Rangers favoured to get to the group stage after CAF Champions League qualifying rounds draw

Nigerian league champions, Rangers international of Enugu are favoured to get to the group stage of the CAF Champions League after Thursday’s qualifying round draw in Cairo.

Nigerian clubs Enugu Rangers and Remo Stars had mixed luck when the draws for the 2025 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds were made in Cairo on Thursday.

The ‘Flying Antelopes’, as Rangers are called will face Zilimadjou from the Comoros in the first round and the Enugu based side, back in then competition for te first time since 2017 are backed to get through to the next round where they will face either Saint Louis of the Seychelles or Esperanca Sagrada of Angola in September.

Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu are also backed to win and qualify for the 16-club mini-league phase as that is where prize money kicks in with minimum prize money of $700,000 on offer
Remo Stars were also in the pot and the Ikenne-based club drew former winners of the competition, FAR Rabat of Morocco.

If Remo Stars somehow manage to scale the FAR hurdle, they will face a Libyan club yet to be named or vastly experienced African campaigners Al Merrikh of Sudan in the second round.

Enyimba of Aba are the last Nigerian winners of the Champions League in 2005.