The Egyptian Premier League once had among highest average stadium attendance in Africa and the Middle East until the Port Said Stadium riot occurred on 1 February 2012 after a league match involving Al Masry and Al Ahly, where 74 people were killed and more than 500 were injured.

[5] Few players rose to prominence in Egyptian football in the 1950s, such as; El-Sayed El-Dhizui, Essam Baheeg, Saleh Selim, Hanafy Bastan, Ahmed Mekkawi, Sharif El-Far, Rifaat El-Fanagily, Alaa El-Hamouly, Ad-Diba and Mahmoud El-Gohary.

In the 1959–60 season, Zamalek finally won their first title after consistently being runners-up, and Tersana were runner-ups and Al Ahly finished third.

Zamalek won three titles this decade with the help of a new generation led by Hamada Emam, Nabil Nosair, Raafat Attia, Abdou Noshi, Samir Qotb, Yakan Hussein, Ahmed Rifaat, Mahmoud Abou-Regaila and others.

Al Ahly's grip on the league loosened; though they did win some titles, in the 1965–66 edition, they finished in 6th out of 12, closer to relegation than to the championship.

[note 3] They became the first Egyptian club to win that competition in 1969, though both Al Ahly and Zamalek have now won it many more times.

[10] In 1971, the league was restarted, only to be swiftly suspended again due to fighting at a match between Al Ahly and Zamalek.

A controversial penalty for Zamalek which was scored by Farouk Gaafar, this resulted in a pitch invasion from Al Ahly fans after Al Ahly goalkeeper Marwan Kanafany asked the fans to protest, and the dispute was so intense that the league was not allowed to continue, and no winner was declared, despite Zamalek finishing 1st in the table.

[5] In the 1970s, a new generation of talented players emerged in the Egyptian football such as; Hassan Shehata, Mahmoud El Khatib, Taha Basry, Farouk Gaafar, Moustafa Abdou, Ali Khalil, Ali Abo Gresha, Mussad Nur and others.

Although this generation did not achieve positive results with their country's national team in the 1970s, the league was a strong tournament and full of talents.

Tersana were close of winning the 1974–75 season and lost in the final week to Al Ahly with a narrow difference.

Top goal scorers fluctuated between Hassan Shehata, Mahmoud El Khatib and Ali Khalil.

[5] Between 2004 and 2011, Al Ahly won every edition of the Egyptian Premier League, occasianally being challenged by Zamalek or Ismaily.

In 2011, another revolution began, part of the Arab Spring, which eventually resulting in the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak.

Football featured heavily in the popular uprising, as ultras from clubs such as Al Ahly took part in the revolution.

Fans of Al Masry had brought weapons and stormed the field after their team won the match.

[13] It was widely speculated that the police themselves had incited the riot,[15][16] perhaps as revenge for the role of Al Ahly ultras in the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak the previous year.

[2] The season was cancelled,[18] with Haras El Hodoud at the top of the table and possibly heading for a surprise victory.

[19] Fans were to be barred from entering matches for years afterwards,[20] but the Egyptian Premier League attempted to get back on its feet the next season.

An attempted return of fans was cancelled when a riot at a match between Zamalek and ENPPI resulted in 19 deaths.

[22] In 2018, Al Assiouty Sport were bought by Saudi billionaire Turki Al-Sheikh and renamed Pyramids FC.

Ismaily was on the verge of relegation to the second division but the club eventually managed to improve its results and finished the season in 9th place, while the newly founded Future FC finished in 5th place and managed to qualify for the CAF Confederation Cup, as it was in fourth place in most of the 2021–22 season but lost the position to Tala’ea El Geish right at the end of the season.

The list below details who the sponsors have been and what they called the competition: As the two most powerful clubs, Al Ahly and Zamalek were, before 2014, allowed to negotiate their own television deals.

However, the deal still guaranteed a great deal of money for Al Ahly and Zamalek, with 10% of revenue going to the team that had won the most Egyptian Premier Leagues (which is, comfortably, Al Ahly), and 10% going to the teams who appeared on television most frequently.

The network is part of the state-owned Egyptian Media Group, which also controls EPL sponsor Presentation Sports.