CAF Confederation Cup 2008

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2008–09 CAF Confederation Cup

Confederation of African Football Confederation Cup
Dates	February 2008 – 22 November 2009
Teams	(from CAF confederations)
Final positions
Champions	CS Sfaxien
Runner-up	Etoile Sahel
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Eric Bekoe

The CAF Confederation Cup 2008 schedule began with the preliminary round (home-and away ties) in mid February. The competition concluded on November 22 with CS Sfaxien winning the title.

Contents 1 Results/Fixtures 1.1 Preliminary round 1.2 Second round 1.3 First round of 16 1.4 Second round of 16 2 Group Stage 2.1 Group A 2.2 Group B 3 Final 4 Leading Goal Scorers 5 References

[edit] Results/Fixtures

All rounds have been drawn.

[edit] Preliminary round

1st legs played on 15-17 February, 2008.
2nd legs played on 29 February, 1-2 March,2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
US Masséda	3–1	UNB	2–0	1–1
Black Star	0–3	Satellite FC	0–0	0–3
AS Mangasport	5–0	AS-FNIS	3–0	2–0
Ports Authority	0–4	Entente Sportive	0–1	0–3
AS Maniema Union	3–0	Akonangui FC	3–0	0–0
Express FC	1–1 (5–4 Pk)	AS Inter Star	1–0	0–1
AS Adema	1–2	Young Africans FC	1–0	0–2
AS Coton	8*	Al Akhdar	w/o	w/o
Highlanders FC	3–1	Ferroviário de Nampula	3–0	0–1
Chipukizi	0–7	Green Buffaloes	0–5	0–2
Harrar Beer	2–2 (3–5 Pk)	Rayon Sport	2–0	0–2
Anse Réunion	2–1	Petite Rivière	2–1	0–0
JS de Talangai	3–5	Mount Cameroon FC	2–1	1–4

• Footnote: * On 10 February 2008, CAF announced that clubs from the  Central African Republic,  Chad,  Kenya,  Rwanda and  Sierra Leone were excluded from this competition for failure to fulfill their financial obligations.^[1]

[edit] Second round

1st legs played on 21-23 March 2008.
2nd legs played on 4-6 April 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Issia Wazi	3–4	US Masséda	2–0	1–4
Rachad Bernoussi	3–3(a)	Espérance	3–1	0–2
Djoliba	3–0	Satellite FC	2–0	1–0
Petro Atletico	1–3	AS Mangasport	1–2	0–1
ASC Linguère	3–3 (– Pk)	Entente Sportive	3–0	0–3
CS Sfaxien	2–1	JSM Bejaïa	1–0	1–1
Les Astres FC	2–0	AS Maniema Union	2–0	0–0
AS Vita Club	0–0 (4–2 Pk)	Express FC	0–0	0–0
Al Akhdar	2–1	Young Africans FC	1–1	1–0
MC Algiers	0–1	Haras El Hodood	0–0	0–1
Green Buffaloes FC	1–2	Highlanders FC	1–1	0–1
Al-Merrikh	3–0	Rayon Sport	3–0	0–0
Ajax Cape Town	5–1	Anse Réunion	1–0	4–1
Primeiro Maio	1–2	Mount Cameroon FC	0–2	1–0
Casa Sport	1–2	Dolphins	0–0	1–2
Wikki Tourists	3–6	Asante Kotoko	2–2	1–4

[edit] First round of 16

1st legs played on 25-27 April 2008.
2nd legs played on 9-11 May 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
US Masséda	2–6	Espérance	1–0	1–6
Djoliba	5–2	AS Mangasport	3–1	2–1
ASC Linguère	4–4(a)	CS Sfaxien	3–2	1–2
Les Astres FC	(a)1–1	AS Vita Club	0–0	1–1
Al Akhdar	1–2	Haras El Hodood	1–1	0–1
Highlanders FC	1–5	Al-Merrikh	0–2	1–3
Ajax Cape Town	5–6	Mount Cameroon FC	5–1	0–5
Dolphins	3–4	Asante Kotoko	2–0	1–4

