CAF Champions League 2025-2026: Weakened ES Tunis faces Stade Malien | OneFootball

Weakened ES Tunis faces Stade Malien in the CAF Champions League 2025-2026

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For their group stage opener in the 2025-2026 CAF Champions League, Espérance Sportive de Tunis must cope with several absences.

The Blood and Gold will face Stade Malien this Saturday, November 22, 2025, at the Hamadi Agrebi Stadium in Rades, with kickoff set for 16:00 GMT, in the opening matchday of Group D.

For this fixture, Maher Kanzari will have to pick his starting eleven without Brazilian Yan Sasse, Mauritanian Ibrahima Keita, and Algerians Mohamed Amine Tougai and Youcef Belaili.

Key absences, but they won't stop the reigning Tunisian champions from pushing for a crucial opening victory in a group that also features Simba SC and Petro Luanda.

It should be noted that security authorities have allocated a quota of 34,200 supporters to the Beb Souika club for this inaugural group stage clash.