| Tourney Name: | CAF Confederation Cup |
| Year: | 2022–23 |
| Other Titles: | 2022–23 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup |
| Dates: | Qualifying: Competition proper: |
| Num Teams: | Competition proper: 16 Total: 50+16 |
| Associations: | 39 |
| Champion Other: | USM Alger |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: | Young Africans |
| Matches: | 62 |
| Goals: | 147 |
| Prevseason: | 2021–22 |
| Nextseason: | 2023–24 |
The 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2022–23 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 20th edition of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners' Cup.
USM Alger, the winners, qualified automatically for the 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup, and also earned the right to play against the winners of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League in the 2023 CAF Super Cup.[2]
RS Berkane were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the playoff round by Union Monastirienne.
All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition.[2] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament (plus 16 teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which enter the play-off round) – although this level has never been reached.
For the 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF uses the 2017–2022 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs’ performance over those 5 years in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for points are the following:[3] [4] [5]
| 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 (from 2017) | 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 50 teams from 39 associations entered 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.
| width=180 | Association | width=70 | Rank | width=200 | Team | width=600 | Qualifying method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | ZESCO United | 2021–22 Zambian Super League runners-up | |||||
| 14 | PWD Bamenda | 2021–22 Cameroon Cup winners | |||||
| 16 | Gagnoa | 2021–22 Côte d'Ivoire Ligue 1 runners-up | |||||
| 17 | Diables Noirs | 2021–22 Coupe du Congo winners | |||||
| 18 | Security Systems | 2021–22 Botswana FA Cup runners-up | |||||
| 21 | Mbabane Highlanders | 2021–22 Eswatini Premier League runners-up | |||||
| 21 | Real Bamako | 2021–22 Malian Cup runners-up | |||||
| 23 | Douanes de Ouagadougou | 2021–22 Coupe du Faso winners | |||||
| 24 | Douanes de Niamey | 2021–22 Niger Cup winners | |||||
| 24 | Hearts of Oak | 2021–22 Ghanaian FA Cup winners | |||||
| 26 | Kigali | 2021–22 Rwandan Cup winners | |||||
| 26 | Bul | 2021–22 Uganda Cup winners | |||||
| 28 | Nouakchott Kings | 2021–22 Coupe du Président de la République winners | |||||
| 28 | Buffles du Borgou | 2021–22 Benin Premier League runners-up | |||||
| 30 | Ferroviário da Beira | 2021 Moçambola runners-up | |||||
| 30 | ASC Kara | 2021–22 Togolese Championnat National runners-up | |||||
| — | Bumamuru | 2021–22 Burundian Cup winners | |||||
| — | AS Santé d'Abéché | 2021–22 Chad Premier League runners-up | |||||
| — | ASAS Télécom | 2021–22 Djibouti Cup runners-up | |||||
| — | Inter de Litoral Academy | 2021–22 Equatoguinean Cup Región Continental winners | |||||
| — | Fasil Kenema | 2021–22 Ethiopian Premier League runners-up | |||||
| — | LISCR | 2021–22 Liberia Cup winners | |||||
| — | Elgeco Plus | 2021–22 Madagascar Cup winners | |||||
| — | St Michel United | 2021–22 Seychelles Premier League runners-up | |||||
| — | Kallon | 2021–22 Sierra Leone Premier League fifth place | |||||
| — | Al Hilal Wau | 2021–22 South Sudan National Cup winners | |||||
| — | Kipanga | 2021–22 Zanzibari Cup winners |
Notes:
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | First round | 9 August 2022 | 9–11 September 2022 | 16–18 September 2022 |
| Second round | 7–9 October 2022 | 14–16 October 2022 | ||
| Playoff round | rowspan= | 18 October 2022 | 2 November 2022 | 9 November 2022 |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 12 December 2022 | 12 February 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 19 February 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 26 February 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 8 March 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 19 March 2023 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 2 April 2023 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 5 April 2023 | 23 April 2023 | 30 April 2023 |
| Semi-finals | 10 May 2023 | 17 May 2023 | ||
| Final | 28 May 2023 | 3 June 2023 | ||
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds.
See main article: 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup 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 Confederation Cup knockout stage.
See main article: 2023 CAF Confederation Cup final.
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Fiston Mayele | Young Africans | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| 2 | Ranga Chivaviro | Marumo Gallants | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | 6 | ||||||
| 3 |  Paul Acquah | Rivers United | 1 | 3 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | 4 | |||||||||
 Aubin Kramo Kouamé | ASEC Mimosas | 1 | 1 | 2 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | ||||||||||
| Khaled Bousseliou | USM Alger | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 6 |  Boubacar Traoré | Union Monastirienne | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | 3 | ||||||||
 Mostafa Fathi | Pyramids | 1 | 2 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | |||||||||||
| Malanga Horso Mwaku | Saint-Éloi Lupopo | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=6 | ||||||||||
| Zineddine Belaïd | USM Alger | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Diney | ASFAR | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | ||||||||||
| Kennedy Musonda | Young Africans | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||