TheCAF Cup was an annual competition organised by theCAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions theAfrican Cup of Champions Clubs or theAfrican Cup Winners' Cup.
The tournament was founded in 1992 and modeled after the EuropeanUEFA Cup. Trophy was named afterMoshood Abiola, aNigerian businessman, publisher and politician and the first Director of Sports in independent Nigeria.
The CAF Cup was the idea of the pastCAF president,Issa Hayatou who successfully made 1992 the year of African football. The competition was initiated soon after the successful1992 African Cup of Nations in which twelve finalists participated in the competition for the first time in the history of the African competition. 31 teams participated in the CAF Cup's first edition, and the Nigerian clubShooting Stars F.C. were the first to hold the cup after defeating the UgandanVilla SC in the final.
The trophy became an absolute property ofJS Kabylie who have won it outright following their third successive win in 2002 being the one and only team inAfrica who is able to show the trophy in his trophy room.
The Moroccan clubRaja CA was the last to hold the trophy in 2003 defeating the CameroonianCotonsport de Garoua in the final.
Only runners-up of the domestic leagues of member associations were eligible to participate in the competition if and only if they were not participating as cup winners of their national associations cup competitions in theAfrican Cup Winners' Cup.
In case the runner-up of the domestic league was not to participate in the CAF Cup, CAF approval was mandatory to accept another team among the top three placed teams of the concerned association to take part in the competition.
All rounds of the competition including the final were played according to the knock-out system of two legs tie. The team which scores a higher aggregate number of goals in the two matches was qualified for the next round.[2]
JS Kabylie was the only team to reach the final for three successive times between 2000 and 2002 being able to win them all and so became the first and only team to keep the CAF Cup trophy.
Raja CA
JS Kabylie
Étoile du Sahel
Shooting Stars
Stella Club d'Adjamé
Villa SC
Simba SC
Primeiro de Maio
AS Kaloum Star
ASC Jeanne d'Arc
Ismaily
Tonnerre Yaoundé
