CAF Champions League 2007

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The CAF Champions League 2007 was the 11th occurance of the CAF Champions League, the most prestigious club football competion in Africa. Étoile du Sahel of Tunisia became champions for the first time, beating Al-Ahly of Egypt 3–1 in a two-legged final.

Contents 1 Results/Fixtures 1.1 Preliminary round 1.2 Last 32 1.3 Last 16 1.4 Group stage 1.4.1 Group A 1.4.2 Group B 1.5 Bracket 1.6 Semi-Finals 1.7 Final 2 Best Scorers 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Results/Fixtures

[edit] Preliminary round

The 1st legs were played on 26-28 January 2007.
The 2nd legs were played on 9-11 February 2007.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Highlanders	1 - 1 (9 - 8 pk)	Pamplemousses SC	1 - 0	0 - 1
Mamelodi Sundowns	6 - 2	Royal Leopards	4 - 2	2 - 0
JS Saint-Pierroise	*1	Grupo Desportivo de Maputo
El Zamalek	5 - 1	Vital'O	4 - 1	1 - 0
Al-Hilal	6 - 0	Polisi SC	4 - 0	2 - 0
Asante Kotoko	1 - 1 (2 - 4 pk)	Gambia Ports Authority	1 - 0	0 - 1
ASFA Yennega	1 - 3	Nasarawa United	1 - 1	0 - 2
Fello Star	*4	Sporting Clube da Praia
ASC Diaraf	1 - 2	Maranatha	1 - 0	0 - 2
FC Saint Eloi Lupopo	1 - 4	APR FC	1 - 2	0 - 2
USM Alger	3 - 3 (a)	AS-FNIS	3 - 1	0 - 2
Al-Ittihad (Tripoli)	4 - 0	Mogas 90 FC	3 - 0	1 - 0
Canon Yaoundé	1 - 2	Étoile du Congo	1 - 0	0 - 2
Saint-George SA	*2	Super ESCOM
Wydad Casablanca	5 - 2	ASC Mauritel Mobile FC	4 - 0	1 - 2
Stade Malien	1 - 4 *5	AS Douanes	1 - 2	0 - 2
Ocean Boys FC	0 - 1	Kallon	0 - 0	0 - 1
Atlético Petróleos Luanda	2 - 1	FC Civics	1 - 0	1 - 1
Young Africans FC	5 - 1	AGSM	5 - 1	*3
Likhopo	0 - 1	Zanaco FC	0 - 0	0 - 1
Espérance ST	6 - 1	Renaissance FC	4 - 0	2 - 1
Renacimiento FC	0 - 2	Ashanti Gold SC	0 - 1	0 - 1
TP Mazembe	7 - 2	Police XI	3 - 0	4 - 2
AS ADEMA	3 - 0	Anse Réunion FC	0 - 0	3 - 0
JS Kabylie	5 - 2	Clube de Futebol "Os Balantas"	3 - 1	2 - 1
Clube Desportivo Primeiro de Agosto	1 - 2	AS Mangasport	0 - 1	1 - 1
Cotonsport Garoua	3 - 0	Uganda Revenus Authority SC	3 - 0	0 - 0
Séwé Sports de San Pedro	3 - 2	Mighty Barolle	3 - 1	0 - 1

• 1 JS Saint-Pierroise withdrew due to high travelling costs
• 2 Super ESCOM withdrew
• 3 Young Africans qualify 5-1 on aggregate in tie reduced to one leg because AGSM do not have an international-standard ground
• 4 SC Praia refused to travel due to a violent general strike in Guinea
• 5 AS Douanes was disqualified for fielding an ineligible player.

[edit] Last 32

1st legs were played on 2-4 March 2007.
2nd legs were played on 16-18 March 2007.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Highlanders	0 - 2	Al-Ahly	0 - 0	0 - 2
Grupo Desportivo de Maputo	1 - 3	Mamelodi Sundowns	1 - 1	0 - 2
Al-Hilal	4 - 2	El Zamalek	2 - 0	2 - 2
Nasarawa United	4 - 2	Gambia Ports Authority	3 - 0	1 - 2
Fello Star	1 - 5	Etoile du Sahel	0 - 1	1 - 4
APR FC	2 - 2 (6 - 7 pk)	Maranatha	2 - 0	0 - 2
Al-Ittihad (Tripoli)	5 - 1	AS-FNIS	4 - 1	1 - 0
Saint-George SA	1 - 2	Étoile du Congo	1 - 0	0 - 2
Stade Malien	1 - 3	Wydad Casablanca	0 - 0	1 - 3
Kallon	1 - 3	ASEC Mimosas	0 - 1	1 - 2
Young Africans FC	3 - 2	Atlético Petróleos Luanda	3 - 0	0 - 2
Espérance ST	6 - 1	Zanaco FC	2 - 0	4 - 1
Ashanti Gold SC	2 - 2 (6 - 7 pk)	FAR Rabat	2 - 0	0 - 2
AS ADEMA	3 - 5	TP Mazembe	2 - 2	1 - 4
AS Mangasport	3 - 4	JS Kabylie	3 - 1	0 - 3
Séwé Sports de San Pedro	1 - 4	Cotonsport Garoua	1 - 0	0 - 4

