The 2020–21 CAF Champions League group stage started on 12 February and ended on 10 April 2021. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2020–21 CAF Champions League.
Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 8 January 2021, 12:30 GMT (14:30 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the first 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). 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. PotPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4Teams Al Ahly Wydad AC Espérance de Tunis TP Mazembe Zamalek Mamelodi Sundowns Horoya AS Vita Club Al Hilal Petro de Luanda Simba MC Alger Al Merrikh CR Belouizdad Teungueth Kaizer Chiefs
Format In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.
Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are 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 is as follows (matches scheduled in midweek in italics). Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00 (Saturdays only), 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.
MatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 112–13 February 2021Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 223–24 February 2021Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 35–6 March 2021Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 416–17 March 2021Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 52–3 April 2021Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 69–10 April 2021Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4
Groups Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Notes
References
External links CAFonline.com