CAF Cup

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CAF Cup
CAF Cup - trophy.png
Organising body CAF
Founded1992
Abolished2004
RegionAfrica
Number of teams32 (first round)
Last champions Flag of Morocco.svg Raja CA
(1st title)
Most successful club(s) Flag of Algeria.svg JS Kabylie
(3 titles)
Website cafonline.com

The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions the African Cup of Champions Clubs or the African Cup Winners' Cup.

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History

The tournament was founded in 1992 and modeled after the European UEFA Cup. Trophy was named after Moshood Abiola, a Nigerian businessman, publisher and politician and the first Director of Sports in independent Nigeria.

The CAF Cup was the idea of the past CAF president, Issa Hayatou who successfully made 1992 the year of African football. The competition was initiated soon after the successful 1992 African Cup of Nations in which twelve finalists participated in the competition for the first time in the history of the African competition. 31 teams participated in the CAF Cup's first edition, and the Nigerian club Shooting Stars F.C. were the first to hold the cup after defeating the Ugandan Villa SC in the final.

The trophy became an absolute property of JS Kabylie who have won it outright following their third successive win in 2002 being the one and only team in Africa who is able to show the trophy in his trophy room.

The Moroccan club Raja CA was the last to hold the trophy in 2003 defeating the Cameroonian Cotonsport de Garoua in the final.

In 2004, the CAF Cup was merged with the African Cup Winners' Cup, and was renamed the CAF Confederation Cup, again following the European example of the UEFA Europa League. [1]

Format

Only runners-up of the domestic leagues of member associations were eligible to participate in the competition if and only if they were not participating as cup winners of their national associations cup competitions in the African Cup Winners' Cup.

In case the runner-up of the domestic league was not to participate in the CAF Cup, CAF approval was mandatory to accept another team among the top three placed teams of the concerned association to take part in the competition.

All rounds of the competition including the final were played according to the knock-out system of two legs tie. The team which scores a higher aggregate number of goals in the two matches was qualified for the next round. [2]

Records and statistics

Finals

Performance by club

TeamWinnersRunners-upYears wonYears runners-up
Flag of Algeria.svg JS Kabylie 30 2000, 2001, 2002 -
Flag of Tunisia.svg Étoile du Sahel 22 1995, 1999 1996, 2001
Flag of Nigeria.svg Shooting Stars 10 1992 -
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg Stella Club d'Adjamé 10 1993 -
Flag of Nigeria.svg Bendel Insurance 10 1994 -
Flag of Morocco.svg Kawkab Marrakech 10 1996 -
Flag of Tunisia.svg Espérance 10 1997 -
Flag of Tunisia.svg CS Sfaxien 10 1998 -
Flag of Morocco.svg Raja CA 10 2003 -
Flag of Uganda.svg Villa SC 01- 1992
Flag of Tanzania.svg Simba SC 01- 1993
Flag of Angola.svg Primeiro de Maio 01- 1994
Flag of Guinea.svg AS Kaloum Star 01- 1995
Flag of Angola.svg Petro de Luanda 01- 1997
Flag of Senegal.svg ASC Jeanne d'Arc 01- 1998
Flag of Morocco.svg Wydad Casablanca 01- 1999
Flag of Egypt.svg Ismaily 01- 2000
Flag of Cameroon.svg Tonnerre Yaoundé 01- 2002
Flag of Cameroon.svg Cotonsport Garoua 01- 2003

Performance by country

NationWinnersRunners-upWinning clubsRunners-up
Flag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 42 Étoile du Sahel (2), Espérance (1), CS Sfaxien (1) Étoile du Sahel (2)
Flag of Algeria.svg  Algeria 30 JS Kabylie (3)-
Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 21 Kawkab Marrakech (1), Raja CA (1) Wydad Casablanca (1)
Flag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 20 Bendel Insurance (1), Shooting Stars (1)-
Flag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 10 Stella Club d'Adjamé (1)-
Flag of Angola.svg  Angola 02- Primeiro de Maio (1), Petro de Luanda (1)
Flag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon 02- Cotonsport Garoua (1), Tonnerre Yaoundé (1)
Flag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 01- Villa SC (1)
Flag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania 01-[Simba S.C.] (1)
Flag of Guinea.svg  Guinea 01- AS Kaloum Star (1)
Flag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 01- ASC Jeanne d'Arc (1)
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt 01- Ismaily (1)

Trivia

See also

References

  1. "CAF Cup". RSSSF . 2008-11-27. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
  2. "CAF Confederation Cup Regulation" (PDF). CAF. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-21.