It determined that year's club champion of association football in Africa.

Zamalek from Egypt won that final, and became for the fourth time CAF club champion.

2 ASC Sonalec were disqualified for late payment of the entry fee.

1 RC Bafoussam withdrew after 1st leg, and Fantastique FC advanced to Second Round.

The top scorers from the 1996 African Cup of Champions Clubs are as follows: