The draw for the group stage of the 2019-20 CAF Champions League has produced a renewal of one of African football’s most heated rivalries of recent years, with South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and Moroccan club Wydad Athletic Club of Casablanca pooled together yet again.
It’s the fourth successive edition of the tournament in which Downs and Wydad will cross swords.
Their rivalry dates back to the 2017 tournament, when the Moroccans ended Sundowns’ reign as African kings with a penalty shootout…
Asante Kotoko defeated Tunisian giants Etoile du Sahel 2-0 in the first leg of the teams’ first round tie played in Kumasi earlier this month. Goals from Augustine Okrah and Richard Arthur have put the club in a position where they need only avoid a heavy defeat in the return game in Monastir on Sunday to become the first Ghanaian team to reach the group stage since Berekum Chelsea back in 2012.
Asante, known as the Porcupine Warriors, are two-time African champions — 1970 and 1983 — but they…
The different fortunes of Cairo giants Al Ahly and Zamalek was the notable narrative of this past weekend’s CAF Champions League action.
Al Ahly put one foot in the group phase with their 2-0 away win over Equatorial Guinea’s Cano Sport, but cross-city rivals Zamalek face potential elimination from Africa’s top-tier continental competition after they succumbed 2-1 away to Senegalese side Generation Foot.
Zamalek gambled by resting several regulars, with one eye on their coming Super Cup match against…
Esperance had to wait months to officially be crowned African champs.
Tunisian club Esperance have been declared African Champions League winners after the Confederation of African Football’s disciplinary committee on Wednesday found opponents Wydad Casablanca guilty of abandoning the second leg of the final in May.
This reverses an earlier decision by the CAF executive committee to order a replay of the second leg, in which the Moroccan side refused to play on after a VAR controversy.
Both clubs had appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which last week…
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday that the unprecedented move to step in and jointly administer African football with the regional body CAF will "significantly improve" the sport on the continent.
Infantino also brushed…
The finals of Africa’s two international club competitions will each be played in one single match in future rather than over two legs as at present, the president of the region’s governing football body said on Wednesday.
Ahmad Ahmad, head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), said both the CAF Champions League final and the CAF Confederations Cup finals would consist of a single match, following the European model.
“Huge decision that CAF took today: the (finals) will be now played on…
FIFA are to take over the running of African football in the wake of corruption scandals consuming the Confederation of African Football (CAF), it was announced on Thursday.
The CAF executive committee took the unprecedented decision to cede con…
The second leg of the African Champions League final will be replayed after a VAR issue led to Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca walking off in protest and Tunisian side Esperance was awarded the victory.
Wydad refused to continue playing because their equalising goal with around 30 minutes remaining in the second leg was disallowed for offside and no video replay was available. The players had not been told the video system wasn’t working.
After a long delay, Esperance was awarded the Champions League…
African football’s image took another hefty blow on Friday when the final of the continent’s top club competition was abandoned after Wydad Casablanca of Morocco walked off to protest a refereeing decision.
Amid embarrassing scenes in Tunis, home side Esperance were declared winners of the African Champions League but it took a stoppage of an hour and 25 minutes before the match was abandoned and they could claim the trophy.
The Confederation of African Football have called a meeting of their executive…
African football’s image took another hefty blow on Friday when the final of the continent’s top club competition was abandoned after Wydad Casablanca of Morocco walked off to protest a refereeing decision.
Amid embarrassing scenes in Tunis, home side Esperance were declared winners of the African Champions League but it took a stoppage of an hour and 25 minutes before the match was abandoned and they could claim the trophy.
The Confederation of African Football have called a meeting of their executive…