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1996 African Cup Winners' Cup
Tournament details
Dates	February - 6 December 1996
Teams	37 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	El Mokawloon El Arab (3rd title)
Runners-up	AC Sodigraf
Tournament statistics
Matches played	59
Goals scored	159 (2.69 per match)
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The 1996 African Cup Winners' Cup football club tournament was won by El Mokawloon El Arab in two-legged final victory against AC Sodigraf. This was the twenty-third season that the tournament took place for the winners of each African country's domestic cup. Thirty-seven sides entered the competition. Teams from Mauritania were disqualified because their federation was in debt to CAF. Great Olympics, Posta and Zasmure all withdrew before the 1st leg of the first round while Chapungu withdrew after the 1st leg. Olympique Béja withdrew before 1st leg of the second round and finally, Pretoria City withdrew before the 1st leg of the quarterfinals.

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mogas 90 FC	dq¹	ASC Air Mauritanie	—	—
Rayon Sports	4–4 (5–4 p)	Ethiopian IC	3–1	1–3
Red Star	1–2	SS Saint-Louisienne	0–0	1–2
Notwane FC	4–0	Mhlambanyatsi Rovers	2–0	2–0
MP Tigers	3–3 (4–1 p)	Real Rovers	1–2	2–1

Notes: ¹ teams from Mauritania were disqualified because their federation was in debt to CAF.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ASKO Kara	3–5	Stade d'Abidjan	2–1	1–4
FUS Rabat	5–1	Mogas 90 FC	5–0	0–1
Canon Yaoundé	2–0	AS CotonTchad	1–0	1–0
Olympique Béja	8–1	ASF Bobo Dioulasso	6–0	2–1
AS Douanes	w/o	Great Olympics	—	—
CR Belouizdad	5–4	Horoya AC	5–2	0–2
ASA	3–5	Mbilinga FC	1–1	2–4
Étoile du Congo	4–4 (a)	Katsina United	2–3	2–1¹
Chapungu United	w/o	Simba SC	1–0	—
El Mokawloon	2–1	Rayon Sports	2–1	0–0
Pretoria City FC	8–1	SS Saint-Louisienne	5–0	3–1
Fire Brigade SC	1–2	Notwane FC	0–1	1–1
Vital'O FC	2–4	Costa do Sol	0–1	2–3
Rivatex FC	2–3	Al-Mourada SC	1–2	1–1
AC Sodigraf	w/o	Posta FC	—	—
MP Tigers	w/o	Zamsure FC	—	—

Notes: ¹ 2nd leg originally abandoned at 1-0 to Étoile du Congo.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Stade d'Abidjan	1–3	FUS Rabat	1–1	0–2
Canon Yaoundé	w/o	Olympique Béja	—	—
AS Douanes	0–2	CR Belouizdad	0–0	0–2
Mbilinga FC	3–3 (2–3 p)	Katsina United	3–0	0–3
Simba SC	3–3 (a)	El Mokawloon	3–1	0–2
Pretoria City FC	5–1	Notwane FC	2–1	3–0
Costa do Sol	7–3	Al-Mourada SC	3–0	4–3
AC Sodigraf	10–0	MP Tigers	7–0	3–0

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CR Belouizdad	w/o	Pretoria City FC	—	—
Canon Yaoundé	2–2 (a)	Costa do Sol	0–0	2–2
FUS Rabat	0–1	El Mokawloon	0–0	0–1
AC Sodigraf	2–0	Katsina United	2–0	0–0