Al Hilal vs Kenya Police

Al Hilal vs Kenya Police produced two Al Hilal wins in October 2025, which secured Al Hilal's place in the group stage. Al Hilal won 1-0 in Nairobi in October 2025 and 3-1 in Benghazi on 24 October, progressing 4-1 on aggregate from the second preliminary round.

For football and soccer followers across Africa, the score needs its surrounding story: Kenyan champions making their competition debut, a Sudanese club playing its home leg abroad, and a protest that left the outcome unchanged. The useful detail sits in the venues, scorers and competition rules, alongside the live fixture and result modules.

Who Won Al Hilal vs Kenya Police in the 2025 Tie?

Al Hilal won both competitive meetings in the October 2025 tie and advanced with a 4-1 aggregate score. The first match gave the Sudanese club a narrow advantage, while the return established the final margin. Al Hilal and Police contested the CAF Champions League's second preliminary round in October 2025, seeking admission to its group phase. Keeping that round beside the score matters: the clubs were contesting qualification over two legs, rather than collecting points in a group table.

The opening result was Kenya Police 0-1 Al Hilal at Ulinzi Sports Complex in Nairobi in October 2025. A single goal separated the teams, leaving Police an opportunity to change the tie in the return. Al Hilal then won their designated home match 3-1 at the Martyrs of Benina Stadium in Benghazi on 24 October. Adding each club's goals across those matches produces the aggregate, which explains why the return leg score and the overall result appear separately.

Read the historical record by competition and date before treating any headline total as the whole rivalry. The two victories describe the completed 2025 contest; the records module can accommodate later meetings without changing that history. For Kenyan readers, the significance was Police's attempt to turn a first domestic championship into a place among the continent's group stage clubs. For Al Hilal, the same matches were another qualifying assignment in a much longer continental story.

Who Are Al Hilal and Kenya Police FC?

Al Hilal are the Omdurman club from Sudan, founded on 13 February 1930, whose continental record includes runners up finishes in 1987 and 1992. Known as the Blue Wave, or Al-Mawj Al-Azraq, the club also reached the CAF Confederation Cup semi finals in 2010 and 2012. Their Omdurman home is known as the Blue Jewel; the Benghazi venue used in October 2025 should not be mistaken for that ground.

Kenya Police entered the 2025/26 CAF Champions League after winning their first FKF Premier League title in 2024/25. That distinction explains the excitement around their debut: the Kenyan champions were opening a new chapter in Africa's leading club competition. Their campaign included a 3-1 first leg victory over Mogadishu City at Nyayo National Stadium on 20 September 2025, before the Al Hilal tie ended their progress in the second preliminary round. Nyayo and Ulinzi therefore belong to different matches in the same campaign, rather than being interchangeable venue names.

Where Was Al Hilal's Home Leg Played in October 2025?

Al Hilal's designated home leg against Kenya Police took place in Benghazi, Libya, on 24 October 2025. The venue was the Martyrs of Benina Stadium, so the word home identifies Al Hilal's place in the tie rather than a match played in Omdurman. That distinction is particularly useful when a results service places the Sudanese club first without displaying the country. Open the venue field alongside the fixture, because the home team label alone does not establish where supporters or players travelled.

Al Hilal's wider football history during this period includes participation outside Sudan: they joined Mauritania's Super D1 for 2024/25 and won that competition. Their continental matches and their domestic league participation should nevertheless be read separately. A league host does not automatically become the venue for every CAF fixture, and the stadium attached to a particular match remains the relevant detail. For the Kenya Police return in October 2025, that detail is Benghazi, irrespective of where another Al Hilal fixture was staged.

The first leg also required careful attention to the venue announcement. Reporting on 16 October 2025 described uncertainty during Kenya's national mourning for former Prime Minister Raila Odinga; the match subsequently took place at Ulinzi Sports Complex. That history is a practical reminder for supporters across the region: an early venue report and the completed match record can describe different stages of the arrangements. When checking a future meeting, use the confirmed stadium and match status together before making viewing or travel plans.

What Happened to Kenya Police's Player Eligibility Protest?

