The CAF Confederation Cup, known as the
TotalEnergies
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CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship purposes, is an annual
association football
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club
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Arts, entertainment, and media
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competition established in 2004 from a merger of the
CAF Cup
The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to the pre-existing CAF international club competition the African Cup of Champions Clubs.
History
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and the
African Cup Winners' Cup and organized by
CAF.
Clubs qualify for the competition based on their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. It is the second-tier competition of African club football, ranking below the
CAF Champions League. The winner of the tournament faces the winner of the aforementioned competition in the following season's
CAF Super Cup.
Moroccan clubs have the highest number of victories (7 titles), followed by Tunisia with 5. Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with five clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 13 clubs, 5 of which have won it more than once.
CS Sfaxien
Club Sportif Sfaxien ( ar, النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي) is a Tunisian professional association football club founded in 1928.
History
The club was founded in 1928 as ''Club Tunisien'', playing in green and red stripes. The tea ...
is the most successful club in the competition's history, having won the tournament a record 3 times.
RS Berkane
Renaissance Sportive de Berkane ( ar, نادي النهضة البركانية) commonly referred to as Nahdat Berkane or RS Berkane for short, is a professional football club based in Berkane, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight o ...
are the current defending champions, having beaten
Orlando Pirates
Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in the Houghton suburb of the city of Johannesburg and plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv ...
by penalties in the
2022 Final.
History
2004–2017: Beginnings
In 2004, CAF merged the
African Cup Winners' Cup created in 1975 with the
CAF Cup
The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to the pre-existing CAF international club competition the African Cup of Champions Clubs.
History
The tou ...
introduced in 1992 to form a new competition called the Confederation Cup, which has since been considered the second African club competition.
In the first edition, the Ghanaian club
Hearts of Oak won the edition by beating another Ghanaian club,
Asante Kotoko in the final on
Penalties. The following year, Moroccan club
AS FAR won the cup against Nigeria's Dolphin FC. In 2006, Tunisian club
ES Sahel
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won the cup against Moroccan AS FAR (thanks to the away goals rule).
The Tunisian club
CS Sfaxien
Club Sportif Sfaxien ( ar, النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي) is a Tunisian professional association football club founded in 1928.
History
The club was founded in 1928 as ''Club Tunisien'', playing in green and red stripes. The tea ...
won the cup in 2007 by beating the Sudanese Al Merreikh 5 goals to 2 in aggregate score (4-2, 1-0). The following season,
CS Sfaxien
Club Sportif Sfaxien ( ar, النادي الرياضي الصفاقسي) is a Tunisian professional association football club founded in 1928.
History
The club was founded in 1928 as ''Club Tunisien'', playing in green and red stripes. The tea ...
again won the cup against another Tunisian club, ES Sahel. In 2009,
Stade Malien won the edition by beating the Algerian club
ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne ( ar, الوفاق الرياضي السطايفي), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in ...
in the final, on penalties. The following season, the Moroccan club
Fath Union Sport
Fath Union Sport ( ar, اتحاد الفتح الرياضي), commonly called FUS or FUS Rabat, is a Moroccan professional football club based in Rabat and currently playing in the first division. The club was founded on 10 April 1946. 'Fath U ...
won the cup against Tunisian CS Sfaxien, winning the return match 3 to 2.
In 2011, Moroccan club
Maghreb Fès defeated Tunisia's Club Africain in the final, on penalties. The following year, Congolese club
AC Léopards
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Honours
*Congo Premier League
:Winner (4): 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017.
:Runners-up (3): 2009, 2010, 2011.
* Coupe du C ...
beat Malian club
Djoliba AC
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in the final. The 2013 edition saw CS Sfaxien win against Congolese
TP Mazembe
Tout Puissant Mazembe, commonly referred to as TP Mazembe, is a Congolese professional football club based in Lubumbashi.
History
Tout Puissant Mazembe, the first sports club from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a value of at least $10 ...
. In 2014, the Egyptian club
Al Ahly SC obtained its first confederation cup by beating the Ivorian club
Séwé FC. In 2015, ES Sahel again won the cup by beating South African club
Orlando Pirates
Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in the Houghton suburb of the city of Johannesburg and plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv ...
.
TP Mazembe
Tout Puissant Mazembe, commonly referred to as TP Mazembe, is a Congolese professional football club based in Lubumbashi.
History
Tout Puissant Mazembe, the first sports club from the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a value of at least $10 ...
achieved the double in 2016 and 2017, beating Algerian club
MO Béjaïa
Mouloudia Olympique de Béjaïa ( ar, مولودية بجاية), referred to commonly as MO Béjaïa or MOB for short, is a professional Algerian football club based in Béjaïa, Algeria. The club was founded in 1954 and its colours are green a ...
and South African
SuperSport United respectively.
