2006 CAF Confederation Cup

The 2006 CAF Confederation Cup was the third edition of the CAF Confederation Cup. It started with the preliminary round (home-and away ties) that was played in February and March 2006. Étoile Sahel of Tunisia beat FAR Rabat of Morocco in the final. The final was marred by a skirmish when FAR Rabat attacked the referee and his linesman after having a late goal ruled out.^[1]

2006 CAF Confederation Cup

Confederation of African Football Confederation Cup
Tournament details
Dates	17 February – 2 December
Teams	58
Final positions
Champions	ES Sahel (1st title)
Runners-up	FAR Rabat
Tournament statistics
Matches played	110
Goals scored	260 (2.36 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Manucho (8 goals)
← 2005 2007 →

Pre Cup Events

Before the cup, Morocco and South Africa offered to host the cup. Due to the uncertainty of hosting the cup in African terrain where there were ongoing conflicts at the time they did not host the cup.^[2]

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2006 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds

Preliminary round

1st legs played 17–19 February 2006 and 2nd legs played 3–5 March 2006.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ASC Entente	w/o1	ASO Chlef	—	—
Sahel SC	2–4	Séwé Sports	1–1	1–3
ES Zarzis	2–0	US Ouagadougou	2–0	0–0
Akonangui FC	0–0 (5–4 p)	Impôts FC	0–0	0–0
TP USCA Bangui	1–5	Les Astres FC	1–3	0–2
Tourbillon FC	3–5	CSMD Diables Noirs	2–2	1–3
Bakau United	w/o1	JC Abidjan	—	—
Al-Akhdar	1–4	Haras El Hodood	1–0	0–4
Rayon Sport	2–0	Awassa City FC	1–0	1–0
Mighty Blackpool	2–3	ASC CS Sucrière	2–1	0–2
World Hope	1–2	Uganda Revenue Authority SC	1–1	0–1
Dynamic Togolais	0–5	AS Bamako	0–0	0–5
AS Kabasha	0–2	Sogéa FC	0–0	0–2
Super Magic Brothers	0–3	Township Rollers	0–2	0–1
ZESCO United	4–0	Pointe aux Sables Mates	3–0	1–0
Ferroviário da Beira	2–1	Élan Club	2–1	n/p2
JKU SC	1–2	USJF Ravinala	0–0	1–2
Moro United	bye3

¹ ASC Entente and Bakau United FC withdrew.
² The tie between Ferroviário da Beira and Élan Club was played over one leg only by mutual consent.
³ Moro United were drawn against the representatives of Zimbabwe, but the Zimbabwean FA were unable to send a team as their cup winners and league runners-up, Masvingo United, were suspended from CAF competition.

First round

1st legs played 17–19 March 2006 and 2nd legs played 31 March -2 April 2006.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ASO Chlef	0–1	AS Douanes	0–0	0–1
Séwé Sports	2–3	NA Hussein Dey	1–0	1–3
ES Zarzis	1–6	Olympique Khouribga	1–0	0–6
Akonangui FC	1–1 (5–6 p)	Lobi Stars	1–0	0–1
Les Astres FC	2–3	Petro Atlético	1–2	2–2
CSMD Diables Noirs	2–3	Berekum Arsenal	2–1	0–2
JC Abidjan	0–2	Heartland F.C.	0–0	0–2
Haras El Hodood	7–0	AS Kaloum Star	6–0	0–1
Rayon Sport	1–3	Al-Ittihad Al-Iskandary	1–0	0–3
ASC CS Sucrière	0–4	Espérance	0–1	0–3
Uganda Revenue Authority SC	2–3	Al-Merrikh	2–1	0–2
AS Bamako	1–0	King Faisal Babes	1–0	0–0
Sogéa FC	1–2	Interclube	1–0	0–2
ZESCO United	2–3	Township Rollers	2–1	0–2
Moro United	awd1	TP Mazembe	—	—
USJF Ravinala	0–0 (4–3 p)	Ferroviário da Beira	0–0	0–0

¹ TP Mazembe was disqualified for showing up late for the 1st leg due to transportation problems.

Second round

1st legs played 21–23 April 2006 and 2nd legs played 5–7 May 2006.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
NA Hussein Dey	3–1	AS Douanes	2–0	1–1
Lobi Stars	2–3	Olympique Khouribga	1–1	1–2
Berekum Arsenal	0–2	Petro Atlético	0–0	0–2
Haras El Hodood	2–3	Heartland F.C.	0–0	2–3
Espérance	1–1 (4–3 p)	Al-Ittihad Al-Iskandary	1–0	0–1
AS Bamako	3–3 (2–3 p)	Al-Merrikh	3–0	0–3
Township Rollers	1–2	Interclube	1–1	0–1
USJF Ravinala	2–5	Moro United	1–2	1–3

Play-off round

The 8 winners of the round of 16 play the losers of the round of 16 of the Champions League for 8 places in the group stage.
1st legs played 14-July 16, 2006 and 2nd legs played 28-July 30, 2006.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
USCA Foot	0–1	Interclube	0–0	0–1
Renacimiento FC	5–4	Heartland F.C.	5–0	0–4
Étoile Sahel	7–1	Moro United	4–1	3–0
FC Saint Eloi Lupopo	3–2	Al-Merrikh	2–0	1–2
ASC Port Autonome	0–2	Petro Atlético	0–1	0–1
FAR Rabat	2–1	NA Hussein Dey	2–0	0–1
Al Hilal Omdurman	1–2	Olympique Khouribga	0–0	1–2
Raja Casablanca	0–2	Espérance	0–0	0–2

Group stage

Main article: 2006 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

The Group Stage matches were played between August and October 2006.

Key to colours in group tables
Group winners advance to the final

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
FAR Rabat	13	6	4	1	1	9	5	4	Final
Olympique Khouribga	10	6	3	1	2	6	4	2
Petro Atlético	8	6	2	2	2	10	7	3
GD Interclube	3	6	1	0	5	3	12	-9

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Étoile Sahel	18	6	6	0	0	15	3	12	Final
Espérance	8	6	2	2	2	10	7	3
FC Saint Eloi Lupopo	4	6	1	1	4	8	12	-4
Renacimiento FC	4	6	1	1	4	6	17	-11

Knockout stage

Final

Main article: 2006 CAF Confederation Cup Final

The 1st leg was played on November 18 and the 2nd leg on December 2.

18 November 2006

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FAR Rabat	1–1	Étoile du Sahel
El Bahri 72'		Gilson Silva 34'

Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat

Referee: Ahmed Ouda (Egypt)

2 December 2006

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Étoile du Sahel	0–0	FAR Rabat

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

Étoile du Sahel won on away goal after 1–1 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

The top scorers from the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup are as follows:

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Manucho	Petro Atlético	8
2	Abdessamad Rafik	Olympique Khouribga	7
3	Emeka Opara	Étoile du Sahel	6
4	Abdul-Hamid Bassiouny	Haras El Hodoud	5
	Jawad Ouaddouch	FAR Rabat	5
6	Ahmed Abdel-Ghani	Haras El Hodoud	4
	El Hadji Ibrahim Touré	Renacimiento FC	4
	Samir Fellah	Olympique Khouribga	4