MATCH STATS: AS FAR face Kawempe Muslim Ladies in Group B at CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026
Defending champions AS FAR of Morocco begin their bid for a third CAF Women’s Champions League title when they face tournament debutants Kawempe Muslim Ladies of Uganda at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia on Monday, 2 November (14h00 local time).
AS FAR are appearing at the finals for a sixth consecutive year, while Kawempe become the first Ugandan club to qualify for the competition.
MATCH FACTS
• AS FAR and Kawempe Muslim Ladies meet for the first time at the finals in their opening Group B match of the 2026 edition.
• AS FAR are the only club to have appeared in every CAF Women’s Champions League finals since the competition began in 2021. They are two-time champions and three-time finalists.
• Kawempe Muslim Ladies will make their tournament debut as the first representatives from Uganda. Uganda become the 18th nation represented at the finals.
• Kawempe are the 29th different club to appear at the finals and will become the 20th different opponent AS FAR have faced in the competition.
• AS FAR have previously met clubs from 13 other countries at the finals. Uganda will become the 14th nation whose teams they have faced.
• This is AS FAR’s third finals meeting with a club from East Africa. They lost 2-0 to Kenya’s Vihiga Queens in 2021 and defeated Tanzania’s Simba Queens 1-0 in 2022, both in group matches.
• AS FAR have a reported record of 14 wins, one draw and three losses in 18 previous matches against tournament debutants. Their defeats came against Vihiga Queens and Hasaacas Ladies in 2021 and Ampem Darkoa in 2023.
• In 11 group-stage matches against tournament debutants, AS FAR have won nine and lost two, against Vihiga Queens in 2021 and Ghana’s Ampem Darkoa in 2023.
• AS FAR opened their previous title defence in 2023 with a 2-1 defeat to debutants Ampem Darkoa, despite taking a 14th-minute lead through Najat Badri.
AS FAR – KEY STATISTICS
• AS FAR are making their sixth appearance at the finals. They were champions in 2022 and 2025, runners-up in 2024 and finished third in 2021 and 2023.
• They have reached at least the semi-finals in each of their five previous appearances. No club has yet successfully defended the title.
• AS FAR are seeking to become the first team to retain the trophy. Mamelodi Sundowns in 2022 are the only previous holders to reach the final in their title-defence campaign.
• The defending champions have lost their opening match at each of the past three editions: AS FAR against Ampem Darkoa in 2023, Sundowns against FC Masar in 2024 and TP Mazembe against ASEC Mimosas in 2025.
• AS FAR have won three of their five previous opening matches (2021, 2022 and 2024), drawn one (2025) and lost one (2023). They have scored in four of those five games and kept four clean sheets.
• They began their 2021 campaign by beating Nigeria’s Rivers Angels 3-0, with Sanaa Mssoudy scoring a hat-trick. Their opening 1-0 win over Simba Queens in 2022 was secured by Ibtissam Jraidi.
• The 2023 opening defeat to Ampem Darkoa is the only time AS FAR have scored first and gone on to lose a match at the finals.
• AS FAR started the 2024 edition with a 3-0 victory over Senegal’s Aigles de la Médina and opened the 2025 tournament with a 0-0 draw against FC Masar.
• Their record in opening matches is P5 W3 D1 L1. Both of their biggest opening-day wins were by 3-0, against Rivers Angels in 2021 and Aigles de la Médina in 2024.
• AS FAR arrive on a five-match unbeaten run in the competition. They have previously gone six successive finals matches without defeat on two occasions.
• They are unbeaten in their past eight group-stage games (W7 D1), their longest such sequence. Their last group defeat was the 2-1 loss to Ampem Darkoa in 2023.
• Across 15 group-stage matches at the finals, AS FAR have won 11, drawn two and lost two. Both draws ended 0-0.
• AS FAR have played more matches at the finals than any other club (25) and have the most victories (17). Their overall record is P25 W17 D3 L5, with all three draws ending 0-0.
• Goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi has kept a competition-record 15 clean sheets for AS FAR between 2021 and 2025.
• Ibtissam Jraidi and Doha El Madani are AS FAR’s leading scorers at the finals, with six goals each.
KAWEMPE MUSLIM LADIES – KEY STATISTICS
• Kawempe Muslim Ladies are making their debut as Uganda’s first representatives at the CAF Women’s Champions League finals.
• They qualified by winning the CECAFA zonal tournament held in Kigali, Rwanda, in August 2026.
• Kawempe topped their qualifying group with a 1-0 victory over Ethiopia’s Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) and an 8-0 win against Djibouti’s FC Ujeco.
• They defeated CBE again in the semi-finals, winning 3-0 through goals from Jovia Nakagolo and Agnes Nabukenya and an own goal by Tigist Adane Belhu.
• The final against Kenya Police Bullets was goalless after 90 minutes before captain Agnes Nabukenya scored in the 100th minute to secure a 1-0 extra-time victory.
• Kawempe won all four of their CECAFA qualifying matches, scoring 13 goals and conceding none.
• They are coached by Ayub Khalifa Kiyingi, a prominent figure in Ugandan women’s football who has led the club since 2001.
• Captain Agnes Nabukenya is 17 and was handed the armband in 2025. She was named player of the season in Uganda’s 2023/24 league campaign after scoring 10 goals.
• Nabukenya also scored six goals in a FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup qualifier against Namibia in January 2025.
• Kawempe won the Ugandan league title in 2025/26, recording 16 victories and only two defeats in 22 matches, with 13 goals conceded.
• Outside the inaugural 2021 competition, when all sides were debutants, two newcomers have reached the final: SC Casablanca in 2023 and ASEC Mimosas in 2025. Both finished runners-up.
• Two debutants won their opening games at the 2025 finals: USFAS Bamako and ASEC Mimosas, with the latter going on to reach the final.