1997 African Cup Winners' Cup

1997 African Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
DatesFebruary – 6 December 1997
Teams41 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
ChampionsTunisia ES Sahel (1st title)
Runners-upMorocco FAR Rabat
Tournament statistics
Matches played66
Goals scored173 (2.62 per match)
1996
1998

The 1997 African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Étoile Sportive du Sahel in two-legged final victory against FAR Rabat. This was the twenty-third season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. Forty-one sides entered the competition. Teams from Niger and the Central African Republic were disqualified because their federations were in debt to CAF. Club 'S' Namakia from Madagascar withdrew before the 1st leg of the preliminary round, Maxaquene from Mozambique withdrew before the 1st leg of the first round while Racing Bafoussam from Cameroon was disqualified for not showing up in time for the 1st leg. The last team to withdraw from the competition was Dragons from Zaire before the 1st leg of the second round.

Jomo Cosmos replaced Orlando Pirates, who were admitted to the Champions League for being the champions of both the league and cup competitions in South Africa.

Preliminary round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Bata Bullets Malawi 2–2 (a) Rwanda Kiyovu Sport 1–0 1–2
Awassa Flour Mill Ethiopia 0–5 Uganda Uganda Electricity Board 0–2 0–3
MP Tigers Namibia 1–1 (a) Eswatini Eleven Men in Flight 1–1 0–0
Lerotholi Polytechnic Lesotho 2–1 Botswana Township Rollers 2–0 0–1
Club S Namakia Madagascar w/o Seychelles Red Star FC
Renaissance FC Chad 7–1 Equatorial Guinea Akonangui FC 3–0 4–1
Sigara SC Tanzania 1–3 Zimbabwe Dynamos FC 1–0 0–3
UNB FC Benin dq1 Central African Republic unknown
Étoile Filante Burkina Faso dq1 Niger Sahel SC
Notes
1 Sahel SC and Central African Republic representative club disqualified because their federations were in debt to CAF.

First round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al-Merreikh Sudan 0–3 Egypt El Mansoura SC 0–1 0–2
UNB FC Benin 0–6 Nigeria Julius Berger 0–3 0–3
Scouts Club Mauritius 3–4 Réunion SS Saint-Louisienne 2–1 1–3
Red Star FC Seychelles w/o Mozambique CD Maxaquene
Eleven Men in Flight Eswatini 0–6 South Africa Jomo Cosmos 0–3 0–3
Bata Bullets Malawi 0–2 Zimbabwe Dynamos FC 0–1 0–1
Mumias Sugar FC Kenya 0–2 Egypt El Mokawloon 0–0 0–2
Lerotholi Polytechnic Lesotho 0–6 Zambia Nchanga Rangers 0–1 0–5
FAR Rabat Morocco 4–2 Mali Real Bamako 4–1 0–1
FC 105 Libreville Gabon 2–1 Angola Progresso do Sambizanga 2–0 0–1
Étoile Filante Burkina Faso 3–4 Tunisia ES Sahel 3–0 0–4
ASFAG Guinea 0–2 Ghana Hearts of Oak 0–0 0–2
US Gorée Senegal 2–4 Algeria MC Oran 1–0 1–4
Renaissance FC Chad 3–7 Zaire AS Dragons 2–1 1–6
Vita Club Mokanda Republic of the Congo 1–2 Ivory Coast SO Armée 0–0 1–2
Uganda Electricity Board Uganda dq1 Cameroon RC Bafoussam
Notes
1 RC Bafoussam were disqualified for not showing up in time for the 1st leg.

Second round

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Julius Berger Nigeria 0–2 Egypt El Mansoura SC 0–0 0–2
Red Star FC Seychelles 0–5 Réunion SS Saint-Louisienne 0–2 0–3
Dynamos FC Zimbabwe 2–3 South Africa Jomo Cosmos 2–1 0–2
Nchanga Rangers Zambia 2–4 Egypt El Mokawloon 2–1 0–3
FC 105 Libreville Gabon 2–2 (3–4 p) Morocco FAR Rabat 2–0 0–2
Hearts of Oak Ghana 3–6 Tunisia ES Sahel 2–2 1–4
Umeme FC1 Uganda 2–3 Algeria MC Oran 2–0 0–3
SO Armée Ivory Coast w/o Zaire AS Dragons
Notes
1 Uganda Electricity Board FC changed it name to Umeme FC.

Quarter-finals

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
El Mansoura SC Egypt 5–2 South Africa Jomo Cosmos 3–0 2–2
El Mokawloon Egypt 2–4 Tunisia ES Sahel 2–2 0–2
SS Saint-Louisienne Réunion 3–3 (a) Ivory Coast SO Armée 2–0 1–3
FAR Rabat Morocco 3–1 Algeria MC Oran 2–0 1–1

Semi-finals

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ES Sahel Tunisia 5–4 Egypt El Mansoura SC 3–0 2–4
FAR Rabat Morocco 5–2 Réunion SS Saint-Louisienne 3–0 2–2

Final

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Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
ES Sahel Tunisia 2–1 Morocco FAR Rabat 2–0 0–1

First leg

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ES Sahel Tunisia2 – 0Morocco FAR Rabat
Mhedhebi 40'
Ben Younes 76' (pen.)

Second leg

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FAR Rabat Morocco1 – 0Tunisia ES Sahel
Chemmami 29'

Champions

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