Sunshine Stars, Nigeria’s last club in the CAF Champions League was beaten 4-3 on aggregate to six-time winners Al Ahly in the semi-finals of this year’s competition, and for playing the semi-final stage of the competition the Akure club will be given $665,000 (about N106 million).
Taking a peep into the CAF Champions League final, which will either go to Tunisia or Egypt as Esperance; who are the defending champions will be facing Al-Ahly the Egyptian team that pushed Nigeria’s hopeful Sunshine.
For the two finalists, the winner of the trophy will receive a cash prize of $1, 425,000, while the beaten finalist will go home with $950,000.
The cash prize of the Champions League is just a little short of the $1.5 million paid to the winners of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Zamalek of Egypt, who finished bottom of Group B, will receive $380,000, while it is believed that Etoile du Sahel of Tunisia, who was disqualified from the annual competition after crowd trouble in their group game against compatriots Esperance, will forfeit their own prize money.
Third-placed teams in their two mini-groups, Algeria’s Aso Chlef (Group A) and Berekum Chelsea of Ghana (Group B) are due $475,000.
