MATCH STATS: Mamelodi Sundowns face FUS Rabat in Group A at CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026
Two-time champions Mamelodi Sundowns and Moroccan debutants FUS Rabat meet in their final Group A match at the CAF Women’s Champions League Egypt 2026 at the Suez Canal Stadium in Ismailia on Saturday, 7 November (14h00 local time / 12h00 GMT).
Sundowns drew 0-0 with hosts FC Masar before beating Lekié Football Filles 2-1, while FUS opened with a 0-0 draw against Lekié before losing 3-0 to Masar. Sundowns are unbeaten with four points; FUS have one point and must win to retain a chance of reaching the semi-finals.
MATCH FACTS
• This will be the first meeting between Mamelodi Sundowns and FUS Rabat at the CAF Women’s Champions League finals.
• FUS will be the third Moroccan club Sundowns have faced at the finals, after AS FAR and SC Casablanca. Sundowns will consequently have met all three Moroccan clubs to have appeared at the competition.
• Nigeria is the only other country to have provided three different opponents for Sundowns at the finals: Rivers Angels (2021), Bayelsa Queens (2022) and Edo Queens (2024). Sundowns won two of those matches and lost one.
• Sundowns have faced Moroccan opposition five times at the finals, recording three wins, one draw and one defeat.
• Three of those five meetings came in 2023; the other two were in 2021 and 2022.
• Sundowns have met AS FAR three times: a 0-0 group-stage draw in 2021, a 4-0 defeat in the 2022 final and a 1-0 victory in the 2023 semi-finals.
• Their other two games against Moroccan clubs were both against SC Casablanca in 2023: a 1-0 group-stage victory and a 3-0 win in the final.
• No previous finals match between Sundowns and a Moroccan club has featured goals by both teams.
• Sundowns have kept four clean sheets in five games against Moroccan sides, including in their last three such matches.
• Sundowns went unbeaten in their first nine matches at the finals (W7 D2) before losing 4-0 to AS FAR in the 2022 final, their heaviest defeat at the competition.
• Sundowns have won their last three matches against Moroccan sides, all in 2023: once against AS FAR and twice against SC Casablanca.
• This will be Sundowns’ third group-stage match against Moroccan opposition. They drew 0-0 with AS FAR in 2021 and beat SC Casablanca 1-0 in 2023.
• Sundowns have yet to concede a goal in a group-stage match against a Moroccan club.
MAMELODI SUNDOWNS – KEY STATISTICS
• Sundowns drew their opening match 0-0 with FC Masar before defeating Lekié Football Filles 2-1 in their second Group A game.
• They have avoided defeat in their opening two group matches for the fourth time, following 2021, 2022 and 2023, when they won both their opening fixtures.
• Avoiding defeat against FUS would see Sundowns complete an unbeaten group stage for the fourth time. Their only group-stage defeats came in 2024; they went unbeaten in 2021, 2022 and 2023.
• Victory would give Sundowns at least two group-stage wins for the fourth time. They won twice and drew once in 2021, and won all three group games in both 2022 and 2023.
• Sundowns won their final group match in 2022 and 2023, having drawn it in 2021 and lost it in 2024.
• They drew 0-0 with AS FAR in their final 2021 group game, beat TP Mazembe 4-0 in 2022 and defeated Athlético d’Abidjan 3-0 in 2023.
• Their only Matchday 3 defeat was a 2-1 loss to Edo Queens in 2024. Sundowns led through Melinda Kgadiete before conceding twice in second-half stoppage time.
• The Edo Queens defeat in 2024 is the only finals match Sundowns have lost after scoring first.
• Their victory over Lekié was their 14th win in 20 matches at the finals (W14 D3 L3).
• Lekié became the 13th different opponent Sundowns have defeated at the finals.
• Sundowns have won 10 group-stage matches at the finals, drawing two and losing two. Only AS FAR had recorded more group-stage victories before the third round of 2026 fixtures.
• Refilwe Tholakele, the leading scorer at the 2023 edition, netted her sixth finals goal against Lekié. Her previous five came in 2023.
• Sundowns have won all four finals matches in which Tholakele has scored.
• Four of Tholakele’s six finals goals have come in the second half. Her goal against Lekié was only her second before half-time, the other coming in the 21st minute of the 2023 final against SC Casablanca.
• Tholakele is one goal behind Sundowns’ leading scorer at the finals, Melinda Kgadiete, who has seven.
• Sundowns completed 224 passes against Lekié.
• Ronnel Donnelly attempted seven shots against Lekié, including four of Sundowns’ seven efforts on target. No player attempted more shots in the game.
• Donnelly also provided the assist for Tholakele’s opening goal against Lekié.
FUS RABAT – KEY STATISTICS
• FUS are winless after two matches, having drawn 0-0 with Lekié Football Filles before losing 3-0 to FC Masar.
• They are the second Moroccan debutants to go winless in their first two finals matches. SC Casablanca drew and lost their opening two games in 2023.
• FUS are the first Moroccan club not to score in either of their opening two matches at the finals.
• No Moroccan club has previously failed to score in all three group-stage games at a single edition.
• Defeat against Sundowns would make FUS the first Moroccan side to lose two group matches at the same edition.
• If FUS fail to progress, they will become the first Moroccan debutants to exit in the group stage. AS FAR finished fourth in 2021, while SC Casablanca were runners-up in 2023.
• FUS’ 3-0 defeat to Masar equalled the heaviest defeat by a Moroccan side at the finals; SC Casablanca lost 3-0 to Sundowns in the 2023 final.
• Despite losing to Masar, FUS attempted more passes (415 to 281) and completed more (331 to 177).
• Salma Bouguerch completed 54 of 67 passes against Masar, an accuracy rate of approximately 81%.
• Bouguerch won 13 duels against Masar, more than any other player.
• Assala Gharrou attempted a match-high six shots against Masar, but none was on target.