Club: | Zamalek SC |
Season: | 2022–23 |
Chairman: | Mortada Mansour (until 25 February and from 30 March) Suleiman Wahdan (interim, from 25 February) |
Manager: | Jesualdo Ferreira (until 24 January) Osama Nabieh (from 24 January until 1 February) Jesualdo Ferreira (from 1 February until 22 March) Ahmed Abdulmaqsoud (interim, from 22 March until 4 April) Medhat Abdel-Hady (interim, from 6 April) Juan Carlos Osorio (from 13 April) |
Stadium: | Cairo International Stadium |
League: | Egyptian Premier League |
League Result: | 3rd |
Cup1: | Egypt Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Runners-up |
Cup2: | EFA Cup |
Cup2 Result: | Round of 16 |
Cup3: | CAF Champions League |
Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
League Topscorer: | Zizo (10) |
Season Topscorer: | Zizo (16) |
Largest Win: | Zamalek 5–1 Flambeau du Centre Tala'ea El Gaish 0–4 Zamalek Zamalek 4–0 Haras El Hodoud |
Largest Loss: | Zamalek 0–3 Al Ahly Pharco 3–0 Zamalek Zamalek 0–3 National Bank Al Ahly 4–1 Zamalek |
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Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 Zamalek SC season was the club's 112th season in existence and the 64th consecutive season in the top flight of Egyptian football. In addition to the domestic league, Zamalek participated in this season's editions of the Egypt Cup, the EFA Cup and the CAF Champions League.
Zamalek had a strong start to the league, remaining undefeated until their tenth match. They opened with a 2-0 win against Smouha, then followed it up with another 2-0 victory over Ceramica Cleopatra. In the fifth round, they settled for a draw against ENPPI, and repeated this result in their game against Al-Masry. After that they achieved an impressive 4-0 clean sheet win over Vanguards of the Army and managed to clinch a 1-0 win in their postponed match versus Pyramids. The seventh round of the season saw Zamalek gain a significant victory against National Bank in the closing moments. To cap off the year, they remained undefeated in the league, coming away with a 3-1 win over Ismaily.
In the first game of the year, Zamalek was defeated surprisingly 2–1 by Aswan. This was only their second loss to the home team.[1]
scope=col | Player | Transferred from | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
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17 | Raja CA | Free | [3] | |||||||
7 | Luzern | Undisclosed | [4] | |||||||
16 | Pharco | Loan return | [5] | |||||||
9 | Caracas | €1.20m | [6] | |||||||
4 | Pyramids | Undisclosed | [7] | |||||||
20 | Pyramids | Undisclosed | [8] | |||||||
6 | Tala'ea El Gaish | Undisclosed | [9] | |||||||
Al Ittihad | Loan return | |||||||||
15 | Tala'ea El Gaish | [10] | ||||||||
11 | ENPPI | [11] | ||||||||
19 | National Bank | Undisclosed | [12] | |||||||
18 | Aswan | Loan | [13] |
scope=col | Player | Transferred to | scope=col; style="width: 65px;" | Fee | scope=col | Date | scope=col | Source | ||
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Galatasaray | €3.85m | [14] | ||||||||
3 | Al-Ittihad | Free | [15] | |||||||
1 | National Bank | Free | [16] | |||||||
7 | N/A | Retired | [17] | |||||||
19 | Future FC | Free | [18] | |||||||
N/A | Retired | [19] | ||||||||
26 | National Bank | Free | [20] | |||||||
4 | Al Ittihad | Loan | [21] | |||||||
Smouha | Loan | [22] | ||||||||
17 | Contract termination | [23] | ||||||||
14 | Al-Hazem | Loan | [24] | |||||||
8 | Midtjylland | €2.8m | [25] |
See main article: 2022–23 Egyptian Premier League.
The league fixtures were announced on 9 October 2022.[26]
See main article: 2022–23 Egypt Cup.
See main article: 2022–23 EFA Cup.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds. The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 9 August 2022.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage.
The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022.
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width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=145 | Name | width=80 | Premier League | width=80 | Egypt Cup | width=80 | EFA Cup | width=80 | Champions League | width=80 | Total | ||||
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1 | MF | 25 | Ahmed Sayed Zizo | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 15 | |||||||||||
2 | FW | 30 | Seifeddine Jaziri | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
3 | FW | 19 | Nasser Mansi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |||||||||||
MF | 37 | Youssef Osama | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||
5 | DF | 36 | Hossam Abdul-Majeed | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
MF | 7 | Ibrahima Ndiaye | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
MF | 11 | Mostafa Shalaby | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
7 | DF | 29 | Ahmed Fatouh | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
MF | 8 | Emam Ashour | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
MF | 15 | Amr El Sisi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||
MF | 10 | Shikabala | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
DF | 28 | El-Wensh | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
12 | MF | 40 | Seif Farouk Gaafar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
DF | 5 | Mohamed Abdel Ghani | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
FW | 9 | Samson Akinyoola | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
MF | 18 | Ahmed Belhadji | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
DF | 47 | Hatem Mohamed | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
DF | 24 | Hamza Mathlouthi | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Own goals | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Totals | 37 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 58 |