CAIRO — Egypt, whose state-owned media staked so much on qualifying for the World Cup finals for the first time in two decades, vented its anguish on Thursday in an escalating diplomatic row with its Algerian vanquishers.

The Egyptian government called in the Algerian ambassador and then recalled its own envoy from Algiers for consultations in protest at what it said was a spate of attacks on Egyptians and Egyptian interests.

Sudan, which hosted the make-or-break World Cup qualification play-off in which the Arab world’s most populous nation went down 1-0, was dismissive of the Egyptian complaints and summoned Cairo’s ambassador to complain against the allegations of trouble in Khartoum.

Khartoum police insisted that only four fans sustained just minor injuries.

Egypt also announced it is suspending its membership of the Union of North African Football Federations, complaining that Algerian fans had thrown stones at its fans in Sudan.

The Egyptian Football Federation wrote to its counterparts in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia charging that its fans had come under sustained assault during the make-or-break qualification play-off on Wednesday, the state Mena news agency reported.

The government also retaliated diplomatically.

It was the second summons in a week for Ambassador Abdelkader Hadjar, who was called to the Cairo Foreign Ministry last week after Algerian fans attacked Egyptian businesses and homes in Algiers.

Egyptian fans told AFP that stones were thrown at their bus as they made their way back to Khartoum airport after the loss, which followed a 2-0 victory for Egypt in Cairo on Saturday

Khartoum police spokesman Abdel Majid al-Tayeb rejected Egypt’s allegations of assaults against its fans.