{"id":23494,"date":"2026-02-09T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-kaizer-chiefs-close-to-caf-confederation-cup-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:17","slug":"sas-kaizer-chiefs-close-to-caf-confederation-cup-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-kaizer-chiefs-close-to-caf-confederation-cup-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Kaizer Chiefs close to CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) Kaizer Chiefs are on the verge of the CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinals after beating Egyptian team Al Masry 2-1 at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Limpopo province.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Flavio Da Silva scored for Chiefs from a first-half penalty. Despite a strong fight from Al Masry, Chiefs held on to win. The victory puts the Johannesburg-based team at the top of Group D. If they avoid losing to Zamalek in their final group match next weekend, they will move through to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Group C, Stellenbosch FC\u2019s campaign ended after they lost 3-0 to Congolese club Otoho d\u2019Oyo at Stade Alphonse Massemba-D\u00e9bat in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. Gavin Hunt\u2019s team is now five points behind second place and will play Tanzania\u2019s Singida Black Stars in their last group game next Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23495,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23494","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kaizer Chiefs are on the verge of the CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinals after beating Egyptian team Al Masry","published_date":"2026-02-09 10:30:07","news_description":"Kaizer Chiefs are on the verge of the CAF Confederation Cup quarterfinals after beating Egyptian team Al Masry","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26442,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23494\/revisions\/26442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}