2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup

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2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup
2021–22 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup
Tournament details
DatesQualifying:
10 September 2021 – 5 December 2021
Competition proper:
TeamsCompetition proper: 16
Total: 51+16 (from 39 associations)
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The 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2021–22 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons)[1] is the 19th edition of Africa's secondary club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), under the current CAF Confederation Cup title after the merger of CAF Cup and African Cup Winners' Cup.

The winners of the 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup will earn the right to play against the winners of the 2021–22 CAF Champions League in the .[2]

The previous Winner of the 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup is Raja CA, but will not defend its title as it participates in the 2021–22 CAF Champions League

Association team allocation[]

All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-Year Ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition.[2] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament (plus 16 teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which enter the play-off round) – although this level has never been reached.

For the 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF uses the 2016–2020 CAF 5-Year Ranking, 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:[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 (from 2017) 3 points 2 points
3rd place in groups 2 points 1 point
4th place in groups 1 point 0.5 point

The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:

  • 2020–21: x 6
  • 2019–20: × 5
  • 2018–19: × 4
  • 2018: × 3
  • 2017: × 2
  • 2016: × 1

Teams[]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, associations may abandon their domestic competitions and select the representatives in CAF club competitions.[6] Associations may register their representatives during the engagement window between 1 September and 20 October 2020. All engaged teams must respect the Club Licensing procedure and cooperate with their respective Associations, as non-licensed clubs would be refused participation.[7]

The following 49 teams from 37 associations entered the competition.

Associations are shown according to their 2016–2020 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
 Morocco 1 (190) AS FAR 2020–21 Botola third place
RS Berkane 2020–21 Botola fourth place
 Egypt 2 (167) Al Masry 2020–21 Egyptian Premier League third place after 29 rounds[Note EGY]
Pyramids 2020–21 Egyptian Premier League fourth place after 29 rounds[Note EGY]
 Tunisia 3 (140) US Ben Guerdane 2020–21 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
CS Sfaxien 2020–21 Tunisian Cup winners
 DR Congo 4 (83) AS Vita Club 2020–21 Linafoot third place
DC Motema Pembe winners
 Algeria 5 (81) JS Saoura 2020–21 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
JS Kabylie 2020–21 Algerian League Cup winners
 South Africa 6 (68.5) Orlando Pirates FC 2020–21 South African Premier Division third place
Marumo Gallants F.C. 2020–21 Nedbank Cup winners
 Zambia 7 (43) Red Arrows F.C. 2020–21 Zambian Super League third place
Kabwe Warriors F.C. 2020–21 Zambian Super League fourth place
 Nigeria 8 (39) Enyimba 2020–21 Nigeria Professional Football League third place
Bayelsa United F.C. 2021 Nigeria FA Cup winners
 Guinea 9 (38) Wakriya AC third place
AS Ashanti Golden Boys runners-up
 Angola 10 (36) Primeiro de Agosto 2020–21 Girabola third place
G.D. Interclube 2020–21 Angola Cup winners
 Sudan 11 (29.5) third place
Al-Ahli Merowe winners
 Tanzania 12 (16.5) Azam F.C. third place
Biashara United[TAN] fourth place [Note TAN]
Associations eligible to enter one team
Association Rank (Pts) Team Qualifying method
 Cameroon 13 (14) Coton Sport FC runners-up
 Senegal 14 (13) Diambars FC winners
 Libya 15 (11) Al Ahli Tripoli winners
 Kenya 17 (9) Gor Mahia F.C. 2021 FKF President's Cup winners
 Congo 18 (8) CSMD Diables Noirs winners
 Uganda 18 (8) runners-up
 Mali 20 (6.5) Binga FC winners[citation needed]
 Rwanda 22 (6) A.S. Kigali winners
 Eswatini 23 (5) Young Buffaloes F.C. 2020–21 Eswatini Premier League runners-up
 Ethiopia 24 (4) Ethiopian Coffee S.C. 2020–21 Ethiopian Premier League runners-up
 Botswana 25 (3) Orapa United F.C. winners
 Togo 25 (3) ASC Kara runners-up
 Benin 27 (2.5) Les Buffles du Borgou winners
 Mauritania 27 (2.5) ASAC Concorde winners
 Burkina Faso 29 (2) ASFA Yennenga runners-up
 Burundi — winners
 Comoros — winners
 Djibouti — FC Dikhil winners
 Equatorial Guinea — Futuro Kings FC winners
 Niger — AS Police winners
 Somalia — Horseed FC winners
 South Sudan — Atlabara FC winners
 Zanzibar — Mafunzo F.C. winners
 Madagascar — winners
 Liberia — MC Breweries winners

