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Africa’s greatest club sides of all-time: Esperance 1994-98

Guest Feature | Lotfi Wada

Goal in collaboration with African Football HQ , are delighted to present the latest instalment of our series celebrating the greatest club sides in the history of the continent’s game.

Fourth place in our rankings are Esperance's magnificent generation of 1994-98, the first side to win an unprecedented Grand Slam.

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When Esperance entered the 1994 African Cup of Champions Clubs, they had recently been crowned Arab champions, had recruited Zambia hitman Kenneth Malitoli, and believed they were firmly on their way to the holiest grail in the continental game.