2019–20 CAF Champions League

The 2019–20 CAF Champions League (officially the 2019–20 Total CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) is the 56th edition of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), and the 24th edition under the current CAF Champions League title.

This season is the first to follow an August–to-May schedule, as per the decision of the CAF Executive Committee on 20 July 2017.Moreover, for the first time, the final will be played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by CAF, and will be played at the Japoma Stadium in Douala, Cameroon.

The winners of the 2019–20 CAF Champions League will qualify for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar, and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2020 CAF Super Cup in August.

Espérance de Tunis, who had won the last two titles, were eliminated by Zamalek in the quarter-finals

First round

The 16 winners of the first round advanced to the group stage, while the 16 losers of the first round entered the Confederation Cup play-off round.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Nasr	2–4	Raja Casablanca	1–3	1–1
JS Kabylie	2–2 (5–3 p)	Horoya	2–0	0–2
ASC Kara	0–1	AS Vita Club	0–0	0–1
Enyimba	0–1	Al-Hilal	0–0	0–1
USM Alger	6–1	Gor Mahia	4–1	2–0
Cano Sport	0–6	Al-Ahly	0–2	0–4
Génération Foot	2–2 (a)	Zamalek	2–1	0–1
Asante Kotoko	2–3	Étoile du Sahel	2–0	0–3
Petro de Luanda	1–1 (a)	KCCA	0–0	1–1
Côte d'Or	1–16	Mamelodi Sundowns	0–5	1–11
FC Nouadhibou	1–6	Wydad Casablanca	0–2	1–4
Elect-Sport	2–3	Espérance de Tunis	1–1	1–2
Young Africans	2–3	ZESCO United	1–1	1–2
FC Platinum	5–2	UD Songo	1–0	4–2
Green Eagles	2–2 (a)	1º de Agosto	1–2	1–0
Fosa Juniors	1–3	TP Mazembe	0–0	1–3

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 9 October 2019, 20:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the Hilton Pyramids Golf in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the first 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 in parentheses). Each group contained one team from each of Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, and Pot 4, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group. 

Pot	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Teams	Espérance de Tunis (63.5 pts)  TP Mazembe (63 pts)  Wydad Casablanca (63 pts)  Al-Ahly (57 pts)	Étoile du Sahel (50 pts)  Mamelodi Sundowns (49 pts)  Zamalek (44 pts)  Raja Casablanca (25 pts)	USM Alger (25 pts)  ZESCO United (24.5 pts)  AS Vita Club (24 pts)  Al-Hilal (19 pts)	1º de Agosto (16 pts)  FC Platinum (5 pts)  Petro de Luanda (2.5 pts)  JS Kabylie

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

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Group A[edit]

Pos	Team [  v t e  ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TPM	ZAM	AGO	ZES
1	TP Mazembe	6	4	2	0	11	4	+7	14	Knockout stage		—	3–0	2–1	3–1
2	Zamalek	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9			0–0	—	2–0	2–0
3	1º de Agosto	6	0	4	2	4	7	−3	4			1–1	0–0	—	1–1
4	ZESCO United	6	0	3	3	5	10	−5	3			1–2	1–1	1–1	—

Source: CAF

Group B[edit]

Pos	Team [  v t e  ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ESS	AHL	HIL	PLA
1	Étoile du Sahel	6	4	0	2	8	3	+5	12	Knockout stage		—	1–0	0–1	2–0
2	Al-Ahly	6	3	2	1	7	4	+3	11			1–0	—	2–1	2–0
3	Al-Hilal	6	3	1	2	7	6	+1	10			1–2	1–1	—	2–1
4	FC Platinum	6	0	1	5	2	11	−9	1			0–3	1–1	0–1	—

Source: CAF

Group C[edit]

Pos	Team [  v t e  ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MSD	WAC	PET	USM
1	Mamelodi Sundowns	6	4	2	0	9	3	+6	14	Knockout stage		—	1–0	3–0	2–1
2	Wydad Casablanca	6	2	3	1	10	6	+4	9			0–0	—	4–1	3–1
3	Petro de Luanda	6	0	4	2	8	14	−6	4			2–2	2–2	—	1–1
4	USM Alger	6	0	3	3	6	10	−4	3			0–1	1–1	2–2	—

Source: CAF

Group D[edit]

Pos	Team [  v t e  ]	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	RCA	JSK	VIT
1	Espérance de Tunis	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11[a]	Knockout stage		—	2–2	1–0	0–0
2	Raja Casablanca	6	3	2	1	6	4	+2	11[a]			0–2	—	2–0	1–0
3	JS Kabylie	6	2	1	3	3	7	−4	7			1–0	0–0	—	1–0
4	AS Vita Club	6	1	1	4	4	6	−2	4			0–2	0–1	4–1	—

Source: CAF
Notes:

1. ^ Jump up to:^a b Head-to-head points: Espérance de Tunis 4, Raja Casablanca 1.

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:

• In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners are seeded, and the four group runners-up are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group cannot be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association can be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw.

Bracket

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals and semi-finals), which was held on 5 February 2020, 20:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the Hilton Pyramids Golf in Cairo, Egypt. 

Quarts de finale						Demi-finales						Finale
	Al Ahly SC		2	1
	Mamelodi Sundowns		0	1
							Al Ahly SC		2	3
							Wydad AC		0	1
	Wydad AC		2	0
	ES Sahel		0	1
													Al Ahly SC		2
													Zamalek SC		1
	Zamalek SC		3	0
	ES Tunis		1	1
							Zamalek SC		1	3
							Raja CA		0	1
	Raja CA		2	0
	TP Mazembe		0	1

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ahly	3–1	Mamelodi Sundowns	2–0	1–1
Raja Casablanca	2–1	TP Mazembe	2–0	0–1
Zamalek	3–2	Espérance de Tunis	3–1	0–1
Wydad Casablanca	2–1	Étoile du Sahel	2–0	0–1

Semi-finals

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all semi-final matches, originally scheduled for 1–2 and 8–9 May 2020, had been postponed until further notice. 

On 30 June 2020, CAF announced that the competition would resume in September 2020 with a Final Four (4) format with the semi-finals played in a single match. The hosts of the Final Four shall be announced later.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Raja Casablanca	6 Sep (SF1)	Zamalek
Wydad Casablanca	5 Sep (SF2)	Al-Ahly

Final

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the final, originally scheduled for 29 May 2020, 19:00 GMT, at the Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon, had been postponed until further notice. 

Ligue des champions de la CAF Vainqueur 2019-2020
Al Ahly SC Neuvième titre