The CAF Champions League Kicks Off today with Arta Solar 7 FC taking on Dekedaha SC in the 1st preliminary round of the 2024/2025 CAF Champions League at the Azam Complex in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Djibouti Premier League reigning champions Arta Solar are hosting the match in Tanzania because they have no accredited Stadium by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) back in Djibouti.
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Their opponents, the Somalia champions Dekedaha SC, will feel at home in Tanzania after playing in the recent CECAFA Dar Port Kagame Cup losing two matches to Coastal Union FC (Tanzania) and Al Wadi (Sudan), before beating JKU SC from Zanzibar.
On Saturday more teams from the CECAFA Zone will be in action as SC Villa (Uganda) hosts Commercial Bank of Ethiopia at the newly renovated Mandela Stadium, Namboole. Burundi Premier League champions Vital’O will host Young Africans SC (Tanzania) at the Azam Complex in Dar es Salaam, while Sudan’s Al Merriekh face Al Nasi away in Libya.
On Sunday, South Sudan’s Al Merriekh Bentiu (South Sudan) will host Kenyan champions Gor Mahia FC. The other matches to be played the same day will see Azam FC host Rwanda’s APR FC, Al Hilal (Sudan) play away to Al Ahly Benghazi in Libya, and JKU SC (Zanzibar) taking on Pyramids in Cairo, Egypt.
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