The Egyptian Football Association has started investigation about a possible robbery of the original AFCON trophy at its offices in Cairo.

The investigations where initiated on Thursday when members of the EFA noticed the absence of the AFCON CUP from their showroom.

Reports in the Egyptian media claimed that the original trophy of the African Cup of Nations, that the Pharaohs won following the unprecedented treble in 2006, 2008, 2010, is among the disappeared trophies.

“As the Egyptian Football Association are currently developing the main headquarter of the association including changing the building’s entrance to a small museum for Egyptian football, the management was shocked by the disappearance of some old trophies  from the Association’s store,” read a statement by the EFA on Friday.

“The EFA was preparing to use those lost trophies to be part of the association’s development by showing them on the building’s entrance,”

“The EFA are now investigating on the trophies disappearance to make sure that those old trophies were saved after the building was burned and stolen in 2012 when Ultras Groups invaded the headquarter or they were part of the losses that resulted from what the building was exposed to in this incident,” the statement added.

Reports in the Egyptian media claimed that the original trophy of the African Cup of Nations, that the Pharaohs won following the unprecented treble in 2006, 2008, 2010, is among the disappeared trophies.

The Egyptian FA discovered the trophies disappearance during their preparations to develop the association’s headquarter as well as organizing a show of trophies while celebrating 100 years on the EFA’s establishment.

Early today, some other historical cups were also reported as missed from the same showroom.

The Egyptian national team is the most successful national team in the Africa Cup of Nations, having won the Tournament a record seven times:

The Pharaohs won the inaugural edition in 1957 and on home soil in 1959, as well as the 1986 edition, 1998, 2006 in Egypt, 2008 and 2010.

The new trophy is currently held by Algeria which they won on Egyptian soil in 2019.