# 2018–19 Al Ittihad Alexandria Club season

The 2018–19 Al Ittihad season was the 104th season in the football club's history and 49th consecutive and 58th overall season in the top flight of Egyptian football, the Egyptian Premier League, having been promoted from the Egyptian Second Division in 1961. In addition to the domestic league, Al Ittihad also competed in this season's editions of the domestic cup, the Egypt Cup, and the first-tier Arab cup, the Arab Club Champions Cup. The season covered a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019; however Al Ittihad played their first match of the season in May 2018 and played their last match in September 2019.

## Kit information

Supplier: Uhlsport
| Home | Home alt. | Home alt. 2 | Away | Home (Arab) | Away (Arab) |

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 1 February 2019
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | EGY | El Hany Soliman (Captain) |
| 3 | MF | EGY | Ahmed Tawfik (on loan from Pyramids) |
| 4 | DF | EGY | Mahmoud Rizk |
| 5 | MF | EGY | Ahmed Dawouda (on loan from Zamalek) |
| 6 | DF | EGY | Sabry Raheel |
| 7 | FW | GNB | Toni Silva |
| 8 | MF | EGY | Ahmed Nabil |
| 9 | FW | EGY | Mohamed Abdel Maguid |
| 10 | MF | EGY | Khaled El Ghandour |
| 11 | DF | EGY | El Sayed Salem |
| 12 | FW | NGA | Derick Ogbu |
| 13 | DF | EGY | Mohamed Nasef (on loan from Tala'ea El Gaish) |
| 14 | MF | EGY | Nour El Sayed (4th captain) |
| 15 | FW | EGY | Gedo |
| 16 | GK | EGY | Mahmoud El Zonfouly |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | DF | EGY | Karim El Deeb (on loan from Al Mokawloon Al Arab) |
| 18 | MF | EGY | Karim Mamdouh |
| 19 | FW | EGY | Khaled Kamar |
| 20 | DF | EGY | Bazoka (Vice-captain) |
| 21 | MF | EGY | Mohamed Adel (3rd captain) |
| 22 | FW | EGY | Amar Hamdy (on loan from Al Ahly) |
| 25 | DF | EGY | Mohamed Anwar |
| 27 | DF | EGY | Mahmoud Shaaban |
| 32 | FW | EGY | Fawzy El Henawy (on loan from Al Ahly) |
| 33 | GK | EGY | Sobhy Soliman |
| 55 | DF | BRA | Wallace da Silva |
| 66 | FW | CIV | Razack Cissé (on loan from Zamalek) |
| 77 | DF | EGY | Hesham Salah |
| - | DF | EGY | Reda Abdel Aal |
| - | MF | EGY | Shady Dawood |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | EGY | Amr Khalil (at Tersana until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | TOG | Wilson Akakpo (at Al Shoulla until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | EGY | Mohamed Gabr (at Amanat Baghdad until 30 June 2019) |
| — | DF | EGY | Marwan El Nagar (at Petrojet until 30 June 2019) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | EGY | Mohamed Hassan (at El Raja until 30 June 2019) |
| — | MF | CIV | Didier Koré (at Nogoom until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | EGY | Ahmed El Alfi (at El Gouna until 30 June 2019) |
| — | FW | GHA | Emmanuel Banahene (at Al Shoulla until 30 June 2019) |

## Transfers
### Transfers in

| # | Position | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| 25 | GK | Mahmoud El Gharabawy | El Dakhleya | Free transfer | 2 May 2018 |
| 12 | MF | Didier Koré | Al Mokawloon Al Arab | Free transfer | 2 May 2018 |
| 6 | DF | Ahmed Magdy | Petrojet | Undisclosed | 11 May 2018 |
| 3 | DF | Mohamed Gabr | El Raja | Undisclosed | 11 May 2018 |
| 16 | GK | Mahmoud El Zonfouly | El Raja | E£5m | 14 May 2018 |
| 19 | FW | Khaled Kamar | Zamalek | Undisclosed | 4 June 2018 |
| 7 | DF | Ramzy Khaled | Zamalek | Undisclosed | 11 June 2018 |
| 23 | MF | Mohamed Hassan | Ittihad Nabarouh | Undisclosed | 14 June 2018 |
| 4 | DF | Mahmoud Rizk | El Entag El Harby | Free transfer | 25 June 2018 |
| 21 | FW | Ahmed El Sheikh | Tala'ea El Gaish | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| 8 | MF | Ahmed Nabil | Smouha | E£4m | 20 December 2018 |
| | MF | Shady Dawood | Den Bosch | Undisclosed | 28 December 2018 |
| 12 | FW | Derick Ogbu | Tskhinvali | Undisclosed | 29 December 2018 |
| | DF | Reda Abdel Aal | MS El Qais | Undisclosed | 3 January 2019 |
| 55 | DF | Wallace da Silva | Dunărea Călărași | Free transfer | 6 January 2019 |
| 6 | DF | Sabry Raheel | Al Ahly | E£3m | 7 January 2019 |
| 77 | DF | Hesham Salah | Telecom Egypt | Undisclosed | 9 January 2019 |
| 25 | DF | Mohamed Anwar | Wadi Degla | E£700k | 9 January 2019 |
| 11 | DF | El Sayed Salem | Wadi Degla | Swap deal | 15 January 2019 |
| 18 | MF | Karim Mamdouh | Wadi Degla | Swap deal | 15 January 2019 |
| 7 | FW | Toni Silva | Mamelodi Sundowns | Undisclosed | 18 January 2019 |