Following the October 2025 tie, CAF rejected Kenya Police's complaint concerning three allegedly ineligible Al Hilal players, leaving the Sudanese club's victory unchanged. The distinction between an allegation and a finding matters here. Police raised an eligibility objection, but the CAF Disciplinary Committee did not overturn the outcome. The historical football record therefore remains a 1-0 Al Hilal victory in Nairobi, a 3-1 victory in Benghazi and qualification by a 4-1 aggregate score.

A report that a club has submitted a protest does not itself change a match result. Readers following the story through headlines should look for the decision as well as the original complaint, because those are separate developments. In this case, the reported rejection explains why the completed scores continued to stand. The decision upheld Al Hilal's qualification and the recorded aggregate score.

The complaint belongs in the account because it formed part of the tie's aftermath, but the match narrative still rests on what happened across the two legs. Police's historic debut and Al Hilal's progression both deserve clear treatment without turning an eligibility allegation into a judgement about either club. For anyone comparing older reports with the result module, the useful checkpoint is straightforward: the complaint was rejected, and the recorded aggregate was upheld.

Is Another Kenya Police vs Al Hilal Match Confirmed?

Check the fixture module for a confirmed Kenya Police vs Al Hilal meeting. The live fixture module is the place to establish whether another meeting has subsequently been scheduled. Look for a future date, competition, venue and confirmed match status together. A completed October 2025 fixture can remain visible in searches long after the final whistle, so the presence of both club names does not by itself announce a rematch.

For any confirmed Kenya Police and Al Hilal meeting, compare the kick off across WAT (Nigeria), EAT (Kenya and Uganda), SAST (South Africa) and GMT (Ghana). Those four clock readings let supporters follow the same fixture from Nairobi, Omdurman and their own viewing locations. Check the broadcast listing attached to that meeting for coverage in each country and the relevant CAF round. When checking for another meeting, use the results module to identify the completed October 2025 tie and the fixture module to verify a newly scheduled contest.

Who Scored in the Al Hilal vs Kenya Police Return Leg?

Sunday Adetunji scored twice, Erick Zakayo scored for Kenya Police, and Ahmed Salem added Al Hilal's stoppage time goal in Benghazi on 24 October 2025. Those contributions produced the 3-1 return leg result and completed the 4-1 aggregate outcome. Adetunji's double is the defining individual contribution in that match account, while Zakayo supplied Police's only goal across the tie. Salem's late finish belongs to the return leg score, rather than being an additional goal outside the aggregate calculation.

For Police supporters, Zakayo's goal preserves an individual moment within a campaign remembered for the club's first Champions League appearance. The broader achievement began with their 2024/25 Kenyan championship and continued onto a different continental stage. That is the useful African connection for readers beyond Kenya as well: a domestic title opened the route, but qualification required overcoming Al Hilal's continental experience. The result records how that particular contest ended without defining what a later Police campaign could achieve.

For Nigerian readers following African club football, Adetunji is the player name to carry from the Benghazi match into further reading. His two goals explain a substantial part of Al Hilal's winning return, rather than appearing as a name detached from the score. Keep individual match contributions separate from changing season totals in the player records. A historical double on 24 October 2025 stays true even as appearances, goals and club affiliations develop elsewhere in a player's career.

How Do the Two Legs, Aggregate and Venue Labels Work?

A two legged qualifying tie is decided by reading the paired matches together under the competition's rules. Each club has a designated home leg, and aggregate means adding its goals from both games. For this October 2025 contest, Al Hilal's opening goal combined with their three in Benghazi, while Police's return leg goal supplied their aggregate total. The result was qualification for Al Hilal, rather than a league table entry in which the clubs continued accumulating points against one another.

Away goals only become relevant when the applicable competition rules use them to separate an otherwise level aggregate score. They did not decide this tie, because Al Hilal finished ahead on total goals across the two matches. That is the clearest way to explain the outcome without making the venue switch seem like an extra scoring condition. Benghazi was the designated home setting for Al Hilal's return; Police's goal there still counted towards their aggregate in the ordinary way.

The order of the club names tells you which side was designated at home, while the venue field tells you the actual location. Kenya Police vs Al Hilal identifies the Nairobi leg in this historical pairing, and Al Hilal vs Kenya Police identifies the Benghazi return. Before reading a score as a forecast for another contest, check its date, round and completed status. Then open the individual match record for the scorers and stadium, or the fixture module for a confirmed future meeting and its African kick off times.