2024–25 CAF Champions League
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The 2024–25 CAF Champions League, officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons,[1] is the 61st season of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the 29th under the CAF Champions League title.
| TotalEnergies CAF Champions League 2024–2025 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Dates | Qualification: 16 August – 22 September 2024 Competition proper: 26 November 2024 – 1 June 2025 |
| Teams | 59 (from 47 associations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 60 |
| Goals scored | 128 (2.13 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Three players (5 goals each) |
← 2023–24 2025–26 →
All statistics correct as of 25 April 2025.(Note: All statistics do not include qualifying play-offs) | |
The winners of this edition of the competition will automatically qualify for the group stage of its next edition, earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2025 CAF Super Cup, the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.[2]
Association team allocation
All 54 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to the CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition.[2] As a result, a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached.
For this season's edition, CAF used the 2019–2024 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs performance over the 5 years in the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for the points are as follows:[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 season as follows:
- 2023–24: × 5
- 2022–23: × 4
- 2021–22: × 3
- 2020–21: × 2
- 2019–20: × 1
Teams
Summarize
Perspective
The following 59 teams from 47 associations entered the competition.
- Bold received a bye to the second round.
- The other teams entered the first round.
Associations are shown according to their CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.
- Associations which did not enter a team
Notes
- ^ The Libyan Premier League was not finished by the CAF deadline for associations to submit teams participating in this season's CAF competitions. CAF approved a request made by the Libyan Football Federation to submit the names of participating teams in the competition following the end of the season by 22 July 2024, and as a result, Libyan teams were listed as Libya 1 and Libya 2 during the draw; as their identity was still unknown by the time of the draw.[6]
Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying rounds | First round | 11 July 2024[7] | 16–18 August 2024 | 23–25 August 2024 |
| Second round | 13–15 September 2024 | 20–22 September 2024 | ||
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 7 October 2024 | 26–27 November 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | 6–7 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 13–14 December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 3–4 January 2025 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 10–11 January 2025 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 17–18 January 2025 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 20 February 2025 | 1–2 April 2025 | 8–9 April 2025 |
| Semi-finals | 18–19 April 2025 | 25–26 April 2025 | ||
| Final | 24 May 2025 | 1 June 2025 | ||
Qualifying rounds
The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 11 July 2024, 12:00 GMT (15:00 local time, UTC+3), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.[8][9] In the qualifying rounds, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still tied, extra time was not played, and a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 13 & 14).
First round
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
El Merriekh Bentiu  | 2–5 |  Gor Mahia | 1–0 | 1–5 |
Arta Solar  | 4–5 |  Dekedaha | 0–2 | 4–3 |
SC Villa  | 2–3 |  CBE | 1–2 | 1–1 |
Vital'O  | 0–10 |  Young Africans | 0–4 | 0–6 |
| Azam | 1–2 |  APR | 1–0 | 0–2 |
JKU  | 1–9 |  Pyramids | 0–6 | 1–3 |
Mbabane Swallows  | 1–0 |  Ferroviário da Beira | 1–0 | 0–0 |
Ngezi Platinum  | 0–0 (3–4 p) |  AS Maniema Union | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Nyasa Big Bullets  | 2–3 |  Red Arrows | 2–1 | 0–2 |
African Stars  | 1–1 (5–6 p) |  Jwaneng Galaxy | 1–0 | 0–1 |
Disciples FC  | 0–4 |  Orlando Pirates | 0–0 | 0–4 |
US Zilimadjou  | 1–2 |  Enugu Rangers | 0–1 | 1–1 |
Saint Louis Suns United  | 0–4 |  Sagrada Esperança | 0–1 | 0–3 |
AS Douanes  | 1–1 (a) |  Coton FC | 0–0 | 1–1 |
AC Léopards  | 0–3 |  CR Belouizdad | 0–2 | 0–1 |
Victoria United  | 0–2 |  Samartex | 0–1 | 0–1 |
AS GNN  | 1–7 |  Raja CA | 1–2 | 0–5 |
AS PSI  | 0–3 |  US Monastir | 0–1 | 0–2 |
Watanga  | 0–4 | MC Alger | 0–2 | 0–2 |
Red Star de Bangui  | w/o[A] |  Djoliba | 0–0 | — |
Deportivo Mongomo  | 2–3 |  ASKO Kara | 2–2 | 0–1 |
Stade d'Abidjan  | 2–2 (5–4 p) |  Teungueth | 1–1 | 1–1 |
