Egypt has three football clubs participating in the semi-finals of Africa's two biggest team championships. Powerhouses Ahly and Zamalek are taking part in the Champions League whereas Pyramids are in the second tier Confederation Cup.
After several (...)
The Egyptian National Olympic Committee (ENOC) is continuing to build up its teams for the Tokyo Olympic Games scheduled to take place in summer 2021, reports Inas Mazhar.
The games were to have been staged this year but were postponed due to the (...)
Mayar Sherif has made Egyptian tennis history. By reaching the main draw of the French Open, the 24-year-old has become the first female Egyptian to qualify for the main draw of any major international tennis tournament.
On Tuesday, Sherif played (...)
With only three months to go before the Men's Handball World Championship, the work needed to finalise the remaining items is becoming more hectic and more demanding.
Handball officials and players are on their toes as they prepare to host the (...)
Finally, and after months of anticipation, the participating teams at the Men's Handball World Championship were introduced to their group opponents when the draw was held in Cairo on Saturday at the Giza Pyramids Plateau.
As hosts, Egypt had the (...)
The preliminary groups for the 27th edition of the Men's Handball World Championship will be drawn on Saturday.
The Pharaohs of Egypt are to be introduced to their group opponents when the draw is made at the Giza Pyramids Plateau on Saturday (...)
The 23rd week of the Egyptian Football League kicks off on Saturday. According to the Competitions Committee of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) the future schedule includes only the next three rounds.
EFA Head of Competitions Hossam (...)
Major generals Moetaz Al-Sharkawi and Magdi Shehata, both 73, were invited this week to relate their stories on how they wore down Israeli forces between 1967 and 1970. Al-Sharkawi and Shehata, who now oversee the establishment of the New (...)
The draw that will pit the teams of the Men's Handball World Championship in their respective groups in Egypt will take place on 5 September at the new Museum of Civilisation in Cairo.
According to head of the organising committee Hussein Labib, the (...)
Five months after Covid-19 stopped football in Egypt dead in its tracks, the league is set to make its long-awaited return. The competition resumes on Thursday 6 August with one match to be played, Zamalek versus Masri, at Borg Al-Arab Stadium in (...)
If asked to name a few of the most famous sportswomen in the world today, most people who watch, play, or read about sports would rattle off at least some names, among them Serena Williams, Simone Biles, and Maria Sharpova. But for the same people, (...)
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has finally decided what to do with the semi-finals and final of its most prestigious club competition, the Champions League.
In a meeting held in Cairo concerning the semi-finals and the final of the (...)
Retirement is the fate of any sportsman or sportswoman. It's a destiny they can't escape. It has to come one day and it is usually the athlete who decides when to quit. On 25 June, Egypt's No 1 squash player in the world realised that that day has (...)
The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) will on 2 July announce the exact date when the country's most popular sport resumes. The 18-team league has been suspended, just like all other sports, since 21 March following the outbreak of the (...)
While some Egyptian sports federations have announced they would be resuming their activities, suspended by the coronavirus, by August, others have decided to cancel and start a new season altogether. And some don't know what to do.
Football, the (...)
As the lockdown continues worldwide and sport remains suspended because of Covid-19, many international sports federations have been taking the opportunity to think of new forms for the development of the future of their sports. FIFA, the world's (...)
Mohamed Sanad, who plays for USAM Nimes of France, has been a key player in his handball club's 18 league games played in this abruptly shortened season, scoring 85 goals.
The 29-year-old Egyptian winger helped his side to a third-place finish with (...)
This week's decisions announced by Egypt's Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli that professional sports will resume to a degree brought an air of optimism to the country's athletes and fans and revived hopes that by the third week of June some sports (...)
Almost all national and continental premier football leagues, as well as FIFA qualifiers, have been suspended across the world since mid-March because of the coronavirus, causing huge damage to the football industry.
With no matches being played, (...)
It's been a month since sports activities were suspended worldwide because of the coronavirus.
The disruption has cast a shadow over all stakeholders involved in the sports business in terms of marketing and advertising. Sponsors are losing huge (...)
After almost every other sports championship ground to a halt because of the coronavirus, the world's most prestigious sporting event has finally fallen in line.
On Tuesday, it was confirmed that the 2020 Tokyo Games is to be postponed for a year, (...)
Against all odds, Egypt's world No 10 Hania Al-Hammami was crowned the 2020 CIB Women's Black Ball Squash Open champion.
The 19-year-old beat the four-time Egyptian world champion Nour Al-Sherbini in the final of the event which was held at the (...)
Sports in Egypt have so far not been affected by the coronavirus with international and continental events being held in the country in the last two months. All have been incident free.
Since the coronavirus broke out, Egypt has hosted several major (...)
The second edition of the Women's Black Ball Squash Open starts Sunday in Cairo.
The event, from 8 to 14 March, will be held at the squash courts of the Black Ball Club in the Fifth Settlement of New Cairo.
The one-week tournament will host the top (...)
The final day of the five-day 2020 Pentathlon World Cup, held at the Platinum Club in New Cairo, saw Egyptian athletes dominate the mixed relay as they made it to the podium to receive the gold and silver medals in front a huge spectator (...)
