African Champions Cup. Again, withdrawals – Sporting Moura (Central African Republic) and Old Edwardians (Sierra Leone) before the first leg of the Preliminary Round. Then before the First Round – Sporting Clube Bissau (Guinea Bissau), Al-Ittihad (Lybia), and Juvenil Reyes (Equatorial Guinea). And AS Police (Mauritania) was disqualified after the first leg for not paying their dues. After that, no more trouble. Three of the leading African clubs reached the semi-fnals and there was one surprise: Al-Hillal (Sudan) eliminated Canon Yaounde (Cameroon) 1-0, 0-1, and 4-1 penalty shoot-out. In the other semi-final Al-Ahly (Egypt) eliminated Asante Kotoko (Ghana) 2-0 and 0-1. It was even something as a revenge, for Asante Kotoko eliminated the other Egyptian team and 1986 Champions Cup winner Zamalek in rather humiliating manner (0-2 and 5-1).
And at the final there was little doubt which team was stronger – Al-Ahly kept 0-0 tie at The Stadium in Khartoum, then won the second leg at the International Stadium in Cairo 2-0.
Heroic season for Al-Hillal (Omdurman), but there was difference of class at the end. Still, they made kind of sensation by reaching the final.
Well deserved victory of Al-Ahly, which continued their triumphal march: after 3 consecutive Cup Winners Cup wins, they won the Champions Cup. This was remarkable run: from 1982 to 1987 Al-Ahly played African final every year and lost only the Champions Cup final in 1983 to Asante Kotoko. They won so far 1 Champions Cup (1982) and 3 Cup Winners Cup (1984, 1985, and 1986). Now they won their 2nd Champions Cup, rapidly becoming the best African club ever.
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