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1985 WAFU Club Championship
Tournament details
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
ChampionsNigeria Africa Sports (1st title)
Runners-upIvory Coast Ifodje Atakpamé
Tournament statistics
Matches played21
Goals scored72 (3.43 per match)
1984 1986
International football competition

The 1985 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Africa Sports in two-legged final victory against Ifodje Atakpamé.

Not a single club from Niger participated.

Preliminary round

The matches took place from March 30 to April 14.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
East End Lions Sierra Leone 4–0 The Gambia Hawks 1–2 6–1
Shooting Stars FC Nigeria 5–0 AS CaÏmans 1–1 6–0
Casa Sports Senegal 1–3 Guinea-Bissau UDI Bissau 0–0 1–3
Africa Sports Ivory Coast 5–0 Liberia Saint Joseph Warriors 5–0 0–3
Ifodje Atakpamé Togo 3–3 Guinea Gangan 2–0 1–3
Eleven Wise Ghana 2–3 Mali Real Bamako 2–0 0–3
New Nigeria Bank Nigeria 0–0 none

Quarterfinals

The matches took place from May 26 to June 9.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
UDI Bissau Guinea-Bissau 2–4 Ivory Coast Africa Sports 2–0 4–0
Ifodje Atakpamé Togo 3–3 (4–2 p) Sierra Leone East End Lions 2–1 2–1
Eleven Wise Ghana 3–3 (1–3 p) Nigeria Shooting Stars FC 3–0 3–0

Semifinals

The matches took place from June 30 to July 14.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Shooting Stars FC (abd.) Nigeria 2–0 Ivory Coast Africa Sports 2–0 w/o
New Nigeria Bank (forfeited) Nigeria 8–1 Guinea-Bissau UDI Bissau 4–0 4–1

Finals

The matches took place on October 20 and November 10.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Africa Sports Ivory Coast 5–0 Togo Ifodje Atakpamé 3–0 0–2

Winners

1985 WAFU Club Championship
Ivory Coast
Africa Sports
First title

See also

Notes

  1. The score is not known, probably Real Bamako was disqualified
  2. The match was abandoned at the 20th minute, Shooting Starts abandoned the tournament and Africa Sports qualified into the finals
  3. Due to its incidents between African Sports, New Nigeria Bank chose to play the finals on neutral ground, it was refused and the club declared its matches forfeited and Ifodje Atakpamé of Togo qualified into the finals

References

  1. "1985 WAFU Cup at RSSSF".

External links

WAFU Club Championship
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