2022–23 Egyptian Premier League

The 2022–23 Egyptian Premier League was the 64th season of the Egyptian Premier League, the top Egyptian professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1948. The season began on 18 October 2022 and is concluded on 26 July 2023.^[2] The league fixtures were announced on 9 October 2022.^[3][4]

Egyptian Premier League

Season	2022–23
Dates	18 October 2022 – 26 July 2023
Champions	Al Ahly (43rd title)
Relegated	Haras El Hodoud Ghazl El Mahalla Aswan
CAF Champions League	Al Ahly Pyramids
CAF Confederation Cup	Zamalek Future
Matches played	273
Goals scored	572 (2.1 per match)
Top goalscorer	Mabululu (16 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Mohamed El Shenawy^[1]
Biggest home win	Zamalek 4–0 Haras El Hodoud
Biggest away win	Tala'ea El Gaish 0–4 Zamalek
Highest scoring	Tala'ea El Gaish 3–4 Al Ittihad
Longest winning run	Al Ahly (6 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Al Ahly (32 matches)
Longest winless run	Tala'ea El Gaish (15 matches)
Longest losing run	Haras El Hodoud (8 matches)
← 2021–22 2023–24 → All statistics correct as of 22 June 2023.

Decisions

Due to some clubs' participation in continental competitions, the league's start date was delayed by 48 hours.^[5] A total of 6,000 spectators will be permitted, up from 2,000 at the start of the previous season.^[6] Matches were played during the World Cup.^[7] The league was suspended from 3 November through 18 November owing to the country hosting the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference.^[8]

Teams

Aswan was the first team to be promoted on 10 May 2022 after a one-year absence.^[9] On the same day, El Dakhleya returned to the top flight after a three-year absence.^[10] The final team, Haras El Hodoud, won promotion on 13 May, after a two-year absence.^[11] They replaced Eastern Company, El Gouna, and Misr Lel Makkasa.

Stadiums and locations

 

 

Aswan

 

Al Ittihad
Pharco
Haras

 

Smouha

 

Ghazl

 

Cairo/Giza

 

Cairo and Giza teams
Al Ahly
Ceramica Cleopatra
El Dakhleya
ENPPI
Future
Al Mokawloon Al Arab
National Bank of Egypt
Pyramids
Tala'ea El Gaish
Zamalek

 

Ismaily

 

Al Masry

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Location of teams in 2022–23 Premier League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Al Ahly	Cairo	Al Ahly WE Al Salam Stadium Cairo International Stadium	30,000 75,000
Aswan	Aswan	Aswan Stadium	11,000
Ceramica Cleopatra	Cairo	Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium	35,000
El Dakhleya	Cairo	Police Academy Stadium	12,000
ENPPI	New Cairo	Petro Sport Stadium	16,000
Future	Cairo	Al Salam Stadium	30,000
Ghazl El Mahalla	El Mahalla El Kubra	Ghazl El Mahalla Stadium	20,000
Haras El Hodoud	Alexandria	Haras El Hodoud Stadium	22,000
Ismaily	Ismailia	Ismailia Stadium	30,000
Al Ittihad	Alexandria	Alexandria Stadium	20,000
Al Masry	Port Said	Al Masry Club Stadium Borg El Arab Stadium	18,000 86,000
Al Mokawloon Al Arab	Cairo	Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium	35,000
National Bank	Cairo	Cairo International Stadium^[12]	75,000
Pharco	Alexandria	Alexandria Stadium	20,000
Pyramids	Cairo	30 June Stadium	30,000
Smouha	Alexandria	Alexandria Stadium	20,000
Tala'ea El Gaish	Cairo	Gehaz El Reyada Stadium	20,000
Zamalek	Cairo	Cairo International Stadium	75,000