[edit] Second round of 16

First leg played 11/12/13 July
Second leg played 25/26/27 July

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Etoile du Sahel	2–0	Espérance	2–0	0–0
Club Africain	0–0 (5–3 Pk)	Djoliba	0–0	0–0
Platinum Stars	2–4	CS Sfaxien	2–2	0–2
JS Kabylie	2–1	Les Astres FC	1–1	1–0
Mamelodi Sundowns	1–2	Haras El Hodood	1–0	0–2
Olympique Khouribga	2–2(a)	Al-Merrikh	2–2	0–0
Inter Luanda	3–2	Mount Cameroon FC	2–1	1–1
Al Ittihad Tripolil	3–4	Asante Kotoko	2–1	1–3

[edit] Group Stage

The group phase starts on the weekend of August 15-17 and concludes on the weekend of October 17-19. There are no semi-finals; the group winners meet in a two-legged final.^[2]

Group winner

Teams eliminated

[edit] Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
CS Sfaxien	6	4	1	1	11	6	+5	13
Haras El Hodood	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	10
Club Africain	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8
Interclube	6	1	0	5	6	16	-10	3

2008-08-16 18:30 GMT	CS Sfaxien	4 – 1	Interclube	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Diouf Abdou Samba
	Nafti Abdekkrim  17' Soumah Naby  41' Agyemang Opoku  50' Hamza Younes  65'		Pedro Costa  86'

2008-08-17 14:00 GMT	Haras El Hodood	2 – 1	Club Africain	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria
	Mohamed Fawzy  67' Ahmed Abdelghani  80'		Zouheir Dhaouadi  7'

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2008-08-30 18:10 UTC	Club Africain	0 – 0	CS Sfaxien	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis Referee: El Achiri Abdellah

2008-08-31 18:00 UTC	Interclube	1 – 0	Haras El Hodood	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Kaoma Wellington

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2008-09-12 19:30 UTC	Haras El Hodood	3 – 1	CS Sfaxien	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria
	Ahmed Eid Abd El Malek  13' Ahmed Abdelghani  16' Abdul Hamid Bassiouny  40'		Kouassi Blaise  19'

2008-09-14 20:00 UTC	Club Africain	3 – 0	Interclube	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis
	Junior Osagie  16' Wissem Ben Yahia  21' Oussama Sellami  81'	[1]

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2008-09-19 20:00 UTC	CS Sfaxien	1 – 0	Haras El Hodood	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Ould Lemghambodj
	Issam Merdassi  25'	[2]	Kameni (GK)  89'

2008-09-21 18:00 UTC	Interclube	1 – 2	Club Africain	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Fakudze Mbongseni
	90'		Wissem Ben Yahia  2' Abdelmoneem Derbali  42' Wissem Ben Yahia  89'

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2008-10-05 17:10 UTC	Club Africain	1 – 1	Haras El Hodood	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis Referee: Tamuni Wahid
	Sellami  32' (pen.)		Abd El-Ghany  49'

2008-10-03 20:00 UTC	Interclube	2 – 3	CS Sfaxien	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: AGBOVI William
	34' Zinga  78'		Kouassi Blaise  12' Karim Nafti  37'  76'

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2008-10-19 17:10 UTC	CS Sfaxien	2 – 0	Club Africain	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Keita Yakhouba
	Karim Nafti  34' Karim Ben Amor  90'

2008-10-19 17:10 UTC	Haras El Hodood	4 – 1	Interclube	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria Referee: Mwandike Victor
	Mohamed Meky  1'  20' Mohamed Fawzy  40' Ahmed Abd El-Ghany  70'		Pedro Henriques  85'

[edit] Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Etoile Sahel	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10
Al-Merrikh	6	3	0	3	9	8	1	9
JS Kabylie	6	3	0	3	8	9	-1	9
Asante Kotoko	6	2	1	3	7	9	-2	7

