{"id":63994,"date":"2026-06-20T19:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63994"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:50:43","slug":"algerian-coach-rahou-leads-mazembe-to-congo-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=63994","title":{"rendered":"Algerian Tactician Souleymane Rahou Guides TP Mazembe to Congolese League Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian coach Souleymane Rahou has led Tout Puissant Mazembe (TP Mazembe) to clinch the 31st edition of the Linafoot Ligue 1 championship, the top-tier football league in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ravens secured their 21st national title after finishing at the top of the &quot;playoffs&quot; stage. Their victory was cemented with a 2-0 win against Celeste on Saturday at the Kamalondo Stadium in the final round of the competition.<\/p>\n<h2>Algerian coach Souleymane Rahou wins Congolese league<\/h2>\n<p>Goals were scored by Fwadi Bongiwe and goalkeeper Marck Mfutila (via penalty). With this win, TP Mazembe concluded the season with 30 points, earning a spot in the next CAF Champions League. They were closely followed by Vita Club, who secured second place with 29 points, also qualifying for the continental competition.<\/p>\n<p>Third-placed Maniema Union (23 points) will participate in the CAF Confederation Cup, alongside the future winner of the Congo Cup. Rahou, a former Algerian international player, took over as head coach of TP Mazembe in January, succeeding Senegalese coach Lamine Mamadou Ndiaye. The 51-year-old Algerian tactician, who signed a contract until the end of the season, previously served as an assistant coach for the Congolese club during the 2021-2022 season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related topics:<\/strong> Souleymane Rahou, TP Mazembe, Congolese League, Algerian coach, CAF Champions League, African football<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algerian coach Souleymane Rahou has guided TP Mazembe to victory in the DR Congo&#8217;s Linafoot Ligue 1, securing their 21st national title and a spot in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}