Zamalek has been hit with a 13th FIFA registration ban, deepening the club’s financial and administrative crisis.
The dispute concerns two unpaid installments worth a total of $350,000. Ittihad Tanger filed a complaint after failing to receive its money from the Abdelhamid Maali deal. The player later returned to his original club after terminating his Zamalek contract.
The new case adds to a mounting list of FIFA rulings against Zamalek. The club has set the end of May 2026 as its deadline to settle the registration-ban cases and clear overdue payments before applying for the African license required to compete in CAF tournaments in the 2026-27 season.
The latest ban follows a string of FIFA sanctions against the Cairo club this season. Zamalek had already been serving multiple active registration bans, with the total rising as new cases were added.
The White Knights must now resolve a broad set of outstanding cases involving former coaches, players, and clubs.
Unless Zamalek settle the outstanding judgments within the coming weeks, the club risks carrying the registration crisis into next season.
The sanctions include:
- $120,000 for Jose Gomes
- $60,000 across three cases for his assistants
- $133,000 for Christian Gross
- $505,000 for Ferjani Sassi
- €200,000 owed to Estrela Amadora in the Chico Banza case
- €170,000 to Charleroi in the Adi Dabbagh case
- $250,000 to Renaissance Zemamra in the Salah Mosaddaq case
- $800,000 to Oleksandriya in the Juan Bezerra case
- $1.6 million owed to former forward Ibrahima Ndaye.