Saturday, October 24, 2026 • Al-Merrikh plays at seven in the evening today, Saturday, a fateful match against Guinea's Horoya Conakry at Amahoro Stadium in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League, after completing its preparations under its coach Darko Novic, who worked on addressing the mistakes of the first leg, with all players ready except Ahmed Abdel Moneim, who is absent due to injury; the team goes into the match trailing by a single goal to nil from the first leg in Guinea, and needs to win by a two-goal margin to reach the group stage directly, while a win by a single clean goal would take it to a penalty shootout; the match will not be broadcast on television because of sudden technical and technological problems relating to the equipment of Amahoro Stadium, as confirmed by Sudanese and Guinean press follow-ups (Source: Al-Match Sports newspaper and Al-Safwa newspaper, October 24, 2026) • Al-Hilal hosts tomorrow, Sunday, October 25, its counterpart Sidama Buna of Ethiopia at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali, in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League, with the advantage of its 2-0 first-leg win; the Blue Wave goes into the match with an unbeaten record in the preliminary rounds extending across 15 matches in the previous three editions and three matches in the current edition, in which it kept clean sheets, while its captain Mohamed Abdel Rahman (Ghorbal) looks to equal Bakri Al-Madina's record of 19 goals as the all-time top scorer for Sudanese clubs in the competition, being one goal away after scoring in the first leg; the match is broadcast on the Blue Nile and Al-Balad channels and the club's platforms (Source: winwin website, October 24, 2026) • Sudan's under-15 national team began today, Saturday, its campaign in the Under-15 World Cup Festival held in the Azerbaijani capital, Baku, facing its Russian counterpart in a group that also includes Turkey, Afghanistan, Djibouti and Sierra Leone; the Young Falcons of Jediane delegation had arrived in Baku on the evening of Thursday, October 22, after a journey that lasted 11 hours, headed by Sudan Football Association board member Abdel Sater Mohamed Ali and under the technical leadership of Osman Maino; the Koora 94 website reported that the opening match ended in a heavy defeat for the team against Russia by twelve goals to nil, in a match played under the small-sided pitches system with eight players per team and two halves of twenty minutes (Source: Sudanese Koora newspaper and Koora 94 website, October 24, 2026)

— Sports Desk