Egyptian Premier League season cancelled

The Egyptian Football Association cancelled the 2011/2012 league season.

The Egyptian Premier League 2011/2012 season has been called off in the wake of the country’s worst football disaster, the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) announced on Saturday.

A friendly tournament featuring 18 teams will be held instead. Masry, whose home match against Ahly on the first of February witnessed the infamous riots which left 74 fans killed, have been expelled from the tournament.

It is the fifth team Egypt’s premier domestic competition is cancelled after the 1954/55, 1970/71, 1973/74 and 1989/90 seasons.

Watch the press conference on Al Hayah TV
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-TVJIo4c8[/youtube]

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