I’ve had a run through the finals from 2013 to 2023 on an area I don’t really pay attention to. The absolute key fact that I’m still messing up is that the Egyptian team Al Ahly are the dominant force and shouldn’t be confused with the Saudi team Al-Ahli.
Questions
In the 2023 CAF Champions League final Al Ahly won their 11th title after defeating which Moroccan club in a reversal of fortune to the 2022 event? They play their home games in Casablanca and are the most successful team in the Botola league.
WYDAD AC
Thumped 3-0 by Al Ahly in the 2021 CAF Champions League final, the Kaizer Chiefs are named for their founder Kaizer Motaung and a NASL team from which American city, Motaung having been a player for them?
ATLANTA
Winning the most CAF Champions League titles before Al Ahly’s dominance of the event began, which team have failed to add to their five titles since 2002 despite making the final in 2016 and 2020?
ZAMALEK SC
Their colours being red and yellow, or ‘blood and gold’ for the more romantic, which club won the CAF Champions League in back-to-back seasons in 2018 and 2019? A handball team of the same name has twice won the African Handball Champions League.
ESPÉRANCE TUNIS / ES TUNIS
The only CAF Champions League victory for which team who play their home games at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium occurred in 2016, 15 years after they were beaten by an Al Ahly side that took their third title?
MAMELODI SUNDOWNS
One of the most successful clubs in the CAF Champions League, TP Mazembe play their home games in which city on their country’s border with Zambia?
LUBUMBASHI
Runner-up to TP Mazembe in the 2015 CAF Champions League, for what does USM stand for in the Algerian team USM Alger?
UNION SPORTIVE DE LA MÉDINA
The ES in their name standing for Entente Sportive, from which Algerian city do the winners of the 1988 and 2014 CAF Champions League finals hail? It can be found in a namesake province and was one of the locations of a 1945 series of massacres that resulted in thousands of deaths.
SÉTIF
Nicknamed the black dolphins with one of those animals being featured on the club’s badge, what is the name of the club from Kinshasa that lost out to ES Sétif in the 2014 CAF Champions League final? They were a winner of the event in 1973 when their country was still called Zaire.
(AS) VITA
The first South African team to win the CAF Champions League back in 1995, who could not repeat that feat when they came up against Al Ahly in the 2013 final? They play in a township that gets its name from a former mayor of Johannesburg.
ORLANDO PIRATES
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