The club's first football team will meet this Friday evening with Congolese Mazembe in the second leg of the semi-finals of the African Champions League. The match begins at ten o'clock in the evening at Cairo Stadium, and the first leg ended in a scoreless draw.
The two teams played five matches during three confrontations in the history of their meetings in African club championships. Al-Ahly won two matches, Mazembe won one match, and the two teams tied in two matches. Al-Ahly players scored three goals and conceded the same.
The first confrontation was in the group stage in 2002, and Al-Ahly won in Cairo with a goal scored by Ahmed Bilal, and the two teams tied in Lubumbashi without goals.
The second confrontation in the group stage in 2012, Al-Ahly won in Cairo by two goals to one. Emad Miteb and Mohamed Naji Gedo scored for Al-Ahly, and Mazembe won by two goals to nil in Lubumbashi, and Al-Ahly completed its journey and won the championship.
The third semi-final encounter this season, and the first leg in Lubumbashi, Congo, ended in a scoreless draw.
It is noteworthy that the winner of the aggregate of the two home and away matches will meet in the final round the winner of the Tunisian Esperance and South African teams, Sun Downs.
