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. Participating teams Algeria JSM Béjaïa (Algerian Cup Winners 2007-08) Egypt Al-Masry2 (Invited) Libya 1977 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 Champions: $100,000 The Runner-up: $50,000 3rd & 4th Place: $20,000 (shared) The qualifying round LBY 1977 Khaleej Sirte 0 - 4 MAR Maghreb Fez First leg #eeeeee November 19, 200815:00 GMT Maghreb Fez 3 – 0 Khaleej Sirte Fall 9 56Mraini 69 Complexe Hassan II 15,000 Second leg #eeeeee December 3, 2008 15:00 EET Khaleej Sirte 0 – 1 Maghreb Fez Bouden 90+2 2 March Stadium 1,500 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 EGY Al-Masry 1 - 0 ALG JSM Béjaïa (December 5) TUN ES Tunis 4 - 4 MAR Maghreb Fez (December 18) #eeeeee December 5, 2008 15:00 GMT Al-Masry 1 – 0 JSM Béjaïa Abdel Azim 26 pen. Port Said Stadium 15,000 #eeeeee December 18, 2008 14:00 GMT ES Tunis 4 – 4 Maghreb Fez Ltaïef 23 pen. goal 41Al Sheikh 25Youssefi 72 Fall 15Sissi 43 60Alharari 66 Stade El Menzah 25,000 Second Legs MAR Maghreb Fez 0 - 1 TUN ES Tunis (December 24) ALG JSM Béjaïa 2 - 0 EGY Al-Masry (December 26) #eeeeee December 24, 2008 18:00 GMT Maghreb Fez 0 – 1 ES Tunis Bouazzi 90+2 Complexe Hassan II ES Tunis advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 5-4 #eeeeee December 26, 2008 14:00 GMT JSM Béjaïa 2 – 0 Al-Masry Bouksessassa 9Boukemacha 0 36Boulemdaïs 77 H. Hassan (manager) 0 67I. Hassan (manager) 0 90 Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine 15,000 Khaled Ramssis MAR https://www.elwatan.com/archives/sports-archives/qualification-historique-de-la-jsm-bejaia-27-12-2008 JSM Béjaïa advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 2-1 Final First leg #eeeeee January 7, 200914:00 GMT JSM Béjaïa 0 – 0 ES Tunis Stade de l'Unité Maghrébine LBY 1977 Adil al Ra'ee Second leg #eeeeee January 20, 2009 ES Tunis 2 – 1 JSM Béjaïa Konan 6Bouazzi 38 Yannick N'Djeng 63 Stade El Menzah MAR Abdallah al Ashairy 2008 North African Cup Winners Cup Winners Tunisia ES Tunis First attendance = 40.000 External links North African Cup Winners Cup at goalzz.com Category:North African Cup Winners Cup North African Cup Winners Cup, 2008 Category:2008–09 in Moroccan football Category:2008–09 in Algerian football Category:2008–09 in Libyan football Category:2008–09 in Tunisian football Category:2008–09 in Egyptian football