The 2024–25 CAF Champions League, officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons, was the 61st season of

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's premier club football tournament organized by the

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(CAF) and the 29th under the

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 (association football), club football competition organized by the Conf ...

title. The winners of this edition of the competition,

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, automatically qualified for the group stage of its next edition, earned the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2025 CAF Super Cup, the

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and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.

Association team allocation

All 54 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to the CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. As a result, a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached. For this season's edition, CAF used the 2019–2024 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs performance over the 5 years in the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for the points are as follows: The points were multiplied by a coefficient according to the season as follows: *2023–24: × 5 *2022–23: × 4 *2021–22: × 3 *2020–21: × 2 *2019–20: × 1

Teams

The following 59 teams from 47 associations entered the competition. *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 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.'' ; Associations which did not enter a team * * * * * * * * * Notes

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.

Qualifying rounds

First round

Second round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Bracket

first and second leg

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals