MATCH STATS: Kawempe Muslim Ladies face USFAS Bamako in Group B at CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026
Uganda’s Kawempe Muslim Ladies face Mali’s USFAS Bamako in their final Group B match at the CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026 at Ismailia Stadium in Ismailia on Sunday, 8 November (14h00 local time / 12h00 GMT). Both clubs are chasing a first appearance in the semi-finals.
Kawempe beat defending champions AS FAR 3-2 before losing 2-1 to Ampem Darkoa and have three points. USFAS lost 5-1 to Ampem Darkoa and 6-0 to AS FAR. The Malian side can still advance in a narrow three-way tie scenario, but must defeat Kawempe convincingly and hope Ampem beat AS FAR.
MATCH FACTS
• This is the first meeting between Kawempe Muslim Ladies and USFAS Bamako at the CAF Women’s Champions League finals.
• USFAS will be facing East African opposition for the first time at the finals. Malian clubs AS Mandé (2021 and 2023) and USFAS (2025) did not meet a club from East Africa at their previous appearances.
• USFAS are facing tournament debutants for the second time. They defeated FC 15 de Agosto 2-1 in their first group match in 2025.
• Kawempe will qualify with a victory if AS FAR fail to beat Ampem Darkoa in the other Group B match.
• A draw would be enough for Kawempe if AS FAR draw or lose, because Kawempe won the head-to-head meeting 3-2.
• If Kawempe and AS FAR both win, they will join Ampem Darkoa on six points and the three-way head-to-head tiebreakers will determine the two qualifiers.
• USFAS can only qualify if they beat Kawempe and Ampem Darkoa defeat AS FAR. In that event, AS FAR, Kawempe and USFAS would all finish on three points, with their head-to-head results deciding second place.
• In that three-way tie, a victory by at least four goals would put USFAS above Kawempe on head-to-head goal difference. A four-goal margin would be enough for USFAS to finish second behind AS FAR in the three-way comparison.
KAWEMPE MUSLIM LADIES – KEY STATISTICS
• Kawempe marked their debut with a 3-2 win against AS FAR before suffering a 2-1 defeat to Ampem Darkoa.
• Qualifying would make Kawempe only the second East African team to reach the semi-finals, after Tanzania’s Simba Queens in 2022.
• Victory would give Kawempe two group-stage wins at one edition, a feat previously achieved by an East African side only by Simba Queens in 2022.
• Kawempe are the first East African team to score in both of their opening two matches at the finals. No East African side has previously scored in all three group matches.
• The only previous East African club to win their final group game and qualify for the semi-finals was Simba Queens in 2022. They beat Green Buffaloes 2-0.
• Simba Queens are also the only previous East African team to win their final group fixture or keep a clean sheet in that match.
• East African sides have lost four of their five previous final group games: Vihiga Queens 0-4 to Rivers Angels (2021), JKT Queens 1-4 to SC Casablanca (2023), Commercial Bank of Ethiopia 1-2 to FC Masar (2024) and JKT Queens 1-4 to TP Mazembe (2025).
• A debutant has reached the semi-finals at each of the five previous editions of the competition.
• Kawempe conceded first in both of their opening games (W1 L1) and have yet to keep a clean sheet.
• They conceded inside the opening 10 minutes in both matches: in the sixth minute against AS FAR and the ninth against Ampem Darkoa.
• Shadia Nabirye scored Kawempe’s goal against Ampem Darkoa, her first at the finals. Kawempe have now had three different scorers at the tournament.
• Jovia Nakagolo provided the assist for Nabirye’s equaliser against Ampem Darkoa, her first assist at the finals.
• Kawempe conceded the winning goal to Ampem Darkoa in the 84th minute, the latest goal they have allowed in the competition.
• They hit the woodwork for the first time at the finals against Ampem Darkoa.
• Kawempe had six shots on target against AS FAR and three against Ampem Darkoa.
• They won five corners in each of their first two matches.
• Kawempe attempted 405 passes against Ampem Darkoa, completing 218, their highest totals in one game at the finals.
• They have attempted 34 crosses in two matches, 15 against AS FAR and 19 against Ampem Darkoa, with a crossing success rate of approximately 18%.
• Hadijah Babirye led all players in duels won (15) and tackles won (eight) against Ampem Darkoa.
• Goalkeeper Josephine Nambuya made five saves against Ampem Darkoa, her highest total in a match at the finals.
• Nambuya has made eight saves from 12 shots on target faced, a save rate of approximately 67%, and has conceded four goals.
USFAS BAMAKO – KEY STATISTICS
• USFAS were beaten 5-1 by Ampem Darkoa in their opening game and 6-0 by AS FAR on Matchday 2, the heaviest defeat of the 2026 finals so far.
• Defeat would make USFAS the sixth club to lose all three group matches at an edition. The previous five were Determine Girls and Wadi Degla (2022), Aigles de la Médina and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (2024), and FC 15 de Agosto (2025).
• Wadi Degla, in 2022, are the only previous club to lose all three group games on their second appearance at the finals.
• USFAS would become the third West African team to lose all three group matches, after Determine Girls of Liberia (2022) and Senegal’s Aigles de la Médina (2024), if they are beaten again.
• In their final group match at the 2025 finals, USFAS drew 1-1 with FC Masar after leading and conceding an equaliser in second-half added time.
• USFAS have conceded 11 goals in their opening two matches, more than any club in its first two matches at a single edition.
• Their total of 11 goals conceded already exceeds the previous highest total for an entire three-match group stage (nine). Wadi Degla (2022), Commercial Bank of Ethiopia and Aigles de la Médina (2024), and FC 15 de Agosto (2025) each conceded nine.
• Both of USFAS’ 2026 matches have produced six goals: the 5-1 defeat to Ampem Darkoa and the 6-0 loss to AS FAR.
• AS FAR scored from all six of their shots on target against USFAS.
• USFAS trailed AS FAR 4-0 at half-time, the first such half-time score at the finals since FC Masar led FC 15 de Agosto 4-0 in 2025.
• USFAS became the fifth club to concede at least four goals in one half at the finals, after Vihiga Queens (2021), Aigles de la Médina and Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (2024), and FC 15 de Agosto (2025).
• Vihiga Queens and Aigles de la Médina were level 0-0 at half-time in their respective final group matches against Rivers Angels in 2021 and TP Mazembe in 2024, before conceding four goals after the break.