The Zamalek Chronicle
Match19 Sep 2026
Zamalek make it 5 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Zamalek have 5 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ali Ghazal pops up at the right end — 7.50
7.50, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Mohamed Ali Saleh Ziad
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mohamed Ali Saleh Ziad will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zamalek the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Zamalek
Juan Bezerra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Hany Mukhtar falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match19 Sep 2026
Zamalek see off Police Union
Three points for Zamalek, 2‑0 the final word against Police Union in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match19 Sep 2026
Zamalek keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Hany Mukhtar at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zamalek.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
Ahmed Khaled has seen enough of Police Union
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Zamalek, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Souza
- The dugout Walid El Hadary has his say
- Player ratings Adam Kaied beats them one at a time