The 2024–25 CAF Champions League 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.
| TotalEnergies CAF Champions League 2024–2025 | |
|---|---|
| Dates | Qualifying: 18 August – September 2024 Competition proper: October 2024 – May 2025 |
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.[1]
Association team allocation
editAll 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.[1] 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:[2][3][4]
| 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
editThe following 60 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
Cape Verde
Central African Republic
Eritrea
Gabon
Guinea-Bissau
Mauritius
Réunion
São Tomé and Príncipe
Schedule
editThe schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying rounds | First round | 11 July 2024 | 16–18 August 2024 | 23–25 August 2024 |
| Second round | ||||
| 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 | |||
See also
edit- 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup
- 2024 African Football League
- 2024 CAF Women's Champions League
- 2024 CAF Super Cup
References
edit- ^ 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.