MATCH STATS: Lekié Football Filles face FC Masar in Group A at CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026

Cameroon’s Lekié Football Filles and Egyptian hosts FC Masar meet for the first time at the CAF Women’s Champions League finals when they contest their final Group A match at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia on Saturday, 7 November (14h00 local time / 12h00 GMT).

Masar are unbeaten after a 0-0 draw with Mamelodi Sundowns and a 3-0 victory over FUS Rabat, and will qualify for the semi-finals with a draw. Tournament debutants Lekié have one point, having drawn 0-0 with FUS before losing 2-1 to Sundowns, and must win to retain a chance of qualifying.

MATCH FACTS

•  This will be the first meeting between Lekié Football Filles and FC Masar at the CAF Women’s Champions League finals.

•  It will be the fifth finals match between Egyptian clubs and teams from Central Africa. Egyptian sides have won one and lost three of the previous four.

•  Masar have faced Central African opposition twice: they beat Equatorial Guinea’s FC 15 de Agosto 5-0 in the 2025 group stage and lost 3-1 to DR Congo’s TP Mazembe in the 2025 third-place play-off.

•  The other two Egypt–Central Africa meetings involved Wadi Degla, who lost 3-0 to Equatorial Guinea’s Malabo Kings in 2021 and 1-0 to TP Mazembe in 2022.

•  This will be the first CAF Women’s Champions League finals match between clubs from Cameroon and Egypt.

LEKIÉ FOOTBALL FILLES – KEY STATISTICS

•  Lekié are seeking their first victory at the finals.

•  They drew 0-0 with FUS Rabat on their debut before losing 2-1 to Mamelodi Sundowns.

•  Tim Shalom Makoma’s 84th-minute equaliser against Sundowns was Lekié’s first goal at the finals.

•  Cameroon international Ajara Nchout registered her first finals goal involvement with the assist for Makoma’s goal.

•  Yvana Yakana Makana scored an own goal in the 88th minute against Sundowns, the first by a Lekié player at the finals.

•  Lekié attempted 306 passes against Sundowns, including 81 long passes.

•  They managed three shots on target against Sundowns, all in the second half.

•  Lekié faced 19 shots against Sundowns, including seven on target, their highest totals in either category at the finals.

•  Goalkeeper Calixte Chantal made five saves against Sundowns, her most in a finals match.

•  Prisca Mache made a match-high 12 clearances against Sundowns and added five interceptions, the joint-most in the game.

•  Brenda Ebika Tabe won five aerial duels against Sundowns, more than any other player in the match.

FC MASAR – KEY STATISTICS

•  FC Masar defeated FUS Rabat 3-0 in their second Group A match.

•  The victory was Masar’s first against Moroccan opposition at the finals, having drawn one and lost one of their two previous meetings with AS FAR.

•  Masar are unbeaten in their last two matches against Moroccan clubs (W1 D1) and have kept clean sheets in both.

•  They have avoided defeat in their opening two group matches at all three appearances: a win and a draw in 2024, and a draw followed by a win in both 2025 and 2026.

•  Masar have kept clean sheets in their first two group games at each of the 2024, 2025 and 2026 editions.

•  They have won their second group game twice, beating FC 15 de Agosto 5-0 in 2025 and FUS Rabat 3-0 in 2026. Their other second group match ended 0-0 against Edo Queens in 2024.

•  Masar have never conceded a goal in their second group match at the finals.

•  Victory against Lekié would give Masar successive group-stage wins for the first time.

•  They have never kept clean sheets in all three group matches at the same edition.

•  At both the 2024 and 2025 editions, Masar conceded in their final group game after recording clean sheets in their opening two.

•  Masar are unbeaten in their two previous final group matches, having beaten CBE 2-1 in 2024 and drawn 1-1 with USFAS Bamako in 2025.

•  A draw against Lekié will be enough for Masar to reach the semi-finals for the third consecutive edition.

•  Reaching the semi-finals would make Masar the third club to progress beyond the group stage in each of their first three appearances, after AS FAR and Mamelodi Sundowns.

•  Masar are unbeaten in all eight group matches they have contested at the finals (W4 D4). They are the second club, after Sundowns, to avoid defeat in their first eight group games; Sundowns were unbeaten in their first nine.

•  Malawi international Jentrix Shikangwa scored twice against FUS, becoming the second Masar player to net more than once in a finals match, after Yasmin Mohamed against FC 15 de Agosto in 2025.

•  Senegalese forward Aissatou Chris Ba scored once and provided an assist against FUS.

•  With Shikangwa and Ba both scoring against FUS, Masar have now had players of six nationalities score at the finals: Burundian, Egyptian, Malawian, Nigerian, Senegalese and Tanzanian.

•  Goalkeeper Habiba Sabry made four saves against FUS and kept her seventh clean sheet in her 12th appearance at the finals.

•  Sabry made four saves in each of Masar’s opening two matches in 2026, against Sundowns and FUS.

•  Sabry has never kept three consecutive clean sheets within one edition. She did, however, keep three across editions: in the 2024 third-place play-off and in Masar’s opening two games in 2025.

•  Shikangwa had four shots on target against FUS, more than any other player, and scored twice.

•  Phiona Nabulime made a match-high eight clearances against FUS.

•  Comfort Folorunsho contested 22 duels against FUS and won 11. She was successful in all four tackles she attempted.