2024 CAF Super Cup

The 2024 CAF Super Cup, known as The Super of the Century,^[3] officially TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup Riyadh 2024 for sponsorship reasons,^[4] was the 33rd 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.

2024 CAF Super Cup

TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup Riyadh 2024
Match programme cover
Al Ahly Zamalek 1 1
Zamalek won 4–3 on penalties
Date	27 September 2024
Venue	Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Man of the Match	Nasser Mansi (Zamalek)
Referee	Mutaz Ibrahim (Libya)[1]
Weather	Fair 32 °C (90 °F) 16% humidity[2]
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The match was played between the 2023–24 CAF Champions League winners, Al Ahly, and the 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup winners, Zamalek, both from Egypt and both sides of the Cairo derby, on 27 September 2024 at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[5]

Zamalek won the match 4–3 on penalties, after the original time ended 1–1, to secure their fifth CAF Super Cup title.^[6] The match was the third continental encounter between two Egyptian clubs, and the second in a Super Cup.

The match set numerous records. This was Zamalek's fifth title, all of which came against opponents from the UNAF region. Zamalek also became the first CAF Confederation Cup representative to win the competition more than once. Additionally, for the first time in CAF Super Cup history, a team from the CAF Confederation Cup won three consecutive editions. Meanwhile, Al Ahly tied Espérance de Tunis's record of losing two consecutive CAF Super Cups after winning the CAF Champions League; Espérance lost the 2019 and 2020 editions to Raja CA and Zamalek, respectively, while Al Ahly lost the previous edition to USM Alger.

Teams

Team	Zone	Qualification	Previous participation (bold indicates winners)
Al Ahly	UNAF (North Africa)	2023–24 CAF Champions League winners	11 (1994, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021 (May), 2021 (December), 2023)
Zamalek		2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup winners	5 (1994, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2020)

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 is tied at the end of regulation, extra time was not played, and the penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (CAF Champions League Regulations XXVII and CAF Confederation Cup Regulations XXV).^[7][8]

Venue

Riyadh Location of the host city of the 2024 CAF Super Cup.	City	Stadium
	Riyadh	Kingdom Arena
	Capacity: 27,000

Match

27 September 2024 (2024-09-27)

21:00 UTC+3

Al Ahly	1–1	Zamalek
Abou Ali 44' (pen.)	Report	Nasser Mansi 77'
Penalties
Rabia Kamal Attiyat Allah Taher Abou Ali	3–4	El Said Mathlouthi Mansi Abdelmaguid

Kingdom Arena, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Referee: Mutaz Ibrahim (Libya)

Al Ahly

Zamalek

GK 1 Mohamed El Shenawy (c) RB 30 Mohamed Hany  27' CB 6 Yasser Ibrahim CB 5 Ramy Rabia LB 18 Yahia Attiyat Allah CM 22 Emam Ashour  66' CM 13 Marwan Attia  84' CM 8 Akram Tawfik  32' RW 10 Percy Tau  66' LW 14 Hussein El Shahat  84' CF 9 Wessam Abou Ali Substitutes: GK 31 Mostafa Shobeir DF 3 Omar Kamal  27' DF 15 Achraf Dari MF 17 Amr El Solia MF 19 Mohamed Magdy  66' MF 36 Ahmed Nabil Koka  84' FW 7 Mahmoud Kahraba FW 12 Reda Slim  84' FW 29 Taher Mohamed  66' Manager: Marcel Koller

GK 1 Mohamed Awad RB 4 Omar Gaber (c)  89' CB 24 Hamza Mathlouthi  37' CB 5 Hossam Abdelmaguid LB 3 Mahmoud Bentayg CM 22 Nasser Maher  76' CM 8 Nabil Emad  89'  89' CM 19 Abdallah El Said RW 25 Ahmed Sayed LW 7 Mostafa Shalaby  63' CF 30 Seifeddine Jaziri  38'  76' Substitutes: GK 32 Mahmoud El Shenawy DF 6 Mostafa El Zenary DF 36 Mohamed Hamdy MF 15 Ziad Kamal  89' MF 17 Mohamed Shehata  89' FW 9 Nasser Mansi  90+8' (pso)  76' FW 10 Shikabala FW 11 Omar Faraj  76' FW 21 Konrad Michalak  63' Manager: José Gomes

Man of the Match: Nasser Mansi (Zamalek) Assistant referees:[1] Attia Issa (Libya) Khalil Hassani (Tunisia) Fourth official:[1] Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia) Video assistant referee:[1] Akhona Makalima (South Africa) Assistant video assistant referees:[1] Abongile Tom (South Africa) Zakaria Brinsi (Morocco)

Match rules 90 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores level. Nine named substitutes, of which up to five may be used.[note 1]

Notes

1. Each team was only given three opportunities to make substitutions, excluding substitutions made at half-time.

See also

• 1994 CAF Super Cup