How Mamelodi Sundowns reached the 2026 TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup
South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns hosts Algeria’s USM Alger this Sunday, 8 November at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria as the TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup 2026 takes place.
The match will kick-off at 15h00 local time (13h00 GMT).
After emerging victorious in the 2025-26 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League, Mamelodi Sundowns hope to add a second TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup trophy to their cabinet, having won the annual competition in 2017, beating DR Congo giants TP Mazembe 1-0 back then.
Road to the title
Mamelodi Sundowns started their 2025-26 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League campaign from the 2nd Preliminary Round. They gave an early announcement of their intentions when they defeated Nigeria’s Remo Stars 7-1 on aggregate.
Tashreeq Matthews, Peter Shalulile, Miguel Reisinho, Arthur Sales and Katlego Ntsabeleng scored as “The Brazilians” had an away 5-1 victory in Abeokuta, before Shalulile and Nuno Santos found the net in Pretoria for Sundowns to reserve their group stage spot.
Mamelodi Sundowns were drawn in Group C besides Sudan’s Al Hilal, Algeria’s MC Alger and DR Congo’s Saint-Eloi Lupopo. They opened their account with a home 3-1 over the latest, thanks to Santos’s brace and Ivan Allende strike. They returned from Algiers with a goalless draw with MC Alger, before being held to a home 2-2 draw by Al Hilal, when Sales and Teboho Mokeoena scored.
Sundowns suffered their first defeat of the campaign when they lost 2-1 to Al Hilal in Kigali, with Sales scoring their goal at the day. That was followed by a 1-1 draw with Saint-Eloi in Lubumbashi, with Jayden Adams finding the net. This meant “The Brazilians” had to win their final group match at home against MC Alger to qualify, and they did thanks to Brayan Leon brace.
In the quarterfinals, Mamelodi Sundowns thought they finished the job at home when they defeated Mali’s Stade Malien 3-0, thanks to goals from Khuliso Mudao, Leon and Williams. But they had to deal with an early scare in Bamako when they finished the 1st half 2-0 down, but they managed to hold back and qualify winning 3-2 on aggregate.
Despite looking like a tricky semifinal, Sundowns returned from Tunis with an away 1-0 victory over Esperance, thanks to Leon strike. The Colombian repeated the same feat in Pretoria as Mamelodi Sundowns reached the final with a 2-0 aggregate win.
In the final, Aubrey Modiba scored what proved to be the game’s lone goal in Pretoria as Mamelodi Sundowns defeated Morocco’s AS FAR. In Rabat, the Moroccans equalized the aggregate result from the spot, but for Teboho Mokoena to score a first-half injury time equalizer that took Mamelodi Sundowns to their second continental crown, ten years after their first.
They will look now to add another TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup to their cabinet, which would also be their historical second.