2023–24 Egypt Cup

2023–24 Egypt Cup

كأس مصر 2023/24
Tournament details
Country	Egypt
Dates	31 October 2023 – TBD 2024
Teams	109 (all) 91 (qualifying phase) 32 (main competition, including 14 qualifiers)
Defending champions	Al Ahly
(Note: All statistics do not include preliminary rounds)
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The 2023–24 Egypt Cup is the 92nd edition of the Egypt Cup, the oldest recognized football knockout competition in Egypt and Africa.

The competition started on 31 October 2023 with the first preliminary round of the qualifying phase, and will conclude with the final, which is expected to be played in the last quarter of 2024. Al Ahly are the defending champions.^[1]

Schedule

The schedule for the tournament stages is as follows:

Phase	Round	Draw date	Matches
Qualifying phase	First preliminary round	2 October 2023[2]	31 October – 3 November 2023
	Second preliminary round	15 November 2023[3]	22–25 November 2023
	Third preliminary round	3 December 2023[4]	22–24 December 2023
Main competition	Round of 32	2 May 2024[5]	28 May – 1 June 2024
	Round of 16		TBD 2024
	Quarter-finals		TBD 2024
	Semi-finals		TBD 2024
	Final		TBD 2024

Format

Participation

The Egypt Cup begin with a round of 32 teams. The 18 teams of the Egyptian Premier League, along with the 14 winning teams that qualified from the third preliminary round of the qualifying rounds.

Draw

The draw for the main competition was held on 2 May 2024, 14:00 CAST (UTC+3), at the Egyptian Football Association headquarters in Gezira, Cairo.^[5]

The 32 participating teams were separated into 3 pots. Pot 1 included the 15th placed team from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League, alongside the 3 promoted teams from the 2022–23 Egyptian Second Division, Pot 2 included the top 14 teams from the previous season of the Egyptian Premier League, and Pot 3 included all 14 teams who qualified to the competition through the qualifying rounds.

Teams from Pot 1 were drawn against each other, while teams from Pot 2 were drawn against teams from Pot 3.

Usually, the Egypt Cup defending champions and the Egyptian Premier League winners are placed in different paths, so both teams could face each other only in the final. However, since Al Ahly won both the cup and the league last season, they were placed in the upper (league) path, while the league runners-up, Zamalek, were placed in the lower (cup) path.^[6]

Pot	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Teams	Baladiyat El Mahalla El Dakhleya El Gouna ZED	Al Ahly Ceramica Cleopatra ENPPI Ismaily Al Ittihad Al Masry Modern Future Al Mokawloon Al Arab National Bank of Egypt Pharco Pyramids Smouha Tala'ea El Gaish Zamalek	Abou Qir Fertilizers Al Aluminium Asyut Petroleum Gomhoriat Shebin La Viena Makadi Al Nasr Nogoom Petrojet Port Fouad Proxy El Qanah Tersana Al Wasta

Match rules

Teams meet in one game per round. Matches take place for 90 minutes, with two-halves of 45 minutes. If tied after regulation, 30 minutes of extra time are played, consisting of two periods of 15 minutes. If the score is still level after this, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out. A coin toss decides who takes the first penalty. A total of nine players are allowed to be listed on the substitute bench, with up to five substitutions being allowed during regulation, and a further sixth is allowed in extra time.

In the round of 32, matches are hosted by the teams drawn first. Starting from the round of 16, all matches are played on venues selected by the Egyptian Football Association.

Champion qualification

The winners of the Egypt Cup earns automatic qualification for the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup. In case they already qualified for the CAF Confederation Cup or CAF Champions League through their position in the Egyptian Premier League, then the spot goes to the cup runners-up. If the cup runners-up also qualified for a CAF competition through their league position, then the spot is given to the fourth-placed team in the league. Should the competition be not finished by the CAF deadline for associations to submit teams participating in next season's African competitions, the spot awarded to the cup winners would be passed also to the fourth-placed team in the league.

Bracket

The following is the bracket which the Egypt Cup resembles. Numbers in parentheses next to the match score represent the results of a penalty shoot-out.

Round of 32

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Al Ahly

Al Aluminium

Pharco

Al Wasta

National Bank of Egypt

Petrojet

Al Masry

Gomhoriat Shebin

Pyramids

Al Nasr

Al Ittihad

Abou Qir Fertilizers

Al Mokawloon Al Arab

Tersana

Baladiyat El Mahalla

El Gouna

Zamalek

Proxy

Tala'ea El Gaish

Port Fouad

Ismaily

El Qanah

Smouha

La Viena

Modern Future

Asyut Petroleum

ENPPI

Nogoom

Ceramica Cleopatra

Makadi

ZED

El Dakhleya

Round of 32

Teams playing in the Egyptian Premier League entered this round, and were joined by the 14 teams advancing from the qualifying phase. Al Aluminium, Al Nasr, Port Fouad, Tersana and Al Wasta are the lowest-ranked teams remaining in the competition, all of which are members of the Egyptian Second Division B (third tier).

All times are CAST (UTC+3).

Round of 16

All times are CAST (UTC+3).

Quarter-finals

All times are CAST (UTC+3).

Semi-finals

All times are CAST (UTC+3).

Final

References