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The 2022 CAF Champions League Final was the final match of the 2021–22 CAF Champions League, the 58th season of Africa's premier club football tournament organised by CAF, and the 26th edition under the current CAF Champions League title. It was played at the Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca, in Morocco on 30 May 2022.
The final was contested between Egyptian club Al Ahly and Moroccan club Wydad AC, which is a repeat of the 2022 CAF Champions League final, the second time in CAF Champions League history that two same clubs compete in the final of Champions League consecutively.
The 2023–24 season was Wydad Athletic Club's 84th season in existence and the club's 68th consecutive season in the top flight of Moroccan football. Wydad participated in this season's edition of the Botola, the Throne Cup, the Champions League, the African Football League and the Arab Club Champions Cup.
The CAF Champions League is a seasonal association football competition established in 1966 as the African Cup of Champions Clubs, open initially to the league champions of all CAF member associations, but since 1997 also currently includes the clubs finishing second in the strongest leagues from the CAF 5-year ranking and the competition's defending champions.
Goals from Percy Tau and Mahmoud Kahraba gave Al Ahly a 2-1 win over defending champion Wydad in the first leg of the African Champions League final on Sunday. Wydad boosted its hopes of retaining ...
The 2021–22 season was Wydad Athletic Club's 82nd season in existence and the club's 66th consecutive season in the top flight of Moroccan football. Wydad participated in this season's edition of the Botola, the Champions League and the Throne Cup. The season covered the period from 12 September 2021 to 28 July 2022.
The club has also won the now-defunct Cup Winners' Cup in 2002; the first and only Moroccan team to win the competition, the Super Cup in 2018 and the Afro-Asian Club Championship in 1993, and being a finalist on eight occasions (three in CAF Champions League, three in Super Cup, one in CAF Cup and one in African Football League).
In the first season, the WAC finished runner-up in Morocco with only 1 point difference from the winner, and won the Cup for the second time in its history, and regained the Botola podium for the 12th time in 1986, and participates for the first time in the CAF Champions League, since it is the first Moroccan club to win the Arab Cup of ...