Al Ittihad Alexandria (basketball)

Al Ittihad Alexandria is a basketball club based in the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The team plays in the Egyptian Basketball Premier League. The team is widely considered one of the basketball powerhouses of Egypt, having won 15 championships and twelve Cups.

Ittihad has won the FIBA Africa Champions Cup in 1987, crowning itself African champions. The team has also won the Arab Championship seven times.

Honours

Domestic

• Egyptian Super League
  • Winners (15): 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2020
• Egyptian Cup (joint record)
  • Winners (14): 1976, 1978, 1982 ,1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 2010, 2012, 2020, 2021, 2024
• Egyptian Super Cup
  • Winners (3): 2020, 2021, 2022

International

• FIBA Africa Champions Cup
  • Winners (1): 1987
  • Runners-up (1): 1996
  • Fourth place (1): 2012
• Arab Championship
  • Winners (7): 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2018, 2019

Players

Current roster

Notable players

• Ismail Ahmed: (1993–1997; 2001–2003; 2020–2022)
• Mouhanad El-Sabagh: (2006–2016)
• Solo Diabate: (2021)
• Corey Webster: (2021–2022)

Season by season

Head coaches

• Ahmed Marei: (2019–2022)
• Miodrag Perišić: (June – October 2022)
• Henrik Rödl: (2022–2023)
• Ahmed Omar: (2023–present)

See also

• Al Ittihad Alexandria Club

Notes

References

External links

• Team profile at Africabasket.com