Hassan Ahmed El-Shazly (Egyptian Arabic: حسن الشاذلي, Hassan El Shazly) (13 November 1943 – 20 April 2015)[2] was an Egyptian footballer. He is considered as a historic player of Tersana. He was described as a "devastating shooter" and "lethal with both feet". He is the Africa Cup of Nations all-time top Egyptian scorer, and the all-time top scorer of the Egyptian Premier League. El-Shazly is considered as one of the best forwards in the history of African football.[3]
 El-Shazly with Tersana in 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Hassan Ahmed El-Shazly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 20 May 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kingdom of Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 20 April 2015 (aged 71) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Giza, Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1978 | Tersana | (173) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1961–1975 | Egypt[1] | 62 | (49) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Tersana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Al-Ittihad (Aleppo) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Tersana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Tersana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career
El-Shazly played for the Egyptian team Tersana. He led Tersana to its only Egyptian League title in the 1963 season. He was the Egyptian Premier League top goalscorer for four times.[4] As of 2010, this is an Egyptian record that still holds. He scored 34 goals as the top league scorer of the 1974–75 Egyptian Premier League season, a one-season record that still stands. This was done at a relative old age; he was 32 years old. El-Shazly is the Egyptian Premier League's all-time goal scorer with 173 goals.[3][5]
He also represented the Egypt national football team, and was the top scorer with six goals at the 1963 African Cup of Nations. He played with his country in the 1965 Arab Games, and Egypt won the gold medal, he was the tournament top scorer with 9 goals. El-Shazly also played in the 1970 African Cup of Nations and scored 5 goals and his country finished third in the tournament. He played in the 1974 African Cup of Nations and scored his 12th goal in the Africa Cup of Nations record, becoming Egypt's all time top scorer in the tournament. He played 62 international caps and scored 49 goals for his country.[6][7]
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Tersana | 1959–60 | EPL | 1 | — | ||||||
| 1960–61 | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | ||||||
| 1961–62 | 3 | 1 | — | 4 | ||||||
| 1962–63 | 29 | 2 | — | 31 | ||||||
| 1963–64 | 24 | 0 | — | 24 | ||||||
| 1964–65 | 23 | 10 | — | 33 | ||||||
| 1965–66 | 18 | 7 | — | 25 | ||||||
| 1966–67 | 9 | 3 | — | 12 | ||||||
| 1971–72 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| 1972–73 | 5 | — | ||||||||
| 1973–74 | 6 | — | ||||||||
| 1974–75 | 34 | 3 | 7[a] | 44 | ||||||
| 1975–76 | 14 | 4 | — | 18 | ||||||
| 1976–77 | 5 | — | ||||||||
| total | 173 | 32 | 7 | 212 | ||||||
| Career total | 173 | 32 | 7 | 212 | ||||||
International
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 1961 | 4 | 5 |
| 1963 | 11 | 9 | |
| 1964 | 7 | 4 | |
| 1965 | 7 | 9 | |
| 1966 | 2 | 1 | |
| 1967 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1968 | 4 | 3 | |
| 1969 | 5 | 4 | |
| 1970 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1971 | 6 | 4 | |
| 1972 | 5 | 4 | |
| 1974 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1975 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 64 | 49 | |
- Scores and results list Egypt's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each El-Shazly goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31 August 1961 | Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco |  Libya | 1-0 | 2-1 | 1961 Arab Games | [1] |
| 2 | 3 September 1961 | Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco |  Saudi Arabia | 2-0 | 13-0 | 1961 Arab Games | [8] |
| 3 | 5-0 | ||||||
| 4 | 10-0 | ||||||
