2024–25 CAF Champions League

The 2024–25 CAF Champions League, officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 61st season of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the 29th under the CAF Champions League title.

2024–25 CAF Champions League

TotalEnergies CAF Champions League 2024–2025
30 June Stadium in Cairo hosted the second leg of the final round
Tournament details
Dates	Qualification: 16 August – 22 September 2024 Competition proper: 26 November 2024 – 1 June 2025
Teams	59 (from 47 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Pyramids (1st title)
Runners-up	Mamelodi Sundowns
Tournament statistics
Matches played	62
Goals scored	133 (2.15 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Fiston Mayele (6 goals)
← 2023–24 2025–26 → (Note: All statistics do not include qualifying play-offs)

The winners of this edition of the competition, Pyramids, 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 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.^[2]

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.^[2] 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:^[3][4][5]

	CAF Champions League	CAF Confederation Cup
Winners	6 points	5 points
Runners-up	5 points	4 points
Losing semi-finalists	4 points	3 points
Losing quarter-finalists	3 points	2 points
3rd place in groups	2 points	1 point
4th place in groups	1 point	0.5 point

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 second round.
• The other teams entered the first round.

Associations are shown according to their CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.

Associations eligible to enter two teams (Top 12 associations)

Association	Rank (Pts)	Team	Qualifying method
Egypt	1 (184)	Al Ahly	2023–24 CAF Champions League champions 2023–24 Egyptian Premier League champions
		Pyramids	2023–24 Egyptian Premier League runners-up
Morocco	2 (148)	Raja CA	2023–24 Botola champions
		AS FAR	2023–24 Botola runners-up
Algeria	3 (119)	MC Alger	2023–24 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions
		CR Belouizdad	2023–24 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 runners-up
South Africa	4 (106)	Mamelodi Sundowns	2023–24 South African Premier Division champions
		Orlando Pirates	2023–24 South African Premier Division runners-up
Tunisia	5 (97)	Espérance de Tunis	2023–24 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 champions
		US Monastir	2023–24 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 runners-up
Tanzania	6 (71)	Young Africans	2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League champions
		Azam	2023–24 Tanzanian Premier League runners-up
DR Congo	7 (54)	TP Mazembe	2023–24 Linafoot champions
		AS Maniema Union	2023–24 Linafoot runners-up
Angola	8 (51.5)	Petro de Luanda	2023–24 Girabola champions
		Sagrada Esperança	2023–24 Girabola runners-up
Sudan	9 (37)	Al Hilal	2023–24 Sudan Premier League champions
		Al Merrikh	2023–24 Sudan Premier League runners-up
Libya	10 (35)	Al Nasr	2023–24 Libyan Premier League champions[Note LBY]
		Al Ahly Benghazi	2023–24 Libyan Premier League runners-up[Note LBY]
Ivory Coast	11 (30.5)	San Pédro	2023–24 Côte d'Ivoire Ligue 1 champions
		Stade d'Abidjan	2023–24 Côte d'Ivoire Ligue 1 runners-up
Nigeria	12 (25)	Enugu Rangers	2023-24 Nigeria Premier Football League champions
		Remo Stars	2023-24 Nigeria Premier Football League runners-up

