The 2023–24 CAF Champions League (officially the 2023–24 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) is the 60th edition of

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's premier club

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tournament organized by the

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(CAF), and the 28th edition under the current

CAF Champions League The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual football club competition organized by the Confederation of African Football and co ...

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

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, 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

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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

, 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

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. *The other teams entered the

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. ''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

Top goalscorers

References

External links

CAFonline.com
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