid	Egypt	1980–1993	13

Individual honours

Player of the season

Ahmed Fathy, one of the club legends.

Season	Nationality	Player
2022–2023	Tunisia	Ali Maâloul
2019–2020	Egypt	Mohamed El Shenawy
2018–2019	Tunisia	Ali Maâloul
2017–2018	Morocco	Walid Azaro
2016–2017	Egypt	Saad Samir
2015–2016	Egypt	Abdallah El Said
2014–2015	Egypt	Moamen Zakaria
2013–2014	Egypt	Ahmed Fathy
2012–2013	Egypt	Mohamed Aboutrika
2010–2011	Egypt	Ahmed Fathy
2009–2010	Egypt	Mohamed Barakat

Players' individual honours and awards while playing with Al Ahly

Mohamed Aboutrika, one of the club legends.

• African Footballer of the Year:
  • Mahmoud El Khatib (1): 1983
• African Inter-Club Player of the Year:
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (4): 2006,^[12] 2008,^[12] 2012,^[13] 2013
  • Mohamed Barakat (1): 2005
  • Ahmed Hassan (1): 2010
  • Mohamed El Shenawy (1): 2022
  • Percy Tau (1): 2023
• EFA Egyptian Player of the Year:
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (4): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Abdallah El Said (1): 2016
• Egyptian Premier League top scorer:
  • El-Dhizui (1): 1958–59
  • Mahmoud El Khatib (2): 1977–78, 1980–81
  • Mohamed Ramadan (1): 1990–91
  • Hossam Hassan (1): 1998–99
  • Ahmad Belal (1): 2002–03
  • Emad Moteab (1): 2004–05
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (1): 2005–06
  • Flávio Amado (2): 2006–07, 2008–09
  • Walid Azaro (1): 2017–18
  • Mohamed Sherif (1): 2020–21
  • Wessam Abou Ali (1): 2023–24
• CAF Team of the Tournament:
  • Wael Gomaa (3): 2006 2008 2010
  • Taher Abouzeid (2): 1984 1986
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (2): 2006 2008
  • Essam El Hadary (2): 2006 2008
  • Mahmoud El Khatib (1): 1980
  • Rabie Yassin (1): 1986
  • Magdi Abdelghani (1): 1986
  • Moustafa Abdou (1): 1986
  • Ahmed Shobair (1): 1994
  • Hossam Hassan (1): 1998
  • Mohamed Emara (1): 1998
  • Ahmed Fathy (1): 2010
  • Ahmed Hassan (1): 2010
  • Ahmed Hegazi (1): 2017
  • Mohamed Abdelmonem (1): 2021
• CAF Team of the Year:
  • Mahmoud El Khatib (1): 1980
  • Mohamed Barakat (1): 2005
  • Essam El Hadary (1): 2006
  • Wael Gomaa (4): 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (4): 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
  • Ahmed Hassan (1): 2010
  • Ahmed Fathy (3): 2012, 2013, 2017
  • Ali Maâloul (1): 2017
  • Junior Ajayi (1): 2017
• BBC African Footballer of the Year:
  • Mohamed Barakat (1): 2005
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (1): 2008^[14]
• CAF Goalkeeper of the Year:
  • Essam El Hadary (4): 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008
• FIFA Club World Cup Top Goalscorer:
  • Mohamed Aboutrika (1): 2006
  • Yasser Ibrahim (1): 2021
  • Ali Maâloul (1): 2023

Team records

Matches

Firsts

• First Egyptian League match: Al Ahly 5–0 Greek Alexandria 24 October 1948.^[15]
• First Egypt Cup match: Al Ahly ? Nile FC, 1921-1922 Egypt Cup first round.^[16]
• First African match: MC Alger 3–0 Al Ahly, 1976 African Cup of Champions Clubs Second round.^[17]

Record wins

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• Record league win: 8–0 against Ismaily, 1957–58 Egyptian League, 4 April 1958
• Record Cup win: 13–0 against El Gouna, 2014–15 Egypt Cup round of 16, 13 August 2015
• Record African win: 9–0 against Atlabara, 2019–20 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds, 23 August 2019

League

Points

• Most points in a season (record):
  • 89 points in the 2019–20 season (Egyptian League record).
• Highest Point Average (record):
  • 2.84 points during the 2004–05 season (Egyptian League Record).

Goals

• Season with most goals scored in League matches (record):
  • 75 goals scored in the 2017–18.
• Highest Goal Average Scored by a club in 1 season (record):
  • 3.06 in 1957–58 season (Egyptian League Record).
• Season with fewest goals conceded in League matches (record):
  • The club conceded a total number of 2 goals in 23 games in the 1975–76 season.
• Lowest Goals Received Average by a season (record):
  • 0.09 in the 1975–76 season (Egyptian League Record).

Streaks

• Consecutive Egyptian League titles (record):
  • Won 9 championship titles: 1948–49, 1949–50, 1950–51, 1952–53, 1953–54, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1958–59 seasons.
• Longest consecutive unbeaten matches in the league (record):
  • 71 (between loss to Zamalek on 15 May 2004 and loss to Ismaily on 25 May 2007)
• Longest consecutive unbeaten matches in one league season (record):
  • 26 games during the 1974–75 season.

Record transfer fee paid

Ranking	Name	Nationality	From	Transfer Fee (€ millions)	Year	Ref
1	Hussein El Shahat	Egypt	Al Ain	€4.35m	2019	[19]
2	Junior Ajayi	Nigeria	Sfaxien	€2.50m	2016	[20]
3	Malick Evouna	Gabon	Wydad	€2.25m	2015	[21]
4	Aliou Badji	Senegal	Rapid Wien	€2.00m	2020	[22]
5	Percy Tau	South Africa	Brighton & Hove Albion	€1.80m	2021	[23]

Record transfer fee received

Ranking	Name	Nationality	To	Transfer Fee (€ millions)	Year	Ref
1	Malick Evouna	Gabon	Tianjin	€7.25m	2016	[24]
2	Ahmed Hegazi	Egypt	West Bromwich Albion	€5.00m	2017	[25]
3	Ramadan Sobhi	Egypt	Stoke City	€5.00m	2016	[26]
4	Mohamed Abdelmonem	Egypt	Nice	€4.20m	2024
5	Flávio Amado	Angola	Al Shabab	€2.75m	2009	[27]

See also

• History of Al Ahly SC
• List of Zamalek SC records and statistics