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The Egypt national under-23 football team (Arabic: منتخب مصر الأوليمبى), nicknamed The Pharaohs (Arabic: الفراعنة), is the national team of Egypt Under-23 and is administered by the Egyptian Football Association. The team's main objectives are to qualify and play at the All-Africa Games and Olympic Games. As of Tokyo 2020, players need to be born on or after 1 January 1997 but the team may be supplemented with 3 over-age players.
They have qualified for the Olympics games 14 times, more than any other African nation. Although they withdrew from the 1956 and the 1980 tournaments after qualifying.
Egypt's history in Olympic football is one of the longest outside of Europe. The team's first appearance was in Antwerp where they played one match against Italy. This was the first official international match for the Pharaohs as they lost 2-1 on August 20, 1920. Egypt would later qualify for 9 straight tournaments from 1920 to 1964. The Pharaohs achieved Fourth Place in Amsterdam 1928 and Tokyo 1964. This means that Egypt is the best team that never won a medal at the Olympics (most 4th place finishes without a higher finish).
However, since FIFA decided to make the Olympic football an under 23-year tournament, Egypt has only qualified three times (Barcelona 1992, London 2012 and Tokyo 2020), reaching the quarterfinals in 2012.
Egypt qualified to the 2012 Olympics after beating Senegal in the Bronze Metal Match. They missed out on the 2016 Olympics but reached the 2020 Olympics.