1985 WAFU Club Championship

1985 WAFU Club Championship
Tournament details
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Africa Sports (1st title)
Runners-up	Ifodje Atakpamé
Tournament statistics
Matches played	21
Goals scored	72 (3.43 per match)
	← 1984 1986 →

The 1985 WAFU Club Championship was the ninth football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won by Africa Sports in two-legged final victory against Ifodje Atakpamé.

Not a single club from Niger participated.

Preliminary round

The matches took place from March 30 to April 14.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
East End Lions	4–0	Hawks	1–2	6–1
Shooting Stars FC	5–0	AS CaÏmans	1–1	6–0
Casa Sports	1–3	UDI Bissau	0–0	1–3
Africa Sports	5–0	Saint Joseph Warriors	5–0	0–3
Ifodje Atakpamé	3–3	Gangan	2–0	1–3
Eleven Wise	2–3	Real Bamako	2–0	0–3
New Nigeria Bank	0–0	bye	—	—

Quarterfinals

The matches took place from May 26 to June 9.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
UDI Bissau	2–4	Africa Sports	2–0	4–0
Ifodje Atakpamé	3–3 (4–2 p)	East End Lions	2–1	2–1
Eleven Wise	3–3 (1–3 p)	Shooting Stars FC	3–0	3–0
New Nigeria Bank	0–0	bye	—	—

Semifinals

The matches took place from June 30 to July 14.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Shooting Stars FC (abd.)	2–0	Africa Sports	2–0	w/o
New Nigeria Bank (forfeited)	8–1	Ifodje Atakpamé	4–0	4–1

Finals

The matches took place on October 20 and November 10.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Africa Sports	5–0	Ifodje Atakpamé	3–0	0–2

Winners

1985 WAFU Club Championship
Africa Sports First title

Notes

↑ The score is not known, probably Real Bamako was disqualified
↑ The match was abandoned at the 20th minute, Shooting Starts abandoned the tournament and Africa Sports qualified into the finals
↑ Due to its incidents between African Sports, New Nigeria Bank chose to play the finals on neutral ground, it was refused and the club declared its matches forfeited and Ifodje Atakpamé of Togo qualified into the finals

References

↑ "1985 WAFU Cup at RSSSF".

External links

Full results of the 1985 WAFU Club Championship at RSSSF

[2] The score is not known, probably Real Bamako was disqualified

[3] The match was abandoned at the 20th minute, Shooting Starts abandoned the tournament and Africa Sports qualified into the finals

[4] Due to its incidents between African Sports, New Nigeria Bank chose to play the finals on neutral ground, it was refused and the club declared its matches forfeited and Ifodje Atakpamé of Togo qualified into the finals

[1] "1985 WAFU Cup at RSSSF".