2019–20 CAF Champions League group stage explained

Tourney Name:CAF Champions League group stage
Year:2019–20
Matches:48
Goals:102
Prevseason:2018–19
Nextseason:2020–21

The 2019–20 CAF Champions League group stage started on 29 November 2019 and ended on 1 February 2020.[1] A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2019–20 CAF Champions League.[2]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 9 October 2019, 20:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the Hilton Pyramids Golf in Cairo, Egypt.[3] The 16 teams, all winners of the first round of qualifying, were drawn into four groups of four.

The teams were seeded by their performances in the CAF competitions for the previous five seasons (CAF 5-year ranking points shown in parentheses). Each group contained one team from each of Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, and Pot 4, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group.[4]

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Format

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21):[2]

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  6. Goal difference in all group matches;
  7. Goals scored in all group matches;
  8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
  9. Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of each matchday is as follows. Effective from the Champions League group stage, matches are played on Fridays and Saturdays. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00 (Saturdays only), 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.[5]

MatchdayDatesMatches
Original datesRevised dates[6]
Matchday 129–30 November 2019Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 26–7 December 2019Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 327–28 December 2019Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 414–15 February 202010–11 January 2020Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 521–22 February 202024–25 January 2020Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 66–7 March 202031 January – 1 February 2020Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

Times are GMT as listed by CAF (local times, even if not different, are in parentheses).

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interclubs competition calendar; seasons 2018/19, 2019/20 & 2020/21 . CAF.
  2. Web site: CAF Champions League regulations . CAF .
  3. Web site: Group stage competitors for Total CAF Champions League are revealed. CAF. 9 October 2019.
  4. Web site: Draw Procedure of the CL 2019_20 GM. CAF.
  5. Web site: Total CAF Champions League: Group phase. CAF.
  6. CAF_Online . 1198613244988014592 . 24 November 2019 . Schedule Changes.

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