| Tourney Name: | CAF Champions League |
| Year: | 2023–24 |
| Other Titles: | 2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League |
| Num Teams: | 54 |
| Associations: | 42 |
| Champion Other: | Al Ahly |
| Count: | 12 |
| Second Other: | Espérance de Tunis |
| Matches: | 62 |
| Goals: | 94 |
| Prevseason: | 2022–23 |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
The 2023–24 CAF Champions League (officially the 2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 60th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 28th edition under the current CAF Champions League title.
The winners automatically qualified for the 2024–25 CAF Champions League and earned the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2024 CAF Super Cup.[2] They also qualified for the brand new 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the expanded 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.
The qualifying rounds for the CAF Champions League may have been pushed back to August and September and the group stage pushed forward to start in November. No official explanation was given, though the press claims that the reason was the introduction of CAF's newest competition, the African Football League, which began on 20 October 2023.
All 54 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, 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 – although this level has never been reached.
For the 2023–24 CAF Champions League, the CAF used the 2019–2023 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 were 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 | 3 points | 2 points | |
| 3rd place in groups | 2 points | 1 point | |
| 4th place in groups | 1 point | 0.5 point |
The points were multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:
The following 54 teams from 42 associations entered the competition.Teams in:
Associations are shown according to their 2018–2023 CAF 5-year Ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying rounds | First round | 25 July 2023 | 18–20 August 2023 | 25–27 August 2023 |
| Second round | 15–17 September 2023 | 29 September – 1 October 2023 | ||
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 6 October 2023 | 24–25 November 2023 | |
| Matchday 2 | 1–2 December 2023 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 8–9 December 2023 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 19 December 2023 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 23–24 February 2024 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 1–2 March 2024 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 12 March 2024 | 29–30 March 2024 | 5–6 April 2024 |
| Semi-finals | 20 April 2024 | 26 April 2024 | ||
| Final | 18 May 2024 | 25 May 2024 | ||
See main article: 2023–24 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds.
See main article: 2023–24 CAF Champions League group stage.
See main article: 2023–24 CAF Champions League knockout stage.
See main article: 2024 CAF Champions League final.
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Sankara William Karamoko | ASEC Mimosas | 1 | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | 4 | ||||||||
| 2 | Abdelraouf Benguit | CR Belouizdad | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=6 | 3 | ||||||||
 Hussein El Shahat | Al Ahly | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Yan Sasse | Espérance de Tunis | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Pacôme Zouzoua | Young Africans | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 |