2008 North African Cup Winners Cup


The 2008 North African Cup Winners Cup was the first edition of the competition created by the Federation of North African Football. ES Tunis were the champions, defeating JSM Béjaïa 2-1 over two legs.

Participating teams

1 FAR Rabat won the Coupe du Trône, but as they are already playing the North African Cup of Champions, Maghreb Fez were invited to compete instead.
2 Al Zamalek withdrew.

The System

The Libyan representative and the Moroccan representative will contest a two-legged tie, first leg on November 19, second leg November 25, to qualify for the semi-finals, the draw for which will be made on November 23 in Tunis. The semi-finals will be played sometime in December, with the final being played in January 2009.

The Awards

0 - 4 Maghreb Fez

First leg

Second leg

Maghreb Fez advance to the Semi Finals with an aggregate score of 4-0

Semi finals

The draw for this round of the competition was made on November 23 in Tunis. The first legs will be played on December 18, and the second legs will be played either on December 24 or December 26.
JSM Béjaïa, Al-Masry and ES Tunis were automatically given byes to this round of the competition. These three teams and the winner of the qualifying stage will make up the semi-finals.

Draw

First Legs

Al-Masry 1 - 0 JSM Béjaïa

ES Tunis 4 - 4 Maghreb Fez
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Second Legs

0 - 1 ES Tunis

JSM Béjaïa 2 - 0 Al-Masry
ES Tunis advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 5-4
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JSM Béjaïa advance to the Final with an aggregate score of 2-1

Final

First leg

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Second leg

attendance = 40.000