2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup

The 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons)[1] is the 21st 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.

2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup
2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
18 August – 1 October 2023
Competition proper:
26 November – 17 May 2024
Teams52 (from 41 associations)

The winners will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023-24 CAF Champions League in the 2024 CAF Super Cup.[2]

Association team allocation

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.[2] 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 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF uses the 2018–2023 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:[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 year as follows:

  • 2022–23: × 5
  • 2021–22: × 4
  • 2020–21: × 3
  • 2019–20: × 2
  • 2018–19: × 1

Teams

The following 52 teams from 41 associations entered the competition.

Associations are shown according to their 2018–2023 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.

Associations eligible to enter two teams (Top 12 associations)
Association Rank (Pts) Team Qualifying method
 Morocco 1 (180) FUS Rabat 2022-23 Botola third place
RS Berkane 2021-22 Moroccan Throne Cup winners
 Egypt 2 (172.5) Zamalek 2022–23 Egyptian Premier League third place
Future 2022–23 Egyptian Premier League fourth place
 Algeria 2 (134) USM Alger
ASO Chlef 2022–23 Algerian Cup winners
 South Africa 4 (114) SuperSport United 2022–23 South African Premier Division third place
Sekhukhune United 2022–23 Nedbank Cup runners-up
 Tunisia 5 (101) Club Africain 2022–23 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
Olympique Béja 2022–23 Tunisian Cup winners
 Tanzania 6 (56.5) Azam 2022–23 Tanzanian Premier League third place
Singida Fountain Gate 2022–23 Tanzanian Premier League fourth place
 DR Congo 7 (54) Saint-Éloi Lupopo 2022–23 Linafoot (Cancelled) Entered after protesting about the FECOFA rankings
— Daring Club Motema Pembe and Maniema Union failed to get a CAF Licence
 Angola 8 (41.5) Sagrada Esperança 2022–23 Girabola third place
Académica do Lobito 2022–23 Angola Cup runners-up
 Sudan 9 (39) Hay Al Arab 2022–23 Sudan Premier League third place
Haidoub 2022–23 Sudan Premier League fourth place
 Guinea 10 (29) Milo FC 2022–23 Guinée Championnat National third place
Académie SOAR 2022–23 Guinée Championnat National fourth place
 Libya 11 (28) Al Hilal Benghazi 2022–23 Libyan Premier League third place
Abu Salim 2022–23 Libyan Premier League fourth place
 Nigeria 12 (25) Rivers United 2022–23 Nigeria Professional Football League third place
Bendel Insurance 2023 Nigeria FA Cup winners
Associations eligible to enter one team
Association Rank (Pts) Team Qualifying method
 Ivory Coast 13 (21) AFAD Djékanou 2023 Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire runners-up
 Zambia 15 (15) Maestro United 2022–23 Zambian Super League runners-up
 Congo 16 (9.5) Diables Noirs 2023 Congo Premier League runners-up
 Senegal 17 (9) Casa Sports 2022 Senegal FA Cup winners
 Mali 18 (7) Stade Malien 2022–23 Malian Cup winners
 Togo 19 (5) ASC Kara 2022–23 Togolese Championnat National runners-up
 Uganda 19 (5) Kampala City 2022–23 Uganda Premier League runners-up
 Botswana 21 (4) Gaborone United 2023 Botswana FA Challenge Cup winners
 Burkina Faso 23 (2) EF Ouagadougou 2022–23 Burkinabé Premier League runners-up
 Eswatini 23 (2) Young Buffaloes 2022–23 Eswatini Premier League runners-up
 Kenya 23 (2) Kakamega Homeboyz 2023 FKF President's Cup winners
 Niger 23 (2) AS Douanes Niger 2023 Niger Cup winners
 Benin 27 (1) AS Loto FC 2023 Benin Cup winners
 Ghana 27 (1) Dreams FC 2022–23 Ghanaian FA Cup winners
 Mauritania 27 (1) AS Douanes Mauritania 2023 Coupe du Président de la République winners
 Burundi — Aigle Noir 2023 Burundian Cup winners
 Comoros — Belle Lumière 2023 Comoros Cup runners-up
 Djibouti — Arta Solar 2023 Djibouti Cup winners
 Equatorial Guinea — Cano Sport 2023 Equatoguinean Cup winners
 Ethiopia — Bahir Dar Kenema 2022–23 Ethiopian Premier League runners-up
 Liberia — Watanga 2023 Liberian FA Cup winners
 Madagascar — Elgeco Plus 2023 Coupe de Madagascar winners
 Mozambique — Ferroviário de Maputo 2023 Taça de Moçambique winners
 Rwanda — Rayon Sports 2023 Rwandan Cup winners
 Seychelles — La Passe 2023 Seychelles FA Cup winners
 Sierra Leone — Kallon 2023 Sierra Leonean FA Cup winners
 Somalia — Horseed 2023 Somalia Cup winners
 South Sudan — Al Merreikh Juba 2023 South Sudan National Cup winners
 Zanzibar — JKU 2023 Zanzibari Cup winners
Associations which did not enter a team

