Sunday, October 18, 2026 • Al-Hilal put one foot in the group stage of the CAF Champions League with a valuable two-goals-to-nil win over its host Sidama Buna of Ethiopia this afternoon at Dire Dawa Stadium, in the first leg of the second preliminary round; the first goal came in the 11th minute through an own goal by one of Sidama's defenders, and captain Mohamed Abdel Rahman added the second goal in stoppage time, with the return leg to be played on Sunday, October 25, in the Rwandan capital, Kigali (Sources: Al-Muhaqqiq, Butoulat and Saqr Al-Jidian, October 18, 2026) • Al-Merrikh plays at six in the evening today, Sudan time, against its host Horoya Conakry of Guinea at the September 28 Stadium in the Guinean capital, in the first leg of the same round, seeking a positive result before the return leg, in the absence of Tabanja and Morlay, and with Nicolas recovered and securing his place in the lineup, amid high heat and high humidity in Conakry, and CIS TV broadcasts the match live (Source: Al-Match newspaper and Al-Muhaqqiq, October 18, 2026) • Minister of Youth and Sports Professor Ahmed Adam arrived in Cairo to participate at the head of Sudan's delegation in the Fifth Arab Conference on Sports and Law, organized by the Arab Organization for Administrative Development in cooperation with the Egyptian Ministry of Youth and Sports from October 19 to 21 under the title "The Future of Sports Arbitration in Light of Developments in FIFA Regulations and European Court Jurisprudence" (Source: Nabd Al-Sudan, October 18, 2026)
— Sports Desk
