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.Egyptian Premier League fixture list www.efa.com.eg (Arabic)
The defending champions, Al Ahly, won its sixth league title in a row after a 3–0 win against Mansoura."Al Ahly again crowned Egyptian kings" FIFA, 2010-4-30. Retrieved on 17 May 2010.
Overview
Promotion and relegation Teams promoted from 2008–09 Egyptian Second Division Group A: El Entag El Harby Group B: El Mansoura Group C: Gouna
Teams relegated to 2009–10 Egyptian Second Division Itesalat Tersana Olympi
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.
Club Location Venue Seating Capacity Al Ahly Cairo Cairo International Stadium 74,100 Asyut Petroleum Asyut Asiut University Stadium 25,000 ENPPI Club Cairo Petro Sport Stadium 25,000 Talaea El-Geish Cairo Military Academy Stadium 22,000 Ghazl El-Mehalla El-Mehalla El Mahalla Stadium 29,000 Gouna Hurghada Gouna FC Stadium 13,000 Haras El Hodood Alexandria Haras El Hodoud Stadium 22,000 Ismaily Ismailia Ismailia Stadium 18,525 Al-Ittihad Al-Sakndary Alexandria Alexandria Stadium 13,660 Al-Mansoura El Mansoura El Mansoura Stadium 20,000 Al-Masry Port Said Port Said Stadium 17,988 Military Production Cairo Al Salam Stadium 30,000 Al-Mokawloon Al-Arab Cairo Osman Ahmed Osman 35,000 Petrojet Suez Suez Stadium 25,000 Police Union Cairo Military Academy Stadium 22,000 Al-Zamalek Giza Cairo International Stadium 74,100
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-SayedAdidas Royal Ceramic
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerManner of departureDate of vacancyTableIncoming managerDate of appointmentTableAl Ahly Manuel JoséEnd of contract31 May 2009Jose quits Ahli for Angola filgoal.com1st Hossam El-Badry22 June 2009Al-Badri confirmed as Ahli coach filgoal.comPre-SeasonIsmaily RicardoSacked31 May 2009Ismaili to part ways with Ricardo, eye foreign successor filgoal.com2nd Nebojsa Vukovic9 July 2009Vuckovic chose Ismaili over Gulf temptations filgoal.comPre-SeasonENPPI Anwer SalamaResigned8 August 200913th Diaa Al-Sayed10 August 200913thIsmaily Nebojsa VukovicSacked22 August 200912th Emad Soliman22 August 200912thGhazl El-Mehalla Sherif Al-KhashabResigned27 August 2009Radwan appointed Mahalla coach filgoal.com16th Mohamed Radwan27 August 200916thEl-Masry Bertalan BicskeiSacked29 August 200912th Anwer Salama29 August 200912thIttihad Taha BasrySacked30 August 200915th Carlos Cabral1 September 2009Cabral to 'share' management against Zamalek filgoal.com15thZamalek Michel DecastelSacked31 August 20096th Henri Michel31 August 20096thZamalek Henri MichelSacked29 November 200910th Hossam Hassan30 November 200910th
Table and results
League table
Top 2 teams qualify for the 2011 CAF Champions League. Egyptian Cup winner & 3rd place team qualify for the 2011 CAF Confederation Cup. Bottom 3 teams are relegated to the Egyptian Second Division for the 2010–11 season.
Results
Season statistics
Scoring First goal of the season: Ramy Rabie for Al-Mokawloon against El Geish, 5 minutes. (6 August 2009). Al-Mokawloon Vs El Geish Match information Filgoal.com Fastest goal in a match: 33 seconds – Shikabala for Zamalek against Petrojet. (20 August 2009).Zamalek pay for Mido's wasted penalty Zamalek Vs Petrojet Filgoal.com Goal scored at the latest point in a match: 90+2 minutes and 29 seconds – Sayed Mosaad for Zamalek against Al-Mokawloon (24 August 2009).Last-gasp Mosaad salvages Zamalek draw filgoal.com First penalty kick of the season: 77 minutes – Ahmed Hossam Mido (Missed) for Zamalek against Petrojet (20 August 2009).
Discipline First yellow card of the season: Amr Al-Sulaya for El Mansoura against Ismaily, 10 minutes (6 August 2009). El Mansoura Vs Ismaily Match information Filgoal.com First red card of the season: Hussein Ali for ENPPI against Gouna, 77 minutes (25 August 2009).ENPPI advance to third spot with Gouna win ENPPI Vs Gouna Match information Filgoal.com
Goalscorers
Last updated: 24 May 2010; Source:
Top scorers Pos.PlayerClubGoals1 Minusu Buba El-Shorta142 Eric Bekoe Petrojet133 Ahmed Abdel-Ghani Haras El Hodood9 Ahmed Gaafar Zamalek Talaat Moharam El Geish Emad Moteab Al Ahly7 Ahmed Ali Kamel Ismaily8 Ahmed Eid Abdel Malek Haras El Hodood Mickaël Dogbé El Geish Reda El-Weshi Al-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.Ahli to launch satellite channel in June filgoal.comAhli TV to broadcast team games exclusively filgoal.com 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.Ahli still coy on broadcasting rights filgoal.com 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.Bahrain Corporation interested in Egyptian league filgoal.com 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.Satellite channels to sue EFA over Ahli row filgoal.com 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.Broadcasting rights row intensifies filgoal.com January, 2009 Egyptian Football Association (EFA) president Samir Zaher said that the league games' broadcasting row will be resolved before the upcoming Cairo derby.Zaher vows to resolve broadcasting conflict filgoal.com 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.EFA agree match-broadcasting deal with British company filgoal.com 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.Egyptian FA decide not to air Super Cup filgoal.com 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,ERTU acquires Super Cup broadcasting rights filgoal.com 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.Egyptian clubs refuse to broadcast league games filgoal.com 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.Broadcasting saga resolved filgoal.com
See also Egypt Cup 2009-10 Egyptian Super Cup List of football clubs in Egypt Cairo derby
References
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