{"id":67099,"date":"2025-06-02T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67099"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T08:04:43","slug":"pyramids-fc-clinch-first-ever-caf-champions-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/02\/pyramids-fc-clinch-first-ever-caf-champions-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyramids FC Clinch First-Ever CAF Champions League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pyramids FC have written a new chapter in African football history, claiming their maiden CAF Champions League title with a dramatic 2-1 victory over South Africa\u2019s Mamelodi Sundowns in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian club sealed a 3-2 aggregate win in the second leg of the final played at the 30 June Air Defence Stadium, marking a milestone moment for the Cairo-based side.<\/p>\n<p>Fiston Mayele opened the scoring in the 23rd minute with his ninth goal of the tournament, before Ahmed Samy doubled the lead with a powerful header in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a late response from Iqraam Rayners in the 75th minute, Sundowns fell short of a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>With this triumph, Pyramids FC become the fourth Egyptian club, after Al Ahly, Zamalek, and Ismaily to lift Africa\u2019s most prestigious club football trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Their victory also extends Egypt\u2019s dominance in the competition, securing a third consecutive CAF Champions League title for the nation following Al Ahly\u2019s wins in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This landmark achievement solidifies Pyramids FC\u2019s place among the elite of African football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Pyramids FC have written a new chapter in African football history, claiming their maiden CAF Champions League title with a dramatic 2-1 victory over South Africa\u2019s Mamelodi Sundowns in Cairo. The Egyptian club sealed a 3-2 aggregate win in the second leg of the final played at the 30 June Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":67100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-67099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67101,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67099\/revisions\/67101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}