2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage

2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage
Dates10 February – 1 April 2023
Tournament statistics
Matches played48
Goals scored108 (2.25 per match)

The 2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage began on 10 February and ended on 1 April 2023. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022, 12:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.[1] The 16 winners of the second round of qualifying 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 was allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.

Pot 1
Team Pts
Egypt Al Ahly 78
Morocco Wydad AC 71
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 58
Morocco Raja CA 54
Pot 2
Team Pts
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 46
Egypt Zamalek 43
Angola Petro de Luanda 31
Guinea Horoya 31
Pot 3
Team Pts
Tanzania Simba 28
Algeria CR Belouizdad 27
Algeria JS Kabylie 22
Sudan Al Hilal 19.5
Pot 4
Team Pts
Democratic Republic of the Congo AS Vita Club 17
Cameroon Coton Sport 14.5
Sudan Al Merrikh 9
Uganda Vipers —

Format

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were 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 were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were 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 was as follows.

Matchday Dates Matches
Matchday 1 10–11 February 2023 Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2 17–18 February 2023 Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3 24–25 February 2023 Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4 7 March 2023 Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5 17–18 March 2023 Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6 31 March – 1 April 2023 Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

Group A

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification WAC JSK APL ASV
1 Morocco Wydad AC 6 4 1 1 7 1 +6 13 Advance to knockout stage — 3–0 1–0 1–0
2 Algeria JS Kabylie 6 3 1 2 4 5 −1 10 1–0 — 1–0 2–1
3 Angola Petro de Luanda 6 2 1 3 3 5 −2 7 0–2 0–0 — 1–0
4 Democratic Republic of the Congo AS Vita Club 6 1 1 4 3 6 −3 4 0–0 1–0 1–2 —
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Petro de Luanda Angola0–0Algeria JS Kabylie
Report
Wydad AC Morocco1–0Democratic Republic of the Congo AS Vita Club
  • Magema 55' (o.g.)
 Report
JS Kabylie Algeria1–0Morocco Wydad AC
 Report
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)
Wydad AC Morocco1–0Angola Petro de Luanda
 Report
Attendance: 41,413
Petro de Luanda Angola0–2Morocco Wydad AC
Report
Referee: Pierre Atcho (Gabon)
AS Vita Club Democratic Republic of the Congo0–0Morocco Wydad AC
Report
Referee: Boubou Traoré (Mali)
JS Kabylie Algeria1–0Angola Petro de Luanda
 Report
Petro de Luanda Angola1–0Democratic Republic of the Congo AS Vita Club
 Report
Wydad AC Morocco3–0Algeria JS Kabylie
 Report

Group B

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification MDS ASC HIL CSG
1 South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 6 4 2 0 14 7 +7 14 Advance to knockout stage — 5–2 1–0 2–1
2 Egypt Al Ahly 6 3 1 2 14 8 +6 10[a] 2–2 — 3–0 3–0
3 Sudan Al Hilal 6 3 1 2 6 6 0 10[a] 1–1 1–0 — 2–0
4 Cameroon Coton Sport 6 0 0 6 3 16 −13 0 1–3 0–4 1–2 —
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Notes:
  1. ^ a b Head-to-head points: Al Ahly 3, Al Hilal 3. Head-to-head goal difference: Al Ahly +2, Al Hilal -2
Coton Sport Cameroon1–3South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
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Al Hilal Sudan1–0Egypt Al Ahly
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Coton Sport Cameroon1–2Sudan Al Hilal
 Report
Al Hilal Sudan2–0Cameroon Coton Sport
 Report
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa5–2Egypt Al Ahly
 Report
Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)
Coton Sport Cameroon0–4Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)
Al Hilal Sudan1–1South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
 Report
Referee: Sadok Selmi (Tunisia)
Al Ahly Egypt3–0Sudan Al Hilal
 Report

Group C

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RCA SSC HAC VSC
1 Morocco Raja CA 6 5 1 0 17 3 +14 16 Advance to knockout stage — 3–1 2–0 5–0
2 Tanzania Simba 6 3 0 3 10 7 +3 9 0–3 — 7–0 1–0
3 Guinea Horoya 6 2 1 3 4 12 −8 7 1–3 1–0 — 2–0
4 Uganda Vipers 6 0 2 4 1 10 −9 2 1–1 0–1 0–0 —
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Raja CA Morocco5–0Uganda Vipers
 Report
Referee: Boubou Traoré (Mali)
Horoya Guinea1–0Tanzania Simba
 Report
Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)
Vipers Uganda0–0Guinea Horoya
Report
Simba Tanzania0–3Morocco Raja CA
Report
Vipers Uganda0–1Tanzania Simba
Report
Raja CA Morocco2–0Guinea Horoya
 Report
Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)
Simba Tanzania1–0Uganda Vipers
 Report
Horoya Guinea1–3Morocco Raja CA
 Report
Vipers Uganda1–1Morocco Raja CA
 Report
Simba Tanzania7–0Guinea Horoya
 Report
Referee: Mohamed Adel (Egypt)
Horoya Guinea2–0Uganda Vipers
 Report
Raja CA Morocco3–1Tanzania Simba
 Report

Group D

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification EST CRB ZSC MSC
1 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 6 3 2 1 6 4 +2 11 Advance to knockout stage — 0–0 2–0 1–0
2 Algeria CR Belouizdad 6 3 1 2 4 2 +2 10 0–1 — 2–0 1–0
3 Egypt Zamalek 6 2 1 3 7 9 −2 7 3–1 0–1 — 4–3
4 Sudan Al Merrikh 6 1 2 3 5 7 −2 5 1–1 1–0 0–0 —
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Zamalek Egypt0–1Algeria CR Belouizdad
Report
Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)
Espérance de Tunis Tunisia1–0Sudan Al Merrikh
 Report
Al Merrikh Sudan0–0Egypt Zamalek
Report
CR Belouizdad Algeria0–1Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
Report
Al Merrikh Sudan1–0Algeria CR Belouizdad
 Report
Referee: Boubou Traoré (Mali)
Espérance de Tunis Tunisia2–0Egypt Zamalek
 Report
Zamalek Egypt3–1Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
 Report
CR Belouizdad Algeria2–0Egypt Zamalek
 Report
Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)
Zamalek Egypt4–3Sudan Al Merrikh
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Espérance de Tunis Tunisia0–0Algeria CR Belouizdad
Report
Referee: Pierre Atcho (Gabon)

Notes

  1. ^ The Wydad AC v AS Vita Club match, originally scheduled to be played on 10 or 11 February 2023, was rescheduled to be played on 3 March 2023 due to Wydad AC's participation in the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco between 1 and 11 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b c JS Kabylie played their group stage home matches at Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, instead of their regular home stadium 1 November 1954 Stadium, Tizi Ouzou, which did not meet CAF requirements.
  3. ^ The Al Ahly v Coton Sport match, originally scheduled to be played on 10 or 11 February 2023, was rescheduled to 4 March 2023 due to Al Ahly's participation in the 2022 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco between 1 and 11 February 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Al Merrikh played their group stage home matches at Benina Martyrs Stadium, Benghazi (Libya), instead of their regular home stadium Al Merrikh Stadium, Omdurman, which did not meet CAF requirements.
  5. ^ The CR Belouizdad v Al Merrikh match was played at 19 May 1956 Stadium, Annaba, instead of Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, due to the high intensity of matches in the same period at the stadium.

References

  1. ^ "New date confirmed for TotalEnergies CAF Interclubs group stage draw". CAFOnline.com. 24 November 2022.