Samun tikitin shiga matakin rukuni na TotalEnergies CAF Champions League yana daga cikin manyan nasarorin da suka fi wahala a cikin ƙwallon ƙafa na kulob a Afrika — kuma ƙididdiga daga kakar wasanni biyar da suka gabata sun nuna wannan gaskiyar a sarari.

Zagayen farko na gasa yana farawa wannan karshen mako, tare da kafaffen wasannin farko tsakanin ranar 04 da 06 Satumba, sannan wasannin dawowa suna biye mako guda bayan haka. Kulob-kulob dole ne su tsira daga zagaye na biyu kafin ƙungiyoyi 16 su sami wurinsu a matakin rukuni.

Manyan kulob huɗu

Daga bugu na 2021/22 zuwa 2025/26, wurare 80 a matakin rukuni an raba su tsakanin kulob 38 daban-daban. Daga cikinsu, kulob huɗu kacal suka bayyana a kowane matakin rukuni: Al Ahly (Masar), Al Hilal (Sudan), Espérance de Tunis (Tunisia), da masu taken yanzu Mamelodi Sundowns (Afirka ta Kudu).

Tare, wadannan kulob huɗu sun mamaye wurare 20 daga cikin 80 da ake da su — wato daidai kashi 25 bisa dari na jimlar — wanda ke nuna irin ikon da kulob-kulob mafi girma da dadewa a Afirka ke da shi a gasar.

Al Ahly ba za ta kasance a matakin rukuni wannan kakar ba, duk da haka, tun da an tura su don buga TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup. Al Hilal, Espérance de Tunis, da Mamelodi Sundowns kowanensu yana da damar ci gaba da rikonsu da ba a tabuka ba.

Masu hamayya na kullum

CR Belouizdad (Aljeriya) da Petro de Luanda (Angola) suna kusa da manyan huɗu, kowanne ya kai matakin rukuni sau huɗu a cikin kakar biyar. Belouizdad ya cancanta a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe huɗu a jere kafin ya rasa a 2025/26, yayin da Petro de Luanda ya tabbatar da kansa a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin kulob-kulob da suka fi dawwama a wasannin nahiyar daga Afirka ta Kudu.

Gaskiyar cewa kulob shida kacal ne suka cimma bayyana sau huɗu ko fiye a wannan lokacin tana nuna yadda dama ta iya canza cikin sauri a wannan matakin.

Masu cancanta sau uku da sababbin ƙarfi

Kulob 11 a jimla sun kai matakin rukuni aƙalla sau uku a cikin kakar biyar. Pyramids FC (Masar) da Young Africans (Tanzania) dukkansu sun cancanta a kowane ɗayan kakar uku na kwanan nan, suna mai da kansu daga mahalarta na lokaci-lokaci zuwa mambobi na dindindin a matakin elite. Simba SC (Tanzania) sun kuma cancanta sau uku, wanda ke ƙara nuna ƙarfin Tanzania a gasar kulob ta CAF.

Manyan kulob na Maroko Raja Casablanca da Wydad AC kowanensu ya bayyana a bugai uku daga biyar, yana ƙarfafa zurfi da ƙarfin Arewacin Afirka a duk faɗin nahiyar.

Baƙin da ke zuwa lokaci-lokaci

Kulob goma ƙari sun cancanta sau biyu, wata ƙungiya da ta haɗu da manyan kulob na nahiyar da masu ƙirƙira. TP Mazembe (DR Congo) da Zamalek (Masar) — dukkansu masu tarihi mai yawa a ƙwallon ƙafa na Afirka — suna zaune tare da AS FAR (Maroko) da MC Alger (Aljeriya), waɗanda kwanan nan suka tilasta kansu kuma zuwa cikin hoton matakin rukuni.

Jwaneng Galaxy sun wakilci Botswana sau biyu a matakin rukuni, yayin da Sagrada Esperança suka yi haka don Angola. Al Merrikh (Sudan), Horoya (Guinea), JS Kabylie (Aljeriya), da Étoile du Sahel (Tunisia) suna kammala wata ƙungiya da ke nuna yawan rarraba yanki na kulob-kulob masu iya yin gogayya a wannan matakin.

Nasarorin lokaci ɗaya

Kulob 17 — kusan kashi 45 bisa dari na dukkan kulob da suka bayyana a matakin rukuni — sun cancanta sau ɗaya kawai a cikin kakar biyar. Ga masu yawa, wannan bayyanar ta ɗaya na wakiltar wani muhimmin tarihi. AmaZulu (Afirka ta Kudu) sun samu gurbi a 2021/22; FC Nouadhibou (Mauritania) sun rubuta tarihi ga ƙwallon kulob na Mauritanian a 2023/24; Medeama sun wakilci Ghana a wannan kakar; kuma Stade d'Abidjan ya mayar da Côte d'Ivoire zuwa matakin rukuni a 2024/25.

Ko Orlando Pirates (Afirka ta Kudu), ɗaya daga cikin kulob mafi suna a nahiyar kuma tsohon zakara na Afirka, suna cikin wannan rukunin — tunatar da cewa tarihi shi kaɗai ba zai iya tabbatar da daidaito ba.

Sauran masu cancanta sau ɗaya sune: AS Maniema Union, AS Vita Club, Saint-Éloi Lupopo (dukkansu DR Congo), ASEC Mimosas (Côte d'Ivoire), Coton Sport (Kamaru), Djoliba AC, Stade Malien (dukkansu Mali), ES Sétif (Aljeriya), Power Dynamos (Zambia), RS Berkane (Maroko), Rivers United (Najeriya), da Vipers SC (Uganda).

Matsayin ƙasashe

Tare da mafi ƙarancin kulob biyu daga kowace ƙasa da aka yarda da su zuwa matakin rukuni a kakar ɗaya, mafi girman adadi na ka'ida a cikin kakar biyar shine wurare goma ga kowace ƙasa. Masar ita ce ƙasa ɗaya tilo da ta cika dukan goman — Al Ahly da bayyanar sau biyar, Pyramids FC sau uku, da Zamalek sau biyu. Aljeriya da Maroko kowannensu ya cike gurabe tara, yayin da Afirka ta Kudu, Sudan, da Tunisia suka samu bakwai kowacce.

Aljeriya, Maroko, da DR Congo suna jagorantar wajen bambancin kulob, kowanne ya aika kulob huɗu daban-daban zuwa matakin rukuni a cikin kakar biyar. Masar da Afirka ta Kudu kowannensu ya yi haka da kulob uku.