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.
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 Al Ahly 83 Wydad AC 74 Espérance de Tunis 56 Mamelodi Sundowns 51+Pot 2 Team CR Belouizdad 36 Pyramids 35 Simba 35 Petro de Luanda 33.5+Pot 3 Team TP Mazembe 30.5 Al Hilal 23 ASEC Mimosas 20 Young Africans 20+Pot 4 Team 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): 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 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; 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.
MatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 124–25 November 2023Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 21–2 December 2023Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 38–9 December 2023Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 419 December 2023Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 523–24 February 2024Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 61–2 March 2024Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4
Groups All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
See also 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup group stage
Notes
References
External links CAFonline.com