{"id":131316,"date":"2026-02-17T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/record-champions-ahly-to-face-esperance-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T16:02:49","slug":"record-champions-ahly-to-face-esperance-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/record-champions-ahly-to-face-esperance-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Record champions Ahly to face Esperance in CAF Champions League quarter final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record 12-time winners Al Ahly Sports Club of Egypt will play Tunisia\u2019s giants Esperance in the quarterfinal of the CAF Champions League next month.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg of the quarter-finals will be played between the 15th and 16th of March, while the return legs are set for a week later.<\/p>\n<p>Other matches as per the draw conducted in Cairo on Tuesday will pit RS Berkane from Morocco against Sudanese side Al Hilal, as Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa will have a date against Stade Malien of Mali.<\/p>\n<p>Moroccan side AS FAR will battle defending champions Pyramids of Egypt for a place in the last four.<\/p>\n<p>The winner between Esperance and Al Ahly will play either Mamelodi or Stade Malien in the semis, while the winners of the last 8 fixture between AS FAR and Pyramids will be up against the winners of the RS Berkane vs Al Hilal match in the other semi.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/record-champions-al-ahly-to-face-esperance-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final\/\">Record champions Ahly to face Esperance in CAF Champions League quarter final<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record 12-time winners Al Ahly Sports Club of Egypt will play Tunisia\u2019s giants Esperance in the quarterfinal of the CAF Champions League next month. The first leg of the quarter-finals will be played between the 15th and 16th of March, while the return legs are set for a week later. Other matches as per the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}