Milo  | 1–1 (a) |  FC Nouadhibou | 0–0 | 1–1 |
Bo Rangers  | 1–2 | San Pédro | 1–1 | 0–1 |
Al Ahly Benghazi  | 1–2 |  Al Hilal | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Al Nasr | 0–2 | Al Merrikh | 0–0 | 0–2 |
| Remo Stars | 2–3 | AS FAR | 2–1 | 0–2 |
Notes:
Second round
The 16 winners of the second round advanced to the group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gor Mahia | 0–6 | Al Ahly | 0–3 | 0–3 |
| Dekedaha | 1–12 | Espérance de Tunis | 1–4 | 0–8 |
| CBE | 0–7 | Young Africans | 0–1 | 0–6 |
| APR | 2–4 | Pyramids | 1–1 | 1–3 |
| Mbabane Swallows | 0–8 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 0–4 | 0–4 |
| AS Maniema Union | 2–1 | Petro de Luanda | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Red Arrows | 1–4 | TP Mazembe | 0–2 | 1–2 |
| Jwaneng Galaxy | 0–3 | Orlando Pirates | 0–2 | 0–1 |
| Enugu Rangers | 2–3 | Sagrada Esperança | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| AS Douanes | 1–1 (3–4 p) | CR Belouizdad | 1–0 | 0–1 |
| Samartex | 2–4 | Raja CA | 2–2 | 0–2 |
| US Monastir | 1–2 | MC Alger | 1–0 | 0–2 |
| Djoliba | 2–0 | ASKO Kara | 1–0 | 1–0 |
| Stade d'Abidjan | 3–2 | Milo | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| San Pédro | 2–3 | Al Hilal | 2–2 | 0–1 |
| Al Merrikh | 2–4 | AS FAR | 2–2 | 0–2 |
Group stage
Location of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage teams
The draw for the group stage was held on 7 October 2024, 11:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+3), in Cairo, Egypt.[10] 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 contained 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.
| Tiebreakers |
|---|
Group A
Source: CAF
Group B
Source: CAF
Group C
Source: CAF
Group D
Source: CAF
Notes:
Notes:
Knockout stage
Summarize
Perspective
The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
- In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.
- In the draws for the semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw.
| Group | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|
| A | Al Hilal |
MC Alger |
| B | AS FAR |
Mamelodi Sundowns |
| C | Orlando Pirates |
Al Ahly |
| D | Espérance de Tunis |
Pyramids |
Bracket
The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 20 February 2025, 18:00 AST (UTC+3) at the beIN Sports headquarters in Doha, Qatar.[11]
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||||||
| Mamelodi Sundowns
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Espérance de Tunis
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Mamelodi Sundowns (a)
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Al Ahly
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Al Ahly
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Al Hilal
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Mamelodi Sundowns
| |||||||||||||||||
| Pyramids
| |||||||||||||||||
| MC Alger
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Orlando Pirates
| 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Orlando Pirates
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Pyramids
| 0 | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Pyramids
| 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| AS FAR
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
first and second leg
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mamelodi Sundowns | 1–1 (a) | Al Ahly | 0–0 | 1–1 |
| Orlando Pirates | 2–3 | Pyramids | 0–0 | 2–3 |
first and second leg
Final
The first leg will be played on 24 May, and the second leg will be played on 1 June 2025.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mamelodi Sundowns | F | Pyramids | 24 May | 1 Jun |
Top goalscorers
As of 25 April 2025[update]
Team eliminated / inactive for this round.
| Rank | Player | Team | MD1 | MD2 | MD3 | MD4 | MD5 | MD6 | QF1 | QF2 | SF1 | SF2 | F1 | F2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fiston Mayele |
Pyramids |
1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||
| Ibrahim Adel |
Pyramids |
2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Emam Ashour |
Al Ahly |
1 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 4 | Relebohile Mofokeng |
Orlando Pirates |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Mohau Nkota |
Orlando Pirates |
2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Peter Shalulile |
Mamelodi Sundowns |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Hussein El Shahat |
Al Ahly |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
 Wessam Abou Ali |
Al Ahly |
3 | |||||||||||||
| Elias Mokwana |
Espérance de Tunis |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Achref Jabri |
Espérance de Tunis |
3 | |||||||||||||
| Aymen Mahious |
CR Belouizdad |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
See also
References
External links
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