| Tourney Name: | CAF Champions League |
| Year: | 2022–23 |
| Other Titles: | 2022–23 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League |
| Dates: | Qualification: 10 September – 20 October 2022 |
| Num Teams: | Main Competition: 16 Total: 58 |
| Associations: | 46 |
| Champion Other: | Al Ahly |
| Count: | 11 |
| Second Other: | Wydad AC |
| Matches: | 62 |
| Goals: | 136 |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 CAF Champions League (officially the 2022–23 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship purposes)[1] was the 59th season of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the 27th under the current CAF Champions League title.
Unlike the last three seasons, the final of this edition was played in a two-legged format as per the decision of CAF at the executive committee meeting on July 3 at Rabat, arising from a formal complaint made by Al Ahly to CAF over the choice of Stade Mohammed V in Casablanca as the venue for the 2022 final: despite the intention that the final be played at a neutral venue, the 2022 tournament culminated with the stadium being the home venue of their opponent, Wydad AC.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
The winners, Al Ahly, automatically qualified for the 2023–24 CAF Champions League and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2023 CAF Super Cup along with the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia.[8]
Wydad AC were the defending champions, but they lost the final against Al Ahly.
A total of 46 out of the 56 CAF member associations entered this season's CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in this season.[8] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached.
For this season of the tournament, CAF used the 2018–2022 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs’ performance over those 5 years in CAF club competitions. The criteria for points are as follows:[9] [10] [11]
| CAF Champions League | CAF Confederation Cup | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Winners | 6 points | 5 points | |
| Runners-up | 5 points | 4 points | |
| Losing semi-finalists | 4 points | 3 points | |
| Losing quarter-finalists | 3 points | 2 points | |
| 3rd place in groups | 2 points | 1 point | |
| 4th place in groups | 1 point | 0.5 point |
The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:
The following 58 teams from 46 associations participated in this edition of the competition.
Associations are shown according to their 2018–2022 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.
Notes:
The official competition schedule was released on 24 June 2022 on their website to prepare the qualified teams for the upcoming season.[12]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying rounds | First round | 9 August 2022 | 9–11 September 2022 | 16–18 September 2022 |
| Second round | 7–9 October 2022 | 14–16 October 2022 | ||
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 12 December 2022 | 10–11 February 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 17–18 February 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 24–25 February 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 7–11 March 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 17–18 March 2023 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 31 March – 1 April 2023 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 5 April 2023 | 21–22 April 2023 | 28–29 April 2023 |
| Semi-finals | 12–13 May 2023 | 19–20 May 2023 | ||
| Final | 4 June 2023 | 11 June 2023 | ||
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage. In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Champions League knockout stage.
See main article: 2023 CAF Champions League final.
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Peter Shalulile | Mamelodi Sundowns | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | 6 | |||||||
 Mahmoud Kahraba | Al Ahly | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 3 |  Hamza Khabba | Raja CA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | 5 | |||||||
| Percy Tau | Al Ahly | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 5 |  Makabi Lilepo | Al Hilal | 1 | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=6 | 4 | ||||||||
| Clatous Chama | Simba | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | |||||||||||
| Jean Othos | Simba | 2 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | ||||||||||
| Cassius Mailula | Mamelodi Sundowns | 1 | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | ||||||||||
 Bouly Sambou | Wydad AC | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Hussein El Shahat | Al Ahly | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||