2009–10 Egyptian Premier League Explained

Season:2009–10
Dates:6 August 2009 – 17 May 2010
Winners:Al Ahly
Continentalcup1 Qualifiers:Al Ahly (1st)
Zamalek (2nd)
Continentalcup2 Qualifiers:Ismaily (3rd)
Haras El Hodood (CW)
League Topscorer:Minusu Buba (14 Goals)
Biggest Home Win:El Mansoura SC 4-0 Asyut Petroleum
(24 November 2009)
El-Ittihad 4-0 Asyut Petroleum
(11 December 2009)
Ittihad El-Shorta 4-0 Ghazl El-Mehalla
(15 December 2009)
Haras El Hodood 4-0 ENPPI
(29 April 2010)
Zamalek 4-1 Asyut Petroleum
(13 May 2010)
Biggest Away Win:Petrojet 1-4 Haras El Hodood
(25 March 2010)
Petrojet 0-3 Al-Mokawloon
(17 May 2010)
Highest Scoring:El Geish 2-4 Al Ahly
(11 September 2009)
Al Ahly 4-2 Ittihad El-Shorta
(12 February 2010)
Asyut Petroleum 3-3 El Geish
(24 March 2010)
Zamalek 3-3 Al Ahly
(16 April 2010)
Al-Mokawloon 4-2 Asyut Petroleum
(16 April 2010)
Asyut Petroleum 4-2 El-Ittihad
(3 May 2010)
Nextseason:2010–11

The 2009–10 Egyptian Premier League is the fifty-third season of the Egyptian Premier League since its establishment in 1948. A total of 16 teams are contesting the league, with Al Ahly the defending champions for the fifth year in a row and for the thirty-fourth time in total. The Egyptian season began on 6 August 2009 and ended on 17 May 2010.[1]

The defending champions, Al Ahly, won its sixth league title in a row after a 3–0 win against Mansoura.[2]

Overview

Promotion and relegation

Teams promoted from 2008–09 Egyptian Second Division

Teams relegated to 2009–10 Egyptian Second Division

Teams and stadiums

The recently opened Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria its capacity 80,000 is currently mainly used for international competitions for Egyptian National Team, it was constructed as part of Egypt's failed bid to land the 2010 FIFA World Cup. However, there is speculation that League sides from Alexandria will eventually call it their home grounds. Cairo International Stadium is home to Egypt giants Al Ahly and Al-Zamalek and Ismailia Stadium is home to Al-Ismaily.

ClubLocationVenueSeating Capacity
Al AhlyCairoCairo International Stadium74,100
Asyut PetroleumAsyutAsiut University Stadium25,000
ENPPI ClubCairoPetro Sport Stadium25,000
Talaea El-GeishCairoMilitary Academy Stadium22,000
Ghazl El-MehallaEl-MehallaEl Mahalla Stadium29,000
GounaHurghadaGouna FC Stadium13,000
Haras El HodoodAlexandriaHaras El Hodoud Stadium22,000
IsmailyIsmailiaIsmailia Stadium18,525
Al-Ittihad Al-SakndaryAlexandriaAlexandria Stadium13,660
Al-MansouraEl MansouraEl Mansoura Stadium20,000
Al-MasryPort SaidPort Said Stadium17,988
Military ProductionCairoAl Salam Stadium30,000
Al-Mokawloon Al-ArabCairoOsman Ahmed Osman35,000
PetrojetSuezSuez Stadium25,000
Police UnionCairoMilitary Academy Stadium22,000
Al-ZamalekGizaCairo International Stadium74,100

Personnel and sponsoring

TeamChairmanTeam CoachTeam CaptainKitmakerShirt sponsor
Al Ahly Hassan Hamdy Hossam El-Badry Ahmed BelalAdidasVodafone
ENPPI Tarek Ghanim Diaa Al-Sayed Adel MoustafaNikeENPPI
Ghazl El-Mehalla Foad Abd El-Alim Mohamed RadwanDiadoraMcDonald's
El Geish Mostafa Kamel Farouk Gaafar Abdel Sattar SabryDiadoraMcDonald's
Gouna Samih Sawiris Ismail YoussefUmbroMobinil
Haras El Hodood Abdel Rehim Mohamed Tarek El Ashry Mohamed HalimUmbroMcDonald's
Ismaily Nasr Abou El-Hassan Emad Soliman Mohamed HomosVenecia
El-Ittihad Mohamed Meselhy Carlos Cabral Ibrahim El-ShayebDiadoraMcDonald's
El-Masry Kamel Abou Aly Anwer Salama Amr El-DesoukyDiadoraMcDonald's
Mansoura Ibrahim Megahed Mohammed HelmyDiadoraMcDonald's
Military Production Tarek YehiaDiadoraMcDonald's
Mokawloon Ibrahim Mahlab Mohamed AmerDiadoraRoyal Ceramic
Petrojet Tag El-Din Moharam Mokhtar Mokhtar Hisham Al-NubiUmbroEsso
Asyut Petroleum Gamal Mohamed AliDiadoraMcDonald's
Ittihad El-Shorta Talaat YoussefDiadoraMcDonald's
Zamalek Mamdouh Abbas Hossam Hassan Abdelwahed El-SayedAdidasRoyal Ceramic

Managerial changes

TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming managerDate of appointmentTable
Al Ahly Manuel JoséEnd of contract31 May 2009[3] 1st Hossam El-Badry22 June 2009[4] Pre-Season
Ismaily RicardoSacked31 May 2009[5] 2nd Nebojsa Vukovic9 July 2009[6] Pre-Season
ENPPI Anwer SalamaResigned8 August 2009[7] 13th Diaa Al-Sayed10 August 2009[8] 13th
Ismaily Nebojsa VukovicSacked22 August 2009[9] 12th Emad Soliman22 August 200912th
Ghazl El-Mehalla Sherif Al-KhashabResigned27 August 2009[10] 16th Mohamed Radwan27 August 200916th
El-Masry Bertalan BicskeiSacked29 August 2009[11] 12th Anwer Salama29 August 200912th
Ittihad Taha BasrySacked30 August 2009[12] 15th Carlos Cabral1 September 2009[13] 15th
Zamalek Michel DecastelSacked31 August 2009[14] 6th Henri Michel31 August 2009[15] 6th
Zamalek Henri MichelSacked29 November 2009[16] 10th Hossam Hassan30 November 2009[17] 10th

Table and results

League table

Results

Season statistics

Scoring

Discipline

Goalscorers

Last updated: 24 May 2010; Source: http://new.filgoal.com/English/AllTopScores.aspx?ChampId=196&ClubId=0

Top scorers

Pos.PlayerClubGoals
1 Minusu BubaEl-Shorta14
2 Eric BekoePetrojet13
3 Ahmed Abdel-GhaniHaras El Hodood9
Ahmed GaafarZamalek
Talaat MoharamEl Geish
Emad MoteabAl Ahly
7 Ahmed Ali KamelIsmaily8
Ahmed Eid Abdel MalekHaras El Hodood
Mickaël DogbéEl Geish
Reda El-WeshiAl-Mokawloon

