2023–24 CAF Champions League
The 2023–24 CAF Champions League (officially the 2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) is the 60th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 28th edition under the current CAF Champions League title. The winners of the 2023–24 CAF Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 CAF Champions League and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2024 CAF Super Cup. While there is no official news yet, the qualifying rounds for the Champions League may have been pushed back to August and September and the group stage pushed forward to start in December because of the introduction of CAF's newest competition, the African Football League, which is set to begin on 20 October 2023. Association team allocation
All 54 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached. For the 2023–24 CAF Champions League, the CAF uses the 2019–2023 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs’ performance over those 5 years in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for points are the following:

The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:
2022–23: × 5
2021–22: × 4
2020–21: × 3
2019–20: × 2
2018–19: × 1

Teams
The following 54 teams from 42 associations entered the competition. Teams in:
Bold received a bye to the second round. The other teams entered the first round. Associations are shown according to their 2018–2023 CAF 5-year Ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated. Associations which did not enter a team

Schedule

Qualifying rounds

First round

Second round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

See also
2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup
2023 African Football League
2023 CAF Women's Champions League
2024 CAF Super Cup

References

External links
CAFonline.com

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