The 2006 CAF Confederation Cup was the third edition of the CAF Confederation Cup. It started with the preliminary round (home-and away ties) that was played in February and March 2006. Étoile Sahel of Tunisia beat FAR Rabat of Morocco in the final. The final was marred by a skirmish when FAR Rabat attacked the referee and his linesman after having a late goal ruled out.CAF to investigate Confederation Cup final incident, sports.filbalad.com, 4 December 2006
Pre Cup Events
Before the cup, Morocco and South Africa offered to host the cup. Due to the uncertainty of hosting the cup in African terrain where there were ongoing conflicts at the time they did not host the cup.
Qualifying rounds Preliminary round 1st legs played 17–19 February 2006 and 2nd legs played 3–5 March 2006.
1 ASC Entente and Bakau United FC withdrew. 2 The tie between Ferroviário da Beira and Élan Club was played over one leg only by mutual consent.
3 Moro United were drawn against the representatives of Zimbabwe, but the Zimbabwean FA were unable to send a team as their cup winners and league runners-up, Masvingo United, were suspended from CAF competition.
First round 1st legs played 17–19 March 2006 and 2nd legs played 31 March -2 April 2006.
1 TP Mazembe was disqualified for showing up late for the 1st leg due to transportation problems.
Second round 1st legs played 21–23 April 2006 and 2nd legs played 5–7 May 2006.
Play-off round The 8 winners of the round of 16 play the losers of the round of 16 of the Champions League for 8 places in the group stage. 1st legs played 14-July 16, 2006 and 2nd legs played 28-July 30, 2006.
Group stage
The Group Stage matches were played between August and October 2006.
Key to colours in group tablesGroup winners advance to the final
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage Final The 1st leg was played on November 18 and the 2nd leg on December 2.
Étoile du Sahel won on away goal after 1–1 on aggregate.
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 2006 CAF Confederation Cup are as follows:
RankNameTeamGoals1 Manucho Petro Atlético82 Abdessamad Rafik Olympique Khouribga73 Emeka Opara Étoile du Sahel64 Abdul-Hamid Bassiouny Haras El Hodoud5 Jawad Ouaddouch FAR Rabat56 Ahmed Abdel-Ghani Haras El Hodoud4 El Hadji Ibrahim Touré Renacimiento FC4 Samir Fellah Olympique Khouribga4
References
External links Official Site Confederation Cup 2006 - rsssf.com