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.

CAF Super Cup
Founded1993
RegionAfrica (CAF)
Number of teams2
Current champions Al Ahly (8th title)
Most successful club(s) Al Ahly (8 titles)
WebsiteOfficial website
2021 CAF Super Cup (December)

History

The idea of an African Supercup germinated and was introduced at the Fraternity Tournament in Abidjan. In 1982, JS Kabylie, winner of the African Cup of Champions Clubs in 1981, won this trophy by defeating the winner of the African Cup Winners' Cup, Union Douala, on penalties 4–3 after the score of 1–1. But this cup did not officially see the light of day until 1993 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 Supercup 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.

On only five occasions, the winner of the C1 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.

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.[1]

Sponsorship
CAF Super Cup Trophy.

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

Title SponsorOfficial Sponsors

Records and statistics
Main article: List of CAF Super Cup matches

Winners
Club Winners Runners-up Years won Years runner-up
Al Ahly822002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2021 (May), 2021 (Dec)1994, 2015
Zamalek411994, 1997, 2003, 20202001
TP Mazembe322010, 2011, 20162017, 2018
Étoile Sportive du Sahel231998, 20082004, 2007, 2016
Raja CA222000, 20191998, 2021 (Dec)
Enyimba202004, 2005—
Espérance Sportive de Tunis1419951999, 2012, 2019, 2020
Wydad AC1220181993, 2003
Africa Sports1119932000
Hearts of Oak1120012005
Orlando Pirates101996—
ASEC Mimosas101999—
Maghreb Fes102012—
ES Sétif102015—
Mamelodi Sundowns102017—
CS Sfaxien03—2008, 2009, 2014
DC Motema Pembe01—1995
JS Kabylie01—1996
Al Mokawloon Al Arab01—1997
Kaizer Chiefs FC01—2002
AS FAR01—2006
Stade Malien01—2010
Fath Union Sport01—2011
AC Léopards01—2013
RS Berkane01—2021 (May)

By country
Nation Winners Runners-up
 Egypt 12 4
 Morocco 4 7
 Tunisia 3 10
DR Congo[B] 3 3
 Ivory Coast 2 1
 South Africa 2 1
 Nigeria 2 0
 Algeria 1 1
 Ghana 1 1
 Mali 0 1
 Republic of the Congo 0 1

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 :[7]

Final
position		Money awarded
to club
WinnerUS$100,000
Runners-upUS$75,000

Since 2019, prize money in CAF Super Cup are as following :[8]

Final
position		Money awarded
to club
WinnerUS$200,000
Runners-upUS$150,000

Media coverage
Country/Region Channels
 ASEAN BeIN Sports
 Canada beIN Sports
Réseau des sports
 Europe Sportfive
 France beIN Sports
Latin America ESPN
 Mali ORTM
 Morocco Arryadia
MENA beIN Sports
 South Africa SuperSport
Southern Balkans Arena Sport
 United States beIN Sports

See also

References
  1. "Al Ahly chase another record". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on February 7, 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
  2. "Total to sponsor CAF competitions for the next eight years". Africa News. Africa News. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  3. "TOTAL, TITLE SPONSOR OF THE AFRICA CUP OF NATIONS AND PARTNER OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL", CAF, 21 July 2016
  4. "ORANGE SIGNS NEW EIGHT-YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH CAF", CAF, 16 December 2016
  5. "QNET ANNOUNCES SPONSORSHIP OF TOTAL CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE, TOTAL CAF CONFEDERATION CUP, TOTAL CAF SUPER CUP", CAF, 24 February 2018
  6. "1XBET - OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE CONFÉDÉRATION AFRICAINE DE FOOTBALL (CAF) TOURNAMENTS", CAF, 6 February 2019
  7. "Prize money for CAF competitions effective 2017". cafonline.com.
  8. "Prize money for CAF Super Cup". Radiomars.ma.
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