2024 CAF Champions League final

2024 CAF Champions League final

Event	2023–24 CAF Champions League
Espérance de Tunis Al Ahly
First leg
Espérance de Tunis Al Ahly 0 0
Date	18 May 2024 (2024-05-18)
Venue	Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis
Referee	Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)
Attendance	35,000
Weather	Partially covered 24 °C (75 °F) 64% humidity
Second leg
Al Ahly Espérance de Tunis
Date	25 May 2024 (2024-05-25)
Venue	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo
Referee	Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)
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The 2024 CAF Champions League final are the final matches of the 2023–24 CAF Champions League, the 60th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 28th edition under the current CAF Champions League title.^[1][2]

Teams

In the following table, finals until 1996 were in the African Cup of Champions Club era, since 1997 were in the CAF Champions League era.

Team	Zone	Previous finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Espérance de Tunis	UNAF (North Africa)	8 (1994, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019)
Al Ahly	UNAF (North Africa)	16 (1982, 1983, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Venues

Road to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).

Espérance de Tunis				Round	Al Ahly
Opponent	Agg	1st leg	2nd leg	Qualifying rounds	Opponent	Agg	1st leg	2nd leg
Bye				First round	Bye
AS Douanes Burkina Faso	1–0	1–0 (A)	0–0 (H)	Second round	Saint George	7–0	3–0 (A)	4–0 (H)
Opponent	Result			Group stage	Opponent	Result
Étoile du Sahel	2–0 (H)			Matchday 1	Medeama	3–0 (H)
Al Hilal	1–3 (A)			Matchday 2	Young Africans	1–1 (A)
Petro de Luanda	0–0 (H)			Matchday 3	CR Belouizdad	0–0 (H)
Petro de Luanda	0–0 (A)			Matchday 4	CR Belouizdad	0–0 (A)
Étoile du Sahel	2–0 (A)			Matchday 5	Medeama	1–0 (A)
Al Hilal	1–0 (H)			Matchday 6	Young Africans	1–0 (H)
Group C runners-up Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Petro de Luanda 6 12 2 Espérance de Tunis 6 11 3 Al Hilal 6 5 4 Étoile du Sahel 6 4 Source: CAF				Final standings	Group D winners Pos Team v t e Pld Pts 1 Al Ahly 6 12 2 Young Africans 6 8 3 CR Belouizdad 6 8 4 Medeama 6 4 Source: CAF
Opponent	Agg	1st leg	2nd leg	Knockout stage	Opponent	Agg	1st leg	2nd leg
ASEC Mimosas	0–0 (4–2 p)	0–0 (H)	0–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	Simba	3–0	1–0 (A)	2–0 (H)
Mamelodi Sundowns	2–0	1–0 (H)	1–0 (A)	Semi-finals	TP Mazembe	3–0	0–0 (A)	3–0 (H)

Format

The final is being played on a home-and-away two-legged basis.

If the aggregate score will be tied after the second leg, the away goals rule will be applied, and if still tied, extra time will be played, and a penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winner.

Matches

First leg

Details

Espérance de Tunis

Al Ahly

GK 1 Amenallah Memmiche DF 2 Mohamed Ben Ali  69' DF 5 Yassine Meriah MF 8 Houssem Tka  69' FW 9 Rodrigo Rodrigues  70'  90+2' MF 10 Yan Sasse  82' DF 15 Mohamed Amine Tougai FW 18 Houssam Ghacha DF 20 Mohamed Amine Ben Hamida  90+2' MF 25 Ghailene Chaalali (c) MF 38 Roger Aholou  16' Substitutes: FW 11 Oussama Bouguerra  82' GK 12 Moez Ben Cherifia DF 13 Raed Bouchniba  69' DF 22 Hani Amamou FW 27 Kebba Sowe FW 29 Mohamed Ali Ben Hammouda  90+2' MF 31 Zakaria El Ayeb  69' MF 36 Onuche Ogbelu  90+2' FW 37 André Bukia Manager: Miguel Cardoso

DF 5 Rami Rabia (c) MF 8 Akram Tawfik FW 10 Percy Tau  81' MF 13 Marwan Attia FW 14 Hussein El Shahat DF 21 Ali Maâloul  7' MF 22 Emam Ashour  81' DF 24 Mohamed Abdelmonem DF 30 Mohamed Hany  39' GK 31 Mostafa Shobeir FW 39 Wessam Abou Ali Substitutes: GK 1 Mohamed El Shenawy DF 4 Mahmoud Metwalli DF 6 Yasser Ibrahim FW 7 Mahmoud Kahraba FW 12 Reda Slim  81' MF 15 Aliou Dieng MF 19 Mohamed Magdy Afsha  81' FW 27 Anthony Modeste DF 28 Karim Fouad  33'  7' Manager: Marcel Koller

Assistant referees: Mokrane Gourari (Algeria) Abbes Akram Zerhouni (Algeria) Fourth official: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya) Video assistant referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania) Assistant video assistant referees: Salima Mukansanga (Rwanda) Jerson Dos Santos (Angola)

Match rules 90 minutes. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.[note 1]

Statistics

Second leg

Assistant referees: Souru Phatsoane (Lesotho) Seydou Tiama (Burkina Faso) Fourth official: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad) Video assistant referee: Lahlou Benbraham (Algeria) Assistant video assistant referees: Daniel Nii Laryea (Ghana) Mohamed Abdallah Ibrahim (Sudan)

Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if tied on aggregate and away goals. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.[note 1]

See also

• 2024 CAF Confederation Cup final
• 2024 CAF Super Cup

Notes

References

External links

• TotalEnergies CAF Champions League 2023/2024, CAFonline.com