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1999 CAF Champions League final
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1999 CAF Champions League final Stade El Menzah.jpg El Menzah Stadium hosted the podium where Raja CA lifted the trophy 1999 CAF Champions League Raja CA MAR 30px 0 ES Tunis TUN 30px 0 Raja CA won 4–3 on penalties First leg 0 0 27 November 1999 Stade Père Jégo Casablanca Mathabella Petros (South Africa) 10 000 Second leg 0 0 12 December 1999 Stade El Menzah Tunis Manuel Monteiro Duarte (Cape Verde) 50 000 1998 2000
The 1999 CAF Champions League final was a football tie held over two legs in November and December 1999. Raja CA of Morocco beat ES Tunis of Tunisia on penalties after their two-legged tie ended goalless.https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/afcup99.html African Club Competitions 1999 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Stokkermans Karel 16 June 2019
Qualified teams
In the following table, finals until 1996 were in the African Cup of Champions Club era, since 1997 were in the CAF Champions League era.
TeamRegionPrevious finals appearances (bold indicates winners)MAR Raja CAUNAF (North Africa)1989, 1997TUN ES TunisUNAF (North Africa)1994
Venues
Stade Père Jégo
Stade Père Jégo is a multi-purpose stadium in Casablanca, Morocco. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Racing Casablanca.
The stadium currently holds 10,000 spectators.https://int.soccerway.com/teams/morocco/racing-athletique-club/7515/venue/ Morocco - Racing Athletic Club Casablanca - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway
Raja CA was forced to play the first leg of the final match on this stadium, due to the start of renovation at Mohammed V Stadium in view of Morocco's bid for the organization of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, green and red seats were installed on the side stands limiting its capacity to 45,891 seats without counting South (Magana) and North (Frimija) turns which have no seat.
Stade El Menzah
thumb|right|200px|Stade El Menzah in Tunis, Tunisia hosted the second leg.
Stade Olympique El Menzah is a multi-purpose stadium, located in the north of Tunis, Tunisia.
It is built to host the 1967 Mediterranean Games at the same time as the Olympic swimming pool and gymnasium. Since then, it is an integral part of Tunisia's main sports complex. Tunisia's three major football teams, ES Tunis, Club Africain and Stade Tunisien played their games there.
The stadium is completely renovated for the 1994 African Cup of Nations. It has a capacity of 39,858 seats.http://www.cns.nat.tn/fr/article/stade-de-football-d-el-menzah_11 CNS : Cité Natinale Sportive 2015-01-18 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150118172530/http://www.cns.nat.tn/fr/article/stade-de-football-d-el-menzah_11 2015-01-18 The VIP section consists of a grandstand and 2 salons that can accommodate 300 people in a "cocktail" configuration.
Road to final
1999 CAF Champions League
MAR Raja CARoundTUN ES TunisOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legQualifying roundsOpponentAgg.1st leg2nd legSEN ASEC Ndiambour4–10–1 (A)4–0 (H)First roundLBY 1977 Al-Mahalah4–12–1 (A)2–0 (H)MLI Djoliba AC3–3 (7-6 p)2–1 (H)1–2 (A)Second roundSDN Al-Hilal8–35–0 (H)3–3 (A)OpponentResultGroup stageOpponentResultGHA Hearts of Oak1–0 (H)Matchday 1CIV ASEC Mimosas3–0 (H)EGY Al Ahly1–0 (A)Matchday 2ZIM Dynamos Harare2–0 (A)NGA Shooting Stars1–0 (H)Matchday 3REU SS Saint-Louisienne5–0 (H)NGA Shooting Stars0–1 (A)Matchday 4REU SS Saint-Louisienne2–0 (A)GHA Hearts of Oak0–0 (A)Matchday 5CIV ASEC Mimosas0–1 (A)EGY Al Ahly1–1 (H)Matchday 6ZIM Dynamos Harare1–0 (H)n Group A Group A WinnerFinal standingsn Group B Group B Winner
Format
The final was decided over two legs, with aggregate goals used to determine the winner. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule would have been applied, and if still level, the tie would have proceeded directly to a penalty shootout (no extra time is played).Regulations of the CAF Champions League
Matches
First leg
27 November 1999 17:00 1 Raja CA MAR 0–0 TUN ES Tunis Stade Père Jégo, Casablanca 10,000 Mathabella Petros (South Africa)
Second leg
12 December 1999 17:00 1 ES Tunis TUN 0–0 MAR Raja CA Stade El Menzah, Tunis 50,000 Manuel Monteiro Duarte (Cape Verde)
Badra
Kanzari
Gabsi
Chihi
El Ouaer 3–4
Khoubache
El Karkouri
Safri
Aboub
El Haimer
References
Final
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