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Africa’s greatest Confederation Cup-winning teams

It’s Confederation Cup final time this weekend, as Raja Casablanca and JS Kabylie collide in Saturday’s final.
Ahead of the bout, Goal’s Ed Dove celebrates the six&nbsp;greatest African teams to have won the continent’s secondary club competition.

Caf Confederation Cup

The first—and to date only—team to win the tournament three times in a row, Egyptian giants Ahly clinched a trio of titles in the mid 80s.
Canon Yaounde, defunct Nigerian team Leventis United and AS Sogara of Gabon were the defeated finalists as the Egyptian giants retained the cup on two occasions.

For context, no other side has won one of Africa’s top continental prizes in three consecutive seasons before or since the great team of Bibo El-Khatib, Magdi Abdelghani and the Hassan brothers.

Al-Ahly 1984-1986

The first team to retain the cup since Ahly in the 80s, Sfaxien won back-to-back titles in 2007 and 2008, having been defeated Champions League finalists in 2006.
With some members of that team still remaining, they reached another Confed Cup final in 2010—only to be defeated by FUS Rabat—but would clinch the cup once again with victory over Tout Puissant Mazembe in 2013.

Congo’s Lelo Mbele, Ivorian forward Blaise Kouassi and Agyemang Opoku of Ghana were some of the outstanding individuals in that team.

CS Sfaxien 2007-2013

With luck on their side, the Etoile du Sahel team of the middle of the last decade would surely have achieved more.
They were defeated Champions League finalists in both 2004 and 2005—one of only four teams (Ahly, Mazembe, Esperance) to lose consecutive finals—and could reasonably have expected more from those two match-ups.

Either side of those two failures, however, came glittering successes, with victory over Julius Berger in the 2003 Confed Cup final, and triumph over FAR Rabat in the same competition three years later.

Four consecutive major African finals was an awesome achievement for the team of Zoubeir Baya, Emile Traore, Kais Zouaghi and Chaker Zouaghi.

Nigerian duo Austin Ejide and Emeka Opara were also with the side during some of these memorable years.

Etoile du Sahel 2003-2006

One of the grand teams of the 1960s and early 70s, Mazembe also re-entered another glorious era from 2009, winning four major continental honours during a three-year period.
It was a similar story for the team of 2015-17, as they followed up Champions League success in 2015 with back-to-back Confed Cup victories in 2016 and 2017, as well as a Super Cup sandwiched in between.

The likes of Jonathan Bolingi, Rainford Kalaba, Ben Malango, Nathan Sinkala and Merveille Bokadi were the star men in a gloriously attractive team to watch.

Tout Puissant Mazembe 2016-17

The first ever team not named TP Mazembe to win an African continental competition in consecutive years, Arab Contractors never truly get the credit they deserve for their successes of the early 80s.
Admittedly, they were squeezed out by the aforementioned three-in-a-row Ahly team, but the Mountain Wolves were superb as they lost just two games across 20 fixtures in back-to-back seasons of the African Cup Winners’ Cup, including away games in the likes of Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Togo.

They went on to win the tournament for a third time in 1996.

Arab Contractors 1982-1983

Champions League finalists this time around, Chiefs’ only previous continental glory came in 2001 when they were also named Caf Club of the Year by the Confederation of African Football.
Success in the African Cup Winners’ Cup was emotional for Amakhosi—coming only eight months after the Ellis Park Stadium disaster—but they held their nerve to dispatch Angola’s Interclube 2-1 on aggregate.

Luke Jukulile was the hero in the first leg, opening the scoring for Chiefs, before Patrick Mabedi’s late penalty at Ellis Park secured the victory in the return fixture.

Kaizer Chiefs 2001

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