2008 North African Cup Winners Cup

The 2008 North African Cup Winners Cup was the first edition of the competition created by the Federation of North African Football. ES Tunis were the champions, defeating JSM Béjaïa 2-1 over two legs.

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Participating teams

 Algeria JSM Béjaïa (Algerian Cup Winners 2007-08)
 Egypt Al-Masry2 (Invited)
 Libya Khaleej Sirte (Libyan Cup Winners 2007-08)
 Morocco Maghreb Fez (Coupe du Trône Runners-Up 2007-08)1
 Tunisia ES Tunis (Tunisia Cup Winners 2007-08)

1 FAR Rabat won the Coupe du Trône, but as they are already playing the North African Cup of Champions, Maghreb Fez were invited to compete instead.

2 Al Zamalek withdrew.

The System

The Libyan representative and the Moroccan representative will contest a two-legged tie, first leg on November 19, second leg November 25, to qualify for the semi-finals, the draw for which will be made on November 23 in Tunis. The semi-finals will be played sometime in December, with the final being played in January 2009.

The Awards

The Qualifying Round

Khaleej Sirte 0 - 4 Maghreb Fez

First leg

November 19, 2008
15:00 GMT
 Maghreb Fez 3 – 0 Khaleej Sirte Complexe Hassan II
Attendance: 15,000
Fall  9'  56'
Mraini  69'

Second leg

December 3, 2008
15:00 EET
 Khaleej Sirte 0 – 1 Maghreb Fez 2 March Stadium
Attendance: 1,500
Bouden  90+2'

Maghreb Fez advance to the Semi Finals with an aggregate score of 4-0

Semi finals

The draw for this round of the competition was made on November 23 in Tunis. The first legs will be played on December 18, and the second legs will be played either on December 24 or December 26. JSM Béjaïa, Al-Masry and ES Tunis were automatically given byes to this round of the competition. These three teams and the winner of the qualifying stage will make up the semi-finals.

Draw

First Legs

Al-Masry 1 - 0 JSM Béjaïa (December 5)
ES Tunis 4 - 4 Maghreb Fez (December 18)

December 5, 2008
15:00 GMT
 Al-Masry 1 – 0 JSM Béjaïa Port Said Stadium
Attendance: 15,000
Abdel Azim  26' (pen.)
December 18, 2008
14:00 GMT
 ES Tunis 4 – 4 Maghreb Fez Stade El Menzah
Attendance: 25,000
Ltaïef  23' (pen.), 41'
Al Sheikh  25'
Youssefi  72'		 Fall  15'
Sissi  43', 60'
Alharari  66'

Second Legs

Maghreb Fez 0 - 1 ES Tunis (December 24)
JSM Béjaïa 2 - 0 Al-Masry (December 26)

December 24, 2008
18:00 GMT
 Maghreb Fez 0 – 1 ES Tunis Complexe Hassan II
Bouazzi  90+2'

ES Tunis advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 5-4

December 26, 2008
14:00 GMT
 JSM Béjaïa 2 – 0 Al-Masry Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine
Bouksessassa  9'  36'
Boulemdaïs  77'

JSM Béjaïa advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 2-1

Final

First leg

January 7, 2009
14:00 GMT
 JSM Béjaïa 0 – 0 ES Tunis Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine
Referee: Adil al Ra'ee

Second leg

January 20, 2009

 ES Tunis 2 – 1 JSM Béjaïa Stade El Menzah
Referee: Abdallah al Ashairy
Konan  6'
Bouazzi  38'		 Yannick N'Djeng  63'
 2008 North African Cup Winners Cup Winners 

ES Tunis
First title

External links

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