IFFHS CONTINENTAL NEWS AND STATISTICS - AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
50 guest wins for Al Taraji
The AFC Champions League competition Friday and Saturday, its fifth round and penultimate of the group stage
Five teams qualified for the round of 16 from the fourth round ASEC Mimosas of Ivory Coast
They are Mamelodi Sundowns from South Africa, TP Mzembe from DR Congo, Petro de Luanda from Angola, Al Ahli Egypt and Young Africans from Tanzania
The first two cards remain for the first group (between Simba SC and Moroccan Wydad) and the second for the third group (between Tunisian Taraji and Sudanese Crescent)
In a season which is the worst Arab African team in the Champions League for 11 years (3 teams in 2013 passed the stage of both groups)
Fifth round matches saw four wins for the guest teams (second highest equivalent number after 2022/2021) and six host teams failed to score in an unprecedented eight matches
This happens for the first time in a single round of CAF Champions League groups since the adoption of the four starting groups system of the 2017 edition
Al-Ahly Egypt achieved a first victory in 9 matches played as a guest in the Ghanaian club thanks to Hussein Al-Shahat who raised his score to 12 goals (his first outside the rules) as the fourth Egyptian player to reach this number since the group stage in the history of the competition
And this is Al Ahly's 48th victory as a guest in the Continental Cups
Wydad won against Jwaneng Galaxy in the first match in which a Moroccan team plays as guests against Botswana in club competitions
This is Wydad's 17th victory as a guest in the continental games
The Tunisian joined the South African victory Pitso MOSIMANE as the most coaches to achieve victory as guests in the history of the best African Club Cup competition with 13 matches, achieved by the Tunisian with 5 clubs and registered by South Africa with 3 clubs
Mamelodi Sundowns defeated club host Nawazibo in the first match in which a South African team plays a guest against the Mauritanian team
To bring its score to 31 victories as most South African clubs have managed to win outside the rules in competitions
Tunisia's Al-Taraji defeated host Al-Nam Sahli in match number 16 between the two teams as the most encounter between two teams from the same country in the history of the African Cup
Al-Taraji supports its continental tally as the most clubs to win as a guest and raise it to 50 wins ahead of Al-Ahly and ASEC Mimosas