Premium continental club football will return on the screens this weekend as the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup officially kicks-off today.
The CAF Interclub Competition will be beamed across the continent and globally on CAF’s partners including CAF’s pay-tv partners beIN Sport (Arabic, English and French), CANAL+ (French), AZAM (English, Swahili), New World TV (English and local languages).
This will include a number of Free to Air broadcasters across the continent thus ensuring that the public has access to all continental club football. They include SABC, MAX TV, SNRT, AZAM, EPTV, ERTU, TPA, DRTV and TUNIS TV, among others.
The CAF Champions League carries a prize money of USD 4 000 000 – following a massive 40% prize money increase from CAF across CAF competitions aimed at making club football in Africa self-sustaining.
The CAF Confederation Cup winner takes home USD 2 000 000.
Cairo, Egypt will host the opening act of the Champions League action between former Champions TP Mazembe who will be hosted by Egypt’s Pyramids – a club that has shown promise in the CAF Interclub competition but yet to book its name amongst the dominant forces of African football.
The match will be played at 18h00 local time (16h00 GMT).
This will be followed by Algeria’s CR Belouizdad who will host Tanzania’s Young Africans – the runners-up of last season’s CAF Confederation Cup.
Defending CAF Champions League Al Ahly will be at home against Medeama as they seek to claim their record 12th trophy.
Concluding the CAF Champions League action will be African Football League (AFL) Champions Mamelodi Sundowns who will be at home against this season’s surprise package, FC Nouadhibou from Mauritania. The Club from Nouadhibou – the sea-side town in Mauritania is an unknown entity to many but they have pulled some famous results including their 3-0 victory against Real Bamako in the qualifying stages of this competition.
In the CAF Confederation Cup, defending champions USM Alger from Algeria welcomes Al Hilal Benghazi of Libya on Sunday. Al Hilal Benghazi has shown tremendous improvement in continental football over the last few seasons.
In Nigeria, Rivers United who are the only flying the Nigerian flag in this season’s CAF Inter-Club competition plays host to Academica do Lobito of Angola
CAF Champions League Fixtures:
Friday, 24 November
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- 16h00 GMT | Pyramids vs TP Mazembe
- 19h00 GMT | CR Belouizdad vs Young Africans
Saturday, 25 November
- 13h00 GMT | Simba AC vs Asec Mimmosas
- 16h00 GMT | Atletico Petroleos vs Al-Hilal
- 16h00 GMT | ES Tunis vs ES Sahel
- 19h00 GMT | Al Ahly vs Medeama
- 21h00 GMT | Wydad AC vs Jwaneng Galaxy FC
Sunday, 26 November
- 13h00 GMT | Mamelodi Sundowns vs Nouadhibou
CAF Confederation Cup Fixtures | Sunday, 26 November:
- 13h00 GMT | Modern Future vs SuperSport United
- 13h00 GMT | Club Africain vs Dreams FC
- 16h00 GMT | Zamalek FC vs Abu Salem
- 16h00 GMT | Segrada Esperanca vs CO Coyah
- 16h00 GMT | Rivers United vs Academica do Lobito
- 16h00 GMT | Diables Noirs vs Stade Malien
- 19h00 GMT | USM Alger vs Al Hilal Benghazi
- 19h00 GMT | RS Berkane vs Sekhukhune United
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