Associations eligible to enter one team

Association	Rank (Pts)	Team	Qualifying method
Guinea	13 (20.5)	Milo	2023–24 Guinée Championnat National champions
Ghana	14 (20)	Samartex	2023–24 Ghana Premier League champions
Mali	15 (15)	Djoliba	2023–24 Malian Première Division champions
Cameroon	16 (11.5)	Victoria United	2023–24 Elite One champions
Mauritania	17 (10.5)	FC Nouadhibou	2023–24 Super D1 champions
Congo	18 (9.5)	AC Léopards	2024 Congo Ligue 1 champions
Botswana	19 (8)	Jwaneng Galaxy	2023–24 Botswana Premier League champions
Zambia	20 (7.5)	Red Arrows	2023–24 Zambia Super League champions
Senegal	21 (6)	Teungueth	2023–24 Senegal Premier League champions
Togo	T-22 (4)	ASKO Kara	2023–24 Togolese Championnat National champions
Uganda	T-22 (4)	SC Villa	2023–24 Uganda Premier League champions
Eswatini	T-24 (1.5)	Mbabane Swallows	2023–24 Eswatini Premier League champions
Niger	T-24 (1.5)	AS GNN	2023–24 Niger Premier League champions
Burkina Faso	T-26 (1)	AS Douanes	2023–24 Burkinabé Premier League champions
Zimbabwe	T-26 (1)	Ngezi Platinum	2023 Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League champions
Benin	28 (0.5)	Coton FC	2023–24 Benin Premier League champions
Burundi	—	Vital'O	2023–24 Burundi Premier League champions
Central African Republic	—	Red Star de Bangui	2023–24 Central African Republic League runners-up
Chad	—	AS PSI	2024 Chad Premier League champions
Comoros	—	US Zilimadjou	2024 Comoros Premier League champions
Djibouti	—	Arta Solar	2023–24 Djibouti Premier League champions
Equatorial Guinea	—	Deportivo Mongomo	2023–24 Equatoguinean Primera División champions
Ethiopia	—	CBE	2023–24 Ethiopian Premier League champions
Kenya	—	Gor Mahia	2023–24 FKF Premier League champions
Liberia	—	Watanga	2023–24 Liberian First Division champions
Madagascar	—	Disciples FC	2023–24 Malagasy Pro League champions
Malawi	—	Nyasa Big Bullets	2023–24 Super League of Malawi champions
Mozambique	—	Ferroviário da Beira	2023 Moçambola champions
Namibia	—	African Stars	2023–24 Namibia Premier Football League champions
Rwanda	—	APR	2023–24 Rwanda Premier League champions
Seychelles	—	Saint Louis Suns United	2024 Seychelles Premier League champions
Sierra Leone	—	Bo Rangers	2024 Sierra Leone National Premier League champions
Somalia	—	Dekedaha	2023–24 Somali First Division champions
South Sudan	—	Al Merreikh Bentiu	2024 South Sudan Football Championship champions
Zanzibar	—	JKU	2023–24 Zanzibar Premier League champions

Associations which did not enter a team

•  Cape Verde
•  Eritrea
•  Gabon
•  Gambia
•  Guinea-Bissau
•  Lesotho
•  Mauritius
•  Réunion
•  São Tomé and Príncipe

Notes

1. ^
   The Libyan Premier League was not finished by the CAF deadline for associations to submit teams participating in this season's CAF competitions. CAF approved a request made by the Libyan Football Federation to submit the names of participating teams in the competition following the end of the season by 22 July 2024, and as a result, Libyan teams were listed as Libya 1 and Libya 2 during the draw; as their identity was still unknown by the time of the draw.^[6]

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying tournament was as follows.

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying rounds	First round	11 July 2024[7]	16–18 August 2024	23–25 August 2024
	Second round		13–15 September 2024	20–22 September 2024
Group stage	Matchday 1	7 October 2024	26–27 November 2024
	Matchday 2		6–7 December 2024
	Matchday 3		13–14 December 2024
	Matchday 4		3–4 January 2025
	Matchday 5		10–11 January 2025
	Matchday 6		17–18 January 2025
Knockout stage	Quarter-finals	20 February 2025	1–2 April 2025	8–9 April 2025
	Semi-finals		18–19 April 2025	25–26 April 2025
	Final		24 May 2025	1 June 2025

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2024–25 CAF Champions League qualifying rounds

The draw for the qualifying rounds was held on 11 July 2024, 12:00 GMT (15:00 local time, UTC+3), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[8][9] In the qualifying rounds, each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still tied, extra time was not played, and a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 13 & 14).

