Alexandria Stadium IncidentEgypt Cup, 1999
A structured incident page covering the reported crowd crush/stampede during the Al-Ittihad and Al-Koroum Egypt Cup match at Alexandria Stadium.
Incident Overview
What happened
Incident name: Alexandria Stadium football match crowd incident; also described in Arabic sources as the “Al-Ittihad and Al-Koroum match” incident / “حادثة مباراة الكروم”.
Date: 11 January 1999.
Location: Alexandria Stadium / Alexandria International Stadium, Alexandria, Egypt. Contemporary and later sources describe the venue as “Alexandria stadium,” “Alexandria Stadium,” “ملعب استاد الإسكندرية,” and “ملعب الإسكندرية الدولي.” (Mail & Guardian)
Short Summary
Gate-entry crowd pressure
Not a conventional peer-reviewed incident case study, but presented in an academic/forum PDF format. It lists this incident as Al Koroum v Al Ittihad Al-Sakndari, 8 deaths, 11 January 1999, Alexandria, Egypt, in the Egyptian Cup.
Check disputed details →Key Data
Reported figures
Incident Sequence
Reported chain of events
Primary factors
Key points
Disputed Details
Conflicting information
The main unresolved points are the fatality count, injury count and some match-round wording.
This point varies across reporting and should be treated carefully.
Mail & Guardian, The Straits Times, El Watan, Football Safety Officers Association report, The Hooligans’ Death List, Kora New, and Al-Ahram archive all support or repeat 8 deaths. (Mail & Guardian)
Working With Crowds, AllAfrica, and Keith Still’s crowd-disaster list report 11 deaths. (Working With Crowds)
The strongest contemporary reports found support 8 deaths. The 11-death figure appears in later crowd-disaster lists and the user-provided page wording, but I did not find a contemporary source confirming 11.
This point varies across reporting and should be treated carefully.
Mail & Guardian: 15 seriously injured, plus 5 treated and released. (Mail & Guardian)
The Straits Times: 14 seriously injured. (NLB eResources)
Football Safety Officers Association report: 13 injured. (footballsafety.com)
El Watan: 15 injured. (الوطن)
Injury counts differ across sources; no single figure should be treated as definitive.
This point varies across reporting and should be treated carefully.
El Watan describes the match as within the round of 16 of the 1998/99 Egypt Cup. (الوطن)
The Hooligans’ Death List describes it as “1/8-final in the Egyptian Cup,” which can mean the same round depending on notation, but is phrased differently.
No material conflict confirmed; wording differs.
Not Verified
Open points
These items were not confirmed strongly enough to present as settled facts.
Source Material
References
Reference records extracted from the incident research file, including contemporary reports, later retrospectives, crowd-disaster lists and open-source leads.
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