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{{Infobox football tournament
| logo                 = [[File:CAF Cup - trophy.png|150px]]
| organiser            = [[Confederation of African Football|CAF]]
| founded              = 1992
| abolished            = 2004
| region               = Africa
| number of teams      = 32 (first round)
| current champions    = {{nowrap|{{flagicon|MAR}} [[Raja CA]]}}<br />(1st title)
| most successful club = {{flagicon|ALG}} [[JS Kabylie]]<br />(3 titles)
| website              = {{URL|http://www.cafonline.com|cafonline.com}}
| current=
}}

The '''CAF Cup''' was an annual competition organised by the [[Confederation of African Football|CAF]] for  domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to one of the two pre-existing CAF international club competitions the [[CAF Champions League|African Cup of Champions Clubs]] or the [[African Cup Winners' Cup]].

==History==
The tournament was founded in 1992 and modeled after the European [[UEFA Cup]]. Trophy was named after [[Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola|Moshood Abiola]], a [[Nigeria]]n businessman, publisher and politician and the first Director of Sports in independent Nigeria.

The CAF Cup was the idea of the past [[Confederation of African Football|CAF]] president, [[Issa Hayatou]] who successfully made 1992 the year of African football. The competition was initiated soon after the successful [[1992 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 club [[Shooting Stars F.C.]] were the first to hold the cup after defeating the Ugandan [[Villa SC]] in the final.

The trophy became an absolute property of [[JS Kabylie]] who have won it outright following their third successive win in 2002 being the one and only team in [[Africa]] who is able to show the trophy in his trophy room.

The Moroccan club [[Raja CA]] was the last to hold the trophy in 2003 defeating the Cameroonian [[Cotonsport Garoua|Cotonsport de Garoua]] in the final.

In 2004, the CAF Cup was merged with the [[African Cup Winners' Cup]], and was renamed the [[CAF Confederation Cup]], again following the European example of the [[UEFA Europa League]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/af3.html |title= CAF Cup|date=2008-11-27 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date= 2008-12-28}}</ref>

==Format==
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 the [[African 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cafonline.com/modules/documents/upload/1256.pdf |title=CAF Confederation Cup Regulation |publisher=CAF |year=2006 |access-date=2008-12-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207160850/http://www.cafonline.com/modules/documents/upload/1256.pdf |archive-date=December 7, 2007 }}</ref>

==Records and statistics==
===Finals===
{{Main|List of CAF Cup finals}}

===Performance by club===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
!Team
!Winners
!Runners-up
!Years won
!Years runners-up
|-
|{{flagicon|Algeria}} [[JS Kabylie]]||align=center|3||align=center|0||[[2000 CAF Cup|2000]], [[2001 CAF Cup|2001]], [[2002 CAF Cup|2002]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Tunisia}} [[Étoile Sportive du Sahel|Étoile du Sahel]]||align=center|2||align=center|2||[[1995 CAF Cup|1995]], [[1999 CAF Cup|1999]]||[[1996 CAF Cup|1996]], [[2001 CAF Cup|2001]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Shooting Stars F.C.|Shooting Stars]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1992 CAF Cup|1992]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|CIV}} [[Stella Club d'Adjamé]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1993 CAF Cup|1993]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Nigeria}} [[Bendel Insurance F.C.|Bendel Insurance]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1994 CAF Cup|1994]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Kawkab Marrakech]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1996 CAF Cup|1996]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Tunisia}} [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|Espérance]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1997 CAF Cup|1997]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Tunisia}} [[CS Sfaxien]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[1998 CAF Cup|1998]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Raja CA]]||align=center|1||align=center|0||[[2003 CAF Cup|2003]]||-
|-
|{{flagicon|Uganda}} [[Villa SC]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1992 CAF Cup|1992]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Tanzania}} [[Simba S.C.|Simba SC]]|| align="center" |0||align=center|1||-||[[1993 CAF Cup|1993]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Angola}} [[Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio|Primeiro de Maio]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1994 CAF Cup|1994]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Guinea}} [[AS Kaloum Star]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1995 CAF Cup|1995]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Angola}} [[Atlético Petróleos de Luanda|Petro de Luanda]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1997 CAF Cup|1997]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Senegal}} [[ASC Jeanne d'Arc]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1998 CAF Cup|1998]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Morocco}} [[Wydad Casablanca]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[1999 CAF Cup|1999]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Egypt}} [[Ismaily]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[2000 CAF Cup|2000]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Cameroon}} [[Tonnerre Yaoundé]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[2002 CAF Cup|2002]]
|-
|{{flagicon|Cameroon}} [[Cotonsport Garoua]]||align=center|0||align=center|1||-||[[2003 CAF Cup|2003]]
|-
|}

===Performance by country===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:90%;"
|-
! Nation
! Winners
! Runners-up
!Winning clubs
!Runners-up
|-
| {{TUN}}
|align=center| 4
|align=center| 2
| [[Étoile Sportive du Sahel|Étoile du Sahel]] (2), [[Espérance Sportive de Tunis|Espérance]] (1), [[CS Sfaxien]] (1)
| [[Étoile Sportive du Sahel|Étoile du Sahel]] (2)
|-
| {{ALG}}
|align=center| 3
|align=center| 0
| [[JS Kabylie]] (3)
| -
|-
| {{MAR}}
|align=center| 2
|align=center| 1
|  [[Kawkab Marrakech]] (1), [[Raja CA]] (1)
| [[Wydad Casablanca]] (1)
|-
| {{NGA}}
|align=center| 2
|align=center| 0
| [[Bendel Insurance F.C.|Bendel Insurance]] (1), [[Shooting Stars F.C.|Shooting Stars]] (1)
| -
|-
| {{CIV}}
|align=center| 1
|align=center| 0
| [[Stella Club d'Adjamé]] (1)
| -
|-
| {{ANG}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 2
| -
| [[Primeiro de Maio]] (1), [[Petro de Luanda]] (1)
|-
| {{CMR}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 2
| -
| [[Cotonsport Garoua]] (1), [[Tonnerre Yaoundé]] (1)
|-
| {{UGA}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 1
| -
| [[Villa SC]] (1)
|-
| {{TAN}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 1
| -
| [Simba S.C.] (1)
|-
| {{GUI}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 1
| -	
| [[AS Kaloum Star]] (1)
|-
| {{SEN}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 1
| -
| [[ASC Jeanne d'Arc]] (1)
|-
| {{EGY}}
|align=center| 0
|align=center| 1
| -
| [[Ismaily]] (1)
|-
|}

==Trivia==
*[[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.

==See also==
*[[African Cup Winners' Cup]]
*[[CAF Confederation Cup]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesa/af3.html CAF Cup on RSSSF]

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