# Al Ittihad Alexandria (basketball)

Al Ittihad Alexandria (Arabic: نادي الإتحاد السكندري; transl. Union Alexandria Club) is an Egyptian professional basketball club based in Alexandria. Founded in 1914, the team plays in the Egyptian Basketball Premier League. The team is widely considered the most basketball powerhouse of Egypt, having won the most record 16 Premier League championships, the most record 14 Egyptian Cups and 3 Super Cups. In continental and international competitions, Ittihad has won the FIBA Africa Champions Cup (BAL) in 1987, its only African continental title. The team has also won the Arab Championship a record 7 seven times.
The team plays its home games in the Kamal Shalaby Hall. Al Ittihad is nicknamed Masters of the City.

## Honours
### Domestic

* Egyptian Super League
** Winners (16): 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2020, 2024
* Egyptian Cup
** Winners (14): 1976, 1978, 1982 ,1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2010, 2012, 2020, 2021, 2024
* Egyptian Super Cup
** Winners (4): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024

### International

* FIBA Africa Champions Cup
** Winners (1): 1987
** Runners-up (1): 1996
** Fourth place (1): 2012
* Arab Championship
** Winners (7): 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2018, 2019
* Bahraini-Egyptian Super Cup
** Winners (1): 2024

## Players
### Notable players

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
* Criteria
* To appear in this section a player must have either:
* Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club
* Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time
* Played at least one official NBA match at any time.
* Ismail Ahmed: (1993–1997; 2001–2003; 2020–2022)
* Mouhanad El-Sabagh: (2006–2016)
* Solo Diabate: (2021)
* Corey Webster: (2021–2022)

## Season by season

| Season | Tier | League | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Egyptian Cup | International competitions | International competitions | Head coach |
| Season | Tier | League | Finish | Played | Wins | Losses | Win% | Playoffs | Egyptian Cup | League | Result | Head coach |
| Al Ittihad Alexandria |||||||||||||
| 2016–17 | 1 | Premier League | 5th | 12 | 6 | 9 | .400 | N/A | | DNQ | DNQ | |
| 2017–18 | 1 | Premier League | 3rd | 12 | 7 | 5 | .583 | Quarterfinalist | | DNQ | DNQ | |
| 2018–19 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 10 | 4 | .714 | Semifinalist | | DNQ | DNQ | |
| 2019–20 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 12 | 2 | .857 | Champions | Champion | Not held | Not held | Ahmed Marei |
| 2020–21 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 12 | 2 | .857 | Runners-up | Champion | DNQ | DNQ | | Ahmed Marei |
| 2021–22 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 11 | 3 | .786 | Runners-up | Runner-up | Arab Championship | 4th | Ahmed Marei |
| 2022–23 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 13 | 1 | .929 | Runners-up | | Arab Championship | QF | Miodrag Perišić /Henrik Rödl |
| 2023–24 | 1 | Premier League | 1st | 14 | 13 | 1 | .929 | Champions | Champion | | | Ahmed Omar |

## Head coaches

* Ahmed Marei: (2019–2022)
* Miodrag Perišić: (June – October 2022)
* Henrik Rödl: (2022–2023)
* Ahmed Omar: (2023–present)