Egypt’s biggest European success stories

As Mohamed Salah joins Liverpool, he is within one UEFA Champions League coming of completing a purify brush of Egyptian annals in UEFA’s bar competitions.

Most appearances by Egyptian nationals in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup/UEFA Champions League (including qualifying)
31: Mohamed Salah (Basel, Chelsea, Roma, Liverpool)
24: Mohamed Elneny (Basel, Arsenal)
21: Mido (Ajax, Marseille, Roma)
12: Ahmed Hassan (BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, Anderlecht)
7: Tarek Said (Anderlecht)

Top-scoring Egyptian nationals in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup/UEFA Champions League (including qualifying)
12: Mohamed Salah (Basel, Chelsea, Roma, Liverpool)
2: Mido (Ajax, Marseille, Roma)
1: Mohamed Elneny (Basel, Arsenal)
1: Omar Elhussieny (Levadia Tallinn)

Arsenal’s Mohamed Elneny©AFP/Getty Images

Most appearances by Egyptian nationals in men’s UEFA bar competition*
59: Mohamed Salah (Basel, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Roma, Liverpool)
49: Mohamed Elneny (Basel, Arsenal)
48: Hany Ramzy (Neuchâtel Xamax, Werder Bremen, Kaiserslautern)
37: Ahmed Hassan (Kocaelispor, BeÅŸiktaÅŸ, Anderlecht)
34: Mido (Ajax , Marseille, Roma, Tottenham)

Top-scoring Egyptian nationals in men’s UEFA bar competition*
17: Mohamed Salah (Basel, Chelsea, Fiorentina, Roma, Liverpool)
7: Ahmed ‘Kouka’ Hassan (Rio Ave, Braga)
4: Mohamed Elneny (Basel, Arsenal)
4: Ahmed Hosny (Stuttgart, Gent)
4: Hossam Hassan (Neuchâtel Xamax)

Hany Ramzy: an Egyptian colonize with Kaiserslautern©Getty Images

First Egyptian nationals to underline in a UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League
Ibrahim Hassan and Magdy Tolba: 19/09/90, Sevilla 0-0 PAOK, UEFA Cup initial turn initial leg

First Egyptian inhabitant to underline in a European Cup/UEFA Champions League
Hany Ramzy: 16/09/98, Kaiserslautern 1-0 Benfica organisation stage

Only Egyptian inhabitant to underline in a UEFA bar foe final
Ahmed Hosny (Auxerre 1-3agg Stuttgart, 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup)