2009 North African Cup of Champions

The 2009 North African Cup of Champions was the second edition of the competition initiated by the North African Football Union (UNAF). Algerian side ES Sétif were crowned champions after beating Tunisian champions ES Tunis in a penalty shootout in the final. Midfielder Hocine Metref was chosen as the Best Player of the competition, while goalkeeper Faouzi Chaouchi was chosen as the Best Goalkeeper.[1]

2009 North African Cup of Champions
Tournament details
DatesOctober 2009 – 19 December 2009
Teams4 (from UNAF confederations)
Final positions
Champions ES Sétif (1st title)
Runners-up ES Tunis
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Goals scored15 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s) Abdelmalek Ziaya (3 goals)
Best player(s) Hocine Metref

Participating teams
  • ES Sétif (2008-09 Algerian Championnat National Champions)
  • ES Tunis (2008-09 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle Champions)
  • Ittihad Tripoli (2008-09 Libyan Premier League Champions)
  • Raja Casablanca (2008-09 Botola Champions)

Draw

The draw was made in Djerba, Tunisia on 25 July 2009 at an UNAF meeting.[2][3]

Semi finals

First Legs
Raja Casablanca 1 – 1 ES Sétif
Dia Cire  81'
Nabil Masloub  44'  84'
Omar Najdi  90+4'		 Report (in Arabic) Nabil Hemani  34'
Abdelmalek Ziaya  69'
Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca
Referee: Adil Arra'ee
ES Tunis 2 – 1 Ittihad
Khalil Chemmam  19'
Khaled Ayari  90+8'		 Report (in Arabic) Ahmed Zuway  35'
Referee: Abdallah Achiri

Second Legs
ES Sétif 2 – 0 Raja Casablanca
Abdelmalek Ziaya  32', 49' Ismail Belmaalam  36'
Referee: Aouaz Trabelsi

ES Sétif go through with an aggregate score of 3–1

Ittihad Tripoli 2 – 2 ES Tunis
Waleed Mhadeb  9'
Ahmed Zuway  54'		 (Report) (in Arabic) Henri Bienvenu  62'
Wajdi Bouazzi  90+4'
11 June Stadium, Tripoli

ES Tunis go through with an aggregate score of 4–3.

Final

First leg
ES Sétif 1 – 1 ES Tunis
Bouazza Feham  65' Report Syam Ben Youssef  83'
Referee: Wahid Tamuni

Second leg
ES Tunis 1 – 1 (a.e.t.)
(5 – 6 pen.)		 ES Sétif
Michael Eneramo  70' (pen.) Lazhar Hadj Aïssa  35'
Stade 7 Novembre, Rades
Referee: Khalil Rouissi

Champions
2009 North African Cup of Champions Winners

ES Sétif
First title
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References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2009-12-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "اتحاد شمال إفريقيا لكرة القدم يجتمع الجمعة والسبت القادمين ويجري قرعة بطولة الدوري والكأس الأحد القادم بتونس". LFF. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
  3. "قرعة بطولة وكأس إتحاد شمال إفريقيا لكرة القدم". Libya Alyoum. 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
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