The Moroccan champion Magrheb Fez, trained by the Portuguese Rui Almeida, has today arrived for the group stage of the African Champions League by winning the ASEC Mimosas, Ivory Coast (2-1), in the second hand of the second pre-elimination.
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25/10/2026
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O moroccan champion Magrheb Fez, trained by the Portuguese Rui Almeida, has today arrived for the group stage of the African Champions League, winning the ASEC Mimosas, Ivory Coast (2-1), in the second hand of the second pre-elimination.
After the tie of October 18 (1-1), in the first hand played in the Moroccan city of Meknes, the team guided by the 57-year-old technical Lisbon ensured unpublished access to the group stage of the main African club competition with a decisive goal by Khalid Baba, at 90+7 minutes.
The Maghreb Fez scored first in the game played in Abidjan, the largest city in Côte d'Ivoire, by Christopher Ibayi, at 62 minutes, before suffering the tie to the 73, on a goal of Kevin Bakaré, and to ‘rescue’ the triumph and the clearance at the limit of regulatory time, with a sharp shot of the Moroccan international extreme, of 26 years.
After reaching the second pre-elimination in 2012, the Moroccan group is one of the 16 teams that will compete for the group phase between November 27, 2026 and January 24, 2027, whose draw takes place on Wednesday, in Cairo, capital of Egypt.
The South African Mamelodi Sundowns, trained by another Portugueseman, Miguel Cardoso, are the holders of the African Champions League.