Schedule
Schedule for 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying rounds First round 25 July 2023 18–20 August 2023 25–27 August 2023
Second round 15–17 September 2023 29 September – 1 October 2023
Group stage Matchday 1 6 October 2023 26 November 2023
Matchday 2 3 December 2023
Matchday 3 10 December 2023
Matchday 4 20 December 2023
Matchday 5 25 February 2024
Matchday 6 3 March 2024
Knockout stage Quarter-finals March 2024 31 March 2024 7 April 2024
Semi-finals 21 April 2024 28 April 2024
Final 10 May 2024 17 May 2024

Qualifying rounds
Main article: 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 25 July 2023, 11:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+3), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.[6] 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 the 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
Bendel Insurance Nigeria 1–1 (4–3 p) Algeria ASO Chlef 1–0 0–1
FUS Rabat Morocco 5–0 Benin AS Loto FC 3–0 2–0
Casa Sports Senegal 1–1 (a) Burkina Faso EF Ouagadougou 1–1 0–0
Arta Solar Djibouti 6–0 Somalia Horseed 3–0 3–0
Singida Fountain Gate Tanzania 4–3 Zanzibar JKU 4–1 0–2
Bahir Dar Kenema Ethiopia 3–3 (4–3 p) Tanzania Azam 2–1 1–2
Olympique Béja Tunisia 0–1 Libya Abu Salim 0–1 0–0
Kakamega Homeboyz Kenya 1–4 Libya Al Hilal Benghazi 0–0 1–4
Sekhukhune United South Africa w/o[upper-alpha 1] Eswatini Young Buffaloes — —
Cano Sport Equatorial Guinea 1–4 Zambia Maestro United 1–1 0–3
Ferroviário de Maputo Mozambique w/o[upper-alpha 2] Comoros Belle Lumière — —
Gaborone United Botswana 3–2 Madagascar Elgeco Plus 0–1 3–1
AS Douanes Mauritania Mauritania 2–2 (a) Guinea Académie SOAR 2–2 0–0
ASC Kara Togo 1–2 Ivory Coast AFAD Djékanou 0–0 1–2
Milo FC Guinea 2–3 Ghana Dreams FC 1–1 1–2
AS Douanes Niger Niger w/o[upper-alpha 3] Sierra Leone Kallon — —
Watanga Liberia 2–7 Mali Stade Malien 1–3 1–4
Hay Al Arab Sudan w/o[upper-alpha 4] Burundi Aigle Noir — —
Haidoub Sudan 0–1 South Sudan Al Merreikh Juba 0–1 0–0
Académica do Lobito Angola 4–3 Seychelles La Passe 2–1 2–2

Notes:

  1. Sekhukhune United won on a walkover after Young Buffaloes withdrew due to financial problems.
  2. Ferroviário de Maputo won on a walkover after Belle Lumière withdrew due to financial problems.
  3. Kallon won on a walkover after Niger clubs withdrew from 2023–24 CAF interclub competitions due to the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état.[7]
  4. Aigle Noir won on a walkover after Hay Al Arab withdrew from the competition due to the 2023 Sudan conflict.

