CAF Champions League: First Round Concludes

The first round of the CAF Champions League concluded on Sunday with ten games.

At Bamako, Mali (game moved from Guinea due to Ebola outbreak):

After a 1-1 game two deadlocked which level the two-match series on aggregate, and with overtime dispensed with, Guinea's AS Kaloum won the penalty-kick shootout 5-4, eliminating Zambia's ZESCO United.

At Blantyre, Malawi:

A 1-1 road draw in game two was good enough for Al-Hilal as the Sudanese club ousted Big Bullets FC 5-1 on aggregate.

At Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo:

SM Sanga Balende defeated visiting Coton Sport 2-0 in game two and ousted the Cameroonian club 2-0 on aggregate.

At Rades, Tunisia:

A 3-1 game-two home victory for Esperance ST carried the Tunisian club to a 4-1 aggregate victory for the series against Cosmos de Bafia of Cameroon.

At Sfax, Tunisia:

A 1-0 game-two home win was more than good enough for CS Sfaxien as the Tunisian club easily ousted Togo's AC Semassi 6-0 on aggregate.

At Kumasi, Ghana:

A 2-1 game-two victory on the road carried MC El Eulma to a 2-1 aggregate victory as the Algerian club ousted Asante Kotoko.

At Alexandria, Egypt:

Smouha Sporting Club overturned their series-opening 1-0 road defeat with a game-two 2-0 home win over Enyimba International FC and eliminated the Nigerian club 2-1 on aggregate.

At Dolisie, Republic of the Congo:

AC Leopards picked up a second 1-0 victory over Gor Mahia FC, this time at home, and finished off the Kenyan club 2-0 on aggregate.

At Casablanca, Morocco:

Raja Casablanca blanked visiting Kaiser Chiefs 2-0 in the second game of their two-match series and won the set 3-0 on aggregate.

At Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo:

TP Mazembe overcame their series-opening 1-0 road defeat with a 3-1 game-two home win over South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns and won their series 3-2 on aggregate.



Here are the match-ups for the second round with the opening contests to take place April 17-19 and the return matches to take place two weekends later.  The game-one hosts are listed first.

USM Alger (Algeria) vs. AS Kaloum (Guinea)

SM Sanga Balende (Democratic Republic of the Congo) vs. Al-Hilal Omdurman (Sudan)

Al-Merrikh SC (Sudan) vs. Esperance ST (Tunisia)

MC El Eulma (Algeria) vs. CS Sfaxien (Tunisia)

AC Leopards (Republic of the Congo) vs. Smouha Sporting Club (Egypt)

Moghreb Tetouan (Morocco) vs. Al-Ahly (Egypt)

Raja Casablanca (Morocco) vs. ES Setif (Algeria; defending champions)

Stade Malien (Mali) vs. TP Mazembe (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

The winners will advance to the Champions League's group stage while the losers will play in the CAF Confederations Cup's playoff round.