1997 CAF Cup

1997 CAF Cup
Tournament details
Dates - 29 November 1997
Teams 30 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions Tunisia ES Tunis (1st title)
Runners-up Angola Petro Atlético
Tournament statistics
Matches played 54
Goals scored 143 (2.65 per match)

The 1997 CAF Cup was the sixth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each African country's domestic league. It was won by ES Tunis in two-legged final victory against Petro Atlético.

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ASKO Kara Togo dq1 Benin Dragons de l'Ouémé
Simba SC Tanzania 5–1 Ethiopia Dire Dawa Locomotive 4–1 1–0
Notes
1 Dragons de l'Ouémé disqualified for not having submitted players' licenses in time.

First round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DSA Antananarivo Madagascar 1–1 (4–2 p) Réunion US Stade Tamponnaise 1–0 0–1
Umtata Bucks South Africa w/o Botswana Centre Chiefs
Kampala City Council Uganda 4–2 Rwanda Rwanda FC 3–0 1–2
AS Bantous Zaire 3–3 (a) Chad ASLAD de Moundou 1–1 2–2
Textil do Pungue Mozambique w/o Swaziland C&M Sales
Petro Atlético Angola 7–1 Republic of the Congo AS Cheminots 5–0 2–1
Kabwe Warriors Zambia w/o Namibia Chief Santos
Simba SC Tanzania 1–4 Kenya AFC Leopards 1–1 0–3
ES Tunis Tunisia 8–3 Togo ASKO Kara 7–0 1–3
Stade d'Abidjan Ivory Coast 3–4 Burkina Faso US Forces Armées 2–3 1–1
USM Aïn Beïda Algeria 2–1 Mali Stade Malien 1–0 1–1
Asante Kotoko Ghana 3–2 Gabon AS Mangasport 2–0 1–2
Coton Sport FC Cameroon 6–0 Equatorial Guinea Dragón FC 5–0 1–0
KAC Marrakesh Morocco 2–0 Senegal ASC Linguère 1–0 1–0
Mighty Barrolle Liberia dq1 Nigeria Jasper United
Horoya AC Guinea 1–2 Morocco Chabab Mohammédia 0–0 1–2
Notes
1 Mighty Barrolle disqualified for not having submitted players' licenses in time.

Second round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Centre Chiefs Botswana 2–4 Madagascar DSA Antananarivo 1–2 1–2
Kampala City Council Uganda 1–01 Zaire AS Bantous 1–0
Petro Atlético Angola 3–0 Swaziland C&M Sales 1–0 2–0
AFC Leopards Kenya w/o Zambia Kabwe Warriors
US Forces Armées Burkina Faso 2–5 Tunisia ES Tunis 1–1 1–4
Asante Kotoko Ghana 2–4 Algeria USM Aïn Beïda 1–1 1–3
KAC Marrakesh Morocco 1–2 Cameroon Coton Sport FC 1–1 0–1
Chabab Mohammédia Morocco 2–2 (3–4 p) Nigeria Jasper United 2–0 0–2
Notes
1 Played as one leg in Uganda due to the civil war in Zaire (afterwards called Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
DSA Antananarivo Madagascar 0–2 Nigeria Jasper United 0–0 0–2
Petro Atlético Angola 5–1 Algeria USM Aïn Beïda 2–0 3–1
Kampala City Council Uganda 3–2 Kenya AFC Leopards 2–2 1–0
ES Tunis Tunisia 5–4 Cameroon Coton Sport FC 4–1 1–3

Semi-finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Jasper United Nigeria 3–5 Angola Petro Atlético 2–1 1–4
Kampala City Council Uganda 1–9 Tunisia ES Tunis 1–3 0–6

Final

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Petro Atlético Angola 1–2 Tunisia ES Tunis 1–0 0–2

Winners

1997 African Cup Winners' Cup Winners
Tunisia
ES Tunis
First title

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