| Nickname | The Young Pharaohs | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Association | Egyptian Football Association | ||
| Confederation | CAF | ||
| Head coach | Osama Nabieh | ||
| Captain | Moataz Mohamed | ||
| Home stadium | Cairo International Stadium | ||
| FIFA code | EGY | ||
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| African Youth Championship | |||
| Appearances | 20 (first in 1979) | ||
| Best result | Champions (1981, 1991, 2003, 2013) | ||
| FIFA U-20 World Cup | |||
| Appearances | 9 (first in1981) | ||
| Best result | Third Place (2001) | ||
The Egypt national under-20 football team is the national youth team of Egypt. It is administered by theEgyptian Football Association.
Their best performance in the U-20 World Cup was a third-place finish in2001. This remains the highest result Egypt has achieved in any International World Cup.
Their nickname,The Young Pharaohs is an obvious reference to the nickname of theNational Team,The Pharaohs.
Egypt hosted the2009 U-20 World Cup.
| FIFA U-20 World Cup record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Quarter-finals | 8th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 10 | Squad | |
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Group Stage | 9th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | Squad | |
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Semi-final | 3rd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 11 | Squad | |
| Round of 16 | 15th | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | Squad | |
| Group Stage | 22th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | Squad | |
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Round of 16 | 13th | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 7 | Squad | |
| Round of 16 | 9th | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | Squad | |
| Group Stage | 17th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | Squad | |
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Group Stage | 18th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | ||
| To be determined | |||||||||
| Total | Third Place | 9/25 | 35 | 13 | 5 | 17 | 48 | 50 | |
| Africa U-20 Cup of Nations record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Squad |
| home & away1977 | Semi-finals | 4th | |||||||
| home & away1979 | 1st-round | ||||||||
| home & away1981 | Final | Champion | |||||||
| home & away1983 | 2nd-round | ||||||||
| home & away1985 | 1st-round | ||||||||
| home & away1987 | 2nd-round | ||||||||
| home & away1989 | 2nd-round | ||||||||
| Final | Champion | ||||||||
| 3rd-round | |||||||||
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Group-stage | |||||||||
| Did Not Participate | |||||||||
| Semi-final | 3rd | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||
| Final | Champion | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | ||
| Final | 2nd | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | ||
| Group-stage | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Group-stage | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||
| Semi-final | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Final | Champion | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | ||
| Did not qualify | |||||||||
| Group-stage | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| Did not qualify | |||||||||
| Group-stage | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |||
| Semi-final | 4th | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | ||
Arab Cup U-20 record[edit]
| North-African U-20 Cup record[edit]
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World Cups :
| 20 June 20212021 Arab Cup U-20 GS | Egypt | 2–0 | Cairo, Egypt | |
| 16:00 | Report | Stadium:Cairo International Stadium Referee: Amir Loussaief (Tunisia) |
| 23 June 20212021 Arab Cup U-20 GS | Algeria | 0–1 | Cairo, Egypt | |
| 16:00 | Report |
| Stadium:Cairo International Stadium Referee: Majid Al Shamrani (Saudi Arabia) |
| 26 June 20212021 Arab Cup U-20 GS | Egypt | 4–1 | Cairo, Egypt | |
| 16:00 | Report | Stadium:Cairo International Stadium Referee: Abdullah Al Jamali (Kuwait) |
| 29 June 20212021 Arab Cup U-20 QF | Egypt | 3–0 | Cairo, Egypt | |
| 17:00 | Stadium:Cairo International Stadium Referee: Abdulhadi Al Ruaile (Qatar) |
| 3 July 20212021 Arab Cup U-20 SF | Egypt | 2–3 | Cairo, Egypt | |
| 17:00 |
| Report | Stadium:Cairo International Stadium Referee: Jalal Jayed (Morocco) |
| 9 November 20212021 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 2–1 | Stade municipal de Carthage,Carthage | |
| 14:00 |
| Report |
| Referee: Tayeb Bouderbala (Algeria) |
| 11 November 20212021 UNAF U-20 | Algeria | 0–1 | Stade municipal de Carthage,Carthage | |
| 14:00 | Report |
| Referee: Faraj Abdellaoui (Tunisia) |
| 13 November 20212021 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 2–1 | Stade municipal d'Ariana,Ariana | |
| 14:00 |
| Report |
| Referee: Abdelmoumen Al-Raii (Libya) |
| 17 November 20212021 UNAF U-20 | Tunisia | 3–1 | Stade municipal d'Ariana,Ariana | |
| 14:00 | Report |
| Referee: Nabil Ben Rokaya (Morocco) |
| 21 July 20222022 Arab Cup U-20 GS | Egypt | 1–0 | Damac Stadium,Abha | |
| 21:00 |
| Report | Referee:Abdullah Al-Kandari (Kuwait) |
