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2008–09 CAF Confederation Cup
Confederation of African Football Confederation Cup
Dates	February 2008 – 22 November 2009
Teams	(from CAF confederations)
Final positions
Champions	CS Sfaxien
Runner-up	Etoile Sahel
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)	Eric Bekoe

The CAF Confederation Cup 2008 schedule began with the preliminary round (home-and away ties) in mid February. The competition concluded on November 22 with CS Sfaxien winning the title.

[edit] Results/Fixtures

All rounds have been drawn.

[edit] Preliminary round

1st legs played on 15-17 February, 2008.
2nd legs played on 29 February, 1-2 March,2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
US Masséda	3–1	UNB	2–0	1–1
Black Star	0–3	Satellite FC	0–0	0–3
AS Mangasport	5–0	AS-FNIS	3–0	2–0
Ports Authority	0–4	Entente Sportive	0–1	0–3
AS Maniema Union	3–0	Akonangui FC	3–0	0–0
Express FC	1–1 (5–4 Pk)	AS Inter Star	1–0	0–1
AS Adema	1–2	Young Africans FC	1–0	0–2
AS Coton	8*	Al Akhdar	w/o	w/o
Highlanders FC	3–1	Ferroviário de Nampula	3–0	0–1
Chipukizi	0–7	Green Buffaloes	0–5	0–2
Harrar Beer	2–2 (3–5 Pk)	Rayon Sport	2–0	0–2
Anse Réunion	2–1	Petite Rivière	2–1	0–0
JS de Talangai	3–5	Mount Cameroon FC	2–1	1–4

Footnote: * On 10 February 2008, CAF announced that clubs from the Central African Republic, Chad, Kenya, Rwanda and Sierra Leone were excluded from this competition for failure to fulfill their financial obligations.^[1]

[edit] Second round

1st legs played on 21-23 March 2008.
2nd legs played on 4-6 April 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Issia Wazi	3–4	US Masséda	2–0	1–4
Rachad Bernoussi	3–3(a)	Espérance	3–1	0–2
Djoliba	3–0	Satellite FC	2–0	1–0
Petro Atletico	1–3	AS Mangasport	1–2	0–1
ASC Linguère	3–3 (– Pk)	Entente Sportive	3–0	0–3
CS Sfaxien	2–1	JSM Bejaïa	1–0	1–1
Les Astres FC	2–0	AS Maniema Union	2–0	0–0
AS Vita Club	0–0 (4–2 Pk)	Express FC	0–0	0–0
Al Akhdar	2–1	Young Africans FC	1–1	1–0
MC Algiers	0–1	Haras El Hodood	0–0	0–1
Green Buffaloes FC	1–2	Highlanders FC	1–1	0–1
Al-Merrikh	3–0	Rayon Sport	3–0	0–0
Ajax Cape Town	5–1	Anse Réunion	1–0	4–1
Primeiro Maio	1–2	Mount Cameroon FC	0–2	1–0
Casa Sport	1–2	Dolphins	0–0	1–2
Wikki Tourists	3–6	Asante Kotoko	2–2	1–4

[edit] First round of 16

1st legs played on 25-27 April 2008.
2nd legs played on 9-11 May 2008.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
US Masséda	2–6	Espérance	1–0	1–6
Djoliba	5–2	AS Mangasport	3–1	2–1
ASC Linguère	4–4(a)	CS Sfaxien	3–2	1–2
Les Astres FC	(a)1–1	AS Vita Club	0–0	1–1
Al Akhdar	1–2	Haras El Hodood	1–1	0–1
Highlanders FC	1–5	Al-Merrikh	0–2	1–3
Ajax Cape Town	5–6	Mount Cameroon FC	5–1	0–5
Dolphins	3–4	Asante Kotoko	2–0	1–4

[edit] Second round of 16

First leg played 11/12/13 July
Second leg played 25/26/27 July

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Etoile du Sahel	2–0	Espérance	2–0	0–0
Club Africain	0–0 (5–3 Pk)	Djoliba	0–0	0–0
Platinum Stars	2–4	CS Sfaxien	2–2	0–2
JS Kabylie	2–1	Les Astres FC	1–1	1–0
Mamelodi Sundowns	1–2	Haras El Hodood	1–0	0–2
Olympique Khouribga	2–2(a)	Al-Merrikh	2–2	0–0
Inter Luanda	3–2	Mount Cameroon FC	2–1	1–1
Al Ittihad Tripolil	3–4	Asante Kotoko	2–1	1–3