| 5 | 5 September 1961 | Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca, Morocco |  Kuwait | — | 8-0 | 1961 Arab Games | [1] |
| 6 | 18 September 1963 | Salerno, Italy |  Spain Amateurs | — | 1-1 | 1963 Mediterranean Games | [1] |
| 7 | 20 September 1963 | Stadio Alberto Pinto, Caserta, Italy |  Malta Amateurs | 5-0 | 6-0 | 1963 Mediterranean Games | [1] |
| 8 | 6-0 | ||||||
| 9 | 24 November 1963 | Kumasi Sports Stadium, Kumasi, Ghana |  Nigeria | 3-0 | 6-3 | 1963 African Cup of Nations | [9] |
| 10 | 4-0 | ||||||
| 11 | 5-1 | ||||||
| 12 | 26 November 1963 | Kumasi Sports Stadium, Kumasi, Ghana |  Sudan | 1-0 | 2-2 | 1963 African Cup of Nations | [9] |
| 13 | 30 November 1963 | Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana |  Ethiopia | 1-0 | 3-0 | 1963 African Cup of Nations | [9] |
| 14 | 2-0 | ||||||
| 15 | 15 January 1964 | Nasser Stadium, Cairo Egypt |  Uganda | — | 3-1 | 1964 Summer Olympics qualification | [1] |
| 16 | 22 March 1964 | Alexandria, Egypt |  Algeria | — | 2-2 | Friendly | [1] |
| 17 | 27 March 1964 | Nasser Stadium, Cairo Egypt | Sudan | 4-1 | 4-1 | 1964 Summer Olympics qualification | [1] |
| 18 | 17 April 1964 | Khartoum, Sudan | Sudan | 2-0 | 3-3 | 1964 Summer Olympics qualification | [1] |
| 19 | 3 September 1965 | Cairo, Egypt |  Aden | — | 14-0 | 1965 Arab Games | [1] |
| 20 | — | ||||||
| 21 | — | ||||||
| 22 | — | ||||||
| 23 | — | ||||||
| 24 | 4 September 1965 | Cairo, Egypt |  Lebanon | 2-0 | 3-0 | 1965 Arab Games | [10] |
| 25 | 9 September 1965 | Cairo, Egypt | Libya | — | 8-1 | 1965 Arab Games | [1] |
| 26 | — | ||||||
| 27 | — | ||||||
| 28 | 25 February 1966 | Cairo, Egypt |  Bulgaria | — | 2-2 | Friendly | [1] |
| 29 | 12 November 1968 | Cairo, Egypt |  Soviet Union | — | 4-1 | Friendly | [1] |
| 30 | — | ||||||
| 31 | — | ||||||
| 32 | 27 June 1969 | Cairo, Egypt |  Jordan | — | 6-1 | Friendly | [1] |
| 33 | — | ||||||
| 34 | 19 September 1969 | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt | Algeria | 1-0 | 1-0 | 1970 African Cup of Nations qualification | [11] |
| 35 | 28 September 1969 | 20 August 1955 Stadium, Algiers, Algeria | Algeria | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1970 African Cup of Nations qualification | [11] |
| 36 | 6 February 1970 | Wad Madani Stadium, Wad Madani, Sudan |  Guinea | 4-1 | 4-1 | 1970 African Cup of Nations | [11] |
| 37 | 14 February 1970 | Municipal Stadium, Khartoum, Sudan | Sudan | 1-1 | 1-2 | 1970 African Cup of Nations | [11] |
| 38 | 16 February 1970 | Municipal Stadium, Khartoum, Sudan |  Ivory Coast | 1-0 | 3-1 | 1970 African Cup of Nations | [11] |
| 39 | 2-0 | ||||||
| 40 | 3-0 | ||||||
| 41 | 21 March 1971 | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt |  Morocco | — | 3-2 | 1972 African Cup of Nations qualification | [1] |
| 42 | — | ||||||
| 43 | 11 July 1971 | Tripoli, Libya |  Syria | 1-0 | 1-0 | 1971 Al-Jalaa Tournament | [1] |
| 44 | 16 July 1971 | Tripoli, Libya | Libya | — | 2-3 | 1971 Al-Jalaa Tournament | [1] |
| 45 | 12 January 1972 | Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad, Iraq |  Syria | — | 4-2 | 1972 Palestine Cup of Nations | [1] |
| 46 | — | ||||||
| 47 | 14 January 1972 | Al-Shaab Stadium, Baghdad, Iraq |  Iraq | 1-0 | 3-1 | 1972 Palestine Cup of Nations | [12] |
| 48 | 24 November 1972 | Cairo, Egypt |  Somalia | — | 4-1 | 1973 All-Africa Games qualification | [1] |
| 49 | 6 March 1974 | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo, Egypt | Ivory Coast | 1-0 | 2-0 | 1974 African Cup of Nations | [13] |
Honours
- Tersana[4]
- Egyptian Premier League: 1962–63
- Egypt Cup: 1964–65, 1966–67
- Egypt[4]
- African Cup of Nations third place: 1963, third place: 1970, third place: 1974
- Arab Games gold medal: 1965
- Palestine Cup of Nations: 1972
- Individual[4]
- Egyptian Premier League top scorer: 1962–63, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1974–75
- Africa Cup of Nations Top scorer: 1963
- Africa Cup of Nations All-time Top Egyptian scorer: 13 Goals
- Egyptian Premier League all-time goalscorer: 173 Goals[14]