The CAF Champions League 2025/26 season begins this weekend, with several matches on the cards across the continent in the first preliminary round of the competition.
In Kenya, Mogadishu City Club and Kenya Police FC will battle at the Nyayo National Stadium in a two legged affair that will take place on 20th and 28th September 2025. The winner will proceed to a second round clash versus either South Sudan's Janus FC or Al Hilal of Sudan.
Police will hope to be the first Kenyan club to make it to the group stage of the Champions League and eventually the first to win the richest prize in African football.
This year, the winner will pocket USD 4 million, which is the equivalent of just over Ksh 500 million. Some reward!
Al Ahly SC of Egypt has won the most CAF Champions League titles, with a total of 12 titles. Their victories came in the years 1982, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024.
In a dive through history, Radio Generation Sport takes a look at the last 10 winners of the CAF Champions League, as we look forward to yet another season filled with mouthwatering action.
- 2015: TP Mazembe (DR Congo) defeated USM Alger (Algeria) 4–1 on aggregate.
- 2016: Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) defeated Zamalek (Egypt) 3–1 on aggregate.
- 2017: Wydad Casablanca (Morocco) defeated Al Ahly (Egypt) 2–1 on aggregate.
- 2018: Espérance Tunis (Tunisia) defeated Al Ahly (Egypt) 4–3 on aggregate.
- 2019: Espérance Tunis (Tunisia) defeated Wydad Casablanca (Morocco) after a controversial final. The second leg was abandoned due to a VAR dispute, and Espérance was awarded the title (1–1 in the first leg, match forfeited by Wydad).
- 2020: Al Ahly (Egypt) defeated Zamalek (Egypt) 2–1 in a single-leg final.
- 2021: Al Ahly (Egypt) defeated Kaizer Chiefs (South Africa) 3–0 in a single-leg final.
- 2022: Wydad Casablanca (Morocco) defeated Al Ahly (Egypt) 2–0 in a single-leg final.
- 2023: Al Ahly (Egypt) defeated Wydad Casablanca (Morocco) 3–2 on aggregate.
- 2024: Al Ahly (Egypt) defeated Espérance Tunis (Tunisia) 1–0 on aggregate.
- 2025: Pyramids FC (Egypt) defeated Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) 3 -2 on aggregate