[edit] Group Stage

The group phase starts on the weekend of August 15-17 and concludes on the weekend of October 17-19. There are no semi-finals; the group winners meet in a two-legged final.^[2]

	Group winner		Teams eliminated

[edit] Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
CS Sfaxien	6	4	1	1	11	6	+5	13
Haras El Hodood	6	3	1	2	10	6	+4	10
Club Africain	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8
Interclube	6	1	0	5	6	16	-10	3

2008-08-16 18:30 GMT	CS Sfaxien	4 – 1	Interclube	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Diouf Abdou Samba
	Nafti Abdekkrim 17' Soumah Naby 41' Agyemang Opoku 50' Hamza Younes 65'		Pedro Costa 86'	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Diouf Abdou Samba

2008-08-17 14:00 GMT	Haras El Hodood	2 – 1	Club Africain	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria
	Mohamed Fawzy 67' Ahmed Abdelghani 80'		Zouheir Dhaouadi 7'	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria

2008-08-30 18:10 UTC	Club Africain	0 – 0	CS Sfaxien	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis Referee: El Achiri Abdellah

2008-08-31 18:00 UTC	Interclube	1 – 0	Haras El Hodood	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Kaoma Wellington
				Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Kaoma Wellington

2008-09-12 19:30 UTC	Haras El Hodood	3 – 1	CS Sfaxien	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria
	Ahmed Eid Abd El Malek 13' Ahmed Abdelghani 16' Abdul Hamid Bassiouny 40'		Kouassi Blaise 19'	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria

2008-09-14 20:00 UTC	Club Africain	3 – 0	Interclube	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis
	Junior Osagie 16' Wissem Ben Yahia 21' Oussama Sellami 81'	[1]		Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis

2008-09-19 20:00 UTC	CS Sfaxien	1 – 0	Haras El Hodood	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Ould Lemghambodj
	Issam Merdassi 25'	[2]	Kameni (GK) 89'	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Ould Lemghambodj

2008-09-21 18:00 UTC	Interclube	1 – 2	Club Africain	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Fakudze Mbongseni
	90'		Wissem Ben Yahia 2' Abdelmoneem Derbali 42' Wissem Ben Yahia 89'	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: Fakudze Mbongseni

2008-10-05 17:10 UTC	Club Africain	1 – 1	Haras El Hodood	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis Referee: Tamuni Wahid
	Sellami 32' (pen.)		Abd El-Ghany 49'	Stade Olympique d'El Menzah, Tunis Referee: Tamuni Wahid

2008-10-03 20:00 UTC	Interclube	2 – 3	CS Sfaxien	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: AGBOVI William
	34' Zinga 78'		Kouassi Blaise 12' Karim Nafti 37' 76'	Estádio dos Coqueiros ,Luanda Referee: AGBOVI William

2008-10-19 17:10 UTC	CS Sfaxien	2 – 0	Club Africain	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Keita Yakhouba
	Karim Nafti 34' Karim Ben Amor 90'			Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Keita Yakhouba

2008-10-19 17:10 UTC	Haras El Hodood	4 – 1	Interclube	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria Referee: Mwandike Victor
	Mohamed Meky 1' 20' Mohamed Fawzy 40' Ahmed Abd El-Ghany 70'		Pedro Henriques 85'	Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria Referee: Mwandike Victor

[edit] Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Etoile Sahel	6	3	1	2	8	6	+2	10
Al-Merrikh	6	3	0	3	9	8	+1	9
JS Kabylie	6	3	0	3	8	9	-1	9
Asante Kotoko	6	2	1	3	7	9	-2	7

2008-08-16 16:00 GMT	Al-Merrikh	3 – 1	JS Kabylie	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman
	Mugahid Ahmed Mohamed 01' Mugahid Ahmed Mohamed 12' Alaa Abdul-Zahra 51'		Saad Attiya (own goal) 40'	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman

2008-08-17 17:10 GMT	Etoile Sahel	2 – 0	Asante Kotoko	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse
	Emeka Opara 13' Emeka Opara 70'			Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

2008-08-31 14:30 UTC	Asante Kotoko	1 – 0	Al-Merrikh	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi Referee: Mdume Gil Sebastian
	Eric Bekoe 87'

