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The first opposition of the representatives of Ghana has been revealed in the continental competitions interclubes 2020-21
Asante Kotoko of the Ghana Premier League (GPL) will travel to Mauritania to face FC Nouadhibou in their first round of the 2020-21 Caf Champions League campaign.
The preliminary round draw for the elite continental interclub championship was held in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Monday.
Kotoko’s outward journey is scheduled for the weekend of November 27-29, a week before the return leg in Ghana.
The winners of two games will face the final winners of the clash between Al Hilal Club of Sudan and the Ugandan team Vipers in December and January.
Nouadhibou is the Mauritanian Ligue 1 2019-20 champion and it is the eighth time he has won the national league.
Ashanti Gold, the only other Ghanaian club in Africa in the 2020-21 season, have faced Salitas FC of Burkina Faso in the preliminary round of the Caf Confederation Cup.
The two-legged winners will meet with El Amal from Sudan or KVZ FC from Zanzibar in the next round of the competition.
Salitas, the 2018-19 Burkinabe Premier League runner-up, got the go-ahead to represent his country in the Confederation Cup due to the premature completion of the Burkina Faso Cup whose winners should have received the ticket to the continental championship.
Due to the premature termination of the 2019-20 Ghana Premier League (GPL) season due to the coronavirus disease outbreak, Ghana was also unable to decide its representatives for the 2020-21 Caf competitions on the field.
At a meeting of the Executive Council of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in June, it was decided that Kotoko will fly the Ghanaian flag in the Champions League, while Ashanti Gold will represent the country in the Caf Confederation Cup.
Kotoko and AshGold were chosen based on their status as representatives of Ghana for the continental competitions last season after winning the 2019 GFA Standards Committee’s Level 1 and Level 2 Special Competition titles, respectively.
However, Ghana’s performance in Africa last season was disappointing, as Kotoko was eliminated from the Champions League in the first round by Tunisian club Etoile Sahel, while AshGold was eliminated from the Confederation Cup in the first round by RS Berkane from Morocco.
