CAF Confederation Cup
CAF CONFEDERATION CUP: ENYIMBA, RANGERS AWAIT GROUP OPPONENTS
BY MUYIWA AKINTUNDE.
Enyimba and Rangers will know their opponents in the group stage of this season’s CAF Confederation Cup. The draw comes up at 11am (Nigerian time) this Tuesday at CAF headquarters in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, with 16 teams in the hat.
The sides will be placed in three pots and allocated into four groups of four teams each.
Given the current ranking of the clubs, reigning NPFL champions Enyimba are in Pot 1, while Aiteo (Federation) Cup winners Rangers will be in Pot 2.
Since their are no federation restrictions at this stage of the competition, there is the possibility of the Nigerian teams in the same group. The same situation will apply to Morocco and Egypt who have teams in different pots.
Seeded along with Enyimba in Pot 1 are Guinea’s Horoya, RS Berkane (Morocco) and Al-Masry SC (Egypt).
Enyimba lifted the CAF Champions League in 2003 and 2004. Their best outing in the Confederation Cup was semifinal appearance in 2018.
Horoya had won the CAF Cup Winners Cup in 1978 and had featured in the glamorous CAF Champions League nine times, not going beyond the quarterfinals though.
The Moroccan side RS Berkane had an impressive run in the Confederation Cup last season reaching the final but losing to Zamalek 5-3 penalties after both legs deadlocked 1-1. Zamalek chose to feature in the Champions League this term rather than defend their title.
Egypt’s Al-Masry crashed out in the semifinal of the 2018 edition of this tournament.
In Pot 2 along with Rangers are Morocco’s Hassania Agadir,Zanaco FC (Zambia) and Mali’s Djoliba.
Pot 3 has the rest of the teams. These are: Pyramids FC(Egypt), FC San Pédro (Côte d’Ivoire), FC Nouadhibou (Mauritania), Al-Nasr SC (Libya), Paradou AC (Algeria), Daring Club Motema Pembe (DR Congo), Bidvest Wits (South Africa) and ESAE (Benin Republic)
The group phase kick offs in the weekend of November 29 to December 1 and ends in the weekend of March 6-8, 2020 with the top two teams in each group advancing to the quarterfinals.
No Nigerian club have ever won this competition 15 years after the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners’ Cup were merged to have the present format.
Shooting Stars, now a second division side, won the CAF Cup in 1992, while Bendel Insurance, also in that lower section, repeated the feat two years later.
In the African Cup Winners’ Cup, which was introduced in 1975, three Nigerian teams achieved the height as champions –Shooting Stars (1976), Rangers (1977) and BCC Lions (1990).
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CAF Confederation Cup
Enyimba drawn against Etoile de Filante in Confederation Cup
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Nigeria’s sole survivors in the CAF Confederation Cup,Enyimba will face Burkina Faso sides, Etoile de Filante in the second round of the competition.
Enyimba drew bye in the preliminary round while the Burkina Faso team reached the second round after eliminating Hafia of Guinea.
Enyimba, second runners-up in the Nigerian League will be attempting to win the Confederation Cup for the first time for Nigeria as they did in the Champions League 21 years ago.
CAF Confederation Cup
Again, Benin overcomes Nigeria as El Kanemi crashes out of Confederation Cup
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Just two months after Benin Republic recorded their first ever defeat of the Nigerian national football team, Super Eagles, a Benin club, Dadje has knocked out one of Nigeria’s representatives from the CAF Confederation Cup – El Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri.
Dadje won 2-1 to get a 3-2 aggregate win after the first leg played last week ended 1-1.
CAF Confederation Cup
Benin Republic offers 8,000 free tickets to boost support for Dadje FC over El Kanemi
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One of Nigeria’s representatives in the CAF Confederation Cup, El Kanemi Warriors have a mountain to climb as they face Dadje FC this evening at the General Mathieu Kerekou Stadium in Cotonou.
Their hosts, Dadje FC carry a slight advantage into the match after obtaining a 1-1 draw last weekend in Ikenne.
A goalless draw is enough for them to sail into the second round. But not leaving anything to chances,massive home support is being planned for them as the Benin FA offered 8,000 free tickets to fans.
Dadjè FC, the Benin league runners-up escaped with a precious 1-1 draw against the El Kanemi Warriors of Nigeria.
Thanks to added time, it would have been a different story for El Kanemi who only achieved parity in the sixth minute of added time.
They had conceded a goal earlier when Salassi Bless put the Beninese ahead. El Kanemi will have to score and win this evening if they are to join Enyimba in the second round.
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