Saturday 21/March/2026 – 03:38 PM
The club’s first football team awaits Al-Ahly A fateful confrontation against Esperance of Tunisia, in the second leg of the quarter-finals of the African Champions League for the 2025-2026 season.
Al-Ahly returned with a 1-0 loss to Bab Souika, in the match between them in Tunisia, so they are required to win by at least two goals to ensure qualification to the semi-finals.
What does Al-Ahly do when it loses the first leg by a clean goal?
Throughout its long history in Africa, Al-Ahly lost 1-0 in the first-leg matches, 7 previous times at the level of the African Champions League in its various roles.
During those seven times, the Red Giant was able to turn the result in his favor and achieve victory in the return leg on 4 occasions, while he exited the competition on 3 previous occasions.
The scenario of winning with the same result in the first leg (1-0) and resorting to penalty kicks was repeated twice. The first was against Young Africans in 2014, when Al-Ahly qualified, and the second was in 2015, against Moghreb Tetouan, when it was eliminated from the tournament.
The beginning came in the 1982 edition, which witnessed Al-Ahly winning its first continental title, as the team lost 1-0 in the first leg in the semi-final against Engo Rangers, before achieving a sweeping 4-0 victory in the second leg, qualifying for the final, defeating Asante Kotoko by one score, and winning the title.
In 2004, Al-Ahly lost in the first leg at home to Al-Hilal of Sudan with an unanswered goal, before drawing 0-0 in Omdurman, leaving the tournament early in the round of 32.
The result was repeated in the first leg in 2010, where Al-Ahmar lost to the Kenyan Gunners, before returning in the return match and achieving a victory with two unanswered goals.
In 2012, Al-Ahly lost to the Financial Stadium with a clean goal in the first leg of the round of sixteen of the Champions League, before achieving the comeback and qualifying for the quarter-finals by winning 3-1 in the return match.
The 2014 edition witnessed a repeated scenario; Al-Ahly lost 0-1 to Young Africans in the round of 32, before compensating by winning the same score in the return match and qualifying on penalties. But in the next round, he lost back and forth to Al-Ahly Benghazi, with scores of 0-1 and 2-3, leaving the tournament.
In the 2015 edition, Al-Ahly was defeated 1-0 by Moghreb Tetouan in the first leg, and succeeded in equalizing the score in the second leg, before losing on penalties, leaving the tournament in the round of 16.
