2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup group stage explained

Tourney Name:	CAF Confederation Cup group stage
Year:	2022–23
Matches:	48
Goals:	122
Prevseason:	2021–22
Nextseason:	2023–24

The 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup group stage began on 12 February and ended on 2 April 2023. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022, 11:00 GMT (13:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[1] The 16 winners of the playoff 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 next to every team). Each group contained one team from each of Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, and Pot 4, and each team was allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.

Pot	width=25%	Pot 1	width=75%	Pot 2
Teams	valign=top		valign=top	Motema Pembe Young Africans Diables Noirs Saint-Éloi Lupopo Future Al Akhdar Real Bamako ASFAR Rivers United Marumo Gallants ASKO Kara Union Monastirienne

Format

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.

Tiebreakers

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

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Away goals scored in all group matches;
Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of each matchday was as follows.

Matchday	Dates	Matches
Matchday 1	12 February 2023	Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2	19 February 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3	26 February 2023	Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4	8 March 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5	19 March 2023	Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6	2 April 2023	Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

Times were local.

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

CAFonline.com

Notes and References

Web site: 24 November 2022. New date confirmed for TotalEnergies CAF Interclubs group stage draw. CAFOnline.com.