2023–24 CAF Champions League group stage

2023–24 CAF Champions League group stage

Dates	24 November 2023 – 2 March 2024
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	82 (1.71 per match)
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The 2023–24 CAF Champions League group stage began on 24 November 2023 and ended on 2 March 2024. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2023–24 CAF Champions League.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 6 October 2023, 13:00 GMT (15:00 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.^[1]

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 Al Ahly 83 Wydad AC 74 Espérance de Tunis 56 Mamelodi Sundowns 51

Pot 2 Team Pts CR Belouizdad 36 Pyramids 35 Simba 35 Petro de Luanda 33.5

Pot 3 Team Pts TP Mazembe 30.5 Al Hilal 23 ASEC Mimosas 20 Young Africans 20

Pot 4 Team Pts Étoile du Sahel 20 Jwaneng Galaxy 4 FC Nouadhibou 1 Medeama —

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	24–25 November 2023	Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2	1–2 December 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3	8–9 December 2023	Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4	19 December 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5	23–24 February 2024	Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6	1–2 March 2024	Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

All times are local.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SUN	TPM	NDB	PYR
1	Mamelodi Sundowns	6	4	1	1	7	1	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	3–0	0–0
2	TP Mazembe	6	3	1	2	6	2	+4	10			1–0	—	2–0	3–0
3	FC Nouadhibou	6	1	2	3	4	9	−5	5[a]			0–2	0–0	—	2–0
4	Pyramids	6	1	2	3	3	8	−5	5[a]			0–1	1–0	2–2	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ASE	SIM	WAC	JWA
1	ASEC Mimosas	6	3	2	1	7	2	+5	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	1–0	3–0
2	Simba	6	2	3	1	9	2	+7	9[a]			1–1	—	2–0	6–0
3	Wydad AC	6	3	0	3	3	4	−1	9[a]			1–0	1–0	—	0–1
4	Jwaneng Galaxy	6	1	1	4	1	12	−11	4			0–2	0–0	0–1	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		APL	EST	HIL	ESS
1	Petro de Luanda	6	3	3	0	5	0	+5	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	1–0	2–0
2	Espérance de Tunis	6	3	2	1	6	3	+3	11			0–0	—	1–0	2–0
3	Al Hilal	6	1	2	3	4	5	−1	5			0–0	3–1	—	1–1
4	Étoile du Sahel	6	1	1	4	2	9	−7	4			0–2	0–2	1–0	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		AHL	YNG	CRB	MED
1	Al Ahly	6	3	3	0	6	1	+5	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	0–0	3–0
2	Young Africans	6	2	2	2	9	6	+3	8[a]			1–1	—	4–0	3–0
3	CR Belouizdad	6	2	2	2	7	6	+1	8[a]			0–0	3–0	—	3–0
4	Medeama	6	1	1	4	3	12	−9	4			0–1	1–1	2–1	—

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See also

• 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

Notes

References

External links

• CAFonline.com