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Ismaily	Hamza El-Gamal^[13]	Mutual consent	29 August 2022	Pre-season	Juan Carlos Garrido^[14]	20 September 2022
Al Masry	Hossam Hassan^[15]	End of contract	31 August 2022		Ehab Galal^[16]	8 September 2022
Al Ahly	Ricardo Soares^[17]	Sacked	31 August 2022		Marcel Koller^[18]	9 September 2022
Al Ittihad	Mohamed Omar El-Zeer	End of interim spell	4 September 2022		Zoran Manojlović^[19]	6 September 2022
Ghazl El Mahalla	Mostafa Abdo^[20]	Resigned	12 September 2022		Nikodimos Papavasiliou^[21]	14 September 2022
ENPPI	Jorvan Vieira^[22]	Mutual consent	17 September 2022		Ahmed Koshary^[23]	17 September 2022
Aswan	Rabie Yassin^[24]	Resigned	29 October 2022	18th	Ayman El Ramady^[25]	6 November 2022
Tala'ea El Gaish	Alaa Abdel Aal^[26]	Sacked	2 November 2022	8th	Mohamed Youssef^[27]	3 November 2022
National Bank	Khaled Galal^[28]	Sacked	1 December 2022	8th	Helmy Toulan^[28]	1 December 2022
Al Masry	Ehab Galal^[29]	Sacked	1 December 2022	9th	Hossam Hassan^[30]	14 December 2022
Ismaily	Juan Carlos Garrido^[31]	Sacked	9 December 2022	16th	Ayman El-Gamal (caretaker)^[32]	9 December 2022
Pharco	Nuno Almeida^[33]	Sacked	17 December 2022	9th	Ehab Galal^[34]	17 December 2022
ENPPI	Ahmed Koshary^[35]	Sacked	20 December 2022	15th	Talaat Youssef	25 December 2022
Ismaily	Ayman El-Gamal	End of caretaker spell	27 December 2022	16th	Mido^[36]	27 December 2022
Pyramids	Takis Gonias^[37]	Sacked	4 January 2023	4th	Jaime Pacheco^[38]	5 January 2023
Ghazl El Mahalla	Nikodimos Papavasiliou^[39]	Sacked	8 January 2023	7th	Abdel Baqi Gamal^[39]	8 January 2023
National Bank	Helmy Toulan^[40]	Sacked	11 January 2023	13th	Amir Abdel Aziz (caretaker)^[41]	11 January 2023
Zamalek	Jesualdo Ferreira^[42]	Sacked	24 January 2023	5th	Osama Nabieh (caretaker)^[42]	24 January 2023
Pharco	Ehab Galal^[43]	Resigned	24 January 2023	13th	Tarek El Ashry^[44]	27 January 2023
Ceramica Cleopatra	Ahmed Samy	Sacked	25 January 2023	10th	Moïne Chaâbani^[45]	27 January 2023
Smouha	Tarek El Ashry^[46]	Resigned	25 January 2023	11th	Ahmed Samy^[47]	26 January 2023
National Bank	Amir Abdel Aziz	End of caretaker spell	26 January 2023	16th	Nikodimos Papavasiliou^[48]	26 January 2023
Zamalek	Osama Nabieh	Mutual consent	1 February 2023	4th	Jesualdo Ferreira	1 February 2023^[49]
Tala'ea El Gaish	Mohamed Youssef^[50]	Resigned	9 February 2023	13th	Imad Al-Nahhas^[50]	9 February 2023
Zamalek	Jesualdo Ferreira^[51]	Sacked	22 March 2023	5th	Ahmed Abdulmaqsoud (caretaker)	22 March 2023
Zamalek	Ahmed Abdulmaqsoud^[52]	Sacked	4 April 2023	5th	Medhat Abdel-Hady	6 April 2023
Zamalek	Medhat Abdel-Hady	End of interim spell	13 April 2023	5th	Juan Carlos Osorio^[53]	13 April 2023

Standings

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Al Ahly (C)	34	25	8	1	63	13	+50	83	Qualification for the Champions League first or second round
2	Pyramids	34	22	7	5	58	24	+34	73
3	Zamalek	34	17	9	8	52	36	+16	60	Qualification for the Confederation Cup first or second round^[a]
4	Future	34	15	13	6	34	23	+11	58
5	Al Masry	34	11	15	8	34	33	+1	48
6	ENPPI	34	13	6	15	34	40	−6	45
7	Al Mokawloon Al Arab	34	9	17	8	35	33	+2	44
8	Al Ittihad	34	12	7	15	36	43	−7	43
9	Pharco	34	9	15	10	31	34	−3	42
10	Smouha	34	10	12	12	36	43	−7	42
11	Ismaily	34	9	13	12	35	38	−3	40
12	National Bank of Egypt	34	9	12	13	35	40	−5	39
13	Ceramica Cleopatra	34	7	16	11	31	32	−1	37
14	Tala'ea El Gaish	34	8	12	14	33	45	−12	36
15	El Dakhleya	34	7	14	13	32	43	−11	35
16	Aswan (R)	34	8	9	17	31	45	−14	33^[b]	Relegation to Second Division A
17	Ghazl El Mahalla (R)	34	8	9	17	26	47	−21	33^[b]
18	Haras El Hodoud (R)	34	5	10	19	21	45	−24	25

Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Goal difference; 5) Goals scored; 6) Play-off.^[55]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since the 2022–23 Egypt Cup wouldn't finish by the CAF deadline for associations to submit teams participating in next season's African competitions, the spot awarded to the Egypt Cup winners (Confederation Cup first or second round) was passed to the fourth-placed team in the league.^[54]
2. Tied on head-to-head points (3) and on head-to-head goal difference (0). Overall goal difference: Aswan −14, Ghazl El Mahalla −21.