#### Loans in

| # | Position | Player | Loaned from | Date | Loan expires |
| 32 | FW | Fawzy El Henawy | Al Ahly | 6 May 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 66 | FW | Razack Cissé | Zamalek | 4 June 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 17 | MF | Karim El Deeb | Al Mokawloon Al Arab | 10 June 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 5 | MF | Ahmed Dawouda | Zamalek | 11 June 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 13 | DF | Mohamed Nasef | Tala'ea El Gaish | 25 July 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| 22 | FW | Amar Hamdy | Al Ahly | 5 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| 3 | MF | Ahmed Tawfik | Pyramids | 21 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |

### Transfers out

| Position | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| MF | Mahmoud Farag | El Entag El Harby | Undisclosed | 30 May 2018 |
| DF | Hesham Shehata | El Entag El Harby | E£250k | 6 June 2018 |
| FW | Ahmed El Sheikh | Haras El Hodoud | Free transfer | 30 June 2018 |
| DF | Shawky El Said | Released | Released | 30 June 2018 |
| FW | Karim Mostafa | Al Mokawloon Al Arab | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| DF | Mohamed Ahmed | Zamalek | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| GK | Reda El Sayed | Aswan | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| MF | Mohamed Ali Moncer | Espérance de Tunis | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| MF | Ahmed Kabouria | Zamalek | End of loan | 30 June 2018 |
| MF | Mohamed Osama | Al Muzahimiyyah | Undisclosed | 18 August 2018 |
| FW | Manucho | CS Sfaxien | Undisclosed | 23 August 2018 |
| GK | Mahmoud El Gharabawy | El Gouna | E£600k | 16 December 2018 |
| MF | Ashour El Adham | Haras El Hodoud | Undisclosed | 10 January 2019 |
| DF | Ramzy Khaled | Wadi Degla | Swap deal | 15 January 2019 |
| MF | Ahmed Magdy | El Entag El Harby | Undisclosed | 29 January 2019 |

#### Loans out

| Position | Player | Loaned to | Date | Loan expires |
| GK | Amr Khalil | Tersana | 21 June 2018 | 30 June 2019 |
| DF | Wilson Akakpo | Al Shoulla | 7 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| FW | Emmanuel Banahene | Al Shoulla | 7 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| MF | Didier Koré | Nogoom | 8 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| FW | Ahmed El Alfi | El Gouna | 17 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| DF | Marwan El Nagar | Petrojet | 17 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| DF | Mohamed Gabr | Amanat Baghdad | 21 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |
| MF | Mohamed Hassan | El Raja | 23 January 2019 | 30 June 2019 |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Egyptian Premier League | 31 July 2018 | 3 June 2019 | Matchday 1 | 11th | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 026.47 |
| Egypt Cup | 11 October 2018 | 1 September 2019 | Round of 32 | Semi-finals | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 050.00 |
| Arab Club Champions Cup | 18 May 2018 | 25 February 2019 | Play-off round | Quarter-finals | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 8 | +10 | 033.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 47 | 14 | 17 | 16 | 65 | 67 | −2 | 029.79 |
Source: Competitions

### Egyptian Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 9 | ENPPI | 34 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 39 | 42 | −3 | 40 |
| 10 | Wadi Degla | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 41 | 47 | −6 | 40 |
| 11 | Al Ittihad | 34 | 9 | 12 | 13 | 41 | 56 | −15 | 39 |
| 12 | Smouha | 34 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 33 | 41 | −8 | 38 |
| 13 | El Entag El Harby | 34 | 8 | 14 | 12 | 36 | 44 | −8 | 38 |
* 1 2 Tied on head-to-head points (3), on head-to-head goal difference (0), on head-to-head goals scored (3) and on head-to-head away goals scored (2). Overall goal difference: ENPPI –3, Wadi Degla –6.
* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Smouha 10, El Entag El Harby 8, El Gouna 7, Haras El Hodoud 5.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Source: Soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | D | L | W | D | D | D | D | L | W | W | D | L | L | L | W | D | D | L | L | L | D | W | D | W | D | W | L | L | L | D | W | D | L | W |
| Position | 10 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 11 |

