North African giants Esperance of Tunisia (ES Tunis) and Morocco’s Raja Casablanca will clash on Friday for the CAF Super Cup in Qatar.
With the participation of Libyan stars Hamdou Elhouni with ES Tunis and Sanad Al Warfali with Raja, the 2019 CAF Super Cup match will be the third meeting between Tunisian and Moroccan sides in this competition.
The fixture that pits the CAF Champions League winners (Esperance) and CAF Confederation holders (Raja) will for the first time be played outside the continent.
Either team have won the competition once – Esperance in 1995 while Raja in 2000.
Both teams have top scorers of the competitions that earned them a ticket to Qatar – Anice Badri (Esperance) finished last season’s Champions League as top scorer with eight goals while Mahmoud Benhalib scored 12 goals in last season’s CAF Confederation Cup to finish as top scorer.
