| Tourney Name: | CAF Confederation Cup |
| Year: | 2019–20 |
| Other Titles: | 2019–20 Total CAF Confederation Cup |
| Size: | 275 |
| Dates: | Qualifying: 9 August – 3 November 2019 Competition proper: |
| Num Teams: | Competition proper: 16 Total: 53+16 |
| Associations: | 44 |
| Champion Other: |  RS Berkane |
| Count: | 1 |
| Second Other: |  Pyramids |
| Matches: | 59 |
| Goals: | 133 |
| Top Scorer: | Karim El Berkaoui (8 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2018–19 |
| Nextseason: | 2020–21 |
The 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2019–20 Total CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 17th edition of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners' Cup.
This season is the first to follow an August–to-May schedule, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017.[2] [3] However, the COVID-19 pandemic caused the semi-finals and final of the competition to be postponed until October 2020. Moreover, for the first time, the final was played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by CAF,[4] and was played at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.[5]
The winners of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup earned the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 CAF Champions League in the 2020–21 CAF Super Cup.[6] Zamalek were the title holders, but as they qualified for the 2019–20 CAF Champions League and reached the group stage, they were not able to defend their title.
All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition.[6] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament (plus 16 teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which enter the play-off round) – although this level has never been reached.
For the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF uses the 2015–2019 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 are the following:[7] [8] [9]
| 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 (from 2017) | 3 points | 2 points | |
| 3rd place in groups | 2 points | 1 point | |
| 4th place in groups | 1 point | 0.5 point |
The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:
This was announced by the CAF on 4 June 2019, as using the previous scheme, it would be based on results from 2014 to 2018. The only change for the top 12 associations is that Tanzania is included while Ivory Coast is excluded.[10] [11]
The following 53 teams from 42 associations entered the competition.
Associations are shown according to their 2015–2019 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score indicated.
| width=250 | Association | width=200 | Team | width=450 | Qualifying method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FC San Pédro | 2019 Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire winners | ||||
| Bandari | 2019 FKF President's Cup winners | ||||
| Étoile du Congo | 2018–19 Congo Ligue 1 runners-up | ||||
| Proline | 2019 Uganda Cup winners | ||||
| Al-Ittihad | 2018 Libyan Cup winners | ||||
| Ashanti Gold | 2019 GFA Normalization Committee Special Competition Tier 2 winners | ||||
| AS Kigali | 2019 Rwandan Cup winners | ||||
| Triangle United | 2018 Cup of Zimbabwe winners | ||||
| Young Buffaloes | 2019 Eswatini Cup winners | ||||
| Fasil Kenema | 2019 Ethiopian Cup winners | ||||
| Jwaneng Galaxy | 2018–19 Mascom Top 8 Cup winners | ||||
| Maranatha | 2018–19 Togolese Championnat National runners-up | ||||
| Stade Renard de Melong | 2019 Cameroonian Cup winners | ||||
| Djoliba | 2018 Malian Cup runners-up | ||||
| Salitas | 2018–19 Burkinabé Premier League runners-up | ||||
| AS Pélican | 2019 Gabon Championnat National D1 runners-up | ||||
| ESAE | 2019 Benin Cup winners | ||||
| Rukinzo | 2019 Burundian Cup runners-up | ||||
| AS CotonTchad | 2019 Chad Premier League runners-up | ||||
| Arta/Solar7 | 2019 Djibouti Cup winners | ||||
| Akonangui | 2019 Equatoguinean Cup winners | ||||
| LISCR | 2019 Liberian FA Cup winners | ||||
| CNaPS Sport | 2019 Coupe de Madagascar runners-up | ||||
| Masters Security | 2018 Malawi Carlsberg Cup winners | ||||
| ASC Snim | 2019 Coupe du Président de la République winners | ||||
| Bolton City | 2019 Mauritian Cup winners | ||||
| USGN | 2019 Niger Cup runners-up | ||||
| Saint Louis Suns United | 2018–19 Seychelles FA Cup winners | ||||
| Mogadishu City | 2018 Somalia Cup winners | ||||
| Amarat United | 2019 South Sudan National Cup winners | ||||
| Malindi | 2019 Zanzibari Cup winners |
A further 16 teams eliminated from the 2019–20 CAF Champions League enter the play-off round.
 Al-Nasr | Horoya | ASC Kara |  Enyimba | |
 Gor Mahia | Cano Sport |  Génération Foot |  Asante Kotoko | |
 KCCA | Côte d'Or | FC Nouadhibou | Elect-Sport | |
| Young Africans |  Songo | Green Eagles | Fosa Juniors |
The schedule of the competition is as follows.[12]
On 24 November 2019, CAF made a change to all fixtures dates starting from the group stage matchday 4 to the final, due to rescheduling of the 2020 African Nations Championship from January/February to April. The quarter-finals draw date was also changed.[13]
Following the quarter-finals, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, the semi-finals, originally scheduled for 3 May (first legs) and 10 May (second legs), were postponed indefinitely on 11 April 2020,[14] and the final, originally scheduled for 24 May, was also postponed on 18 April 2020.[15] On 30 June 2020, the CAF Executive Committee proposed that the competition would resume with a Final Four format played as single matches in Morocco.[16] On 3 August 2020, the CAF announced that the competition would resume with the semi-finals played on 22 September, and the final played on 27 September.[17] On 10 September 2020, the CAF announced that at the request of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation, the semi-finals were rescheduled to 19–20 October, and the final to 25 October.[18]
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | Preliminary round | 21 July 2019 | 9–11 August 2019 | 23–25 August 2019 |
| First round | 13–15 September 2019 | 27–29 September 2019 | ||
| Play-off round | 9 October 2019 | 27 October 2019 | 3 November 2019 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 12 November 2019 | 1 December 2019 | |
| Matchday 2 | 8 December 2019 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 29 December 2019 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 12 January 2020 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 26 January 2020 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 2 February 2020 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 5 February 2020 | 1 March 2020 | 8 March 2020 |
| Semi-finals | 19–20 October 2020 | |||
| Final | 25 October 2020 | |||
See main article: 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds.
See main article: 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage. In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.
See main article: 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage.
See main article: 2020 CAF Confederation Cup Final.
| Rank | Player | Team |    | Total[19] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karim El Berkaoui | Hassania Agadir | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | bgcolor=silver | 8 | ||||||
| 2 | Stanley Dimgba | Enyimba | 3 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | 4 | ||||||||
| Mohamed Farouk | Pyramids | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 4 | Alaedine Ajaray | RS Berkane | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Austin Amutu | Al-Masry | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | ||||||||||
| John Antwi | Pyramids | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mohamed Aziz | RS Berkane | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Malick Cissé | Hassania Agadir | 1 | 2 | bgcolor=silver | ||||||||||
| Boniface Haba | Horoya | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver | |||||||||
| Rodgers Kola | Zanaco | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | ||||||||||
 Vinny Kombe | DC Motema Pembe | 2 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=4 | ||||||||||
| Hamdi Laachir | RS Berkane | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Victor Mbaoma | Enyimba | 1 | 2 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | ||||||||||
| Augustine Oladapo | Enyimba | 1 | 1 | 1 | bgcolor=silver colspan=2 | |||||||||
 Eric Traoré | Pyramids | 2 | 1 |