The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the Grand Hotel in Khartoum, Sudan by the national football associations of Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa and Sudan, following formal discussions between the aforementioned associations at the FIFA Congress held on 7 June 1956 at Avenida Hotel in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Sudan national football team represents Sudan in international football and is controlled by the Sudan Football Association, the governing body for football in Sudan. Its home ground is Khartoum Stadium in the capital Khartoum. In 1957, it was one of the three teams to participate in the inaugural Africa Cup of Nations, the other two being Egypt and Ethiopia.
Arash Borhani is a retired Iranian football player and coach. He is the all-time top goal scorer of Esteghlal and also the second all-time top goal scorer in Iran's Premier Football League. He was the top goal scorer of 2008–09 Iran's Premier Football League. He was also a member of the Iran national football team. Borhani won a bronze medal in 2006 Asian Games with Iran national under-23 football team.
Eldin Jakupović is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
Al Hilal Sports Club, known as Al Hilal S.C or simply Al Hilal, is a Sudanese professional football club based in Omdurman that competes in the Sudan Premier League.
Al-Merrikh Sporting Club is a Sudanese professional football club based in Omdurman. Their home stadium is Al-Merrikh Stadium, which is locally known as The Red Castle. Founded in 1908, Al-Merrikh is one of the oldest football clubs in Africa, and have won the Sudan Premier League 22 times and Sudan Cup 26 times. The club shares a fierce rivalry with Al-Hilal, the games between them regularly selling out, as well as being the only other realistic challenger to the league crown. They won the Om-al-Dahab championship in 1965 and have been the only team to have ever won this one time event. Al-Hilal are also based in Omdurman with only Al-Ardha street separating the teams and between them they are Sudan's most powerful and successful football clubs.
Al Masry Sporting Club is an Egyptian sports club based in Port Said, Egypt. The club is mainly known for its professional football team, that competes in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest division of the Egyptian football league system.
Al Mokawloon Al Arab Sporting Club, shortly known as El Mokawloon(The contractors) locally, is an Egyptian professional sports club based in Nasr City, Cairo, and owned by the prominent constructional engineer Osman Ahmed Osman. The club was founded in 1973 by the Egyptian engineer, contractor, entrepreneur, and politician Osman Ahmed Osman as the official sporting club for his prominent, regional construction company, the Arab Contractors, arguably the biggest one in the entire Middle East at that time. The club is best known for their football team, which currently plays in the Egyptian Premier League, the highest league in the Egyptian football league system.
Khaleej Football Club is a Saudi Arabian multisports club. Located in Saihat, Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. It is a sport, social, educational club. Additionally, different teams in this club, categorized in different levels based on the age, play different sports. Among the sports played by the Khaleej Club teams are football, handball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics, athletics, aquatics and others.
Al Nasr Sporting Club is a Kuwaiti professional football club, founded on 8 June 1965, and based in Farwaniya. The team has participated in the Kuwait Premier League 26 times. Al Nasr had been promoted to the Premier League three times, as champions of Kuwaiti Division One.
Essam Kamal Tawfiq El Hadary is an Egyptian goalkeeping coach and former professional footballer.
Emad El Nahhas is an Egyptian football coach and former player who is the manager of the Al Ittihad Alexandria. El-Nahhas finished his career at Al-Ahly Club after retiring, undertaking training several times. He currently coaches El-Geish.
Hossam Mohamed Ashour Sanad Atia is an Egyptian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Alaa Abdul-Zahra Khashen Al-Azzawi, is an Iraqi football player who currently plays for Al-Shorta in the Iraqi Premier League.
Walid Soliman Said Ebid is an Egyptian retired professional footballer who last played as a winger and an attacking midfielder for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly SC and the Egypt national team.
Muhaned Altaher is a Sudanese footballer who plays as a secondary striker for Sudan Premier League club Tuti SC and the Sudan national team.
Mohamed Kamal Eldin Fadl El-moula is a Sudanese footballer who played for El-Merreikh in the Sudan Premier League.
Seifeldin Ali Edris Farah is a Sudanese footballer who plays for Al-Hilal FC in the Sudan Premier League. He is the member of the Sudan National Football Team. He plays as a defensive midfielder. He is known for his hair having white colour in front.
Mahmoud Alaa Eldin Mahmoud Ibrahim is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek and the Egyptian national team. He competed for the Egyptian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The 2020–21 Al Ahly season is the 113th season in the football club's history and 62nd consecutive and overall season in the top flight of Egyptian football, the Egyptian Premier League. In addition to the domestic league, Al Ahly also are participating in this season's editions of the domestic cup, the Egypt Cup, the Egyptian Super Cup, and the first-tier African cup, the CAF Champions League. The season covers a period from 13 December 2020 to 30 July 2021.
