2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup group stage explained

Tourney Name:CAF Confederation Cup group stage
Year:2024–25
Matches:8
Goals:18
Prevseason:2023–24
Nextseason:2025–26
Updated:27 November 2024

The 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup group stage began on 27 November 2024 and will end on 19 January 2025. 16 teams are competing in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 7 October 2024, 10:00 GMT (13:00 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 Pot 1 and one from Pot 2, with two groups including one team from Pot 3 and one from Pot 4, and the remaining two groups featuring two teams from Pot 4. Teams were allocated to positions in their respective groups according to their pot.

Pot 1
Team
Zamalek48
RS Berkane42
Simba39
USM Alger36
Pot 2
Team
ASEC Mimosas30
Stade Malien10
Al Masry8
CS Sfaxien7
Team!
Enyimba6
ASC Jaraaf4

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 128 November 2024Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 28 December 2024Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 315 December 2024Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 45 January 2025Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 512 January 2025Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 619 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

External links

Notes and References

  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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