Hassan Shehata

Hassan Shehata (Arabic: حسن شحاتة; born 19 June 1947) is an Egyptian former professional football player. Before retirement he played as a forward. He then became a football manager, who is now retired. Shehata led Egypt to victory in 3 titles, all which were at the African Cup of Nations: 2006, 2008 and 2010. He was the first ever coach to win three consecutive Africa Cup of Nations titles. Shehata is one of only two coaches to win the Africa Cup 3 times, along with Ghana's Charles Gyamfi.

This article is about football coach. For Shia Muslim cleric, see Hasan Shahhata.

Hassan Shehata
Shehata in 2012
Personal information
Full name Hassan Hassan Shehata
Date of birth (1947-06-19) 19 June 1947
Place of birth Kafr El Dawwar, Beheira, Egypt
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 FC Mauerwerk (technical advisor)
Youth career
Kafr El Dawar
Zamalek
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1966–1969 Zamalek
1968–1973 Kazma (49)
1973–1983 Zamalek (77)
International career‡
1970–1981 Egypt[1] 52 (14)
Managerial career
1983–1985 Zamalek U20
1985–1986 Zamalek (assistant)
1986–1988 Al-Wasl
1989–1990 Al-Merreikh
1990–1992 Ittihad El Shorta
1992–1993 Al Ittihad Alexandria
1993–1994 Ittihad El Shorta
1995–1996 Zamalek (assistant)
1996–1997 El Minya
1997–1998 El Sharkia
1998–1999 El Shams
1999 Al-Ahly Benghazi
1999–2000 Suez
2000 Al-Fujairah
2001 Dina Farms[2]
2001–2003 Egypt U20
2003–2004 El Mokawloon
2004–2011 Egypt
2011–2012 Zamalek
2012 Al-Arabi
2014 Difaâ El Jadidi
2014–2015 El Mokawloon
2015–2016 Petrojet
2018– FC Mauerwerk (technical advisor)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Egypt (as manager)
Africa Cup of Nations
Winner2006
Winner2008
Winner2010
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 February 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 February 2023

Club career statistics
Club Season League Cup Other Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Kazma SC 1967–68 Kuwaiti Division One 51——6
1968–69 142——16
1969–70 Kuwaiti Premier League 7010[lower-alpha 1]—17
1970–71 926[lower-alpha 2]—17
1971–72 715[lower-alpha 3]—13
1972–73 608[lower-alpha 4]—14
total 4962984
Al-Arabi (loan) 1970–71 Kuwait Premier League 0000—3[lower-alpha 5]3
Zamalek SC 1974–75 Egyptian Premier League 649[lower-alpha 6]—19
1975–76 131—3[lower-alpha 7]16
1976–77 171——17
1977–78 71—1[lower-alpha 8]17
1978–79 40—2[lower-alpha 9]13
1979–80 140——14
1980–81 90——14
1981–82 51——14
1982–83 22——13
total 771096102
Career total 12616389189
  1. Goals in Kuwait Joint League
  2. Goals in Kuwait Joint League
  3. Goals in Kuwait Joint League
  4. Goals in Kuwait Joint League
  5. Goals in AFC Champions League
  6. Goals in October League Cup
  7. Goals in African Cup Winners' Cup
  8. Goals in African Cup Winners' Cup
  9. Goals in CAF Champions League
Shehata and Farouk Gaafar in Abdel-Latif Abu-Rajelha Stadium, 1975

Managerial career

In 2004, Shehata became Egypt's national team coach after the sacking of Italian coach Marco Tardelli.[3][4][5] In the 2006 African Cup of Nations, hosted by Egypt, he led the team to its first Cup of Nations in eight years, defeating the Ivory Coast in the final.

During the African Cup semi-final against Senegal, Shehata had a serious argument with one of his players, Mido. That was a resultant of Mido reacting negatively to being substituted.[6] Shehata was vindicated minutes later when Amr Zaki, the player replacing Mido, scored the winning goal; which took Egypt to the final. Shehata did allow Mido to accept his medal at the closing ceremonies of the African Cup of Nations. Following the incident in a few days, Mido issued a public apology.[7]

As mentioned earlier, Shehata led Egypt to three successive titles at the African Cup of Nations in 2006, 2008 and 2010.[8] Thus, Egypt became the first African nation to achieve such record.[9] Consequently, the Egyptian team were ranked as high as 9th in the FIFA World Rankings. Due to his great coaching ability throughout during that period, In 2008, he was awarded the title of CAF Coach of the Year.

In 2010, FFHSI had ranked him as the best African Coach.[10] He was also selected as one of the top five African coaches internationally.[11][12]

In 2015, he became President of the SATUC Football Cup, a new charitable global football competition for U16 orphans, refugees and disadvantaged children.

Honours

References
  1. Hassan Shehata - International Appearances
  2. "اخبار |قبل مواجهة أهلي جاريدو .. شحاتة يكتسح المدرب الأجنبي في الدوري المصري". FilGoal. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  3. "Marco Tardelli is Egypt's New Manager". Egyptian Players. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010.
  4. "Tardelli Thanks Fans for Standing by Pharaohs". Egyptian Players. Archived from the original on 17 December 2010.
  5. Obayiuwana, Osasu (26 March 2004). "Egypt's new coach Marco Tardelli has acknowledged the difficulty of leading the Pharaohs to the 2006 World Cup". BBC Sport.
  6. Kenyon, Matthew (8 February 2006). "Mido thrown out of Egyptian squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
  7. "Mido reconciles with Egypt coach". BBC Sport. 9 February 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2008.
  8. Hassanin Mubarak. "African Nations Cup-Winning Coaches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  9. Karel Stokkermans. "African Nations Cup". Rec.Sport.Soccer.Statistics.
  10. "IFFHS Coach Ranking: Hassan Shehata best African - Non classé - Football - StarAfrica.com". En.starafrica.com. 28 October 2010. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  11. Archived May 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  12. Ed Dove (14 March 2013). "5 Best African World Football Coaches". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
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