The 2023–24 CAF Champions League group stage began on 24 November 2023 and ended on 2 March 2024. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2023–24 CAF Champions League.
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2023–24 CAF Champions League group stageDates | 24 November 2023 – 2 March 2024 |
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Matches played | 48 |
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Goals scored | 82 (1.71 per match) |
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The draw for the group stage was held on 6 October 2023, 13:00 GMT (15:00 local time, UTC+2), in Johannesburg, South Africa. The 16 winners of the second round of qualifying rounds were drawn into four groups of four.[1]
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.
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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.
The schedule of each matchday was as follows.
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Matchday 1 |
24–25 November 2023 |
Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3 |
Matchday 2 |
1–2 December 2023 |
Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2 |
Matchday 3 |
8–9 December 2023 |
Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2 |
Matchday 4 |
19 December 2023 |
Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1 |
Matchday 5 |
23–24 February 2024 |
Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2 |
Matchday 6 |
1–2 March 2024 |
Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4 |
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All times are local.
Group A
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Ranked on head-to-head points: FC Nouadhibou 4, Pyramids 1.
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Group B
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Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Simba +1, Wydad AC –1.
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Group C
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Group D
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Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Young Africans +1, CR Belouizdad –1.
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The CR Belouizdad v Al Ahly match, originally scheduled to be played on 19 December 2023, was rescheduled to 16 February 2024 due to Al Ahly's participation in the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia between 12 and 22 December 2023.