FIFA and the Confederation of African Football set the framework within which Egypt and South Africa will meet on Sunday 4th October, a friendly listed on the Friendlies Scores and Fixtures schedule with all times given as UK time. The fixture carries no qualification weight. It sits instead inside a calendar governed by three separate mandates: Africa Cup of Nations Qualification, African Nations Championship Qualification, and the FIFA World Cup.
The form guide, aggregating all competitions, shows two national sides with comparable recent records. Egypt’s most recent result was a 5-0 defeat of South Sudan in Africa Cup of Nations Qualification. South Africa’s latest outing produced the same margin, a 5-0 win against Eritrea in the same competition.
Look further back and the records run in parallel. Egypt drew 0-0 with Angola in Africa Cup of Nations Qualification, then lost 3-2 to Argentina at the FIFA World Cup, drew 1-1 with Australia, and drew 1-1 with Iran. South Africa, over the same stretch, won 2-1 against Guinea in qualification, lost 0-1 to Canada at the World Cup, beat South Korea 1-0, and drew 1-1 with the Czech Republic. Each federation can therefore point to one competitive win, one loss, and a string of draws across the World Cup group stage, with both sides opening their recent qualification campaigns emphatically.
The head-to-head record is short but recent, and South Africa hold the edge. Three previous meetings are listed. On the 26th of December 2025, Egypt beat South Africa 1-0 in the CAF Africa Cup of Nations. Earlier that year, on the 9th of March 2025, South Africa won 3-1 away from home in African Nations Championship Qualification. Two days before that, on the 2nd of March 2025, the sides drew 1-1 in a fixture hosted by South Africa.
Taken together, that gives South Africa one win and one draw from the two 2025 encounters, against a single Egyptian victory in the continental tournament in December. Sunday’s friendly offers both teams a chance to adjust that balance outside the pressure of competitive play.
Meanwhile, the fixture list itself illustrates how international football governance is layered. National teams answer to their federations, which operate under FIFA’s World Cup framework and CAF’s continental competitions, and results in each competition feed separately into a side’s overall record. The form guide presented here deliberately aggregates all competitions, which is why World Cup results sit alongside African Nations Championship Qualification fixtures in a single sequence.
A note of caution applies to the data. The source states that some content is provided by third parties, is subject to change, and is unverified. Kick-off times and fixture details in particular may be adjusted, and readers should treat the Sunday 4th October scheduling, and the 15:00 kick-off listed for the other friendly that day between Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon, as provisional until confirmed by the relevant authorities.
What the numbers do establish is clear. Both Egypt and South Africa enter this friendly on the back of 5-0 wins in Africa Cup of Nations Qualification, both exited the FIFA World Cup group stage without a win, recording three draws and a defeat apiece, and South Africa hold the stronger recent head-to-head record, unbeaten in the two 2025 meetings before Egypt’s narrow 1-0 triumph in December. Sunday’s match will show which of those trends holds.