Magdi Abdel Ghani - International Appearances


The outstanding Egyptian player obtained 89 international caps with his National Team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Born: 27- 7-1959
Country: Egypt
Caps:	89	(W38-D27-L24 – GF116-GA80 – %57.87)
Goals:	  8
Age First Cap:	 23 yr  66 d	 1-10-1982 vs. Zambia 3-5
Age Last Cap:    32 yr 174 d	17- 1-1992 vs. Ghana 0-1
National Team Career: 9 yr 108 d

Cap       Date          Venue           Opponent       Score    Competition

 1   1-10-82	Cairo   	Zambia  	3-5	FIFA Celebration Cup 	
 2  18- 2-83	Lagos    	Nigeria 	0-0	
 3  20- 2-83	Kaduna  	Nigeria 	1-1	
 4  23- 2-83	Yaoundé  	Cameroon	0-2	
 5  26- 2-83	Douala   	Cameroon	1-1	
 6  10- 4-83	Brazzaville	Congo-Brazzav.	0-2	African Cup Qual.
 7  22- 4-83	Cairo    	Congo-Brazzav. 	2-0 [1]	African Cup Qual.
 8  28- 4-83	Baghdad 	Iraq    	1-0	
 9  29- 5-83	Cairo   	Cameroon	4-0	
10   4- 6-83	Khartoum	Sudan   	0-0	Olympic G. Qual.
11  29- 7-83	Cairo   	Sudan   	2-1	Olympic G. Qual.
12  14- 8-83	Cairo    	Tunisia 	1-0	African Cup Qual.
13  28- 8-83	Tunis    	Tunisia 	0-0	African Cup Qual.
14   9-10-83	Lusaka  	Zambia  	1-0	Olympic G. Qual.
15  30-10-83	Cairo   	Zambia  	2-0	Olympic G. Qual.
16   6- 1-84	Alger   	Algeria 	1-1	Olympic G. Qual.
17  20- 1-84	Cairo    	Turkey  	1-0	
18  22- 1-84	Port Said	Turkey  	0-1	
19  17- 2-84	Cairo   	Algeria 	1-0	Olympic G. Qual.
20  27- 2-84	Cairo    	Iraq    	1-2	
21   4- 3-84	Abidjan  	Cameroon	1-0	African Nations Cup
22   7- 3-84	Abidjan  	Ivory Coast	2-1	African Nations Cup
23  10- 3-84	Abidjan  	Togo    	0-0	African Nations Cup
24  14- 3-84	Abidjan  	Nigeria  	2-2 [2]	African Nations Cup
25  17- 3-84	Abidjan  	Algeria    	1-3	African Nations Cup
26   3- 7-84	Cairo    	Cameroon	2-1	
27  26- 7-84	Pasadena	Italy   	0-1	Olympic Games
28  31- 7-84	Palo Alto	Costa Rica	4-1	Olympic Games
29   2- 8-84	Palo Alto	United States	1-1	Olympic Games
30   5- 8-84	Pasadena	France  	0-2	Olympic Games
31  28- 8-84	Cairo    	Zimbabwe	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
32  30- 9-84	Harare  	Zimbabwe	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
33  17-12-84	Cairo    	Norway  	0-1	
34  29- 3-85	Cairo    	Cameroon	2-0 	
35  31- 3-85	Cairo   	Cameroon	2-1 	
36   5- 4-85	Cairo    	Madagascar	4-1	World Cup Qualifier
37  21- 4-85	Antananarivo	Madagascar 	0-1 [3]	World Cup Qualifier
38  12- 7-85	Cairo    	Morocco 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
39  28- 7-85	Casablanca 	Morocco 	0-2	World Cup Qualifier
40  20-10-85	Cairo   	Mexico  	2-1	
41  29- 1-86	Cairo    	England 	0-4	
42  28- 2-86	Alexandria 	Romania 	2-2	
43   2- 3-86	Alexandria	Romania 	0-1	
44   7- 3-86	Cairo    	Senegal 	0-1	African Nations Cup
45  10- 3-86	Cairo    	Ivory Coast	2-0	African Nations Cup
46  13- 3-86	Cairo    	Mozambique	2-0	African Nations Cup
47  17- 3-86	Cairo    	Morocco 	1-0	African Nations Cup
48  21- 3-86	Cairo    	Cameroon  	0-0 [4]	African Nations Cup
49   4- 4-87	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	4-2	African Games Q.
50  17- 4-87	Cairo   	Tanzania	6-0	African Games Q.
51   8- 6-87	Seoul   	United States	3-1	President's Cup
52  12- 6-87	Busan   	Thailand	1-1	President's Cup
53  19- 6-87	Seoul    	Australia  	0-0 [5]	President's Cup
54  26- 6-87	Cairo   	Kenya   	4-0	Olympic G. Qual.
55  12- 7-87	Nairobi 	Kenya   	3-1	Olympic G. Qual.
56   2- 8-87	Nairobi 	Senegal 	1-0	African Games
57   6- 8-87	Nairobi 	Malawi  	1-2	African Games
58   9- 8-87	Nairobi 	Cameroon 	1-1 [6]	African Games
59  12- 8-87	Nairobi 	Kenya   	1-0	African Games
60   7-11-87	Kuwait City	Kuwait  	2-0
61  13-11-87	Cairo   	Tunisia 	0-1	Olympic G. Qual.
62   6- 1-89	Cairo   	Liberia 	2-0	World Cup Qualifier
63  21- 1-89	Lilongwe	Malawi  	1-1	World Cup Qualifier
64  21- 4-89	Cairo   	Ethiopia	6-1	African Cup Qual.
65   3- 6-89	Cairo   	Chile   	2-0	
66  10- 6-89	Nairobi 	Kenya   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
67  25- 6-89	Monrovia	Liberia 	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
68   8-10-89	Constantine	Algeria 	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
69  17-11-89	Cairo   	Algeria 	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
70  28- 2-90	Cairo   	Austria 	0-0	
71  28- 3-90	Cairo   	Romania 	1-3	
72   4- 4-90	Brno    	Czechoslovakia	1-0	
73  11- 4-90	Karl-Marx-Stadt	East Germany	0-2	
74  16- 5-90	Aberdeen	Scotland	3-1	
75  21- 5-90	Bucuresti	Romania 	0-1	
76  26- 5-90	Cairo   	Colombia	1-1	
77  12- 6-90	Palermo 	Netherlands	1-1	World Cup
78  17- 6-90	Palermo 	Ireland 	0-0	World Cup
79  22- 6-90	Cagliari	England 	0-1	World Cup
80  10-10-90	Athinai 	Greece  	1-6	
81  14- 4-91	Tunis   	Tunisia 	2-2	African Cup Qual.
82   7- 6-91	Seoul   	South Korea	0-0	Presidents Cup
83   9- 6-91	Seoul   	Malta   	5-2	Presidents Cup
84  26- 7-91	Cairo   	Tunisia 	2-2	African Cup Qual.
85   3-12-91	Cairo   	Poland  	4-0	
86   4- 1-92	Cairo   	Czechoslovakia	2-0	
87   7- 1-92	Cairo   	Norway  	0-0	
88  13- 1-92	Ziguinchor	Zambia  	0-1	African Nations Cup
89  17- 1-92	Ziguinchor	Ghana   	0-1	African Nations Cup