First round

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
El Merriekh Bentiu	2–5	Gor Mahia	1–0	1–5
Arta Solar	4–5	Dekedaha	0–2	4–3
SC Villa	2–3	CBE	1–2	1–1
Vital'O	0–10	Young Africans	0–4	0–6
Azam	1–2	APR	1–0	0–2
JKU	1–9	Pyramids	0–6	1–3
Mbabane Swallows	1–0	Ferroviário da Beira	1–0	0–0
Ngezi Platinum	0–0 (3–4 p)	AS Maniema Union	0–0	0–0
Nyasa Big Bullets	2–3	Red Arrows	2–1	0–2
African Stars	1–1 (5–6 p)	Jwaneng Galaxy	1–0	0–1
Disciples FC	0–4	Orlando Pirates	0–0	0–4
US Zilimadjou	1–2	Enugu Rangers	0–1	1–1
Saint Louis Suns United	0–4	Sagrada Esperança	0–1	0–3
AS Douanes	1–1 (a)	Coton FC	0–0	1–1
AC Léopards	0–3	CR Belouizdad	0–2	0–1
Victoria United	0–2	Samartex	0–1	0–1
AS GNN	1–7	Raja CA	1–2	0–5
AS PSI	0–3	US Monastir	0–1	0–2
Watanga	0–4	MC Alger	0–2	0–2
Red Star de Bangui	w/o[A]	Djoliba	0–0	—
Deportivo Mongomo	2–3	ASKO Kara	2–2	0–1
Stade d'Abidjan	2–2 (5–4 p)	Teungueth	1–1	1–1
Milo	1–1 (a)	FC Nouadhibou	0–0	1–1
Bo Rangers	1–2	San Pédro	1–1	0–1
Al Ahly Benghazi	1–2	Al Hilal	0–1	1–1
Al Nasr	0–2	Al Merrikh	0–0	0–2
Remo Stars	2–3	AS FAR	2–1	0–2

Notes:

1. Djoliba won on a walkover after Red Star de Bangui withdrew from the competition citing financial reasons.

Second round

The 16 winners of the second round advanced to the group stage.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gor Mahia	0–6	Al Ahly	0–3	0–3
Dekedaha	1–12	Espérance de Tunis	1–4	0–8
CBE	0–7	Young Africans	0–1	0–6
APR	2–4	Pyramids	1–1	1–3
Mbabane Swallows	0–8	Mamelodi Sundowns	0–4	0–4
AS Maniema Union	2–1	Petro de Luanda	2–1	0–0
Red Arrows	1–4	TP Mazembe	0–2	1–2
Jwaneng Galaxy	0–3	Orlando Pirates	0–2	0–1
Enugu Rangers	2–3	Sagrada Esperança	1–0	1–3
AS Douanes	1–1 (3–4 p)	CR Belouizdad	1–0	0–1
Samartex	2–4	Raja CA	2–2	0–2
US Monastir	1–2	MC Alger	1–0	0–2
Djoliba	2–0	ASKO Kara	1–0	1–0
Stade d'Abidjan	3–2	Milo	2–0	1–2
San Pédro	2–3	Al Hilal	2–2	0–1
Al Merrikh	2–4	AS FAR	2–2	0–2

Group stage

Main article: 2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage

Mamelodi Sundowns

Orlando Pirates

AS FAR

Raja CA

CR Belouizdad
MC Alger

Young Africans

TP Mazembe

AS Maniema Union

Stade d'Abidjan

Pyramids
Al Ahly

Espérance de Tunis

Al Hilal

Djoliba

Sagrada Esperança

Location of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League group stage teams

The draw for the group stage was held on 7 October 2024, 11:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+3), in Cairo, Egypt.^[10] The 16 winners of the second round of qualifying rounds 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 were allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.

Pot 1 Team Pts Al Ahly 87 Espérance de Tunis 61 Mamelodi Sundowns 54 TP Mazembe 38

Pot 2 Team Pts CR Belouizdad 37 Raja CA 35 Young Africans 31 Pyramids 29

Pot 3 Team Pts Al Hilal 25 Orlando Pirates 16 Sagrada Esperança 8 AS FAR 8

Pot 4 Team Pts MC Alger 6 Djoliba 1 AS Maniema Union — Stade d'Abidjan —

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HIL	MCA	YNG	TPM
1	Al Hilal	6	3	1	2	6	7	−1	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	0–1	2–1
2	MC Alger	6	2	3	1	4	2	+2	9			0–1	—	2–0	1–0
3	Young Africans	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8			0–2	0–0	—	3–1
4	TP Mazembe	6	1	2	3	7	7	0	5			4–0	0–0	1–1	—