2008-08-16 16:00 GMT	Al-Merrikh	3 – 1	JS Kabylie	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman
	Mugahid Ahmed Mohamed  01' Mugahid Ahmed Mohamed  12' Alaa Abdul-Zahra  51'		Saad Attiya (own goal)  40'

2008-08-17 17:10 GMT	Etoile Sahel	2 – 0	Asante Kotoko	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse
	Emeka Opara  13' Emeka Opara 70'

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2008-08-31 14:30 UTC	Asante Kotoko	1 – 0	Al-Merrikh	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi Referee: Mdume Gil Sebastian
	Eric Bekoe  87'

2008-08-29 19:30 UTC	JS Kabylie	1 – 0	Etoile Sahel	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Younis Yasser
	Nassim Oussalah  57'

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2008-09-13 20:00 UTC	Etoile Sahel	2 – 1	Al-Merrikh	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse
	Mehdi Meriah  50' Emeka Opara 78'		Haytham Tambal  85'

2008-09-13 15:00 UTC	Asante Kotoko	3 – 1	JS Kabylie	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi
	Eric Bekoe  39' Jordan Opoku 57' Eric Bekoe 72'		Tayeb Berramla  91'

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2008-09-20 19:00 UTC	Al-Merrikh	2 – 0	Etoile Sahel	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Kapanga Patrick
	Idahor  39' (pen.) Idahor  76'

2008-09-21 20:30 UTC	JS Kabylie	2 – 0	Asante Kotoko	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Aboubacar Sharaf
	(pen.) Adlène Bensaid  07' Tayeb Berramla  84'		Jordan Opoku  63'

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2008-10-04 15:00 UTC	Asante Kotoko	2 – 2	Etoile Sahel	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi Referee: Eyene Lambert
	Kwabena Yaro  08' (pen.) Eric Bekoe  79'	[3]	Slim Jedaied  64' (pen.) Mohamed Ali Nafkha  85' Mohamed Sakho  86'

2008-10-05 20:00 UTC	JS Kabylie	3 – 1	Al-Merrikh	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Atsoo Kokou
	Demba Barry  61, 72' Nouri Ouznadji  63'		Alaa Abdul-Zahra  85'

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2008-10-18 17:10 UTC	Al-Merrikh	2 – 1	Asante Kotoko	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Musungayi Mpunga
	Abdelhamid Ammari  10'  24'		Eric Bekoe  21'

2008-10-18 17:10 UTC	Etoile Sahel	2 – 0	JS Kabylie	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Ambaya Jamal
	Ammar Al Jamal  11' Mohamed Ali Nafkha  90' (pen.)		Tayeb Maroci Mohamed Rabie Meftah  90+2'

[edit] Final

The final 2 legs will be played on November 8 and November 22.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
CS Sfaxien	2 - 2(a)	Etoile Sahel	0 - 0	2 - 2

2008-11-08 14:00 GMT	CS Sfaxien	0 - 0	Etoile Sahel	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Benouza Mohamed
	Apoko Mardassi Mrabet	[4]	Sakho

2008-11-22 14:00 GMT	Etoile Sahel	2 - 2	CS Sfaxien	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Eddy Maillet
	Opara  57' Boushehewah  78'		Apoko  2' Karim Nafti  74'

CAF Confederation Cup 2008 Winners
CS Sfaxien 2nd title

[edit] Leading Goal Scorers

Leading goal scorers including group stage matches.

Player	Club	Goals
Eric Bekoe	Asante Kotoko	10
Ahmed Abdelghani	Haras El Hodood	5
Karim Nafti	CS Sfaxien	4
Apoko	CS Sfaxien
Emeka Opara	Etoile Sahel
Mugahid Mohamed	Al-Merrikh	3
Faisal Agab	Al-Merrikh
Haytham Tambal	Al-Merrikh
Alaa Abdul-Zahra	Al-Merrikh
Abdelhamid Ammari	Al-Merrikh
Kouassi Blaise	CS Sfaxien

[edit] References

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