MATCH STATS: FC Masar clash with 15 de Agosto at CAF Women’s Champions League 2025

Home side FC Masar of Egypt and FC 15 de Agosto from Equatorial Guinea will meet at 15h00 local time (13h00 GMT) on Tuesday in their second Group A match at the CAF Women’s Champions League 2025.

This will be only the second time teams from Egypt and Equatorial Guinea have met at the finals.

The first meeting came in 2021, when hosts Wadi Degla lost 3–0 to Malabo Kings in their second Group A game, played on 5 November 2021 at the 30 June Stadium in Cairo.

Malabo Kings’ win remains the biggest by a team from Equatorial Guinea at the finals.

Egyptian sides have yet to win against Central African opposition, losing both prior meetings. Wadi Degla fell to Malabo Kings (2021) and TP Mazembe (1–0, 2022).

FC Masar, playing their seventh match in the competition, will face their fifth different opponent.

This is the second time a club from Equatorial Guinea will face the tournament’s host club. Malabo Kings won the previous such meeting against Wadi Degla in 2021.

FC Masar – Key Statistics

·       Opened their campaign with a 0–0 draw against AS FAR.

·       Have kept clean sheets in their last two matches.

·       Another clean sheet would make it three in a row for the first time.

·       Their last two games have both ended 0–0, including a penalty shoot-out win over Edo Queens in the 2024 third-place match.

·       Have failed to win their last three games (two draws, one loss), their longest winless run.

·       The draw with AS FAR was their third 0–0 draw in six matches at the finals.

·       Half of their games (three of six) have ended goalless.

·       Have kept four clean sheets in six matches overall.

·       In their 2024 debut, they opened with a 1–0 win over Mamelodi Sundowns and drew 0–0 with Edo Queens in their second group game.

·       Have lost just once in six matches at the finals (two wins, three draws, one loss).

·       Failure to win would mark the first time they have gone winless in successive group matches.

·       Would also be their first time failing to win within their first two games, they won and drew their openers in 2024.

·       No Egyptian team has ever won or scored in a second group match, Wadi Degla lost both in 2021 and 2022, while Masar drew 0–0 in 2024.

·       Wadi Degla’s 5–0 defeat to Mamelodi Sundowns in 2022 remains the biggest loss by an Egyptian side.

·       A win would give Masar at least one victory in their first two games for a second consecutive tournament.

·       Are currently unbeaten in four straight group matches (two wins, two draws).

·       Have kept three clean sheets across those four, conceding only once.

·       Have yet to concede first in any group-stage game.

FC 15 de Agosto – Key Statistics

·       Began with a 2–1 loss to USFAS Bamako in their opening match.

·       All three Equatorial Guinean representatives at the finals have failed to win their opening game (one draw, two losses).

·       However, all three have scored in their openers.

·       Took the lead in the 42nd minute through Ana Maria Nchama before conceding twice in the second half to lose 2–1.

·       No team from Equatorial Guinea has ever gone their first two games without collecting at least one point.

·       Likewise, no Equatorial Guinean team has ever lost both opening group matches.

·       In their second group games, Equatorial Guinean clubs have a record of two played, one win, one loss. Malabo Kings beat Wadi Degla in 2021, while Huracanes lost to AS FAR.

·       Equatorial Guinean clubs have always faced North African opponents in their second group matches (one win, one loss).

·       Overall, their record against North African teams stands at one win and two losses.