{"id":224500,"date":"2026-02-20T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ghana-egypt-al-ahly-esperance-clash-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:21:57","slug":"ghana-egypt-al-ahly-esperance-clash-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/ghana-egypt-al-ahly-esperance-clash-in-caf-champions-league-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Egypt: Al Ahly, Esperance Clash in CAF Champions League Quarter-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Record 12-time champions, Al Ahly SC of Egypt will face Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis of Tunisia in a heavyweight North African quarter-final of the CAF Champions League 2025\/26 following the last-8 draw conducted in Cairo yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The eight remaining sides learned their path to the final as the draw for both the quarter-finals and semi-finals produced a series of mouthwatering ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Al Ahly will travel to Tunisia to face Esp\u00e9rance in the first leg of their clash, before the return match in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190589.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record 12-time champions, Al Ahly SC of Egypt will face Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis of Tunisia in a heavyweight North African quarter-final of the CAF Champions League 2025\/26 following the last-8 draw conducted in Cairo yesterday. The eight remaining sides learned their path to the final as the draw for both the quarter-finals and semi-finals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,11757,3742,14490,7647,415,14400,28334,7027,257,19316,254],"class_list":["post-224500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahly","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-clash","tag-egypt-news","tag-esperance","tag-ghanaegypt","tag-league","tag-news","tag-quarterfinal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}