 Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium hosted the match | |||||||
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| Zamalek won 4–3 onpenalties | |||||||
| Date | 20 February 2020 (2020-02-20) | ||||||
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| Venue | Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi | ||||||
| Referee | Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)[1] | ||||||
| Attendance | 33,790[2] | ||||||
| Weather | Fair 25 °C (77 °F) 41%humidity[3] | ||||||
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The2020 Egyptian Super Cup (also known as the2018–19 SAIB Egyptian Super Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 17thEgyptian Super Cup, an annual football match played between the winners of the previous season'sEgyptian Premier League andEgypt Cup. It was played atMohammed bin Zayed Stadium inAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on 20 February 2020, contested byAl Ahly andZamalek.[4]
Zamalek defeated Al Ahly and won the match 4–3 onpenalties after being tied 0–0, winning the Egyptian Super Cup title for the fourth time in their history.[5]
In the2018–19 Egyptian Premier League, Al Ahly and Zamalek were joined byPyramids in title race throughout the season. Pyramids managed to grab 10 points out of 12 possible from their matches against Al Ahly and Zamalek and were leading the table by Matchday 29. However, after winning only 1 match and drawing 4 in their last 5 matches of the season, Pyramids missed their chance to win the league and to qualify for theCAF Champions League as they finished the league in 3rd place. Al Ahly eventually won the league for the 41st time in their history with 1 game to spare following their 3–1 win againstAl Mokawloon Al Arab.[6]
Zamalek won the2018–19 Egypt Cup after defeatingPyramids 3–0 in thefinal, winning the title for the 27th time in their history.[7] Identical to the previous editions of the competition, theEgyptian Football Association were heavily criticized for the draw procedure where the cup defending champions and the league winners were placed in different paths to make sure that they could face each other only in the final.
During the 2018–19 season, both teams met each other in the league two times and once in theEgyptian Super Cup. The first encounter was played on 30 March 2019 atBorg El Arab Stadium and ended goalless.[8] Al Ahly won the second encounter 1–0 which was played on 28 July 2019 at the same stadium thanks toAli Maâloul's second-half strike.[9] The third encounter was the previous season's super cup, which was played on 20 September 2019 and also at Borg El Arab Stadium. Al Ahly won the match 3–2 with two goals fromJunior Ajayi and one fromHussein El Shahat, whileMahmoud Alaa scored a brace ofpenalties for Zamalek.[10]
The match was played atMohammed bin Zayed Stadium inAbu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates. The stadium has an estimated capacity of 37,500 and is the home venue ofUAE Pro League sideAl Jazira. It was one of the eight venues that hosted the2019 AFC Asian Cup in the country, including one of the semi-final matches.
The stadium also hosted the2016–17 Egyptian Super Cup between both teams on 10 February 2017, which was won by Zamalek 3–1 onpenalties after the game originally ended goalless.
Al Ahly's main wingerRamadan Sobhi was not included in the traveling squad to the United Arab Emirates after suffering from ahamstring injury during training in late December 2019.[11][12] Other notable excluded players wereHamdy Fathy, who is on the recovery stage from a tornACL injury, and strikerMarwan Mohsen.
Zamalek lostMohamed Abdel Ghani's services for the match as he suffered frompubalgia during training just four days after facingEspérance de Tunis in the2018–19 CAF Super Cup, which was won 3–1 by his side.[13]
On 16 February 2020, theEgyptian Football Association named Norwegian refereeSvein Oddvar Moen as the referee for the match. Moen is familiar with Egyptian football, as he officiated theCairo derby between the two teams during the2015–16 Egyptian Premier League in addition to the2017 Egypt Cup Final between Al Ahly andAl Masry. His compatriots Magnus Lundberg and Kim Tomas Haglund were chosen as the assistant referees, whileTore Hansen was chosen as the fourth official. Croatian referee Goran Gabrilo was named thevideo assistant referee, and fellow Croatian Miro Grgić appointed as theassistant video assistant referee.[1]
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