Rangers, Rivers United Confederation Cup Foes Emerge

BY KUNLE SOLAJA.

Downgraded from the elite CAF Champions League, the Nigerian duo of Enugu Rangers and Rivers United will on Tuesday know the teams they will be facing in the playoff for the second tier CAF Confederation Cup.
The draws for the second round of 16 of the Confederation Cup will hold at the October 6 City headquarters of CAF on Tuesday.
The draw will pit the qualified teams from the 1/16th final of the Total CAF Confederation Cup 2017 against the losers from the 1/16th final of the Total CAF Champions League 2017 for a place at the group stage of the Total CAF Confederation Cup 2017.
The first leg matches will take place on the weekend of 7-9 April 2017 and the return leg on the weekend of 14-16 April 2017. The winners will go into the group stage of the competition.

Qualified teams from CC 1/16th final
MC Alger, JS Kabylie (Algeria), Recreativo do Libolo (Angola), ASEC Mimosas (Cote d’Ivoire), El Masry, Smouha (Egypt), MAS Fes, Ittihad Tangier (Morocco), Rayon Sports (Rwanda), Hilal El Obeid (Sudan), Mbabane Swallows (Swaziland), Platinum Stars, Supersport United (South Africa), Club Africain, CS Sfaxien (Tunisia) and Zesco United (Zambia)

Losers from CL 1/16th final
RC Kadiogo (Burkina Faso), AC Leopards (Congo), AS Tanda (Cote d’Ivoire), TP Mazembe (DR Congo), Mounana (Gabon), Gambia Ports Authority (Gambia), Horoya (Guinea), CNaPS (Madagascar), AS Port Louis (Mauritius), FUS Rabat (Morocco), Barrack Young Controllers (Liberia), Rivers United, Rangers (Nigeria), Bidvest (South Africa), Young Africans (Tanzania) and KCCA (Uganda).