2002 CAF Champions League Final

The 2002 CAF Champions League Final was a football match that took place on Friday, 13 December 2002 at 17:00 UTC (19:00 local time). The match was played at the Cairo Stadium, in Cairo, Egypt, to determine the winner of the 2002 CAF Champions League. The final was contested by Zamalek and Raja Casablanca, making it an all-Arabic club final for the fifth time in the history of the competition . The game was won by Zamalek 1–0 by Abdelhamid's Goal, after a 0–0 draw in Casablanca.

Background

Zamalek went into the Champions League final as champions of Egypt for the 11th time, and had lost just one Champions League game, the quarter-final second leg away to ASEC Mimosas. Raja also came first in their league. In the Moroccan League games between the two sides in the Champions League Final, They draw 0–0 at Stade Mohamed V in Casablanca, while Zamalek won 1–0 at Cairo Stadium in the return game on 13 December 2002.

Route to the final

For more details on this topic, see CAF Champions League 2002.

Zamalek

In the first knockout round, Zamalek were won against APR FC, against whom they won the Home leg 6–0 while Hossam Hassan, Mohamed Abdel Wahed, Hazem Emam, Gamal Hamza and Mohamed Sabry scored the six goals. The Royal Club then drawn the second leg 0–0 to ensure a 6–0 aggregate win and a place in the second Round, where they were again won against Nkana.

The second Round matches represented the first time these two clubs had met in Africa . Zamalek went to Kitwe and secured a very creditable 2–0 win, before qualify to the Group stage of the Champions League, by drawing 0–0.

Zamalek were drawn in Group F along with ASEC Mimosas, Espérance and Costa do Sol. Zamalek won their first group game before securing a 1–1 draw away against Espérance, Zamalek as group winners and with the most number of points out of all the group winners, 13.

The semi-final pitted Zamalek against Mazembe; the teams had not met ever in the group stage of the Champions League tournament, the first time Zamalek won it. The first leg at the Stade de la Kenya was a drab affair, with Zamalek spending most of the game defending, whilst Mazembe tried to pass the ball around them. That was about as exciting as the first leg got for either team and it ended 1–1 thanks to a goal from Abdel Halim Ali. The second leg at Cairo Stadium was a game of higher tempo, which Zamalek won 2–0 and Hossam Hassan scored twice. This result increased Zamalek's consecutive home win record in the Champions League to 5 and ensured that Zamalek reached the final unbeaten except losing a match in the quarter-final second leg away against ASEC Mimosas .

Match details

First leg

Raja Casablanca v Zamalek

30 November 2002

Raja Casablanca	0 – 0	Zamalek
	(Report)

Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Falla N'Doye (Senegal)

Raja Casablanca

Zamalek


Raja Casablanca:
GK	1	Mustapha Chadli
CB	4	Abdelouahad Abdessamad
CB	16	El-Amine Erbate
CB	23	Noureddine Kacemi
RM	8	Abdellatif Jrindou
CM	27	Nabil Mesloub
CM	29	Zakaria Aboub	60'
LM	5	Mohamed Ali Diallo	77'
CM	20	Hamid Nater
CF	11	Hicham Aboucherouane
CF	9	François Endene
Substitutes:
CM	24	Sami Tajeddine	60'
FW	30	Omar Zoubit	77'
Manager:
Walter Meeuws


Zamalek:
GK	26	Abdel Wahed Al Sayed
RB	2	Ibrahim Hassan
CB	5	Besheer El-Tabei
CB	15	Wael El-Quabbani
CB	1	Mehdat Abdelhadi
LB	13	Tarek El-Sayed
CF	10	Walid Salah Abdel Latif
CM	20	Tamer Abdel Hamid
MF	22	Hossam Abdel Moniem	?'
CM	11	Mohamed Aboul Ela	?'
CF	9	Hossam Hassan	?'	89'
Substitutes:
FW	24	Abdel Halim Ali		89'
Manager:
Carlos Roberto Cabral

Assistant referees:
Amadou Diop (Senegal)
Sow Magueye (Senegal)

Second leg

Zamalek v Raja Casablanca

13 December 2002
17:00 GMT

Zamalek	1 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Abdel Hamid 45+4'	(Report)

Cairo Stadium, Cairo
Attendance: 67,310
Referee: Al-Shelmani (Libya)

Zamalek

Raja Casablanca


Zamalek:
GK	26	Abdel Wahed Al Sayed
RB	2	Ibrahim Hassan	40'
CB	1	Mehdat Abdelhadi
CB	5	Besheer El-Tabei
CB	15	Wael El-Quabbani
LB	13	Tarek El-Sayed
CM	20	Tamer Abdel Hamid
CM	11	Mohamed Aboul Ela
CM	14	Hazem Emam (c)		78'
CF	10	Walid Salah Abdel Latif		82'
CF	9	Hossam Hassan
Substitutes:
FW	24	Abdel Halim Ali		82'
MF	22	Hossam Abdel Moniem		78'
Manager:
Carlos Roberto Cabral


Raja Casablanca:
GK	1	Mustapha Chadli
CB	4	Abdelouahad Abdessamad	15'
CB	8	Abdellatif Jrindrou	19'
CB	16	El Amin Erbate		80'
RM	24	Tajeddine Sami	58'	64'
CM	29	Zakaria Aboub
CM	27	Nabil Masloub
LM	23	Noureddine Kacemi	60'
CM	20	Hamid Nater
CF	9	François Endene
CF	11	Hicham Aboucherouane
Substitutes:
FW	30	Omar Zoubit		80'
FW	5	Mohamed Ali Diallo		64'
Manager:
Walter Meeuws

Assistant referees:
Gamal El-Hawary (Libya)
Khaeri El-Magouri (Libya)

References

External links

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