After the outbreak of the October War on the sixth of October 1973, the 1973-74 Egyptian Premier League was suspended after only playing 5 rounds, and in the first half of 1974 an alternative Egyptian football tournament was organized under the name of the October Cup.
The October Cup was a single round-robin tournament, the clubs were divided into two groups, and the top two clubs of each group qualified for the championship stage, which included the clubs of Zamalek, Al-Ittihad and Tersana. Ghazl El Mahalla also qualified but later withdrew due to the club's participation in the African Champions League, Zamalek ranked first in the final stage, and won the tournament after phenomenal performance from Hassan Shehata.[3][4]