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
Bendel Insurance Nigeria 2–3 Morocco RS Berkane 2–2 0–1
FUS Rabat Morocco 1–1 (a) Algeria USM Alger 1–1 0–0
EF Ouagadougou Burkina Faso 0–2 Nigeria Rivers United 0–0 0–2
Arta Solar Djibouti 3–4 Egypt Zamalek 2–0 1–4
Singida Fountain Gate Tanzania 2–4 Egypt Future 1–0 1–4
Bahir Dar Kenema Ethiopia 2–3 Tunisia Club Africain 2–0 0–3
Abu Salim Libya 5–4 Uganda Kampala City 3–1 2–3
Al Hilal Benghazi Libya 2–2 (4–2 p) Rwanda Rayon Sports 1–1 1–1
Sekhukhune United South Africa 4–2 Democratic Republic of the Congo Saint-Éloi Lupopo 3–1 1–1
Maestro United Zambia 1–4 Republic of the Congo Diables Noirs 1–2 0–2
Ferroviário de Maputo Mozambique 1–1 (3–5 p) Angola Sagrada Esperança 1–0 0–1
Gaborone United Botswana 1–4 South Africa SuperSport United 1–1 0–3
Académie SOAR Guinea 3–2 Ivory Coast AFAD Djékanou 1–2 2–0
Dreams FC Ghana 3–2 Sierra Leone Kallon 2–1 1–1
Stade Malien Mali 3–3 (a) Burundi Aigle Noir 2–0 1–3
Al Merreikh Juba South Sudan 0–3 Angola Académica do Lobito 0–0 0–3

Group stage
Main article: 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 6 October 2023, 12:00 GMT (14:00 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.[8]

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 each of Pot 1 and Pot 2, and two teams from Pot 3, and each team was allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.

Pot Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3
Teams

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification USMA FUT SSU HIL
1 Algeria USM Alger 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage — 10 Dec 3 Mar 26 Nov
2 Egypt Future 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Dec — 26 Nov 3 Mar
3 South Africa SuperSport United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Dec 25 Feb — 20 Dec
4 Libya Al Hilal Benghazi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Feb 3 Dec 10 Dec —
First match(es) will be played: 26 November 2023. Source: CAF

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification ZSC GDSE SOAR ABS
1 Egypt Zamalek 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage — 10 Dec 3 Mar 26 Nov
2 Angola Sagrada Esperança 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Dec — 26 Nov 3 Mar
3 Guinea Académie SOAR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Dec 25 Feb — 20 Dec
4 Libya Abu Salim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Feb 3 Dec 10 Dec —
First match(es) will be played: 26 November 2023. Source: CAF

Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RIV CA DFC APL
1 Nigeria Rivers United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage — 10 Dec 3 Mar 26 Nov
2 Tunisia Club Africain 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Dec — 26 Nov 3 Mar
3 Ghana Dreams FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Dec 25 Feb — 20 Dec
4 Angola Académica do Lobito 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Feb 3 Dec 10 Dec —
First match(es) will be played: 26 November 2023. Source: CAF

Group D
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RSB DBL SM SEU
1 Morocco RS Berkane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage — 10 Dec 3 Mar 26 Nov
2 Republic of the Congo Diables Noirs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Dec — 26 Nov 3 Mar
3 Mali Stade Malien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Dec 25 Feb — 20 Dec
4 South Africa Sekhukhune United 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 Feb 3 Dec 10 Dec —
First match(es) will be played: 26 November 2023. Source: CAF

See also

References
  1. "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". CAF. 21 July 2016.
  2. "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF.
  3. "16 Clubs for Group Phase of CC and CL effective 2017". CAF. 11 May 2016.
  4. "New adopted format for Club Competitions". CAF. 30 May 2016.
  5. "CAF disowns club ranking published by some websites". Cafonline.com. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  6. "TotalEnergies CAF Champions League, Confederation Cup Preliminary Draw on Tuesday". Confederation of African Football. 23 July 2023.
  7. "Désistement de nos représentants en compétitions interclubs Ligue des Champions et Coupe de la Confédération 2023-2024". Nigerien Football Federation (in French). 23 August 2023.
  8. "TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup Group Stage Draw to be conducted on Friday". Confederation of African Football. 6 October 2023.
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