2024–25 CAF Champions League
61st season of the CAF Champions League
| TotalEnergies CAF Champions League 2024–2025 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Dates | Qualifying: 18 August – September 2024 Competition proper: October 2024 – May 2025 |
| Teams | 59 (from 47 associations) |
← 2023–24 2025–26 → (Note: All statistics do not include qualifying play-offs) | |
International football competition
The 2024–25 CAF Champions League (officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons)[1] will be 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.
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 and the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental 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 will use 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 are 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
The following 59 teams from 48 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 | TBA 2024 | October 2024 | |
| Matchday 2 | November 2024 | |||
| Matchday 3 | December 2024 | |||
| Matchday 4 | January 2025 | |||
| Matchday 5 | February 2025 | |||
| Matchday 6 | February 2025 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | TBA 2025 | March 2025 | |
| Semi-finals | March 2025 | |||
| Final | May 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]
In the qualifying rounds, each tie will be played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score will be tied after the second leg, the away goals rule will be applied, and if still tied, extra time will not be played, and a penalty shoot-out will be used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 13 & 14).
First round
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Al Merreikh Bentiu  | FR1 |  Gor Mahia | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Arta Solar  | FR2 |  Dekedaha | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
SC Villa  | FR3 |  Commercial Bank of Ethiopia | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Vital'O  | FR4 |  Young Africans | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
| Azam | FR5 |  APR | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
JKU  | FR6 |  Pyramids | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Mbabane Swallows  | FR7 |  Ferroviário da Beira | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Ngezi Platinum  | FR8 |  AS Maniema Union | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Nyasa Big Bullets  | FR9 |  Red Arrows | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
African Stars  | FR10 |  Jwaneng Galaxy | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Disciples FC  | FR11 |  Orlando Pirates | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
US Zilimadjou  | FR12 |  Enugu Rangers | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Saint Louis Suns United  | FR13 |  Sagrada Esperança | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
AS Douanes  | FR14 |  Coton FC | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
AC Léopards  | FR15 |  CR Belouizdad | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Victoria United  | FR16 |  Samartex | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
AS GNN  | FR17 |  Raja CA | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
AS PSI  | FR18 |  US Monastir | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Watanga  | FR19 | MC Alger | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Red Star de Bangui  | FR20 |  Djoliba | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Deportivo Mongomo  | FR21 |  ASKO Kara | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Stade d'Abidjan  | FR22 |  Teungueth | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Milo  | FR23 |  FC Nouadhibou | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Bo Rangers  | FR24 | San Pédro | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Libya 2  | FR25 |  Al Hilal | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
| Libya 1 | FR26 | Al Merrikh | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
| Remo Stars | FR27 | AS FAR | 16–18 Aug | 23–25 Aug |
Second round
The 16 winners of the second round will advance to the group stage.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR1 winner | SR1 | Al Ahly | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR2 winner | SR2 | Espérance de Tunis | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR3 winner | SR3 | FR4 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR5 winner | SR4 | FR6 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR7 winner | SR5 | Mamelodi Sundowns | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR8 winner | SR6 | Petro de Luanda | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR9 winner | SR7 | TP Mazembe | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR10 winner | SR8 | FR11 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR12 winner | SR9 | FR13 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR14 winner | SR10 | FR15 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR16 winner | SR11 | FR17 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR18 winner | SR12 | FR19 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR20 winner | SR13 | FR21 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR22 winner | SR14 | FR23 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR24 winner | SR15 | FR25 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
| FR26 winner | SR16 | FR27 winner | 13–15 Sep | 20–22 Sep |
See also
References
- ^ "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". TotalEnergies. 21 July 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ a b "CAF Champions League regulations" (PDF). CAFOnline.com. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
- ^ "16 Clubs for Group Phase of CC and CL effective 2017". CAFOnline.com. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 20 May 2016.
- ^ "New adopted format for Club Competitions". CAFOnline.com. 30 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
- ^ "CAF disowns club ranking published by some websites". CAFOnline.com. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
- ^ "في الجول يكشف سبب عدم تواجد أسماء لفرق ليبية في قرعة دوري أبطال إفريقيا والكونفدرالية" [FilGoal reveals why Libyan teams were unnamed in CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup draw]. FilGoal (in Arabic). 11 July 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
- ^ "CAF to conduct Preliminary Draw of 2024/25 CAF Interclub season on Thursday". Confederation of African Football. 10 July 2024.
- ^ "New Champions League season kicks off with high-stakes preliminary round matches". Confederation of African Football. 11 July 2024. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
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