2008 CAF Super Cup

2008 CAF Super Cup

ES Sahel CS Sfaxien 2 1
Date	23 February 2008
Venue	Stade 7 November, Tunis
Referee	Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)
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The 2008 CAF Super Cup was the 16th 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. The match was contested by 2007 CAF Champions League winners, ES Sahel, and 2007 CAF Confederation Cup winners, CS Sfaxien at the Stade 14 January in Tunis on 23 February 2008.

This was only the third time that the African Super Cup was contested by teams from the same country (after all-Egyptian Super Cups in 1994 and 1997), and the first ever involving two Tunisian clubs.

Teams

Team	Qualification	Previous participation (bold indicates winners)
ES Sahel	2007 CAF Champions League winner	1998, 2004, 2007
CS Sfaxien	2007 CAF Confederation Cup winner	None

Match details

23 February 2008

ES Sahel	2 – 1	CS Sfaxien
Chermiti 4' Felhi 48'	Report	Opoku 26'

Stade 7 November, Tunis

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

Étoile du Sahel

CS Sfaxien

Étoile du Sahel: GK Aymen Mathlouthi DF Mejdi Traoui DF Souheïl Ben Radhia DF Mehdi Meriah DF Radhouène Felhi DF Ammar Jemal MF Mohamed Ali Nafkha MF Afouène Gharbi  71' MF Gilson Silva  84' MF Mehdi Ben Dhifallah FW Amine Chermiti Substitutes: MF Mouritala Ogunbiyi  71' FW Moussa Narry  84' Manager: Bertrand Marchand

CS Sfaxien: GK Lotfi Saidi DF Fateh Gharbi  83' DF Karim Ben Amor DF Hamdi Rouid DF Mohamed Bouzidi MF Chaker Bargawi MF Chadi Hammami  68' MF Fraj Bnouni  59' MF Naby Soumah FW Blaise Kouassi FW Agyeman Opoku Substitutes: MF Ahmed Hleli  59' DF Guy Lusadisu Basisila  68' DF Dominique da Silva  83' Manager: Michel Decastel

CAF Super Cup 2008
Étoile du Sahel Second Title

See also

• 2007 CAF Champions League
• 2007 CAF Confederation Cup