2019 CAF Super Cup

The 2019 CAF Super Cup (officially the 2019 Total CAF Super Cup for sponsorship reasons)^[2] was the 27th 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.

2019 CAF Super Cup

2019 Total CAF Super Cup
Espérance de Tunis Raja CA 1 2
Date	29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)
Venue	Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha, Qatar
Referee	Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)[1]
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The match was played between Espérance de Tunis from Tunisia, the 2018 CAF Champions League winners, and Raja CA from Morocco, the 2018 CAF Confederation Cup winners, at the Thani bin Jassim Stadium in Doha, Qatar on 29 March 2019.^[3][4]

Raja CA won the match 2–1 for their second CAF Super Cup title.^[5]

The match was originally to be hosted by Espérance de Tunis at the Stade Olympique de Radès in Radès, Tunisia on 29 December 2018,^[6] but CAF announced on 12 December 2018 that the match would be played in Qatar on 20 February 2019.^[7] However, the date was later changed to 29 March 2019 after both clubs requested a new date for the match. This was the first CAF Super Cup to be played outside of Africa.

The Super Cup of this season followed a transitional calendar which allows the CAF club competitions to switch from a February-to-November schedule to an August–to-May schedule, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017.^[8] The Super Cup of next season will then be played in August after the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (which has been switched from January/February to June/July) following the new calendar.^[9]

Teams

Team	Zone	Qualification	Previous participation (bold indicates winners)
Espérance de Tunis	UNAF (North Africa)	2018 CAF Champions League winners	3 (1995, 1999, 2012)
Raja CA	UNAF (North Africa)	2018 CAF Confederation Cup winners	2 (1998, 2000)

Venue

City	Stadium	Doha Location of the host city of the 2019 CAF Super Cup.
Doha	Thani bin Jassim Stadium
Capacity: 20,560

Format

The CAF Super Cup was played as a single match at a neutral venue, with the CAF Champions League winners designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes. 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).^[10][11]

Ticketing

A total of 20,560 tickets are available in three categories: category 1 for 100 QR, category 2 for 50 QR, and category 3 for 20 QR.^[12]

Match

Details

Espérance de Tunis	1–2	Raja CA
Belaïli 57'	Report	Hafidi 22' Banoun 64'

29 March 2019 (2019-03-29)

19:00 UTC+3

Thani bin Jassim Stadium, Doha (Qatar)

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Espérance de Tunis[1]

Raja CA[1]

GK 19 Rami Jridi RB 22 Sameh Derbali  54' CB 5 Chamseddine Dhaouadi (c)  76' CB 6 Mohamed Ali Yacoubi  73' LB 20 Ayman Ben Mohamed CM 15 Fousseny Coulibaly CM 30 Franck Kom  81' RW 8 Anice Badri AM 18 Saad Bguir  46' LW 17 Hamdou Elhouni CF 11 Taha Yassine Khenissi Substitutes: GK 1 Moez Ben Cherifia DF 24 Iheb Mbarki  54' DF 26 Houcine Rabii MF 25 Ghailene Chaalali MF 28 Mohamed Amine Meskini FW 10 Youcef Belaïli  46' FW 14 Haythem Jouini  73' Manager: Moïne Chaâbani

GK 1 Anas Zniti  90+2' RB 25 Omar Boutayeb CB 13 Badr Banoun (c)  86' CB 8 Sanad Al Ouarfali LB 5 Fabrice Gael Ngah CM 2 Abderrahim Achchakir  89' CM 29 Zakaria El Wardi RW 24 Mahmoud Benhalib AM 18 Abdelilah Hafidi  80' LW 7 Zakaria Hadraf  76' CF 21 Soufiane Rahimi  90+4' Substitutes: GK 22 Mohamed Bouamira DF 26 Ilias Haddad MF 4 Mohamed Douik MF 19 Ibrahima Niasse FW 9 Mouhcine Iajour  90+4' FW 11 Anas Jabroun FW 30 Ayoub Nanah  80' Manager: Patrice Carteron

Assistant referees:[1] Zakhele Siwela (South Africa) Waleed Ahmed Ali (Sudan) Fourth official:[1] Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)

Match rules[10][11] 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 :^[13]

Final position	Money awarded to club
winner	US$200,000
Runners-up	US$150,000

See also

• 2018 CAF Champions League Final
• 2018 CAF Confederation Cup Final