2002 CAF Champions League Final

Zamalek

In the first knockout round, Zamalek were won against APR FC, against whom they won the Home leg 6–0 while Hossam Hassan, Mohamed Abdel Wahed, Hazem Emam, Gamal Hamza and Mohamed Sabry scored the six goals. The Royal Club then drawn the second leg 0–0 to ensure a 6–0 aggregate win and a place in the second Round, where they were again won against Nkana.

The second Round matches represented the first time these two clubs had met in Africa . Zamalek went to Kitwe and secured a very creditable 2–0 win, before qualify to the Group stage of the Champions League, by drawing 0–0.

Zamalek were drawn in Group F along with ASEC Mimosas, Espérance and Costa do Sol. Zamalek won their first group game before securing a 1–1 draw away against Espérance, Zamalek as group winners and with the most number of points out of all the group winners, 13.

The semi-final pitted Zamalek against Mazembe; the teams had not met ever in the group stage of the Champions League tournament, the first time Zamalek won it. The first leg at the Stade de la Kenya was a drab affair, with Zamalek spending most of the game defending, whilst Mazembe tried to pass the ball around them. That was about as exciting as the first leg got for either team and it ended 1–1 thanks to a goal from Abdel Halim Ali. The second leg at Cairo Stadium was a game of higher tempo, which Zamalek won 2–0 and Hossam Hassan scored twice. This result increased Zamalek's consecutive home win record in the Champions League to 5 and ensured that Zamalek reached the final unbeaten except losing a match in the quarter-final second leg away against ASEC Mimosas .

First leg

30 November 2002

Raja Casablanca	0 – 0	Zamalek
	(Report)

Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Falla N'Doye (Senegal)

Raja Casablanca

Zamalek

Raja Casablanca: GK 1 Mustapha Chadli CB 4 Abdelouahad Abdessamad CB 16 El-Amine Erbate CB 23 Noureddine Kacemi RM 8 Abdellatif Jrindou CM 27 Nabil Mesloub CM 29 Zakaria Aboub  60' LM 5 Mohamed Ali Diallo  77' CM 20 Hamid Nater CF 11 Hicham Aboucherouane CF 9 François Endene Substitutes: CM 24 Sami Tajeddine  60' FW 30 Omar Zoubit  77' Manager: Walter Meeuws

Zamalek: GK 26 Abdel Wahed Al Sayed RB 2 Ibrahim Hassan CB 5 Besheer El-Tabei CB 15 Wael El-Quabbani CB 1 Mehdat Abdelhadi LB 13 Tarek El-Sayed CF 10 Walid Salah Abdel Latif CM 20 Tamer Abdel Hamid MF 22 Hossam Abdel Moniem  ?' CM 11 Mohamed Aboul Ela  ?' CF 9 Hossam Hassan  ?'  89' Substitutes: FW 24 Abdel Halim Ali  89' Manager: Carlos Roberto Cabral

Second leg

13 December 200217:00 GMT

Zamalek	1 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Abdel Hamid  45+4'	(Report)

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 67,310

Referee: Al-Shelmani (Libya)

Zamalek

Raja Casablanca

Zamalek: GK 26 Abdel Wahed Al Sayed RB 2 Ibrahim Hassan  40' CB 1 Mehdat Abdelhadi CB 5 Besheer El-Tabei CB 15 Wael El-Quabbani LB 13 Tarek El-Sayed CM 20 Tamer Abdel Hamid CM 11 Mohamed Aboul Ela CM 14 Hazem Emam (c)  78' CF 10 Walid Salah Abdel Latif  82' CF 9 Hossam Hassan Substitutes: FW 24 Abdel Halim Ali  82' MF 22 Hossam Abdel Moniem  78' Manager: Carlos Roberto Cabral

Raja Casablanca: GK 1 Mustapha Chadli CB 4 Abdelouahad Abdessamad  15' CB 8 Abdellatif Jrindrou  19' CB 16 El Amin Erbate  80' RM 24 Tajeddine Sami  58'  64' CM 29 Zakaria Aboub CM 27 Nabil Masloub LM 23 Noureddine Kacemi  60' CM 20 Hamid Nater CF 9 François Endene CF 11 Hicham Aboucherouane Substitutes: FW 30 Omar Zoubit  80' FW 5 Mohamed Ali Diallo  64' Manager: Walter Meeuws