[TAN] Both the winners Simba SC and runner-ups Young Africans S.C. of the qualified for the 2021-22 CAF Champions League resulting in the slot usually allocated to the winner or runner-up of the Tanzania FA Cup to be awarded to the fourth placed team in the .

Notes
  1. ^
    Egypt (EGY): The 2020–21 Egyptian Premier League was not finished by the CAF deadline. As a result, the Egyptian Football Association announced that Al Masry and Pyramids, who were at third and fourth place after 29 rounds respectively, will represent Egypt in the 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup.[8]

Schedule[]

Schedule for 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup
Phase Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Qualifying First round 13 August 2021 10–12 September 2021 17–19 September 2021
Second round 15–17 October 2021 22–24 October 2021
Play-off round 26 October 2021 28 November 2021 5 December 2021
Group stage Matchday 1 28 December 2021 13 February 2022
Matchday 2 20 February 2022
Matchday 3 27 February 2022
Matchday 4 13 March 2022
Matchday 5 20 March 2022
Matchday 6 3 April 2022
Knockout stage Quarter-finals April 2022 17 April 2022 22 April 2022
Semi-finals 8 May 2022 15 May 2022
Final May 2022

Qualifying rounds[]

Main article: 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds

First round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
US Ben Guerdane Tunisia 3–2 Niger AS Police 3–1 0–1
AS FAR Morocco 3–1 Benin Les Buffles du Borgou 3–1 0–0
Diambars FC Senegal 3–0[A] Guinea Wakriya AC
AS Ashanti Golden Boys Guinea 2–4[A] Nigeria Bayelsa United
ASC Kara Togo 3–4 Mauritania ASAC Concorde 3–0 0–4
Azam Tanzania 4–1 Somalia Horseed 3–1 1–0
URA Football Club Uganda 5–2 Ethiopia Ethiopian Coffee 2–1 3–1
Atlabara South Sudan 0–4 Sudan Al-Ahli Merowe 0–2 0–2
Futuro Kings Equatorial Guinea 2–4 South Africa Marumo Gallants 2–1 0–3
AS Mangasport Gabon 0–0 (2–3 p) Botswana Orapa United 0–0 0–0
Burundi 0–1 Republic of the Congo CSMD Diables Noirs 0–0 0–1
Red Arrows Zambia 2–1 Eswatini Young Buffaloes 2–1 0–0
Comoros 1–8 Rwanda AS Kigali 1–2 0–6
Binga FC Mali 5–0 Liberia MC Breweries 3–0 2–0
ASFA Yennenga Burkina Faso 2–1 Ivory Coast FC San Pédro 0–0 2–1
FC Dikhil Djibouti 0–3 Tanzania Biashara United 0–1 0–2
Sudan 0–4[B] Libya Al Ahli Tripoli
Madagascar 2–1 Zambia Kabwe Warriors 0–0 2–1
Mafunzo Zanzibar 0–4 Angola Interclube 0–1 0–3

Notes:

  1. ^ a b The match involving Guinean clubs were played over a single leg, and not in the Guinean territory due to the political and security situation in Guinea following the 2021 Guinean coup d'état.[9]
  2. ^ The first leg originally scheduled to be played on 12 September 2021 at El-Obeid Stadium, El-Obeid, was called off due to concerns over the suitablity of match venue.[10] The match was then played over a single leg, at the venue initially planned for the second leg.

