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'Zamalek Football Club (Arabic: نادي الزمالك لكرة القدم, lit.: Nadi El Zamalek'), commonly referred to as Zamalek, is an Egyptian professional football club based in Cairo. The club is the most titled African club in the 20th century, considered one of the continent's giants. Zamalek is the first Egyptian club to win a title, as it was the first Egyptian team to win the Sultan Hussein Cup in 1921, the first team to win the Egypt Cup in 1922, and the first team to win the Cairo League in 1922–23. This article includes records and statistics related to Zamalek SC.
Zamalek is one of the most successful clubs in the history of Egyptian football in terms of the number of local championships, as the club has won fourteen Egyptian League titles, twenty-nine titles in the Egypt Cup, four titles in the Egyptian Super Cup, fourteen titles in the Cairo League and two titles in the Sultan Hussein Cup, one title of the October League Cup, three titles of King Fouad Cup, one title of each of the Egyptian Friendship Cup and the Egyptian Confederation Cup.
At the African level, they had achieved fourteen African continental titles by winning the CAF Champions League five times, the CAF Confederation Cup twice, and the African Cup Winners' Cup once, five times in the CAF Super Cup, in addition to winning two titles of the Afro-Asian Club Championship. At the Arab level, Zamalek won the Arab Club Champions Cup once and the Egyptian-Saudi Super Cup twice. The Zamalek football team is the most victorious African team in the continental level in the 20th century, with 9 tournaments. The football team in Zamalek also won the title of the best club in the world according to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in February 2003.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Zamalek and records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first team competitions.
All stats are accurate as of 3 July 2025.
All trophies are approved by Egyptian football Association website [2] and Zamalek SC Official Facebook page. [3]
Rank [4] | Name | Years | League | Cup | Super Cup | African | Arab | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1997–2014 | 345 | 40 | 4 | 88 | 27 | 504 (0) |
2 | ![]() | 2002–2005 2006–2014 2016–2017 2019–2025 | 270 | 48 | 5 | 69 | 10 | 404 (70) |
3 | ![]() | 1999–2009 | 219 | 27 | 3 | 58 | 32 | 339 (138) |
4 | ![]() | 1995–2008 | 207 | 23 | 2 | 56 | 35 | 323 (26) |
5 | ![]() | 1999–2009 | 144 | 27 | 3 | 51 | 31 | 248 (11) |
6 | ![]() | 1997–2004 2007–2008 | 146 | 21 | 2 | 42 | 22 | 223 (11) |
7 | ![]() | 1999–2004 2005–2007 | 126 | 31 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 231 (8) |
8 | ![]() | 2000–2009 2007–2008 | 145 | 17 | 1 | 33 | 33 | 229 (74) |
9 | ![]() | 2008–2016 2017–2022 | 151 | 18 | 0 | 54 | 4 | 227 (10) |
10 | ![]() | 2008–2016 2007–2014 | 145 | 12 | 0 | 47 | 0 | 204 (50) |
Rank | Player | Time | League | Cup | October League Cup | Confederation | African | Afro-Asian | Arab | Total |
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1 | Abdel Halim Ali | 1999-2009 | 80 (210) | 18 (27) | 0 (3) | 0 | 23 (58) | 0 | 23 (13) | 134 (330) |
2 | Hassan Shehata | 1967-1969 1973-1983 | 77 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 102 |
3 | Gamal Abdel Hamid | 1984-1994 | 73 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 97 |
4 | Ali Khalil | 1970-1980 | 78 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 94 |
5 | Alaa El-Hamouly | 1949-1962 | 68 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 91 |
6 | Ahmed Sayed | 2019-2025 | 61 (164) | 8 (16) | 0 | 0 | 14 (17) | 0 | 1 (3) | 86 |
7 | Hamada Emam | 1957-1974 | 74 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 |
8 | Gamal Hamza | 2000-2009 | 46 (145) | 10 (17) | 0 | 0 | 10 (33) | 0 | 8 (33) | 74 (229) |
9 | Tarek Yehia | 1981-1992 | 51 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 71 |
10 | Shikabala | 2002–2005 2006–2014 2016–2017 2019–2025 | 50 (276) | 10 (48) | 0 | 0 | 10 (69) | 0 | 0 | 70 (393) |
The following players have won the top scorer award in the league while playing with Zamalek:
Season | Player | Goals |
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1960–61 | ![]() | 16 |
1976–77 | ![]() | 17 |
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1978–79 | ![]() | 12 |
1979–80 | ![]() | 14 |
1987–88 | ![]() | 11 |
1997–98 | ![]() | 15 |
2000–01 | ![]() | 13 |
2001–02 | ![]() | 18 |
2003–04 | ![]() | 21 |
2010–11 | ![]() | 13 |
2021–22 | ![]() | 19 |
Throughout its history, Zamalek has had 31 club captains. The following players have been official Zamalek captains.
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Zamalek SC was named the best club in the world by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) in February 2003. [11]
Zamalek SC was named the best club in Africa in 2003 by the Confederation of African Football. [12] [13]
The following players won Al-Ahram Hebdo Egyptian Best footballer award while playing for Zamalek:
The following players won Al-Shabab & Al-Reyada Annual Awards while playing for Zamalek: [14]