2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage explained

Tourney Name:CAF Champions League group stage
Year:2024–25
Matches:8
Goals:23
Prevseason:2023–24
Nextseason:2025–26
Updated:26 November 2024

The 2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage began on 26 November 2024 and will end on 18 January 2025. 16 teams are competing in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 7 October 2024, 11:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+3), in Cairo, Egypt.[1] The 16 winners of the second round of qualifying rounds 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 contains one team from each of Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, and Pot 4, and each team were allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.

Pot 1
Team
Al Ahly87
Espérance de Tunis61
Mamelodi Sundowns54
TP Mazembe38
Pot 2
Team
CR Belouizdad37
Raja CA35
Young Africans31
Pyramids29
Pot 3
Team
Al Hilal25
Orlando Pirates16
Sagrada Esperança8
AS FAR8
Pot 4
Team
MC Alger6
Djoliba1
AS Maniema Union—
Stade d'Abidjan—

Format

In the group stage, each group is played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The 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):

  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 is still tied, all head-to-head criteria above is 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.

MatchdayDatesMatches
Matchday 126 November 2024Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 26–7 December 2024Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 313–14 December 2024Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 43–4 January 2025Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 510–11 January 2025Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 617–18 January 2025Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

All times are 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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See also

Notes

  1. Web site: CAF announces TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup Group Stage Draw Date . Confederation of African Football . 22 September 2023 . en.

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