Second round[]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
US Ben Guerdane Tunisia 0–5 Morocco RS Berkane 0–1 0–4
AS FAR Morocco 1–3 Algeria JS Kabylie 0–1 1–2
Diambars FC Senegal 0–4 Nigeria Enyimba 0–1 0–3
Bayelsa United Nigeria 1–4 Tunisia CS Sfaxien 1–0 0–4
ASAC Concorde Mauritania 2–3 Algeria JS Saoura 1–2 1–1
Azam Tanzania 0–1 Egypt Pyramids 0–0 0–1
URA Football Club Uganda 0–1 Egypt Al Masry 0–0 0–1
Al-Ahli Merowe Sudan w/o[A] Kenya Gor Mahia 1–3 —
Marumo Gallants South Africa 3–2 Democratic Republic of the Congo AS Vita Club 2–1 1–1
Orapa United Botswana 2–2 (a) Cameroon Coton Sport 2–1 0–1
CSMD Diables Noirs Republic of the Congo 0–1 South Africa Orlando Pirates 0–0 0–1
Red Arrows Zambia 1–0 Angola Primeiro de Agosto 1–0 0–0
AS Kigali Rwanda 2–4 Democratic Republic of the Congo DC Motema Pembe 1–2 1–2
Binga FC Mali 1–1 (7–6 p) Burkina Faso ASFA Yennenga 0–1 1–0
Biashara United Tanzania w/o[B] Libya Al Ahli Tripoli 2–0 —
Madagascar w/o[C] Angola Interclube 0–3 —

Notes:

  1. ^ Gor Mahia won on a walkover after Al-Ahli Merowe withdrew from the second leg in Kenya.[11]
  2. ^ Al Ahli SC won on a walkover after Biashara United failed to appear from the second leg in Libya.[12]
  3. ^ Interclube won on a walkover after CFFA withdrew from the second leg in Angola.[13]


Play-off round[]

Eliminated from 2021–22 CAF Champions League:


Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Zanaco Zambia 3–2 Mali Binga FC 3–0 0–2
Simba Tanzania 4–2 Zambia Red Arrows 3–0 1–2
TP Mazembe Democratic Republic of the Congo 1–0 South Africa Marumo Gallants 1–0 0–0
ASEC Mimosas Ivory Coast 5–2 Angola Interclube 2–0 3–2
FC Nouadhibou Mauritania 0–2 Cameroon Coton Sport 0–0 0–2
USGN Niger 2–1 Democratic Republic of the Congo DC Motema Pembe 2–0 0–1
AS Otohô Republic of the Congo 2–1 Kenya Gor Mahia 1–0 1–1
APR Rwanda 1–2 Morocco RS Berkane 0–0 1–2
Tusker Kenya 0–1 Tunisia CS Sfaxien 0–0 0–1
Hearts of Oak Ghana 2–4 Algeria JS Saoura 2–0 0–4
Rivers United Nigeria 2–2 (a) Egypt Al Masry 2–1 0–1
Stade Malien Mali 1–1 (2–4 p) Libya Al Ahli Tripoli 1–0 0–1
Al Ittihad Libya w/o[A] Nigeria Enyimba — 0–2
AS Maniema Union Democratic Republic of the Congo 0–2 Egypt Pyramids 0–1 0–1
LPRC Oilers Liberia w/o[B] South Africa Orlando Pirates 0–2 —
Royal Leopards Eswatini 16 Algeria JS Kabylie 1–0 Postponed

Notes:

  1. ^ Al Ittihad won on a walkover after Enyimba failed to travel to Libya for the first leg.
  2. ^ Orlando Pirates won on a walkover after LPRC Oilers withdrew from the second leg in South Africa.[14]


Group stage[]

Main article: 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 28 December 2021, 11:00 GMT (13:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 winners of the play-off round of qualifying will be 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 was allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot.[15]

Pot 1
Team Pts
Democratic Republic of the Congo TP Mazembe 45
Morocco RS Berkane 41
Egypt Pyramids 31
Algeria JS Kabylie or
Eswatini Royal Leopards 		28
Pot 2
Team Pts
Tanzania Simba 24
Tunisia CS Sfaxien 21
Cameroon Coton Sport 16
South Africa Orlando Pirates 16
Pot 3
Team Pts
Egypt Al Masry 14
Zambia Zanaco 10
Algeria JS Saoura 6
Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas 5
Pot 4
Team Pts
Libya Al Ahli Tripoli 3
Republic of the Congo AS Otohô 1.5
Libya Al Ittihad –
Niger USGN –


In the group stage, each group will be played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to the of the .

