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1999 CAF Super Cup

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Date
  
7 February 1999

Attendance
  
20,000

Venue
  
Stade Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan

Referee
  
Gamal Al-Ghandour (Egypt)

The 1999 CAF Super Cup was the seventh CAF Super Cup, an annual football match organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), between the winners of the previous season's CAF Champions League and African Cup Winners' Cup competitions. The match was contested by 1998 CAF Champions League winners, ASEC Mimosas, and 1998 African Cup Winners' Cup winners, Espérance, at the Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on 7 February 2009.

After the regular 90 minutes ended in a 1–1 draw, Ivorian side ASEC Mimosas won the match 3–1 in extra time. This was the first title for ASEC and only the second Super Cup title won by Ivorian clubs, after Africa Sports (also based in Abidjan) won the first edition in 1993. As for Tunisian side Espérance, this was their second final, after they had won the 1995 Super Cup.

References

1999 CAF Super Cup Wikipedia