Source: CAF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FAR	MSFC	RCA	MUN
1	AS FAR	6	2	4	0	8	4	+4	10	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	1–1	2–0
2	Mamelodi Sundowns	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9			1–1	—	1–0	0–0
3	Raja CA	6	2	2	2	4	5	−1	8			0–2	1–0	—	1–0
4	AS Maniema Union	6	0	3	3	3	7	−4	3			1–1	1–2	1–1	—

Source: CAF

Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		OPFC	AHL	CRB	SAB
1	Orlando Pirates	6	4	2	0	10	4	+6	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	0–0	2–1	3–0
2	Al Ahly	6	3	1	2	14	7	+7	10			1–2	—	6–1	4–2
3	CR Belouizdad	6	3	0	3	11	10	+1	9			1–2	1–0	—	6–0
4	Stade d'Abidjan	6	0	1	5	4	18	−14	1			1–1	1–3	0–1	—

Source: CAF

Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	PYR	GDSE	DJO
1	Espérance de Tunis	6	4	1	1	12	3	+9	13[a]	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	4–1	4–0
2	Pyramids	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13[a]			2–1	—	5–1	6–0
3	Sagrada Esperança	6	1	2	3	3	10	−7	5			0–0	0–1	—	1–0
4	Djoliba	6	0	2	4	0	12	−12	2			0–1	0–0	0–0	—

Source: CAF
Notes:

1. Ranked on goal difference in head-to-head matches: Espérance de Tunis +1, Pyramids –1.

Knockout stage

Main article: 2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

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

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Al Hilal	MC Alger
B	AS FAR	Mamelodi Sundowns
C	Orlando Pirates	Al Ahly
D	Espérance de Tunis	Pyramids

Bracket

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 20 February 2025, 18:00 AST (UTC+3) at the beIN Sports headquarters in Doha, Qatar.^[11]

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Mamelodi Sundowns	1	0	1
	Espérance de Tunis	0	0	0
							Mamelodi Sundowns (a)	0	1	1
							Al Ahly	0	1	1
	Al Ahly	1	1	2
	Al Hilal	0	0	0
													Mamelodi Sundowns	1	1	2
													Pyramids	1	2	3
	MC Alger	0	0	0
	Orlando Pirates	1	0	1
							Orlando Pirates	0	2	2
							Pyramids	0	3	3
	Pyramids	4	0	4
	AS FAR	1	2	3

first and second leg

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ahly	2–0	Al Hilal	1–0	1–0
Pyramids	4–3	AS FAR	4–1	0–2
Mamelodi Sundowns	1–0	Espérance de Tunis	1–0	0–0
MC Alger	0–1	Orlando Pirates	0–1	0–0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mamelodi Sundowns	1–1 (a)	Al Ahly	0–0	1–1
Orlando Pirates	2–3	Pyramids	0–0	2–3

first and second leg

Final

Main article: 2025 CAF Champions League final

The first leg was played on 24 May, and the second leg was played on 1 June 2025.

Team 1	Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mamelodi Sundowns	2–3	Pyramids	1–1	1–2

24 May 2025 (2025-05-24)

15:00 UTC+2

Mamelodi Sundowns	1–1	Pyramids
Ribeiro 54'	Report	El Karti 90+4'

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)

1 June 2025 (2025-06-01)

20:00 UTC+3

Pyramids	2–1	Mamelodi Sundowns
Mayele 23' Samy 56'	Report	Rayners 75'

30 June Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)

Pyramids won 3–2 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

  Team eliminated / inactive for this round.

Rank	Player	Team	MD1	MD2	MD3	MD4	MD5	MD6	QF1	QF2	SF1	SF2	F1	F2	Total
1	Fiston Mayele	Pyramids	1						2			2		1	6
2	Ibrahim Adel	Pyramids	2			1			2						5
	Emam Ashour	Al Ahly			1		3			1
4	Relebohile Mofokeng	Orlando Pirates				1	1	1				1			4
	Mohau Nkota	Orlando Pirates	2						1			1

See also

• 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup
• 2024 CAF Women's Champions League
• 2025 CAF Super Cup