The 2009–10 Al Ahly SC season was the 53rd edition in the Egyptian Premier League. Al-Ahly was looking to defend their fifth title in a row.
Pre-season games Al-Ahly announced that the six fixtures of their 2009 pre-season would be in Germany and England. On July 3, 2009, Al-Ahly played their first pre-season match in Gelsenkirchen, Germany against FC Gelsenkirchen. Later that day, Al-Ahly also played their first match of the Zayton Cup against the Turkish team Galatasaray, and 3 days later they played the German Bayer 04 Leverkusen. The last match was on July 11 against the Moroccan team Wydad Casablanca. After their match against Haras El Hodood in the Egyptian Super Cup, Al-Ahly's 23 players went to London to play in the Wembley Cup against Celtic and Barcelona on 24th and 26 July. DateOpponentsH / AResultF - AScorers3 July 2009FC GelsenkirchenA Gelsenkirchen5 - 03 Ahmed 'Manga' Nabil, Hany El-Agazy, Osama Hosny5 July 2009GalatasarayA LTU Arena0 - 1Barış Özbek (P) 33'24 July 2009Bayer 04 LeverkusenA LTU Arena0 - 2Burak Kaplan 3', Tranquillo Barnetta 90'11 July 2009Wydad CasablancaA LTU Arena2 - 0Mostafa Shebeita (P) 40', Mohamed Samir (P) 52'24 July 2009CelticA Wembley0 - 5Massimo Donati 31', Scott McDonald 2 38'(P) 59', Shaun Maloney 49', Chris Killen 83'26 July 2009BarcelonaA Wembley1 - 4Bojan Krkic 16', Hany El-Agazy 31', José Manuel Rueda 41', Jeffrén Suárez 56', Pedro 67'
Egyptian Super Cup
As the Egyptian Premier League 2008–09 champions, Al-Ahly kicked off the 2009–10 season with the traditional match in the Egyptian Super Cup against 2009 Egypt Cup champion Haras El Hodood on July 21. DateOpponentsH / AResultF – AScorers21 July 2009Haras El HodoodN0 - 2Ahmed Hassan Mekky 5', Ahmed Abdel-Ghani 85'
Egyptian Premier League Al-Ahly's opening game of the Egyptian Premier League 2009–10 was on August 6 against Ghazl El-Mehalla. Al-Ahly's coach Hossam El-Badry, who took over the club following the departure of Portuguese Manuel José at the end of the previous season, employed an unusual 4-4-2 formation. Despite the bad opening of the season in the super cup defeat against Haras El Hodood Al-Ahly beat Ghazl El-Mehalla 2–0. Ahmed Hassan made the opening score after 40 minutes and Francis Doe brought the score up to two 66 minutes into his Egyptian Premier League debut. The next game was a narrow 2–1 win over Ittihad El-Shorta in an unbroadcast game on 19 August. Former Ahly player Ahmed Galal scored the first goal of the game after 31 minutes, but 4 minutes later Ahly's player Ahmed Hassan scored equalizing the score. In the second-half substitute Hussein Yasser scored Al-Ahly's second goal in the 80th minute to secure Ahly's second win of the season.
On 23 August, Al-Ahly played their third match of the season against Haras El Hodood in a 1–1 draw, Haras El Hodood player Ahmed Salama scored the opener 69 minutes in and Ahmed Hassan scored the equalizer nine minutes later.
DateOpponentsH / AResultF – AScorersLeagueposition6 August 2009Ghazl El-MehallaH2 - 0Ahmed Hassan 40', Francis Doe 60'2nd19 August 2009Ittihad El-ShortaA1 - 2 Ahmed Galal 31', Ahmed Hassan 34', Hussein Yasser 80'2nd23 August 2009Haras El HodoodH1 - 1 Ahmed Salama 69', Ahmed Hassan 78'2nd
CAF Champions League
Group stage
Semi-finals
Ahly 2–2 Espérance on aggregate. Espérance won on away goals rule and advances to the 2010 CAF Champions League final.
2009–2010 Squad As September 12, 2009.
Transfers Players in / out
In Date Pos. Name From Fee / Note 13 May 2009 DF Mohamed Khalaf Al-Nasr Cairo 15 May 2009 DF Wael Shafik Semouha 22 May 2009 DF Ateya El-Belqasy Olympi Undisclosed 31 May 2009 FW Mohamed Fadl Ismaily Free agent 23 June 2009 MF Amir Saayoud Al-Ahli Dubai Undisclosed 25 June 2009 MF Alaa Shaaban El Hammam Undisclosed 1 July 2009 FW Emad Moteab Al-Ittihad Loan return 14 July 2009 FW Francis Doe D.C. United Undisclosed 31 July 2009 DF Sherif Abdel-Fadil Ismaily €0.2m + Ahmad Sedik 1 January 2010 GK Sherif Ekramy El Gouna
Out Date Pos. Name To Fee / Note 25 May 2009 DF Abdel Hamid Ahmed El Gouna Loan return 1 June 2009 FW Flávio Amado Al-Shabab €2.75m 4 June 2009 DF Emad El-Nahhas Retired 4 June 2009 DF Shady Mohamed Ittihad Free agent 16 June 2009 DF Ramy Adel El Gouna Undisclosed 16 June 2009 FW Ahmed Hassan Farag El-Shorta €0.25m 24 June 2009 MF Hassan Mostafa Zamalek Free agent 25 June 2009 MF Hussein Ali El Gouna €0.25m 31 July 2009 MF Ahmad Sedik Ismaily In Sherif Abdel-Fadil deal 27 January 2010 MF Hussein Yasser Zamalek Free agent
See also Al-Ahly
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