1999 CAF Champions League final explained

1999 CAF Champions League Final
Event:1999 CAF Champions League
Team1:Raja CA
Team1association:
Team1score:0
Team2:ES Tunis
Team2association:
Team2score:0
Details:Raja CA won 4–3 on penalties
Firstleg:First leg
Team1score1:0
Team2score1:0
Date1:27 November 1999
Stadium1:Stade Père Jégo
City1:Casablanca
Referee1:Mathabella Petros (South Africa)
Attendance1:10 000
Secondleg:Second leg
Team1score2:0
Team2score2:0
Date2:12 December 1999
Stadium2:Stade El Menzah
City2:Tunis
Referee2:Manuel Monteiro Duarte (Cape Verde)
Attendance2:50 000
Previous:1998
Next:2000

The 1999 CAF Champions League Final was a football tie held over two legs in November and December 1999. Raja CA of Morocco beat ES Tunis of Tunisia on penalties after their two-legged tie ended goalless.[1]

Qualified teams

In the following table, finals until 1996 were in the African Cup of Champions Club era, since 1997 were in the CAF Champions League era.

TeamRegionPrevious finals appearances (bold indicates winners)
Raja CAUNAF (North Africa)1989, 1997
ES TunisUNAF (North Africa)1994

Venues

Stade Père Jégo

Stade Père Jégo is a multi-purpose stadium in Casablanca, Morocco. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Racing Casablanca.

The stadium currently holds 10,000 spectators.[2]

Raja CA was forced to play the first leg of the final match on this stadium, due to the start of renovation at Mohammed V Stadium in view of Morocco's bid for the organization of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, green and red seats were installed on the side stands limiting its capacity to 45,891 seats without counting South (Magana) and North (Frimija) turns which have no seat.

Stade El Menzah

Stade Olympique El Menzah is a multi-purpose stadium, located in the north of Tunis, Tunisia.

It is built to host the 1967 Mediterranean Games at the same time as the Olympic swimming pool and gymnasium. Since then, it is an integral part of Tunisia's main sports complex. Tunisia's three major football teams, ES Tunis, Club Africain and Stade Tunisien played their games there.The stadium is completely renovated for the 1994 African Cup of Nations. It has a capacity of 39,858 seats.[3] The VIP section consists of a grandstand and 2 salons that can accommodate 300 people in a "cocktail" configuration.

Road to final

Raja CARound ES Tunis
OpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legQualifying roundsOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd leg
ASEC Ndiambour4–10–1 (A)4–0 (H)First round Al-Mahalah4–12–1 (A)2–0 (H)
Djoliba AC3–3 (7-6 p)2–1 (H)1–2 (A)Second round Al-Hilal8–35–0 (H)3–3 (A)
OpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResult
Hearts of Oak1–0 (H)Matchday 1 ASEC Mimosas3–0 (H)
Al Ahly1–0 (A)Matchday 2 Dynamos Harare2–0 (A)
Shooting Stars1–0 (H)Matchday 3 SS Saint-Louisienne5–0 (H)
Shooting Stars0–1 (A)Matchday 4 SS Saint-Louisienne2–0 (A)
Hearts of Oak0–0 (A)Matchday 5 ASEC Mimosas0–1 (A)
Al Ahly1–1 (H)Matchday 6 Dynamos Harare1–0 (H)
Final standings

Format

The final was decided over two legs, with aggregate goals used to determine the winner. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule would have been applied, and if still level, the tie would have proceeded directly to a penalty shootout (no extra time is played).[4]

Matches

Second leg

Notes and References

  1. Web site: African Club Competitions 1999 . Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation . Stokkermans . Karel . 16 June 2019.
  2. Web site: Morocco - Racing Athletic Club Casablanca - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway.
  3. Web site: CNS : Cité Natinale Sportive . 2015-01-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150118172530/http://www.cns.nat.tn/fr/article/stade-de-football-d-el-menzah_11 . 2015-01-18 .
  4. http://www.cafonline.com/userfiles/file/Regulation/champions%20league.pdf Regulations of the CAF Champions League