Broadcasting

When Al Ahly announced that their satellite channel will have the exclusive satellite rights of airing the team's domestic games but they will be broadcast terrestrially as usual the problem began.[23] [24] After that EFA have earlier announced their rejection of Al-Ahly's proposal that club's channel and ESC would be the only satellite broadcaster due to the Association's running contract with other satellite networks to air all league games. After that Al-Ahly president Hassan Hamdy confirmed that the club is still keen on maintaining their rights of exclusive satellite broadcasting to the club's league football games.[25] In October 2008 A Bahraini corporation has made a bid of EGP 200 million to acquire the Egyptian League broadcasting exclusive rights, The company is also interested in televising and promoting the Egyptian cup games as well as Egypt's international matches, It is worth noting that the EFA's current EGP 18-million deal with several satellite channels will run out by the end of the ongoing season.[26] After that several TV networks have decided to sue the Egyptian FA (EFA) and the public Radio and TV Union (ERTU) after being prevented from broadcasting a league game for Ahly.[27] Zamalek chairman Mohamed Amer said his club might follow in the footsteps of arch-rivals Al Ahly in demanding the exclusive rights to broadcast their home league games.[28] January, 2009 Egyptian Football Association (EFA) president Samir Zaher said that the league games' broadcasting row will be resolved before the upcoming Cairo derby.[29] In April 2009 the Egyptian FA reached an agreement with IMG Media Company to sell the rights of broadcasting the Premier League next season, The company made an amazing offer, guaranteeing at least a EGP 140million revenue. They will also cost us nothing if they failed to reach that target.[30] Before the Egyptian Super Cup, Egyptian FA president Samir Zaher said the local Super Cup between Al Ahly and Haras El Hodood, which is scheduled for 21 July, would not be televised as the row over broadcasting rights intensified, TV viewers will not be able to watch the season curtain-raiser after a seven-member committee failed to reach an agreement with the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) over airing domestic games for next season, As the committee, which includes several clubs like Cairo duo Al Ahly and El Zamalek in addition to the FA, did not accept the Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU)'s offer to broadcast league and cup matches for EGP90 million.[31] After 4 days the ERTU has acquired the broadcasting rights of the Super Cup match between Al Ahly and Haras El Hodood for EGP1.25 million,[32] The first week of the Egyptian premier league have not been broadcasting on the cable channels but only on the state TV channels. On 19 August 2009 (the second week of the league) Egyptian premier league clubs did not allow the state TV to air Wednesday's Egyptian Premier League matches after both parties failed to reach an agreement over the ongoing broadcasting saga, Only the first half of Haras El Hodood and El Geish match was broadcast while usual TV viewers had to listen to radio to follow game between title holders Al-Ahly and Ittihad El-Shorta. Zamalek will follow in the footsteps of those teams after deciding not to broadcast Thursday's match against Petrojet as Zamalek's spokesman Sabri Serag said on the club's official website.[33] Finally after nearly two years and half the Egyptian Premier League broadcasting saga had been resolved, on Thursday 20 August 2009 this means that Thursday's league games will be broadcast live. Local Channel 2 and the Egyptian Satellite Channel are entitled to broadcast games for free, while private cable networks will be charged EGP 8million each per season.[34]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.efa.com.eg/TournamentMatchTable.aspx?TournamentID=51&TournamentNameID=47&TournamentName=%C7%E1%CF%E6%D1%EC%20%C7%E1%DA%C7%E3%20%C7%E1%E3%D5%D1%EC%202009/%20%202010&TournamentTypeID=1 Egyptian Premier League fixture list
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20100501203454/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/clubfootball/news/newsid=1202643.html#al+ahly+again+crowned+egyptian+kings "Al Ahly again crowned Egyptian kings"
  3. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=55459 Jose quits Ahli for Angola
  4. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=57021 Al-Badri confirmed as Ahli coach
  5. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=56194 Ismaili to part ways with Ricardo, eye foreign successor
  6. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=57538 Vuckovic chose Ismaili over Gulf temptations
  7. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58439 Salama quits as ENPPI coach
  8. http://new.filgoal.com/Arabic/News.aspx?NewsID=58459 Diaa Al-Sayed became ENPPI's Permanent coach
  9. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58782 Ismaili sack Vuckovic
  10. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58968 Radwan appointed Mahalla coach
  11. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=59024 Masri sack coach Bicskei
  12. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=59078 Ittihad bring back Buecker as coach
  13. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=59390 Cabral to 'share' management against Zamalek
  14. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=59084 Zamalek held in last game under Decastel
  15. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=59018 Michel named Zamalek coach
  16. Web site: Zamalek sack Michel . 30 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711001335/http://beta.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=62040 . 11 July 2011 . dead .
  17. Web site: Hossam Hassan named Zamalek manager . 30 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711001624/http://beta.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=62070 . 11 July 2011 . dead .
  18. http://new.filgoal.com/English/MatchInfo.aspx?MatchId=24659
  19. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58748 Zamalek pay for Mido's wasted penalty
  20. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58880 Last-gasp Mosaad salvages Zamalek draw
  21. http://new.filgoal.com/English/MatchInfo.aspx?MatchId=24658
  22. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58921 ENPPI advance to third spot with Gouna win
  23. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=30543 Ahli to launch satellite channel in June
  24. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=45365 Ahli TV to broadcast team games exclusively
  25. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=46871 Ahli still coy on broadcasting rights
  26. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=47918 Bahrain Corporation interested in Egyptian league
  27. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=48250 Satellite channels to sue EFA over Ahli row
  28. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=49331 Broadcasting rights row intensifies
  29. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=50998 Zaher vows to resolve broadcasting conflict
  30. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=54129 EFA agree match-broadcasting deal with British company
  31. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=57732 Egyptian FA decide not to air Super Cup
  32. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=57847 ERTU acquires Super Cup broadcasting rights
  33. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58718 Egyptian clubs refuse to broadcast league games
  34. http://new.filgoal.com/English/News.aspx?NewsID=58743 Broadcasting saga resolved