Results

Fixtures and results

Home \ Away	AHL	ASW	CER	DAK	ENP	FUT	GHA	HAR	ISM	ITT	MAS	MOK	NAT	PHA	PYR	SMO	TAL	ZAM
Al Ahly	—	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–0	1–1	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	3–0	3–0	0–0	2–0	4–1
Aswan	0–3	—	1–1	2–4	2–0	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–3	1–1	2–2	2–1
Ceramica Cleopatra	1–1	3–2	—	0–0	0–1	2–3	0–0	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–0	2–1	0–2	0–0	0–2
El Dakhleya	1–4	1–2	0–0	—	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	3–3	0–0	2–1	0–0	0–0	1–1
ENPPI	0–2	2–0	1–0	0–0	—	2–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–2	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	0–2	0–0	1–1
Future	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	—	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	3–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–3
Ghazl El Mahalla	0–2	1–2	0–3	2–1	1–0	0–1	—	1–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	0–3	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	3–2	2–1
Haras El Hodoud	0–3	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	2–1	—	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	2–3	0–3
Ismaily	0–1	1–1	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	—	4–1	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	1–2	0–1	0–1	2–1
Al Ittihad	0–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	—	1–2	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	3–1	0–0
Al Masry	0–0	1–2	0–3	1–1	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–1	—	2–2	0–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	3–2
Al Mokawloon Al Arab	1–4	1–0	2–1	0–1	3–2	0–0	1–1	3–2	2–2	0–0	0–0	—	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0
National Bank	0–3	0–0	3–1	3–1	2–3	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–3	0–0	2–1	—	1–1	2–1	2–2	2–0	0–1
Pharco	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–3	3–1	1–0	1–1	3–2	0–3	2–1	1–0	—	1–2	1–0	1–1	3–0
Pyramids	3–0	2–1	2–2	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–0	3–1	3–0	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	—	5–2	4–2	0–0
Smouha	0–2	1–2	2–2	4–3	2–1	1–1	0–0	3–0	1–3	0–2	1–1	0–0	1–1	0–2	1–2	—	2–1	1–3
Tala'ea El Gaish	0–2	1–0	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	1–1	3–4	3–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–0	—	0–4
Zamalek	0–3	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	2–1	2–0	4–0	3–1	2–1	2–2	2–2	1–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	2–0	—

Source: worldfootball
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[56]	Matches Played
1	Christopher Mabululu	Al Ittihad Alexandria	16	30
2	Ahmed Sayed Zizo	Zamalek	13	34
3	Mohamed Hamdy Zaky	Aswan	12	28
4	Mohamed Sherif	Al Ahly	11	28
5	Ahmed El Sheikh	Ghazl El Mahalla	10	32
	Ahmed Amin	ENPPI		26
7	Samir Fekri	El-Dakhelya	9	32
	John Okoli	Al-Mokawoloon Al-Arab		33
	Mohamed Abdul-latif Grendo	Al Masry SC		31
	Fagrie Lakay	Pyramids		28
11	Rezki Hamroune	Pharco	8	31
	Ahmed Yasser Rayyan	Ceramica Cleopatra		29
	Mostafa Fathi	Pyramids		31
	Ali Maâloul	Al Ahly		24
	Karim Bambo	National Bank of Egypt SC		27
	Mohamed El Shamy	Ismaily SC		28
	Rafik Kabou	ENPPI		33

Top assists

As of 15 July 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Assists^[57]
1	Ahmed Sayed Zizo	Zamalek	13
2	Walid El-Kharti	Pyramids	9
3	Ramadan Sobhi	Pyramids	7
	Ilies Jelassi	Al-Masry
5	Ahmed Belhadji	Aswan	6
	Ali Maâloul	Al-Ahly
	Mohamed Shokry	Ceramica Cleopatra
	Jonathan Ngwem	Future
	Gabriel Orok	Ghazl El Mahalla
10	Hossam Hassan	Smouha	5
	Hussein El Shahat	Al Ahly
	Afsha	Al Ahly
	Rafik Kabou	ENPPI
	Ahmed Khalef	Aswan

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