2008-08-29 19:30 UTC	JS Kabylie	1 – 0	Etoile Sahel	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Younis Yasser
	Nassim Oussalah 57'

2008-09-13 20:00 UTC	Etoile Sahel	2 – 1	Al-Merrikh	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse
	Mehdi Meriah 50' Emeka Opara 78'		Haytham Tambal 85'	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

2008-09-13 15:00 UTC	Asante Kotoko	3 – 1	JS Kabylie	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi
	Eric Bekoe 39' Jordan Opoku 57' Eric Bekoe 72'		Tayeb Berramla 91'	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi

2008-09-20 19:00 UTC	Al-Merrikh	2 – 0	Etoile Sahel	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Kapanga Patrick
	Idahor 39' (pen.) Idahor 76'			Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Kapanga Patrick

2008-09-21 20:30 UTC	JS Kabylie	2 – 0	Asante Kotoko	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Aboubacar Sharaf
	(pen.) Adlène Bensaid 07' Tayeb Berramla 84'		Jordan Opoku 63'

2008-10-04 15:00 UTC	Asante Kotoko	2 – 2	Etoile Sahel	Baba Yara(formerly Kumasi) Sports Stadium, Kumasi Referee: Eyene Lambert
	Kwabena Yaro 08' (pen.) Eric Bekoe 79'	[3]	Slim Jedaied 64' (pen.) Mohamed Ali Nafkha 85' Mohamed Sakho 86'

2008-10-05 20:00 UTC	JS Kabylie	3 – 1	Al-Merrikh	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Tizi Ouzou Referee: Atsoo Kokou
	Demba Barry 61, 72' Nouri Ouznadji 63'		Alaa Abdul-Zahra 85'

2008-10-18 17:10 UTC	Al-Merrikh	2 – 1	Asante Kotoko	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Musungayi Mpunga
	Abdelhamid Ammari 10' 24'		Eric Bekoe 21'	Al Merreikh Stadium, Omdurman Referee: Musungayi Mpunga

2008-10-18 17:10 UTC	Etoile Sahel	2 – 0	JS Kabylie	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Ambaya Jamal
	Ammar Al Jamal 11' Mohamed Ali Nafkha 90' (pen.)		Tayeb Maroci Mohamed Rabie Meftah 90+2'	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Ambaya Jamal

[edit] Final

The final 2 legs will be played on November 8 and November 22.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
CS Sfaxien	2 - 2(a)	Etoile Sahel	0 - 0	2 - 2

2008-11-08 14:00 GMT	CS Sfaxien	0 - 0	Etoile Sahel	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Benouza Mohamed
	Apoko Mardassi Mrabet	[4]	Sakho	Stade Taïeb Mhiri, Sfax Referee: Benouza Mohamed

2008-11-22 14:00 GMT	Etoile Sahel	2 - 2	CS Sfaxien	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Eddy Maillet
	Opara 57' Boushehewah 78'		Apoko 2' Karim Nafti 74'	Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse Referee: Eddy Maillet

CAF Confederation Cup 2008 Winners
CS Sfaxien 2nd title

[edit] Leading Goal Scorers

Leading goal scorers including group stage matches.

Player	Club	Goals
Eric Bekoe	Asante Kotoko	10
Ahmed Abdelghani	Haras El Hodood	5
Karim Nafti	CS Sfaxien	4
Apoko	CS Sfaxien
Emeka Opara	Etoile Sahel
Mugahid Mohamed	Al-Merrikh	3
Faisal Agab	Al-Merrikh
Haytham Tambal	Al-Merrikh
Alaa Abdul-Zahra	Al-Merrikh
Abdelhamid Ammari	Al-Merrikh
Kouassi Blaise	CS Sfaxien

[edit] References

^ Gleeson, Mark (2008-02-10). "Five countries excluded from African club competition". Reuters. http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-nationsclubs&prov=reuters&type=lgns. Retrieved 2008-02-10.
^ "Regulations of the Confederation Cup 2006 - 2008" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. http://www.cafonline.com/modules/documents/upload/1256.pdf.

[0] Gleeson, Mark (2008-02-10). "Five countries excluded from African club competition". Reuters. http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=reu-nationsclubs&prov=reuters&type=lgns. Retrieved 2008-02-10.

[1] "Regulations of the Confederation Cup 2006 - 2008" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. http://www.cafonline.com/modules/documents/upload/1256.pdf.

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