Achieve theAlexandria Union His last official title in football, when he was crowned champion of a competition for the sixth time in his history Egypt cup On this day, June 25, 1976, after a defeat Al-Ahly At Cairo Stadium, with an unanswered goal scored by Talaat Youssef in the 62nd minute, the Italian referee Riccardo awarded it, despite Talaat Youssef taking off his shoe while shooting the ball, amid major objections from Al-Ahly.
Al-Ittihad was crowned for the third time at the expense of Al-Ahly, having previously defeated it in the final half a century before that (1926), achieving its first title, and the second three years ago, specifically in “1973”, which was the fifth time.
Al-Ittihad was crowned twice at the expense of Zamalek in 1948 and 1963, and before that in 1936 at the expense of El-Sekka El-Hadidah.
The formation of the crowned union was composed of: Hassan Orabi, Mohy Othman, Mohamed Ibrahim Al-Muzaty “Bobo”, Ahmed Khalil “Zahra”, Sayed Karawan, Abdel Rahim Younis Shehata “Shehata Al-Alexandry”, Talaat Youssef (Fathi Hamouda), Fikry Morsi, Adel Al-Babli, Rizq Nassar, Abdel Fattah Al-Jarim (Wahid Hassan).
Al-Ahly’s formation included: Ikramy El-Shahat, Ahmed Abdel-Baqi, Hassan Hamdy, Mustafa Younes, Fathi Mabrouk, Safwat Abdel-Halim (Taher El-Sheikh), Abdel-Moneim Mustafa “Shatta”, Mokhtar Mokhtar, Mustafa Abdo, Mahmoud Al-Khatib, Gamal Abdel-Azim (Mohsen Saleh). .
Al-Ittihad Alexandria is the third most successful club in the Egypt Cup after Al-Ahly and Zamalek, having won it 6 times and coming runner-up on 8 occasions.
The Al-Ittihad Alexandria team is associated with exciting memories with the Egypt Cup, as the leader of Al-Thaghr won the title of this tournament six previous times in 1926, 1936, 1948, 1963, 1973, 1976.