Kaizer Chiefs will host ZESCO United in their fourth game in Group D of the 2025/26 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, on Sunday 1 February, with kickoff at 15h00.

Chiefs were 1-0 winners in Ndola on Sunday when the teams met with Pule Mmodi scoring in the 2^nd minute to hand Chiefs a 1-0 win on Match-Day 3.

This is the fourth time the sides are meeting. ZESCO have two wins to Chiefs single victory. All three previous games have produced a winner.

Victory over ZESCO on Sunday was Chiefs’ first win in CAF Competition against Zambian opponents, with three losses and a draw previously.

Chiefs and ZESCO are meeting for the third time in CAF Competition. ZESCO won both matches in the 2018/19 CAF Confederation Cup play-off round, defeating Chiefs 5-2 on aggregate.

ZESCO won the first leg 3-1 in Ndola, with goals from Lazarous Kambola and a brace, including a converted penalty, from Jesses Were. Khama Billiat scored for Chiefs. The second-leg saw ZESCO win 2-1, Teddy Akumu and Were scoring for the visitors, while Billiat again scored for Chiefs.

Chiefs are the only team to have kept a clean-sheet in meetings between the sides, and have also scored in all three of their meetings against ZESCO. Prior to Chiefs’ win on Sunday, both teams had scored in their previous two meetings.

Chiefs are hosting Zambian opponents for the third time in CAF Competition. In addition to their 2018/19 loss to ZESCO, Amakhosi lost a CAF Cup game 2-0 to Nchanga Rangers in 2000.

Victory over ZESCO on Sunday was Chiefs’ first win in Group D, while ZESCO have lost all three of their group games.

Overall, Chiefs’ record against Zambian teams reads P5 W1 D1 L3.

Amakhosi are playing a CAF game at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban for the first time since hosting Raja Casablanca at the venue in a CAF Champions League, first round, first-leg match in 2015, which they lost 1-0 and 3-0 on aggregate.

Moses Mabhida Stadium is the fourth stadium that Chiefs are using for to host a game in this seasons CAF Confederation Cup. They met Kabuscorp in the first qualifying round second-leg at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, winning 1-0 and triumphing in the resultant penalty shoot-out. Then, they defeated SC Simba 3-1 at Dobsonville Stadium in Soweto in the second qualifying round, second-leg, and hosted Zamalek in the group stages at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane in a game that ended 1-1.

Chiefs and ZESCO have common links, with Lazarous Kambole and Kenyan International, Teddy Akumu, having played for both teams.

Head to head: 

Kaizer Chiefs:

Chiefs come into this game having won 1-0 away against Marumo Gallants in midweek.

They are undefeated in their last 10 home games in CAF Competitions,. In this run Amakhosi have won five games and drawn five games.

They only conceded one goal in their last 10 home games in CAF Competitions ,which was in their 1-1 draw at home against Zamalek in the current CAF Confederation Cup group stage on Match-Day 2.

They have kept nine clean-sheets in their last 10 home games in the CAF Confederation Cup.

Chiefs’ win over ZESCO on Match-Day 3 was their first away win in the current group stages, and Chiefs first ever away win in the CAF group stage of the Champions League or Confederation Cup (D3 L2).

A win in this match will see Chiefs win successive group games in CAF competition for the first time.

Victory for Chiefs will see them complete a group stage double over a team in CAF Competition for the first time.

In the CAF Confederation Cup this season Chiefs won both their home qualifying round games against Kabuscorp (1-0) and AS Simba (3-1) respectively, and have drawn 1-1 with Zamalek in their only home group game to date.

Chiefs are presently on a three-game winning streak in all competitions. They won successive league games against Golden Arrows and Marumo Gallants respectively and, in between, defeated ZESCO in the CAF Confederation Cup, all by the score line of 1-0

Overall, Chiefs are on a six-game unbeaten run in all competitions, with three draws followed by three wins.

Chiefs have kept clean-sheets in their last four games in all competitions, and have kept 15 in total this season, in 23 games.

Brandon Petersen has been in goal in 14 of the 15 games in which Chiefs have kept a clean-sheet this season, Fiacre Ntwari has kept the other one.

Chiefs’ loss against Al Masry on Match-Day 1 of the group stages is Amakhosi’s only loss in their last 16 games in all competitions.

Chiefs have scored in all three of their group games in the CAF Confederation Cup this season and have scored in their last four games in the competition.

Including the qualifying rounds, Chiefs have scored in all four of their home games in the CAF Confederation Cup this season.

In their seven CAF Confederation Cup games this season Chiefs have kept three clean-sheets.

Across their three group games, Chiefs have used 25 players, with five players, Petersen, Ignacio Miguel, Zitha Kwinika, Pule Mmodi and Dillan Solomons having started all three of their group games.

ZESCO United:

They are looking for their first points of the current CAF Confederation Cup, having lost two games at home - to Chiefs and Al Masry - and away to Zamalek.

All three of their games in Group D have been single goal losses; first, 1-0 away to Zamalek; then back-to back defeats at home, 3-2 to Al Masry and 1-0 to Chiefs.

They have not been in action since facing Chiefs in Ndola last Sunday.

They have had 18 shots on target in the group stages. No team over three group games has had more shots on target than them.

During Chiefs’ win on Sunday, ZESCO’s Zachariah Chilongoshi and Amine Hiver won 12 duels each, the most of any players in the game. Hiver was involved in 19 duels and Chilongoshi, 16.

Hiver had the most shots on goal in the match, a total of three with one on target, while Kabaso Chongo completed the most passes, 49.