NB: Olympic Games (qualifying) matches are not considered full international matches
    by FIFA, but they are official for the Egyptian FA

[1] Egypt won 3-1 on penalty kicks.
[2] Egypt lost 7-8 on penalty kicks.
[3] Egypt won 3-2 on penalty kicks.
[4] Egypt won 5-4 on penalty kicks.
[5] Egypt lost 3-4 on penalty kicks.
[6] Egypt won 4-3 on penalty kicks.

Remark: the following matches were not full A international matches and are therefore
        not included here:
  21- 1-83	Cairo   	Hungary Team		1-0	
  23- 1-83	Cairo   	Hungary Team		0-2	
  23-12-83	Amman   	Jordan Team		3-1	
  25-12-83	Amman   	Jordan Team		3-1	
   3- 2-84	Cairo   	East Germany Olympic	2-1	
   5- 2-84	Cairo   	East Germany Olympic	1-0	
  10- 6-87	Masan   	South Korea B		0-0	President's Cup
  16- 6-87	Seoul   	Hungary Team		2-1	President's Cup
  29- 9-89	Cairo   	Romania Team		0-0	
  14- 6-91	Seoul   	Russia Team 		2-1	President's Cup


Total Record

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
    89    38   27   24   116-  80     103       57.87


Types of Matches 

Friendlies		30
African Nations Cup	12
World Cup Qualifier	12
Other Tournaments	12
Olympic Games Qualifier	 9
African Cup Qualifier	 7
Olympic Games		 4
World Cup		 3

Total 			89


Goals:		
Cap  9	1 goal
Cap 15	1 goal
Cap 27	1 goal
Cap 60	1 goal
Cap 77	1 goal
Cap 80	1 goal
Cap 83	1 goal
Cap 84	1 goal

Total	8 goals



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