CAF Cup
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| Organiser(s) | CAF |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1992 |
| Abolished | 2004 |
| Region | Africa |
| Teams | 32 (first round) |
| Last champions | Template:Flagicon Raja CA (1st title) |
| Most championships | Template:Flagicon JS Kabylie (3 titles) |
| Website | cafonline.com |
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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.
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] However, the historical record of this competition's honours was not carried over into the new competition, unlike UEFA, which integrated the historical records of the former UEFA Cup into the new competition following its merger with the European Cup Winners' Cup.
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
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Performance by club
| Team | Winners | Runners-up | Years won | Years runners-up |
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| Template:Flagicon JS Kabylie | 3 | 0 | 2000, 2001, 2002 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Étoile du Sahel | 2 | 2 | 1995, 1999 | 1996, 2001 |
| Template:Flagicon Shooting Stars | 1 | 0 | 1992 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Stella Club d'Adjamé | 1 | 0 | 1993 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Bendel Insurance | 1 | 0 | 1994 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Kawkab Marrakech | 1 | 0 | 1996 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Espérance | 1 | 0 | 1997 | - |
| Template:Flagicon CS Sfaxien | 1 | 0 | 1998 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Raja CA | 1 | 0 | 2003 | - |
| Template:Flagicon Villa SC | 0 | 1 | - | 1992 |
| Template:Flagicon Simba SC | 0 | 1 | - | 1993 |
| Template:Flagicon Primeiro de Maio | 0 | 1 | - | 1994 |
| Template:Flagicon AS Kaloum Star | 0 | 1 | - | 1995 |
| Template:Flagicon Petro de Luanda | 0 | 1 | - | 1997 |
| Template:Flagicon ASC Jeanne d'Arc | 0 | 1 | - | 1998 |
| Template:Flagicon Wydad Casablanca | 0 | 1 | - | 1999 |
| Template:Flagicon Ismaily | 0 | 1 | - | 2000 |
| Template:Flagicon Tonnerre Yaoundé | 0 | 1 | - | 2002 |
| Template:Flagicon Cotonsport Garoua | 0 | 1 | - | 2003 |
Performance by country
| Nation | Winners | Runners-up | Winning clubs | Runners-up |
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | 4 | 2 | Étoile du Sahel (2), Espérance (1), CS Sfaxien (1) | Étoile du Sahel (2) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 3 | 0 | JS Kabylie (3) | - |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 1 | Kawkab Marrakech (1), Raja CA (1) | Wydad Casablanca (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 2 | 0 | Bendel Insurance (1), Shooting Stars (1) | - |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 1 | 0 | Stella Club d'Adjamé (1) | - |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 2 | - | Primeiro de Maio (1), Petro de Luanda (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 2 | - | Cotonsport Garoua (1), Tonnerre Yaoundé (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 1 | - | Villa SC (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 1 | - | [Simba S.C.] (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 1 | - | AS Kaloum Star (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 1 | - | ASC Jeanne d'Arc (1) |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | 0 | 1 | - | Ismaily (1) |
Trivia
- JS Kabylie was the only team to reach the final for three successive times between 2000 and 2002 being able to win them all and so became the first and only team to keep the CAF Cup trophy.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CAF Cup". RSSSF. 2008-11-27. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CAF Confederation Cup Regulation" (PDF). CAF. 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 7, 2007. Retrieved 2008-12-21.
External links
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