2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage

2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage

Dates	10 February – 1 April 2023
Tournament statistics
Matches played	48
Goals scored	108 (2.25 per match)
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The 2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage began on 10 February and ended on 1 April 2023. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022, 12:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[1] The 16 winners of the second 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 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 Pts Al Ahly 78 Wydad AC 71 Espérance de Tunis 58 Raja CA 54

Pot 2 Team Pts Mamelodi Sundowns 46 Zamalek 43 Petro de Luanda 31 Horoya 31

Pot 3 Team Pts Simba 28 CR Belouizdad 27 JS Kabylie 22 Al Hilal 19.5

Pot 4 Team Pts AS Vita Club 17 Coton Sport 14.5 Al Merrikh 9 Vipers —

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):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. 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;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of each matchday was as follows.

Matchday	Dates	Matches
Matchday 1	10–11 February 2023	Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2	17–18 February 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3	24–25 February 2023	Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4	7 March 2023	Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5	17–18 March 2023	Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6	31 March – 1 April 2023	Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WAC	JSK	APL	ASV
1	Wydad AC	6	4	1	1	7	1	+6	13	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	1–0	1–0
2	JS Kabylie	6	3	1	2	4	5	−1	10			1–0	—	1–0	2–1
3	Petro de Luanda	6	2	1	3	3	5	−2	7			0–2	0–0	—	1–0
4	AS Vita Club	6	1	1	4	3	6	−3	4			0–0	1–0	1–2	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MDS	ASC	HIL	CSG
1	Mamelodi Sundowns	6	4	2	0	14	7	+7	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	5–2	1–0	2–1
2	Al Ahly	6	3	1	2	14	8	+6	10[a]			2–2	—	3–0	3–0
3	Al Hilal	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10[a]			1–1	1–0	—	2–0
4	Coton Sport	6	0	0	6	3	16	−13	0			1–3	0–4	1–2	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RCA	SSC	HAC	VSC
1	Raja CA	6	5	1	0	17	3	+14	16	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–1	2–0	5–0
2	Simba	6	3	0	3	10	7	+3	9			0–3	—	7–0	1–0
3	Horoya	6	2	1	3	4	12	−8	7			1–3	1–0	—	2–0
4	Vipers	6	0	2	4	1	10	−9	2			1–1	0–1	0–0	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	CRB	ZSC	MSC
1	Espérance de Tunis	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	2–0	1–0
2	CR Belouizdad	6	3	1	2	4	2	+2	10			0–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Zamalek	6	2	1	3	7	9	−2	7			3–1	0–1	—	4–3
4	Al Merrikh	6	1	2	3	5	7	−2	5			1–1	1–0	0–0	—

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Notes

References

External links

• CAFonline.com