Egypt national football team (منتخب مصر) Montakhab Masr, known as the Pharaohs, represents Egypt in the international football association.
Egypt is the most successful national team in Africa, having won the African Nations Cup a record seven times: the inaugural edition of 1957 and on its national soil in 1959, as well as the edition 1986, Burkina Faso in 1998, 2006 in Cairo, Egypt, Ghana in 2008 and Angola in 2010.