CAIRO – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced that the 2021 CAF Super Cup will be hosted in Doha, Qatar on December 22, 2021.
Egyptian giants Al-Ahly, winners of the 2020-21 CAF Champions League will face Raja of Morocco, winners of the 2020-21 CAF Confederation Cup in the annual playoff on the CAF Super Cup title.
According to the CAF official website, the match will be played at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium at 20h00 local time (17:00 GMT).
Al-Ahly is the title holders of the CAF Super Cup, has beaten Morocco’s RS Berkane 2-0 at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha in Doha on May 28, 2021.
Mohamed Sherif and Salah Mohsen’s second-half goals handed Egyptian giants Al-Ahly their seventh CAF Super Cup title.
The Total CAF Champions League holders were dominant over their Total CAF Confederation Cup counterparts, dominating the match especially in the second half and ensuring they hand coach Pitso Mosimane his second continental title since joining the Cairo giants in October last year.
Mosimane won the Champions League as well as finishing third at the Club World Cup with The Red Devils, adding on to the Egyptian Cup he clinched as his first piece of silverware in North Africa.
Al-Ahly won a record-extending 10th CAF Champions League title a 3-0 CAF Champions League final victory over 10-man South African rivals Kaizer Chiefs in Casablanca.
Ahly pocket $2.5 million for winning the Champions League and are guaranteed at least another $3.5 million when they compete in the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan.
It was a historic victory for Al-Ahly, who became the first club to win back-to-back Champions League titles three times.
South Africa-born Mosimane, who supported Chiefs as a child, became the first African coach to win the competition three times.
He succeeded in 2016 with South African club Mamelodi Sundowns, and again with Ahly last season in an all-Egyptian final against fierce rivals Zamalek.
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