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Football match
2014 CAF Champions League Final
Mustapha Tchaker Stadium hosted the podium where ES Sétif lifted the trophy
AS Vita Club had reached the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs (predecessor of the CAF Champions League) twice, winning in 1973 and losing in 1981.
ES Sétif had reached the final of the African Cup of Champions Clubs once, winning in 1988. They were the first Algerian side to reach the final of Africa's premier club championship since 1990.
The stadium's most famous event was The Rumble in the Jungleboxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman for the Undisputed WBC/WBA Heavyweight Championship that took place on October 30, 1974. 60,000 people attended the boxing match. In what was ranked as a great upset, Ali knocked out the previously undefeated Foreman in eight rounds. The associated music festival, Zaire 74, that took place at the stadium six weeks prior to the boxing match, included such stars as James Brown and B.B. King.
The first local match of the USM Blida at Mustapha Tchaker Stadium took place there 30 August 2001. This is, then, a first match of Algerian championship (D1) against USM Alger (0-0).
It becomes the main stadium of the Algerian football team from 2008. However, the first international match to be held there in 20 August 2002. It is, then, a friendly match against the DR Congo national football team (1-1).
It is regarded as a lucky charm by the Algerian fans and as a "impregnable fortress" by the specialists. Indeed, the Algerian team has never lost in this stadium.
The ES Sétif administration confirmed that the selection of the Blida stadium is because it has all the necessary conditions to organize a final match.
The final was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time was played).
Matches
First leg
The opening goal came in the 17th minute when a corner from the right was turned in past his own goalkeeper by Firmin Ndombe Mubele at the near post to give ES Sétif the lead. AS Vita Club got the equalizer in injury time in the first half from a penalty after handball in the box by Mohamed Lagraâ. Chikito Lema Mabidi took the penalty, shooting right footed to the right of the goalkeeper. ES Sétif regained the lead in the 57th minute when Akram Djahnit finished low to the net from close range after taking the ball around the goalkeeper. Mabidi tied the game at 2-2 in the 77th minute with a long range shot from 30 yards with his right foot.
Sofiane Younès scored the opening goal for ES Sétif in the second leg after 49 minutes when he turned the ball into the net from a yard out at the back post after a cross from the right. Chikito Lema Mabidi equalized for AS Vita Club in the 53rd minute with a powerful right footed shot from outside the penalty area after a pass from the right.
The draw meant that ES Sétif won the final on the away goals rule.
Mustapha Tchaker Stadium hosted the podium where ES Sétif lifted the trophy
AS Vita Club
ES Sétif
Kano Pillars
Steve Biko
Dynamos
ASFA Yennenga
Kaizer Chiefs
Coton Sport
Zamalek
Espérance de Tunis
Al-Hilal
Al-Ahly Benghazi
45+3' (pen.), 77'
AS Vita Club
67'
67'
83'
