The 2017 CAF Confederation Cup group stage was played from 12 May to 9 July 2017. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2017 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 April 2017, 14:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off 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 in parentheses).

PotPot 1Pot 2Teams TP Mazembe CS Sfaxien ZESCO United FUS Rabat Smouha Recreativo do Libolo MC Alger CF Mounana Horoya Rivers United Platinum Stars SuperSport United El-Hilal El-Obeid Mbabane Swallows Club Africain KCCA

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): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Drawing of lots.

Schedule The schedule of each matchday was as follows (matches scheduled in midweek in italics).

MatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 112–14 May 2017Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 223–24 May 2017Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 32–4 June 2017Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 420–21 June 2017Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 530 June – 2 July 2017Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 67–9 July 2017Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

References

External links Total Confederation Cup 2017, CAFonline.com