[edit] Last 16

1st legs were played on 6-8 April 2007.
2nd legs were played on 20-22 April 2007.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mamelodi Sundowns	2 - 4	Al-Ahly	2 - 2	0 - 2
Nasarawa United	3 - 3 (2 - 3 pk)	Al-Hilal	3 - 0	0 - 3
Maranatha	0 - 3	Etoile du Sahel	0 - 0	0 - 3
Étoile du Congo	3 - 3 (a)	Al-Ittihad (Tripoli)	3 - 1	0 - 2
ASEC Mimosas	2 - 0	Wydad Casablanca	2 - 0	0 - 0
Espérance ST	3 - 0	Young Africans FC	3 - 0	0 - 0
TP Mazembe	1 - 2	FAR Rabat	1 - 0	0 - 2
Cotonsport Garoua	1 - 2	JS Kabylie	1 - 0	0 - 2

[edit] Group stage

Teams qualified for next phase

Teams disqualified for next phase

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[edit] Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Etoile du Sahel	11	6	3	2	1	6	2	+4
2. Al Ittihad	10	6	3	1	2	6	4	+2
3. JS Kabylie	7	6	2	1	3	6	8	-2
4. FAR Rabat	5	6	1	2	3	2	6	-2

June 22, 2007 21:00 EET	Al Ittihad	1 – 0	JS Kabylie	June 11 Stadium, Libya Attendance: 25 000 Referee: Sowe (GAM)
	Camara  83'	(Report)

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June 23, 2007 20:00 WET	FAR Rabat	0 – 1	Etoile du Sahel	Stade Moulay Abdellah, Morocco Attendance: 32 000 Referee: Coulibaly (MLI)
		(Report)	Ben Frej  70'

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July 6, 2007 20:00 CET	JS Kabylie	2 – 0	FAR Rabat	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria Referee: Codjia (BEN)
	Dabo 29' (pen), 44'	(Report)

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July 7, 2007 19:10 CEST	Etoile du Sahel	0 – 0	Al Ittihad	Stade Olympique, Tunisia Referee: Pare (BFA)
		(Report)

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July 21, 2007 20:00 WET	FAR Rabat	1 – 0	Al Ittihad	Stade Moulay Abdellah , Morocco Referee: Imiere (NGA)
	Ouadouch  90+3'	(Report)

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July 21, 2007 19:10 CEST	Etoile du Sahel	3 – 0	JS Kabylie	Stade Olympique , Tunisia Referee: Louzaya (CGO)
	Chermiti  1' Ben Mohamed  48' Silva Alves  53'	(Report)

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August 3, 2007 19:30 EET	Al Ittihad	2 – 0	FAR Rabat	June 11 Stadium , Libya Referee: Abd El Fatah (EGY)
	Shibani  44' Rewani  61'

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August 3, 2007 21:00 CET	JS Kabylie	0 – 2	Etoile du Sahel	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou), Algeria Referee: Khalid (SUD)
			Ogunbiyi  46' Chermiti  90+2'

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August 18, 2007 19:10 CEST	Etoile du Sahel	0 – 0	FAR Rabat	Stade Olympique , Tunisia Referee: Kotey (GHA)

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August 17, 2007 20:00 CET	JS Kabylie	3 – 1	Al Ittihad	Stade 1er Novembre (Tizi Ouzou) , Algeria Referee: Sharaf (CIV)
	Athmani 22' Hemani  54' Saïbi  69'		Rewani  19'

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September 1, 2007 21:00 EET	Al Ittihad	2 – 0	Etoile du Sahel	June 11 Stadium, Libya Referee: Djaoupe Kokou
	Shibani  14' Rewani  58'(pen)

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September 1, 2007 19:00 WET	FAR Rabat	1 – 1	JS Kabylie	Stade Moulay Abdellah , Morocco Referee: Diouf Abdou

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[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1. Al Ahly	12	6	4	0	2	8	4	+4
2. Al Hilal	10	6	3	1	2	8	5	+3
3. ASEC Mimosas	7	6	2	1	3	4	5	-1
4. Esperance	5	6	1	2	3	2	8	-6

June 23, 2007 19:10 CEST	Esperance	0 – 0	ASEC Mimosas	Stade El Menzah, Tunisia Referee: Maillet (SEY)
		(Report)

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June 24, 2007 20:30 EEST	Al Ahly	2 – 0	Al Hilal	Cairo Stadium, Egypt Referee: Diatta (SEN)
	Flavio  84' Hosny  90+2'	(Report)

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July 8, 2007 20:30 EAT	Al Hilal	2 – 0	Esperance	AlHilal Stadium, Sudan Attendance: 40,000 Referee: Ssegonga (UGA)
	Eze  29' 90+2'	(Report)

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July 8, 2007 15:00 GMT	ASEC Mimosas	0 – 1	Al Ahly	Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivory Coast Referee: Marange (ZIM)
		(Report)	Aboutreika  40'

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July 20, 2007 20:00 EEST	Al Ahly	3 - 0	Esperance	Cairo Stadium , Egypt Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Haimoudi ( ALG)
	Aboutreika  12' Flavio  77' Hosny  85'	(Report)

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July 22, 2007 20:00 EAT	Al Hilal	2 – 1	ASEC Mimosas	AlHilal Stadium, Sudan Attendance: 40,000 Referee: El Arjoun (MAR)
	Eze  12' Mohamed  90'	(Report)	Idrissu  52'

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August 4, 2007 19:10 CEST	Esperance	1 – 0	Al Ahly	Stade Rades , Tunisia Referee: Ncobo (RSA)
	Kasdaoui  38'

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August 5, 2007 15:30 GMT	ASEC Mimosas	1 – 0	Al Hilal	Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivory Coast Referee: Evehe (CMR)
	N'Gossan  30'

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August 19, 2007 20:30 EAT	Al Hilal	3 – 0	Al Ahly	AlHilal Stadium , Sudan Referee: Benouza (ALG)
	Khan  56' Korongo  67' Eze  85'

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August 19, 2007 15:00 GMT	ASEC Mimosas	2 – 0	Esperance	Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivory Coast Referee: Hicuburundi (BDI)
	Zaïem  60' (o.g.) Diarra  78'

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September 2, 2007 19:00 CEST	Esperance	1 – 1	Al Hilal	Stade El Menzah , Tunisia Referee: pare lassina
	Ltaief  41'		Eze  44' (pen.)

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September 2, 2007 20:00 EEST	Al Ahly	2 – 0	ASEC Mimosas	Cairo Stadium, Egypt Referee: Guezzaz Mohamed
	Flavio  76' Aboutreika  90'

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[edit] Bracket

	Semi-Finals					Final
		Al Hilal	3
		Etoile du Sahel	4
							Etoile du Sahel	3
							Al Ahly	1
		Al Ittihad	0
		Al Ahly	1

[edit] Semi-Finals

The first legs were played on 21-23 September and the second legs on 5-7 October.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Hilal	3 - 4	Etoile du Sahel	2 - 1	1 - 3
Al Ittihad	0 - 1	Al Ahly	0 - 0	0 - 1

[edit] Final

The final's two legs were played on October 27 and November 9.

Team #1	Agg.	Team #2	1st leg	2nd leg
Étoile du Sahel	3 - 1	Al Ahly	0 - 0	3 - 1

CAF Champions League 2007 Winners
Étoile du Sahel First title

[edit] Best Scorers

Place	Player	Club	Goals
1st	Mabi Mputu	TP Mazembe	9
2nd	Mohamed Amine Chermiti	Étoile du Sahel	8
2nd	Ndubuisi Eze	Al Hilal	8
3rd	Cheick Oumar Dabo	JS Kabylie	7
3rd	Salem Al Rewani	Al Ittihad	7
4th	Amine Ltaïef	Espérance	6
5th	Kelechi Osunwa	Al Hilal	5
5th	Flavio Amado	Al Ahly	5

[edit] See also

• CAF Champions League 2007
• CAF Confederation Cup 2007
• CAF Super Cup

[edit] External links

• Official Site

• Official MTN CAF Champions League Website

• Jose: African Refereeing A Disgrace

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