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.

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.

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.

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
• 2021 (May): Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Qatar
• 2021 (Dec): Ahmed bin Ali Stadium, Qatar
• 2022: Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Morocco
• 2023: King Fahd International Stadium, Saudi Arabia
• 2024: Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium, Kuwait

Sponsorship

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. Due to this sponsorship, starting from 2017 the tournament is called the "Total CAF Super Cup".

Records and statistics

Winners

By country

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 :

Since 2019, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following :

Since 2023, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following :

Broadcast coverage

Below are the current broadcast rights holders of this competition:

See also

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

References

External links

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