CAF Super Cup

CAF Super Cup

Organising body	CAF
Founded	1993
Region	Africa
Number of teams	2
Current champions	USM Alger (1st title)
Most successful club(s)	Al Ahly (8 titles)
Website	Official website
2023 CAF Super Cup

The CAF Super Cup (also known as African Super Cup or for sponsorship reasons TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup) is an annual African association football competition contested between the winners of the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The competition was first held in 1993 and is organized by the CAF.

Egyptian clubs have the highest number of victories (12 titles), followed by Morocco with 5. Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with four clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 17 clubs, 6 of which have won it more than once. Al Ahly is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament a record 8 times. USM Alger are the current defending champions, having beaten Al Ahly SC by one goal to nil in the 2023 CAF Super Cup. ^[1]

History

The African Super Cup started and organized in 1993 by the CAF under the name of the CAF Super Cup, It is played in a single match and on the field of the winner of the Champions League (exception in 2007). Until 2003, the African Super cup pitted the winner of the Champions League against the winner of the African Cup Winners' Cup. When the latter disappeared, it was the winner of the Confederation Cup who took the place. ^[2]

The notable edition was in 1994, Zamalek and Al Ahly, the two Egyptian belligerents met for the trophy in the infamous Cairo derby. They met in FNB Stadium in Johannesburg. Zamalek won the African Game of the 20th Century and achieved the title as the first Egyptian team to win the African Super cup.

On only six occasions, the winner of the Champions League lost in this competition: the Ivorian club Africa Sports d'Abidjan beat the Moroccans Wydad AC in the first edition in Abidjan in 1993, the ES Sahel have beat Raja CA in 1997, Maghreb de Fès beat ES Tunis in 2012, Raja CA and Zamalek SC beat ES Tunis in 2019 and 2020, and finally RS Berkane have beat Wydad AC in 2022.

Fez Maghreb is the first Confederation Cup winning club to have won the CAF Supercup since the CAF Champions League winner clashed with the Confederation Cup winner. ^[3]

Venues

List of venues since 2015

• 2015: Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Algeria
• 2016: Stade TP Mazembe, DR Congo
• 2017: Loftus Versfeld Stadium, South Africa
• 2018: Stade Mohammed V, Morocco
• 2019-2020: Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Qatar ^{[4] [5]}
• 2021 (May): Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Qatar ^[6]
• 2021 (Dec): Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Qatar ^[7]
• 2022: Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Morocco ^[8]
• 2023: King Fahd International Stadium, Saudi Arabia
• 2024: Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium, Kuwait

Sponsorship

CAF Super Cup Trophy.

In July 2016, Total secured an eight-year sponsorship package from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to support 10 of its principal competitions. Total started with the Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Gabon therefore renaming it Total Africa cup of Nations. ^[9] Due to this sponsorship, starting from 2017 the tournament is called the "Total CAF Super Cup".

Title Sponsor	Official Sponsors
Total [10]	Orange [11] Qnet [12] 1xBet [13]

Records and statistics

Main article: List of CAF Super Cup matches

Winners

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Years won	Years runner-up
Al Ahly	8	3	2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2021 (May), 2021 (Dec)	1994, 2015, 2023
Zamalek	4	1	1994, 1997, 2003, 2020	2001
TP Mazembe	3	2	2010, 2011, 2016	2017, 2018
ES Sahel	2	3	1998, 2008	2004, 2007, 2016
Raja CA	2	2	2000, 2019	1998, 2021 (Dec)
Enyimba	2	0	2004, 2005	—
ES Tunis	1	4	1995	1999, 2012, 2019, 2020
Wydad AC	1	3	2018	1993, 2003, 2022
Africa Sports	1	1	1993	2000
Hearts of Oak	1	1	2001	2005
RS Berkane	1	1	2022	2021 (May)
Orlando Pirates	1	0	1996	—
ASEC Mimosas	1	0	1999	—
Maghreb Fes	1	0	2012	—
ES Sétif	1	0	2015	—
Mamelodi Sundowns	1	0	2017	—
USM Alger	1	0	2023	—
CS Sfaxien	0	3	—	2008, 2009, 2014
DC Motema Pembe	0	1	—	1995
JS Kabylie	0	1	—	1996
Al Mokawloon Al Arab	0	1	—	1997
Kaizer Chiefs FC	0	1	—	2002
AS FAR	0	1	—	2006
Stade Malien	0	1	—	2010
Fath Union Sport	0	1	—	2011
AC Léopards	0	1	—	2013

By country

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Total
Egypt	12	5	17
Morocco	5	8	13
Tunisia	3	10	13
DR Congo [B]	3	3	6
Algeria	2	1	3
Ivory Coast	2	1	3
South Africa	2	1	3
Nigeria	2	0	2
Ghana	1	1	2
Mali	0	1	1
Congo	0	1	1

Prize money

In 2017 and 2018, prize money shared between CAF Champions League winner and CAF Confederations Cup winner in CAF Super Cup were as following : ^[14]

Final position	Money awarded to club
Winner	US$100,000
Runners-up	US$75,000

Since 2019, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following : ^[15]

Final position	Money awarded to club
Winner	US$200,000
Runners-up	US$150,000

Since 2023, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following : ^[16]

Final position	Money awarded to club
Winner	US$500,000
Runners-up	US$250,000

Broadcast coverage

Below are the current broadcast rights holders of this competition: ^[17]

Country/Region	Channels
ASEAN	beIN Sports
Benin	ORTB
Europe	Sportfive
France	beIN Sports
Burkina Faso	RTB
Latin America	ESPN
Ghana	GTV Sports+ StarTimes [18]
MENA	beIN Sports
South Africa	SuperSport SABC Sport [19]
Western Balkans	Sport Klub
United States	beIN Sports
Sub-Saharan Africa	Canal+ SuperSport (selected matches) StarTimes (except South Africa)
East Africa	TVZ ZBC

See also

• Tournament of Fraternity 1982
• Super Cup
• CAF Champions League
• CAF Confederation Cup

References

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8. "Rabat to host TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup on Saturday, 10 September". CAFOnline.com. CAF-Confedération Africaine du Football. Retrieved 2022-11-08.
9. "Total to sponsor CAF competitions for the next eight years". Africa News. Africa News. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
10. "TOTAL, TITLE SPONSOR OF THE AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS AND PARTNER OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL", CAF, 21 July 2016
11. "ORANGE SIGNS NEW EIGHT-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH CAF", CAF, 16 December 2016
12. "QNET ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF TOTAL CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, TOTAL CAF CONFEDERATION CUP, TOTAL CAF SUPER CUP", CAF, 24 February 2018
13. "1XBET - OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE CONFÉDÉRATION AFRICAINE DE FOOTBALL (CAF) TOURNAMENTS", CAF, 6 February 2019
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15. "Prize money for CAF Super Cup". Radiomars.ma.
16. "130% prize money increase for Super Cup winners approved by CAF Executive Committee". Confederation of African Football.
17. "CAF appoints Broadcast Services partners for 2022-2023" (Press release). CAF. 21 December 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.
18. "StarTimes acquires broadcast rights of CAF Inter-Club competitions". Graphic Online . 8 February 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
19. "Supersport and SABC share coverage of Caf Champions League final in late deal". Sportcal. GlobalData. 19 July 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2022.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

External links

• CAF Super Cup at CAFonline.com
• RSSSF
• CAF Super Cup summary - Soccerway