2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage explained

Tourney Name:	CAF Confederation Cup group stage
Year:	2019–20
Matches:	48
Goals:	107
Prevseason:	2018–19
Nextseason:	2020–21

The 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage started on 1 December 2019 and ended on 2 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 Confederation Cup.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 12 November 2019, 12:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^{[3] [4]} The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off 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 Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group.

Pot	width=25%	Pot 1	width=25%	Pot 2	width=50%	Pot 3
Teams	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top	Paradou AC ESAE DC Motema Pembe Pyramids FC San Pédro Al-Nasr FC Nouadhibou Bidvest Wits

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 Confederation Cup group stage, matches are played on Sundays. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00, 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]

Matchday	Dates		Matches
	Original dates	Revised dates^[6]
Matchday 1	1 December 2019		Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2	8 December 2019		Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3	29 December 2019		Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4	16 February 2020	12 January 2020	Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5	23 February 2020	26 January 2020	Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6	8 March 2020	2 February 2020	Team 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

• Total CAF Confederation Cup, CAFonline.com
  • CAF Total Confederation Cup 2019/20

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interclubs competition calendar; seasons 2018/19, 2019/20 & 2020/21 . CAF.
2. Web site: CAF Confederation Cup regulations . . 26 July 2019.
3. Web site: Group Phase draw for Total CAF Confederation Cup 2019/20 set for 12 November . CAF . 10 November 2019.
4. Web site: Intriguing fixtures as Confederation Cup group stage draw completed. CAF. 12 November 2019.
5. Web site: Total CAF Confederation Cup: Group phase. CAF.
6. CAF_Online . 1198613244988014592 . 24 November 2019 . Schedule Changes.