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The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced the names of the refereeing teams that will officiate the two-legged matches of the African Champions League final between the Royal Moroccan Army and South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns.
The CAF Referee Committee has assigned the first leg, scheduled for Friday 17 May at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, to a Congolese refereeing team led by international referee Jean-Jacques Nadella, who returns to the continental front after being named absent from the World Cup.
Nadella was the hero of Congo’s Africa Cup of Nations final crisis that saw Senegal exit.
He will be assisted by his compatriots Julian Bongili Ngela as the first assistant, Mwanya Gradel Mbelzi as the second assistant and Jesiah Misia Nkonkwo will be the fourth official.
In the video technology room (VAR), Sudanese referee Ahmed Yasser Abdel Aziz was appointed as the main official, assisted by Libyan Ahmed Al-Shalmani and Zambian Diana Chikocha, in a team that includes diverse experience from the north, center and south of the continent.
As for the second leg, which will take place on Friday, May 24, at the Prince Moulay Abdullah Stadium in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, it will be refereed by Somali referee Omar Kartan, assisted by Djiboutian Ahmed Liban Abdel Razzaq and Kenyan Stephan Onyango, and the fourth referee will be Kenyan Peter Kamako.
The second match will be handled by video technology by Daniel Laria of Ghana with the help of referees Fina Laetizia from Eswatini and Ali Sado Berhamo of Nigeria.