Group A[]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification PYR CSS ZAN AHL
1 Egypt Pyramids 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to — 27 Feb 3 Apr 13 Feb
2 Tunisia CS Sfaxien 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Mar — 13 Feb 3 Apr
3 Zambia Zanaco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Feb 20 Mar — 13 Mar
4 Libya Al Ahli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Mar 20 Feb 27 Feb —
First match(es) will be played on 13 February 2022. Source: CAF

Group B[]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification B1 ORL JSS ITT
1 Winner of PR16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to — 27 Feb 3 Apr 13 Feb
2 South Africa Orlando Pirates 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Mar — 13 Feb 3 Apr
3 Algeria JS Saoura 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Feb 20 Mar — 13 Mar
4 Libya Al Ittihad 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Mar 20 Feb 27 Feb —
First match(es) will be played on 13 February 2022. Source: CAF

Group C[]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification TPM COT MAS ASO
1 Democratic Republic of the Congo TP Mazembe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to — 27 Feb 3 Apr 13 Feb
2 Cameroon Coton Sport 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Mar — 13 Feb 3 Apr
3 Egypt Al Masry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Feb 20 Mar — 13 Mar
4 Republic of the Congo AS Otohô 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Mar 20 Feb 27 Feb —
First match(es) will be played on 13 February 2022. Source: CAF

Group D[]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification RSB SIM ASE USG
1 Morocco RS Berkane 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to — 27 Feb 3 Apr 13 Feb
2 Tanzania Simba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 Mar — 13 Feb 3 Apr
3 Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Feb 20 Mar — 13 Mar
4 Niger USGN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 Mar 20 Feb 27 Feb —
First match(es) will be played on 13 February 2022. Source: CAF

See also[]

Notes[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Total, Title Sponsor of the Africa Cup of Nations and Partner of African Football". CAF. 21 July 2016.
  2. ^ a b "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF.
  3. ^ "16 Clubs for Group Phase of CC and CL effective 2017". CAF. 11 May 2016.
  4. ^ "New adopted format for Club Competitions". CAF. 30 May 2016.
  5. ^ "CAF disowns club ranking published by some websites". Cafonline.com. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
  6. ^ "COVID-19 impact on African leagues". CAFonline.com. 6 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Calendar for 2020/21 Interclubs season". CAF. 1 September 2020.
  8. ^ @EFA (10 August 2021). "اتحاد الكرة يرسل أسماء الأندية المصرية المشاركة في بطولتي أفريقيا" [EFA sends names of Egyptian clubs participating in the Champions League and Confederation Cup next season to CAF] (Tweet) (in Arabic) – via Twitter.
  9. ^ "Statement on CAF interclubs preliminary fixtures: Guinea Clubs". CAF Online. CAF. 8 September 2021.
  10. ^ "Media Advisory on TotalEnergies CAF CC Match: Hay Al Wady v Ahly Tripoli". CAFONLINE.com. Confederation of African Football. 14 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  11. ^ "Gor Mahia advance as Al-Ahly Merowe fixture is cancelled". Goal.com. 24 October 2021.
  12. ^ "TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup: Biashara United disqualified". CAF. 3 November 2021.
  13. ^ "TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup: Grupo Desportivo Interclube vs CFFA". CAF. 19 October 2021.
  14. ^ Willis, Seth (3 December 2021). "Orlando Pirates through to group stage after LPRC Oilers withdraw". Goal.com.
  15. ^ "Draw Procedure of the 2021-22 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup – Group Stage". CAF. 27 December 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  16. ^ "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 22 December 2020.

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