CAIRO, Egypt
Africa football champions, Al Ahly will play South African side Mamelodi Sundowns, Sudan's Al Hilal and Al Merrikh in Group A of the African Champions League following the draw on Tuesday.
Egyptian side Ahly, led by former Sundowns
coach Pitso Mosimane, have won the title for the last two years and knocked the
South African champions out in the quarterfinals in 2020-21.
They beat another South African side, Kaizer
Chiefs, 3-0 in the final last season to earn Mosimane his third title after he
also won the competition with Sundowns in 2016.
African Confederation Cup champions Raja
Casablanca head Group B and take on Horoya of Guinea, ES Setif from Algeria and
South African debutants AmaZulu.
The latter are coached by former Blackburn
Rovers striker Benni McCarthy, who won the Uefa Champions League as a player
with Porto.
There will be a Tunisian derby in Group C where
Esperance and Etoile du Sahel clash with Algerian side CR Belouizdad and first
time participants Jwaneng Galaxy of Botswana.
There is another heavyweight tussle in Group D
as Moroccan club Wydad Casablanca, who lifted the continental title in 2017,
meet top Egyptian club Zamalek, as well as Angola's Petro Atletico and Sagrada
Esperanca.
The draw was also made for the Confederation
Cup on Tuesday.
Matches in both competitions are set to start
on the weekend of February 11-12, one week after the completion of the Africa
Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Ahly may have to reschedule their opening
fixture as they compete in the Club World Cup in the United Arab Emirates from
February 3-12.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE DRAW
Group A: Al Ahly
(Egypt), Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), Al Hilal (Sudan), Al
Merrikh (Sudan)
Group B: Raja Casablanca
(Morocco), Horoya (Guinea), ES Setif (Algeria), AmaZulu (South Africa)
Group C: Esperance
(Tunisia), Etoile du Sahel (Tunisia), CR Belouizdad (Algeria), Jwaneng Galaxy
(Botswana)
Group D: Wydad Casablanca
(Morocco), Zamalek (Egypt), Petro Atletico (Angola), Sagrada Esperanca (Angola)
CONFEDERATION CUP GROUP STAGE DRAW
Group A: Pyramids (Egypt),
CS Sfaxien (Tunisia), Zanaco (Zambia), Al Ahli Tripoli (Libya)
Group B: JS Kabylie
(Algeria) or Royal Leopards (Eswatini), Orlando Pirates (South Africa),
JS Saoura (Algeria), Al Ittihad (Libya)
Group C: TP Mazembe (DR
Congo), CotonSport (Cameroon), Al Masry (Egypt), AS Otoho (Congo)
Group D: RS Berkane
(Morocco), Simba SC (Tanzania), ASEC Mimosas (Ivory Coast), USGN (Niger)
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