The 2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage began on 26 November 2024 and ended on 19 January 2025. 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League.
Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 7 October 2024, 11:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+3), in Cairo, Egypt. 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 were allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.
+Pot 1 Team Al Ahly 87 Espérance de Tunis 61 Mamelodi Sundowns 54 TP Mazembe 38+Pot 2 Team CR Belouizdad 37 Raja CA 35 Young Africans 31 Pyramids 29+Pot 3 Team Al Hilal 25 Orlando Pirates 16 Sagrada Esperança 8 AS FAR 8+Pot 4 Team MC Alger 6 Djoliba 1 AS Maniema Union — Stade d'Abidjan —
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 was 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 126 November 2024Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 26–7 December 2024Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 313–14 December 2024Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 43–4 January 2025Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 510–11 January 2025Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 617–18 January 2025Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4
Groups All times are local.
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
See also 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup group stage
Notes
References
External links TotalEnergies CAF Champions League, CAFonline.com