| 27 July 20222022 Arab Cup U-20 GS | Somalia | 0–2 | Damac Stadium,Abha | |
| 21:00 | Report | Attendance: 3,715 Referee:Sheikh Ahmed Aladdin (Lebanon) |
| 31 July 20222022 Arab Cup U-20 QF | Egypt | 2–1 | Damac Stadium,Abha | |
| 19:00 |
| Referee: Sultan Al-Hammadi (United Arab Emirates) |
| 3 August 20222022 Arab Cup U-20 SF | Algeria | 1–3 | Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium,Abha | |
| 21:00 |
| Referee:Mohammad Khaled (Bahrain) |
| 7 August 20222022 Arab Cup U-20 FI | Saudi Arabia | 1–1 (5–3p) | Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Stadium,Abha | |
| 19:30 |
| Report |
| Attendance: 16,540 Referee: Jalal Jayed (Morocco) |
| Penalties | ||||
| 25 September 2022Friendly | Egypt | 3–1 | El-Max Stadium,Alexandria | |
| 19:30 | Referee: Jalal Jayed (Morocco) |
| 10 February 2023Friendly | Egypt | 1-0 | Cairo Military Academy Stadium,Cairo | |
| 14:30 | Abdelrahman Rashdan | Report |
| 13 February 2023Friendly | Egypt | 1-1 | Cairo Military Academy Stadium,Cairo | |
| 14:30 | Apollo kakogwe | Report | John Paul Ddembe |
| 19 February 2023 (2023-02-19)2023 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations | Egypt | 0-0 | Cairo International Stadium,Cairo | |
| 14:00 | Report | Referee: Omar Artan (Somalia) |
| 22 February 2023 (2023-02-22)2023 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations | Nigeria | 1–0 | Cairo International Stadium,Cairo | |
| 17:00 |
| Report | Referee: Jean-Claude Ishimwe (Rwanda |
| 25 February 2023 (2023-02-25)2023 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations | Senegal | 4–0 | Cairo International Stadium,Cairo | |
| 19:00 | Report | Referee: Mohamed Athoumani (Comoros) |
| 15 November 20232023 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 1–1 | Le Kram,Tunisia | |
| 14:00 UTC+1 | Mohamed Zaalouk | Report | Marwan Al-Zaqqouzi | Stadium:Le Kram Stadium Referee:Tayeb Bouderbala (Algeria) |
| 17 November 20232023 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 3–0 | Le Kram,Tunisia | |
| 14:00 UTC+1 |
| Report | Rostom Dendaoui | Stadium:Le Kram Stadium Referee:Mohamed El Houidri (Morocco) |
| 19 November 20232023 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 2–4 | Ariana,Tunisia | |
| 14:00 UTC+1 | Report | Stadium:Ariana Stadium |
| 21 November 20232023 UNAF U-20 | Egypt | 2–2 | Le Kram,Tunisia | |
| 14:00 UTC+1 | Report | Stadium:Le Kram Stadium |
| 20 March 2024Friendly | Algeria | 2–1 | Algiers,Algeria | |
| 22:00 UTC+1 | Report | Stadium:Salem Mabrouki Stadium |
| 23 March 2024Friendly | Egypt | 2–1 | Algiers,Algeria | |
| 22:00 UTC+1 | Stadium:Salem Mabrouki Stadium |
| 25 March 2024Friendly | Egypt | 1–1 | Algiers,Algeria | |
| 22:00 UTC+1 | Report | Stadium:Salem Mabrouki Stadium |
The following players were called up for the2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations between 27 April – 18 May 2025.[1]
Caps and goals correct as of 27 April 2025, after the match againstSaudi Arabia.
| No. | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1GK | Abdelmonem Tamer | (2006-08-03)3 August 2006 (age 19) | 11 | 0 | |
| 16 | 1GK | Ahmed Wahba | (2005-05-05)5 May 2005 (age 20) | 2 | 0 | |
| 23 | 1GK | Ahmed Menshawi | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | 2DF | Mohamed Samir | (2006-02-03)3 February 2006 (age 19) | 8 | 1 | |
| 3 | 2DF | Mohamed Gamal Ibrahim | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | 2DF | Ahmed Abdin | (2006-05-01)1 May 2006 (age 19) | 12 | 0 | |
| 5 | 2DF | Abdallah Bostangy | (2005-04-04)4 April 2005 (age 20) | 11 | 1 | |
| 6 | 2DF | Youssef Abdelhafiz | (2005-01-05)5 January 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 0 | |
| 12 | 2DF | Moamen Sherif | (2006-02-11)11 February 2006 (age 19) | 2 | 0 | |
| 13 | 2DF | Mahmoud Labib | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 5 | 0 | |
| 14 | 2DF | Mohab Samy | (2005-02-20)20 February 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 0 | |
| 8 | 3MF | Kabaka | (2005-04-22)22 April 2005 (age 20) | 15 | 4 | |
| 21 | 3MF | Ahmed Wahid | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 1 | 0 | |
| 22 | 3MF | Mohamed El Sayed | (2006-05-20)20 May 2006 (age 19) | 13 | 0 | |
| 24 | 3MF | Mohamed Atef | (2007-01-01)1 January 2007 (age 18) | 0 | 0 | |
| 25 | 3MF | Seif Eldin Essam | (2005-04-03)3 April 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 0 | |
| 7 | 4FW | Amoory | (2005-05-27)27 May 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 2 | |
| 9 | 4FW | Mohamed Zaalouk | (2005-03-05)5 March 2005 (age 20) | 11 | 4 | |
| 10 | 4FW | Mohamed Abdallah | (2005-10-18)18 October 2005 (age 20) | 10 | 4 | |
| 11 | 4FW | Mohanad Mohamed | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 0 | |
| 15 | 4FW | Omar Khedr | (2006-05-25)25 May 2006 (age 19) | 12 | 0 | |
| 17 | 4FW | Amr Khaled | (2005-10-06)6 October 2005 (age 20) | 13 | 0 | |
| 18 | 4FW | Mohamed Raafat | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 4 | 0 | |
| 19 | 4FW | Mohamed Haitham | (2007-02-17)17 February 2007 (age 18) | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 | 4FW | Ahmed Sharaf | (2005-08-04)4 August 2005 (age 20) | 6 | 0 | |
| 26 | 4FW | Omar Osama Hassan | (2005-01-01)1 January 2005 (age 20) | 1 | 0 | |