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1997 CAF Super Cup

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Date
  
14 February 1997

Attendance
  
50,000

Venue
  
Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee
  
Ahmed El Shenawi (Egypt)

The 1997 CAF Super Cup was the fifth CAF Super Cup, an annual football match in Africa organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's two CAF club competitions, the African Cup of Champions Clubs and the African Cup Winners' Cup.

The match took place on 14 February 1997, at Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, between Egyptian clubs Zamalek, the 1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs winner, and Arab Contractors, the 1996 African Cup Winners' Cup winner. In the Second all-Egyptian CAF Super Cup, and the second time two clubs from the same country participate the same match in CAF Super Cup (after 1994). Zamalek won the trophy after beating Arab Contractors 4–2 in the penalty shoot-out, with the game ending 0–0.

References

1997 CAF Super Cup Wikipedia