2002 African Cup Winners' Cup

2002 African Cup Winners' Cup

Tournament details
Dates	2 February - 8 December 2002
Teams	37 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Wydad Casablanca (1st title)
Runners-up	Asante Kotoko
Tournament statistics
Matches played	68
Goals scored	193 (2.84 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Michael Osei (7)

The 2002 African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by Wydad Casablanca in two-legged final victory against Asante Kotoko This was the twenty-eighth season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. Thirty-seven sides entered the competition. Three teams were disqualified for not showing up during the different stages of the competition, starting with Togolese side Sara Sport who failed to arrive for the 1st leg of the preliminary round, then South Africans Kaizer Chiefs who failed to arrive for the 2nd leg of the first round and finally the Réunion representative Jeanne d'Arc who failed to show up for their 2nd leg match of the second round.
The last two teams both failed to show up for their 2nd leg match against the Malagasy side US Transfoot.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Akokana FC	1–3	Gazelle FC	0–0	1–3
Atlético Malabo	w/o1	Sara Sport	—	—
Les Citadins FC	6–3	Stade Centrafricain	4–0	2–3
Polisi SC	2–1	Guna Trading FC	0–0	2–1
US Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill	4–3	Extension Gunners	3–2	1–1

Notes

¹ Sara Sport failed to arrive for 1st leg.

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gazelle FC	1–6	USM Alger	0–0	1–6
AS Kaloum Star	3–7	AS Mangasport	2–2	1–5
Express FC	3–3 (1–4 p)	Ghazl El Mahalla	2–1	1–2
Atlético Malabo	2–5	Al-Ahli	2–2	0–3
ASC SONACOS	0–3	Wydad Casablanca	0–0	0–3
Mamahira AC	0–6	Alliance Bouaké	0–4	0–2
Les Citadins FC	1–4	Fovu Club	1–3	0–1
Dolphins FC	1–2	AS Police	1–0	0–2
Polisi SC	0–9	CS Hammam-Lif	0–2	0–7
AFC Leopards	0–1	Al-Mourada SC	0–1	0–0
Kaizer Chiefs	dq1	US Transfoot	4–0	—
US Beau-Bassin Rose-Hill	0–1	SS Jeanne d'Arc	0–1	0–0
Asante Kotoko	4–2	Sonangol do Namibe	2–0	2–2
CD Maxaquene	3–3 (a)	Santos FC	3–1	0–2
Zanaco FC	4–4 (a)2	AS Vita Club	4–1	0–3
Shabanie Mine	1–3	St Michel United	1–0	0–3

Notes

¹ Kaizer Chiefs did not arrive for 2nd leg in Tamatave, claiming transport problems, and were disqualified.

² AS Vita Club arrived late for 1st leg scheduled for Mar 9, claiming not to have been aware it was not on Mar 10; CAF rescheduled the tie for Mar 30 and Apr 14, ruling both parties were to blame for insufficient communication.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
AS Mangasport	1–3	USM Alger	1–2	0–1
Al-Ahli	2–3	Ghazl El Mahalla	2–1	0–2
Alliance Bouaké	1–6	Wydad Casablanca	1–1	0–5
AS Police	0–0 (4–3 p)	Fovu Club	0–0	0–0
Al-Mourada SC	3–0	CS Hammam-Lif	2–0	1–0
SS Jeanne d'Arc	dq1	US Transfoot	3–1	—
Santos FC	4–4 (a)	Asante Kotoko	3–3	1–1
St Michel United	1–3	AS Vita Club	0–1	1–2

Notes

¹ SS Jeanne d'Arc did not show for 2nd leg and were disqualified.

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Mourada SC	0–4	AS Police	0–1	0–3
Asante Kotoko	5–4	Ghazl El Mahalla	3–0	2–4
AS Vita Club	2–3	Wydad Casablanca	1–0	1–3
US Transfoot	3–11	USM Alger	1–3	2–8

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Asante Kotoko	7–2	AS Police	4–0	3–2
Wydad Casablanca	2–2 (a)	USM Alger	1–0	1–2

Final

Main article: 2002 African Cup Winners' Cup Final

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Wydad Casablanca	2–2 (a)	Asante Kotoko	1–0	1–2

First leg

Wydad Casablanca v Asante Kotoko

16 November 2002

Wydad Casablanca	1 – 0	Asante Kotoko
Madihi  50'

Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca

Second leg

Asante Kotoko v Wydad Casablanca

8 December 2002

Asante Kotoko	2 – 1	Wydad Casablanca
Ansah  54' Osei  86'		Talha  73'

Kumasi Stadium, Kumasi Attendance: 60,000

External links

• Results available on CAF Official Website
• Results available on RSSSF