2009 North African Cup of Champions

The 2009 North African Cup of Champions was the second edition of the competition initiated by the North African Football Union (UNAF). Algerian side ES Sétif were crowned champions after beating Tunisian champions ES Tunis in a penalty shootout in the final. Midfielder Hocine Metref was chosen as the Best Player of the competition, while goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi was chosen as the Best Goalkeeper.^[1]

2009 North African Cup of Champions

Tournament details
Dates	October 2009 – 19 December 2009
Teams	4 (from UNAF confederations)
Final positions
Champions	ES Sétif (1st title)
Runners-up	ES Tunis
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6
Goals scored	15 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Abdelmalek Ziaya (3 goals)
Best player(s)	Hocine Metref

Participating teams

• ES Sétif (2008-09 Algerian Championnat National Champions)
• ES Tunis (2008-09 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle Champions)
• Ittihad Tripoli (2008-09 Libyan Premier League Champions)
• Raja Casablanca (2008-09 Botola Champions)

Draw

The draw was made in Djerba, Tunisia on 25 July 2009 at an UNAF meeting.^[2][3]

Semi finals

First Legs

27 October 2009
19:15 EET

Raja Casablanca	1 – 1	ES Sétif
Dia Cire 81' Nabil Masloub  44'  84' Omar Najdi  90+4'	Report (in Arabic)	Nabil Hemani  34' Abdelmalek Ziaya 69'

Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca

Referee: Adil Arra'ee

29 October 2009
18:15 EET

ES Tunis	2 – 1	Ittihad
Khalil Chemmam 19' Khaled Ayari 90+8'	Report (in Arabic)	Ahmed Zuway 35'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis

Referee: Abdallah Achiri

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Second Legs

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24 November 2009
17:00 GMT

ES Sétif	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Abdelmalek Ziaya 32', 49'		Ismail Belmaalam  36'

Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif

Referee: Aouaz Trabelsi

ES Sétif go through with an aggregate score of 3–1

9 November 2009
18:00 GMT

Ittihad Tripoli	2 – 2	ES Tunis
Waleed Mhadeb 9' Ahmed Zuway 54'	(Report) (in Arabic)	Henri Bienvenu 62' Wajdi Bouazzi 90+4'

11 June Stadium, Tripoli

Referee: Mokhtar Amalou

ES Tunis go through with an aggregate score of 4–3.

Final

First leg

11 December 2009

ES Sétif	1 – 1	ES Tunis
Bouazza Feham 65'	Report	Syam Ben Youssef 83'

Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif

Referee: Wahid Tamuni

Second leg

20 December 2009

ES Tunis	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (5 – 6 pen.)	ES Sétif
Michael Eneramo 70' (pen.)		Lazhar Hadj Aïssa 35'

Stade 7 Novembre, Rades

Referee: Khalil Rouissi

Champions

2009 North African Cup of Champions Winners
ES Sétif First title