1994 WAFU Club Championship

1994 WAFU Club Championship
Tournament details
Teams 12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions Nigeria Bendel Insurance (2nd title)
Runners-up Nigeria Plateau United
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 46 (2.88 per match)

The 1994 WAFU Club Championship was the 17th football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up or third place of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Nigeria's Bendel Insurance after defeating Plateau United in two legs, it was the first final that feature both clubs from a single country.[1] A total of about 46 goals were scored, slightly more but not as much as it was in 1991. No penalty shootout took place that season not even a club advanced under away goals rule. Originally a 22 match season, it was reduced to a 16 match as the Gambia's Real de Banjul FC and Niger's Alkali Nassara withdrew, in the quarterfinals, Liberia's Mighty Barolle withdrew. Neither clubs from Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania nor Ghana participated. From the quarterfinals, Bendel Insurance directly headed to the finals.

Preliminary round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Ports Authority Sierra Leone 5–2 Guinea Horoya AC 4–0 2–1
Real de Banjul FC (w/o) The Gambia Liberia Mighty Barrolle
Alkali Nassara Niger Nigeria Plateau United
Étoile Sportive de Cotonou Benin 0– Togo ASKO Kara 0–0 1–0
AS Bouaké Ivory Coast 5–3 Mali AS Mandé 3–0 2–2

Quarterfinals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Bendel Insurance Nigeria 6–3 Sierra Leone Ports Authority 5–1 1–2
ASKO Kara Togo 2–5 Nigeria Plateau United 2–3 3–2
ASC Bouaké Ivory Coast Liberia Mighty Barrolle (w/o)

Semifinals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Plateau United Nigeria 3–2 Ivory Coast ASC Bouaké 2–1 1–1

Finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Bendel Insurance FC Nigeria 2–1 Plateau UnitedNGA 1–0 1–1

Winners

1994 WAFU Club Championship
Nigeria
Bendel Insurance FC
Second title

See also

References

  1. "1994 WAFU Club Championship at RSSSF".
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