2018 CAF Super Cup explained

Other Titles:	2018 Total CAF Super Cup
Team1:	Wydad AC
Team1association:
Team1score:	1
Team2:	TP Mazembe
Team2association:
Team2score:	0
Stadium:	Stade Mohammed V
City:	Casablanca
Referee:	Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)
Attendance:	45,000
Previous:	2017
Next:	2019

The 2018 CAF Super Cup (officially the 2018 Total CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 26th 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.^[1]

The match was played between Wydad AC of Morocco, the 2017 CAF Champions League winners, and TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup winners. It was hosted by Wydad AC at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca on 24 February 2018.^{[2] [3]}

Wydad AC won the match 1–0 to claim their first CAF Super Cup title.^{[4] [5]}

Teams

Team	Zone	Qualification	Previous appearances (bold indicates winners)
Wydad AC	UNAF (North Africa)	2017 CAF Champions League winners	2 (1993, 2003)
TP Mazembe	UNIFFAC (Central Africa)	2017 CAF Confederation Cup winners	4 (2010, 2011, 2016, 2017)

Format

The CAF Super Cup was played as a single match, with the CAF Champions League winners hosting the match. 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).^{[6] [7]}

Match

Details

width=25 ! width=25 GK 22 Zouhair Laaroubi RB 28 Abdelatif Noussir CB 5 Amine Atouchi CB 29 Cheick Comara LB 30 Mohamed Nahiri RM 19 CM 4 Salaheddine Saidi CM 6 Brahim Nekkach (c) LM 11 Ismail Haddad CF 23 CF 18 Substitutes: GK 1 Yassine El Kharroubi DF 16 DF 27 Zakaria El Hachimi MF 10 Daniel Nii Adjei MF 24 Jamel Aït Ben Idir FW 20 FW 25 Manager: Faouzi Benzarti

width=25 ! width=25 GK 22 Sylvain Gbohouo RB 5 Issama Mpeko CB 14 CB 2 Joël Kimwaki LB 4 Arsène Zola RM 9 CM 16 CM 27 Miché Mika LM 23 CF 28 Ben Malango CF 18 Rainford Kalaba (c) Substitutes: GK 21 Ley Matampi DF 3 Jean Kasusula DF 15 MF 26 MF 29 Glody Likonza FW 17 Manager: Mihayo Kazembe

Assistant referees Jerson Emiliano Dos Santos (Angola) Zakhele Thusi Siwela (South Africa) Fourth official Gehad Grisha (Egypt)

Match rules 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 :^[8]

Final position	Money awarded to club
winner	US$100,000
Runners-up	US$75,000

See also

• 2017 CAF Champions League Final
• 2017 CAF Confederation Cup Final

External links

• Super Cup 2018, CAFonline.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football. CAF. 21 July 2016.
2. Web site: DATES FOR CAF INTERCLUBS COMPETITIONS 2018. CAF.
3. Web site: Accreditation for Total CAF Super Cup 2018. CAF. 12 February 2018.
4. Web site: Wydad win Super Cup as VAR used in Africa for first time. CAF. 24 February 2018.
5. Web site: WAC 1-0 TP Mazembe: Red Devils pip Ravens to win 2018 Caf Super Cup. live. 2022-01-09. www.goal.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20220109103547/https://www.goal.com/en-ph/news/wac-1-0-tp-mazembe-red-devils-pip-ravens-to-win-2018-caf/1rz3t3njd79nw13hoc2tj13dgl/match/5qjf8l77bgyrqbnzfl5079a3u . 2022-01-09 .
6. Web site: CAF Champions League regulations. CAF.
7. Web site: CAF Confederation Cup regulations. CAF.
8. News: Prize money for CAF competitions effective 2017. cafonline.com .