2018-–present: Moroccan dominance
Moroccan club
Raja CA
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won in 2018 against Congolese
AS Vita Club. In 2019,
Zamalek SC
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an ...
beat Moroccan
RS Berkane
Renaissance Sportive de Berkane ( ar, نادي النهضة البركانية) commonly referred to as Nahdat Berkane or RS Berkane for short, is a professional football club based in Berkane, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight o ...
in the final, on
Penalties.
In
2020
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in the context of the
Covid-19 pandemic
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, the matches were then played behind closed doors, the Moroccan club
RS Berkane
Renaissance Sportive de Berkane ( ar, نادي النهضة البركانية) commonly referred to as Nahdat Berkane or RS Berkane for short, is a professional football club based in Berkane, Morocco, that competes in Botola, the top flight o ...
beat the Egyptians of
Pyramids FC
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by the score of 1 to 0. Since this season, the final has been played in a single game. In
2021
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, the Moroccan club Raja CA won the cup for the second time by beating
JS Kabylie
Jeunesse Sportive de Kabylie (in ar, شبيبة القبائل), ( Kabyle: Ilemẓiyen inaddalen n leqbayel, In Tamazight: ⵉⵍⵎⵣⵢⵏ ⵉⵏⴰⴷⴰⵍⴻⵏ ⵏ ⵍⵇⵠⴰⵢⵍ), known as JS Kabylie or JSK, is an Algerian professi ...
in the
final
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with a score of 2 to 1.
In
2022
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, Moroccan club RS Berkane won the cup for the second time, beating South African club
Orlando Pirates
Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in the Houghton suburb of the city of Johannesburg and plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv ...
in the final on penalties.
Qualification
The competition is composed of domestic cup winners from all 54 CAF member associations and the third-placed-finished club in the domestic leagues of the
top twelve-ranked associations discounting/excluding the present year/season.
Format
The competition is played into two phases; the qualification phase and the main phase.
Qualification Phase
The competition begins with a preliminary round and then a first qualifying round played in a "trim-down" knock-out format with the
away goals rule serving as tiebreakers. The sixteen teams eliminated from the first qualifying round of the
CAF Champions League enter the second qualifying round of this competition, unless they are eliminated from there as well.
Main Phase
* The sixteen winning teams from the second qualifying round enter the group stage divided into four groups of four. Each team will play against the other three opponents in a
round-robin system
three points for a win
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.
* The group winners and runners-up qualify to a
two-legged knock-out rounds which shall be played in two matches, home and away in three rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals and the finals).
* In case of equality in the number of goals scored during the two matches, the team scoring the greatest number of away goals will be declared winner. If the number of goals scored on the away matches is equal, kicks from the penalty mark will be taken.
The Super Cup
The winners will face the
CAF Champions League winners in the
CAF Super Cup the following season on the former's home venue.
Sponsorship
In October 2004,
MTN contracted a four-year deal to sponsor CAF's competitions worth US$12.5 million, which at that time was the biggest sponsorship deal in African sporting history.
In 2008, CAF put a value of
€
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100 million for a comprehensive and long-term package of its competitions when it opened tenders for a new sponsor, which was scooped up by French telecommunications giant
Orange
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through the signing of an eight-year deal in July the following year, whose terms were not disclosed.
On 21 July 2016, French energy and petroleum giant Total S.A. (renamed ''
TotalEnergies
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'' in 2021) secured an eight-year sponsorship package from CAF to
sponsor its competitions, beginning with its flagship competition, the
Africa Cup of Nations.
Current Sponsors:
Prizes
Trophy and medals
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Each year, the winning team is presented with the African Champion Clubs' Cup, the current version of which has been awarded since the competition name change in 1997. Forty gold medals are presented to the competition winners and 40 silver medals to the runners-up.
2009–2020
CAF increased the prize money to be shared between the ''top 16 clubs''.
Note: National Associations receive an additional equivalent share of 5% for each amount awarded to clubs.
Broadcast coverage
Below are the current broadcast rights holders of this competition:
Records and statistics
Finals
Performances
Overall winners
Overall performances by country
Champions by region
See also
*
CAF Champions League
*
CAF Women's Champions League
The CAF Women's Champions League (french: Ligue des Champions Féminine de la CAF; ar, دوري أبطال إفريقيا للسيدات), sometimes abbreviated as ''CAF WCL'', is an annual international women's association football club compet ...
*
CAF Super Cup
*
CAF Cup
The CAF Cup was an annual competition organised by the CAF for domestic leagues runners-up of member associations who have not qualified to the pre-existing CAF international club competition the African Cup of Champions Clubs.
History
The tou ...
*
African Cup Winners' Cup
References
External links
*
CAF Confederation Cup on RSSSF
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Confederation of African Football club competitions