2009 North African Cup of Champions

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	Hocine Metref

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]

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 July 25, 2009 at an UNAF meeting.^[2][3]

Semi finals

First Legs

October 27, 2009 19:15 EET	Raja Casablanca	1 – 1	ES Sétif	Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca Referee: Adil Arra'ee
	Dia Cire  81' Nabil Masloub  44', 84' Omar Najdi 90+4'	Report (Arabic)	Nabil Hemani 34' Abdelmalek Ziaya  69'

October 29, 2009 18:15 EET	ES Tunis	2 – 1	Ittihad	Stade El Menzah, Tunis Referee: Abdallah Achiri
	Khalil Chemmam  19' Khaled Ayari  90+8'	Report (Arabic)	Ahmed Zuway  35'

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Second Legs

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November 24, 2009 17:00 GMT	ES Sétif	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca	Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif Referee: Aouaz Trabelsi
	Abdelmalek Ziaya  32', 49'		Ismail Belmaalam 36'

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

November 9, 2009 18:00 GMT	Ittihad Tripoli	2 – 2	ES Tunis	11 June Stadium, Tripoli Referee: Mokhtar Amalou
	Waleed Mhadeb  9' Ahmed Zuway  54'	(Report) (Arabic)	Henri Bienvenu  62' Wajdi Bouazzi  90+4'

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

Final

First leg

December 11, 2009	ES Sétif	1 – 1	ES Tunis	Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif Referee: Wahid Tamuni
	Bouazza Feham  65'	Report	Syam Ben Youssef  83'

Second leg

December 20, 2009	ES Tunis	1 – 1 (a.e.t.) (5 – 6 pen.)	ES Sétif	Stade 7 Novembre, Rades Referee: Khalil Rouissi
	Michael Eneramo  70' (pen.)		Lazhar Hadj Aïssa  35'

Champions

2009 North African Cup of Champions Winners
ES Sétif First title

References

1. ^ http://www.liberte-algerie.com/edit.php?id=127223&titre=Coulisses
2. ^ "اتحاد شمال إفريقيا لكرة القدم يجتمع الجمعة والسبت القادمين ويجري قرعة بطولة الدوري والكأس الأحد القادم بتونس". LFF. 2009-07-24. http://football.ly/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105:2009-07-24-15-01-48&catid=1:2009-05-09-15-27-04&Itemid=2. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 
3. ^ "قرعة بطولة وكأس إتحاد شمال إفريقيا لكرة القدم". Libya Alyoum. 2009-07-27. http://www.libya-alyoum.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=1&NrArticle=22984&NrIssue=1&NrSection=9. Retrieved 2009-08-12. 

External links

• goalzz.com