1985 WAFU Club Championship

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1985 WAFU Club Championship
Tournament details
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions Flag of Nigeria.svg Africa Sports (1st title)
Runners-up Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Ifodje Atakpamé
Tournament statistics
Matches played21
Goals scored72 (3.43 per match)
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The 1985 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Africa Sports in two-legged final victory against Ifodje Atakpamé. [1]

Contents

Not a single club from Niger participated.

Preliminary round

The matches took place from March 30 to April 14.

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
East End Lions Flag of Sierra Leone.svg 4–0 Flag of The Gambia.svg Hawks 1–26–1
Shooting Stars FC Flag of Nigeria.svg 5–0 Flag of Benin.svg AS CaÏmans 1–16–0
Casa Sports Flag of Senegal.svg 1–3 Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg UDI Bissau 0–01–3
Africa Sports Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg 5–0 Flag of Liberia.svg Saint Joseph Warriors 5–00–3
Ifodje Atakpamé Flag of Togo (3-2).svg 3–3 Flag of Guinea.svg Gangan 2–01–3
Eleven Wise Flag of Ghana.svg 2–3 Flag of Mali.svg Real Bamako 2–00–3 [a]
New Nigeria Bank Flag of Nigeria.svg 0–0bye——

Quarterfinals

The matches took place from May 26 to June 9.

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
UDI Bissau Flag of Guinea-Bissau.svg 2–4 Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Africa Sports 2–04–0
Ifodje Atakpamé Flag of Togo (3-2).svg 3–3 (4–2 p) Flag of Sierra Leone.svg East End Lions 2–12–1
Eleven Wise Flag of Ghana.svg 3–3 (1–3 p) Flag of Nigeria.svg Shooting Stars FC 3–03–0
New Nigeria Bank Flag of Nigeria.svg 0–0bye——

Semifinals

The matches took place from June 30 to July 14.

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Shooting Stars FC (abd.) Flag of Nigeria.svg 2–0 Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Africa Sports 2–0w/o [b]
New Nigeria Bank (forfeited) [c] Flag of Nigeria.svg 8–1 Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Ifodje Atakpamé 4–04–1

Finals

The matches took place on October 20 and November 10.

Team 1 Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Africa Sports Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg 5–0 Flag of Togo (3-2).svg Ifodje Atakpamé 3–00–2

Winners

1985 WAFU Club Championship
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg
Africa Sports
First title

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The score is not known, probably Real Bamako was disqualified
  2. ↑ The match was abandoned at the 20th minute, Shooting Starts abandoned the tournament and Africa Sports qualified into the finals
  3. ↑ Due to its incidents between African Sports, New Nigeria Bank chose to play the finals on neutral ground, it was refused and the club declared its matches forfeited and Ifodje Atakpamé of Togo qualified into the finals

References

  1. ↑ "1985 WAFU Cup at RSSSF".
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