Mahmoud El Hareedy


Mahmoud El Hareedy is an Egyptian professional snooker player. He won the 2025 All Africa Snooker Championship to earn a two-year tour card for the World Snooker Tour from the 2025-26 snooker season.

Career

In 2022, El Hareedy won the African Six-reds Championship held in Morocco, defeating countryman Mohamed Hammouda in the final. He was subsequently invited to play in the 2023 Six-red World Championship held in Bangkok, where he was placed in group G, facing Stuart Bingham, Noppon Saengkham and Jordan Brown.
In 2024, he placed third in the IBSF World Snooker Championship, the premier amateur tournament, the highest placement any Egyptian player has achieved in that event. In June 2025, he again reached the final of the African Six-reds Championship, losing 46 to South Africa's Mutalieb Allie. Later that month, he won the 2025 All Africa Snooker Championship, defeating Moroccan player Yassine Bellamine 61 in the final, and gaining a professional tour card on the World Snooker Tour for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 seasons.

2025–26 season

El Hareedy failed to record any wins on the main tour in 2025 but achieved his first professional victory in the first qualifying round of the 2026 German Masters, defeating Iranian player Amir Sarkhosh 51. He subsequently lost 15 to Matthew Stevens in the second round of qualifying.

Personal life

El Hareedy is from Alexandria and has represented the Smouha Sporting Club on an amateur level. He is right-handed.