2019 CAF Super Cup

The 2019 CAF Super Cup (officially the 2019 Total CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons)^[2] was the 27th CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup.

2019 CAF Super Cup

2019 Total CAF Super Cup
Espérance de Tunis Raja CA 1 2
Date	29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)
Venue	Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Al Rayyan
Referee	Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)^[1]
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The match was played between Espérance de Tunis from Tunisia, the 2018 CAF Champions League winners, and Raja CA from Morocco, the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup winners, at the Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar on 29 March 2019.^[3][4]

Raja CA won the match 2–1 for their second CAF Super Cup title.^[5]

The match was originally to be hosted by Espérance de Tunis at the Stade Olympique de Radès in Radès, Tunisia on 29 December 2018,^[6] but CAF announced on 12 December 2018 that the match would be played in Qatar on 20 February 2019.^[7] However, the date was later changed to 29 March 2019 after both clubs requested a new date for the match. This was the first CAF Super Cup to be played outside of Africa.

The Super Cup of this season followed a transitional calendar which allows the CAF club competitions to switch from a February-to-November schedule to an August–to-May schedule, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017.^[8] The Super Cup of next season will then be played in August after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (which has been switched from January/February to June/July) following the new calendar.^[9]

Teams

Team	Zone	Qualification	Previous participation (bold indicates winners)
Espérance de Tunis	UNAF (North Africa)	2018 CAF Champions League winners	3 (1995, 1999, 2012)
Raja CA	UNAF (North Africa)	2018 CAF Confederation Cup winners	2 (1998, 2000)

Venue

Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar, hosted the match.

Format

The CAF Super Cup was played as a single match at a neutral venue, with the CAF Champions League winners designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes. If the score was tied at the end of regulation, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (CAF Champions League Regulations XXVII and CAF Confederation Cup Regulations XXV).^[10][11]

Ticketing

A total of 20,560 tickets are available in three categories: category 1 for 100 QR, category 2 for 50 QR, and category 3 for 20 QR.^[12]

Match

Details

29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)

19:00 UTC+3

Espérance de Tunis	1–2	Raja CA
Belaïli   57'	Report	Hafidi   22' Banoun   64'

Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Al Rayyan

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Espérance de Tunis^[1]

Raja CA^[1]

GK 19   Rami Jridi RB 22   Sameh Derbali   54' CB 5   Chamseddine Dhaouadi (c)   76' CB 6   Mohamed Ali Yacoubi   73' LB 20   Ayman Ben Mohamed CM 15   Fousseny Coulibaly CM 30   Franck Kom   81' RW 8   Anice Badri AM 18   Saad Bguir   46' LW 17   Hamdou Elhouni CF 11   Taha Yassine Khenissi Substitutes: GK 1   Moez Ben Cherifia DF 24   Iheb Mbarki   54' DF 26   Houcine Rabii MF 25   Ghailene Chaalali MF 28   Mohamed Amine Meskini FW 10   Youcef Belaïli   46' FW 14   Haythem Jouini   73' Manager:   Moïne Chaâbani

GK 1   Anas Zniti   90+2' RB 25   Omar Boutayeb CB 13   Badr Banoun (c)   86' CB 8   Sanad Al Ouarfali LB 5   Fabrice Gael Ngah CM 2   Abderrahim Achchakir   89' CM 29   Zakaria El Wardi RW 24   Mahmoud Benhalib AM 18   Abdelilah Hafidi   80' LW 7   Zakaria Hadraf   76' CF 21   Soufiane Rahimi   90+4' Substitutes: GK 22   Mohamed Bouamira DF 26   Ilias Haddad MF 4   Mohamed Douik MF 19   Ibrahima Niasse FW 9   Mouhcine Iajour   90+4' FW 11   Anas Jabroun FW 30   Ayoub Nanah   80' Manager:   Patrice Carteron

Assistant referees:^[1] Zakhele Siwela (South Africa) Waleed Ahmed Ali (Sudan) Fourth official:^[1] Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)

Match rules^[10]^[11] 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores level. Seven named substitutes, of which up to three may be used.

Prize money

Prize money shared between CAF Champions League winner and CAF Confederations Cup winner in CAF Super Cup are as following :^[13]

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

See also

• 2018 CAF Champions League Final
• 2018 CAF Confederation Cup Final

References

1. "Total CAF Super Cup 2019, E.S.T. v Raja Club Athletic: Media Start list" (PDF). CAFonline.com. Confederation of African Football. 29 March 2019. (PDF) from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
2. "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". CAF. 21 July 2016.
3. Ntoka, Gabriel (12 December 2018). . Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
4. "Decisions of the Emergency Committee Of the Confédération Africaine de Football 26 January 2019" (PDF). CAF.
5. "Raja edge Esperance to CAF Super Cup glory". CAF. 29 March 2019.
6. "Interclubs competition calendar; seasons 2018/19, 2019/20 & 2020/21" (PDF). CAF.
7. @CAF_Online (12 December 2018). "BREAKING NEWS: CAF executive committee decided that Total CAF Super Cup 2018 between Espérance Sportive de Tunis & Raja Club Athletic will be played in Qatar .. Date & Time will be announced later .. More to follow ..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. "DECISIONS OF CAF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE – 20 JULY 2017". CAF. 20 July 2017.
9. "Change in dates for Caf club competitions will begin in 2018". BBC Sport. 13 December 2017.
10. "CAF Champions League regulations" (PDF). CAF.
11. "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF.
12. "Tickets for Total CAF Super Cup 2019 go on sale". CAF. 11 March 2019.
13. "Prize money for CAF Super Cup". Radiomars.ma.

External links

• Total CAF Super Cup 2019, CAFonline.com