#### Matches
### Arab Club Champions Cup
#### Group B

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ITH | FUS | SAL | ADT |
| 1 | Al-Ittihad Alexandria | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 1 | +13 | 7 | Advance to First round | — | 1–1 | | 8–0 |
| 2 | FUS Rabat | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | +12 | 7 | | | — | 5–0 | |
| 3 | Al-Salmiya | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 10 | −6 | 3 | | 0–5 | | — | 4–0 |
| 4 | ASAS Djibouti Télécom | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19 | −19 | 0 | | | 0–7 | | — |

#### Quarter-finals
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

| No. | Pos | Player | Egyptian Premier League | Egyptian Premier League | Egypt Cup | Egypt Cup | Arab Club Champions Cup | Arab Club Champions Cup | Total | Total |
| No. | Pos | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | El Hany Soliman | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| 3 | MF | Ahmed Tawfik | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 1 |
| 4 | DF | Mahmoud Rizk | 19+3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | Ahmed Dawouda | 7+6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Sabry Raheel | 1+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Toni Silva | 5+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 8 | MF | Ahmed Nabil | 13+2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | Mohamed Abdel Maguid | 1+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+3 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 10 | MF | Khaled El Ghandour | 23+3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6+1 | 0 | 35 | 2 |
| 11 | DF | El Sayed Salem | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 12 | FW | Derick Ogbu | 3+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | Mohamed Nasef | 12+2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Nour El Sayed | 32 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 45 | 0 |
| 15 | FW | Gedo | 9+15 | 4 | 0+2 | 0 | 4+2 | 4 | 32 | 8 |
| 16 | GK | Mahmoud El Zonfouly | 12+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 17 | DF | Karim El Deeb | 13+6 | 2 | 2+1 | 0 | 6+1 | 1 | 29 | 3 |
| 18 | MF | Karim Mamdouh | 3+7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | Khaled Kamar | 30+1 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 18 |
| 20 | FW | Bazoka | 19 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Mohamed Adel | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 22 | MF | Amar Hamdy | 12+2 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 17 | 3 |
| 25 | DF | Mohamed Anwar | 8 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 27 | DF | Mahmoud Shaaban | 10+1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 32 | FW | Fawzy El Henawy | 1+7 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 33 | GK | Sobhy Soliman | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | DF | Wallace da Silva | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 66 | FW | Razack Cissé | 28+4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 8+1 | 4 | 44 | 12 |
| 77 | DF | Hesham Salah | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Players joined during the 2019 summer transfer window |||||||||||
| 1 | GK | Emad El Sayed | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | Osama El Azab | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | Ahmed Heggy | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | MF | Hesham Mohamed | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 27 | FW | Emmanuel Okwi | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Players transferred out during the season |||||||||||
| 2 | DF | Wilson Akakpo | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Mohamed Gabr | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | Ahmed Magdy | 12+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | Ramzy Khaled | 5+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| 11 | FW | Ahmed El Alfi | 0+10 | 1 | 0+2 | 0 | 0+4 | 0 | 16 | 1 |
| 12 | MF | Didier Koré | 6+3 | 1 | 1+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 |
| 18 | FW | Emmanuel Banahene | 12+4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5+1 | 5 | 25 | 9 |
| 22 | MF | Ashour El Adham | 7+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | Mohamed Hassan | 0+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 25 | GK | Mahmoud El Gharabawy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | FW | Ahmed Kabouria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 28 | MF | Mohamed Osama | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 90 | DF | Marwan El Nagar | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |

### Goalscorers

| Rank | Position | Name | Egyptian Premier League | Egypt Cup | Arab Club Champions Cup | Total |
| 1 | FW | Khaled Kamar | 14 | 3 | 1 | 18 |
| 2 | FW | Razack Cissé | 7 | 1 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | FW | Emmanuel Banahene | 3 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 4 | FW | Gedo | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | DF | Karim El Deeb | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | FW | Amar Hamdy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | MF | Khaled El Ghandour | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | FW | Mohamed Abdel Maguid | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | FW | Ahmed El Alfi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | DF | Mohamed Anwar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | FW | Ahmed Kabouria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | DF | Ramzy Khaled | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Didier Koré | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | MF | Ahmed Nabil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | DF | Ahmed Tawfik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Own goal | Own goal | Own goal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | Total | Total | 41 | 6 | 18 | 65 |

### Clean sheets

| Rank | Name | Egyptian Premier League | Egypt Cup | Arab Club Champions Cup | Total |
| 1 | El Hany Soliman | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 2 | Mahmoud El Zonfouly | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | Total | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 |