The CAF Women’s Champions League concluded on Saturday, 23 November with TP Mazembe securing a historic continental title with a hard-fought 1-0 victory over AF FAR.
- Below are the match facts of the fixture:
- TP Mazembe are the third team to win the CAF Women’s Champions Leagye after Mamelodi Sundowns and AS FAR.
- TP Mazembe are the first team from Central Africa to win the CAF WCL.
- TP Mazembe are the first team to lose a game at the finals and win the tournament.
- TP Mazembe are the third team after AS FAR and Mamelodi Sundowns to have their men’s and women’s teams win the CAF Champions League or its pre cursor African Club of Champions Cup.
- AS FAR were competing in their second final and they lost for the first time.
- AS FAR’s five game winning run in the CAF Women’s Champions Leagye cames to an end. They lost for the first time since defeat in the 2023 Semi-finals against Sundowns.
- AS FAR loses a game at the finals as a host team for the first time (W9 L1).
- AS FAR fails to score in a game at the finals at home for the first time. They had scored in their previous nine as tournament hosts.
- Lamia Boumehdi is the first female coach to lead a team to glory in the CAF WCL.
- Boumehdi is the first coach to win the CAF Women’s Champions Leagye with a team not from their own homeland.
- Boumehdi is the second Moroccan coach to win the CAF Women’s Champions Leagye after Mohamed Amine Alioua who led AS FAR to their first final in 2022.
- Moroccan coaches have now won two titles, going level with South African coach Jerry Tshabalala who has won two titles with Mamelodi Sundowns.
- In all four CAF WCL finals the winning team has kept a clean-sheet, this is the narrowest margin of victory as Sundowns won 2-0 and 3-0 in 2021 and 2023 while AS FAR won 4-0 in 2022.
- This was AS FAR’s fourth game against Central African opponents. It was their first loss.
- TP Mazembe have taken the lead in both games between the teams at the current finals.
- Marlene Kasav Yaj scored her second goal at the current finals when putting Mazembe ahead.
- Both of Yaj’s goals have been scored from the penalty spot.
- Yaj is the second player to score in successive games for TP Mazembe, Merveille Kanjinga has also scored in back to back games for them.
- As a host team in 10 games at the finals, this was the third time that AS FAR had ever trailed or conceded first, the other occasions were against Green Buffaloes in their second group game in 2022. They came back to win the game 2-1. In the current edition against TP Mazembe in the group stages they trailed 1-0, before coming back to win 3-1.
- This is the first final where two coaches from the same country were at the helm of each club with former Moroccan women’s international Boumehdi leading TP Mazembe and another Moroccan Alioua leading AS FAR.
- No country has had more coaches lead clubs to the final than Morocco have, in addition to Boumehdi and Alioua, 2023 runners up SC Casablanca were led by another Moroccan Mehdi El Qaichouri to the final.
- In both their games against TP Mazembe at the current finals AS FAR have failed to have a shot on target in the first half. While combined in the first half of both games, TP Mazembe had nine.
- AS FAR are the first team to finish in the top three in all four finals.
- AS FAR playing in their 20th game at the finals loses for a fifth time. No team has lost more games than them at the finals.