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The 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage started on 1 December 2019 and ended on 2 February 2020. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 12 November 2019, 12:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off 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 Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group.

Format

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.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of each matchday is as follows. Effective from the Confederation Cup group stage, matches are played on Sundays. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00, 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

Groups

Times are GMT as listed by CAF (local times, even if not different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PYR	MAS	RAN	FCN
1	Pyramids	6	5	0	1	14	3	+11	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	0–1	6–0
2	Al-Masry	6	3	1	2	10	9	+1	10			1–2	—	4–2	1–0
3	Enugu Rangers	6	1	3	2	6	9	−3	6			1–3	1–1	—	1–1
4	FC Nouadhibou	6	0	2	4	3	12	−9	2			0–1	2–3	0–0	—

Enugu Rangers	1–3	Pyramids
Olawoyin 28'	Report	Farouk 54' (pen.) Layouni 83' Issa 87' (pen.)

FC Nouadhibou	2–3	Al-Masry
Bagili 46' El Welly 55'	Report	Amutu 20', 63' El Eraky 90+1'

Al-Masry	4–2	Enugu Rangers
Amutu 5' Yasser 27' Taktak 48' Ali 83'	Report	Chinonso 86' Simporé 90' (o.g.)

Pyramids	6–0	FC Nouadhibou
Farouk 10', 56' Traoré 32', 84' Antwi 52' Kanon 75'	Report

Al-Masry	1–2	Pyramids
Simporé 72' (pen.)	Report	Antwi 54' El Gabbas 83'

FC Nouadhibou	0–0	Enugu Rangers
	Report

Enugu Rangers	1–1	FC Nouadhibou
Olawoyin 68' (pen.)	Report	El Welly 23'

Pyramids	2–0	Al-Masry
Traoré 21' Dunga 71'	Report

Pyramids	0–1	Enugu Rangers
	Report	George 73'

Al-Masry	1–0	FC Nouadhibou
Simporé 86'	Report

FC Nouadhibou	0–1	Pyramids
	Report	Antwi 59'

Enugu Rangers	1–1	Al-Masry
George 20'	Report	Wadi 6'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HOR	NAS	DJO	BID
1	Horoya	6	4	2	0	8	1	+7	14	Advance to knockout stage		—	3–0	1–0	2–1
2	Al-Nasr	6	2	2	2	4	7	−3	8			0–2	—	1–1	2–1
3	Djoliba	6	2	2	2	4	3	+1	8			0–0	0–1	—	1–0
4	Bidvest Wits	6	0	2	4	2	7	−5	2			0–0	0–0	0–2	—

1. ^ Head-to-head points: Al-Nasr 4, Djoliba 1.

Al-Nasr	1–1	Djoliba
Almaryami 68' (pen.)	Report	Bah 52'

Bidvest Wits	0–0	Horoya
	Report

Djoliba	1–0	Bidvest Wits
Talatou 30'	Report

Horoya	3–0	Al-Nasr
Makambo 12' Bancé 75' (pen.) Kutinyu 90'	Report

Horoya	1–0	Djoliba
Sylla 19'	Report

Bidvest Wits	0–0	Al-Nasr
	Report

Al-Nasr	2–1	Bidvest Wits
Dzvukamanja 49' (o.g.) Alaeeli 61'	Report	Domingo 75'

Djoliba	0–0	Horoya
	Report

Horoya	2–1	Bidvest Wits
Nikièma 5' Haba 62'	Report	Hotto 21'

Djoliba	0–1	Al-Nasr
	Report	Al-Mehdi 68'

Bidvest Wits	0–2	Djoliba
	Report	Sanogo 15' Camara 46'

Al-Nasr	0–2	Horoya
	Report	Haba 11' Nikièma 76' (pen.)

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RSB	ZAN	DCM	ESA
1	RS Berkane	6	3	2	1	13	4	+9	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	3–0	3–0
2	Zanaco	6	2	4	0	8	4	+4	10			1–1	—	2–1	3–0
3	DC Motema Pembe	6	3	1	2	6	6	0	10			1–0	1–1	—	1–0
4	ESAE	6	0	1	5	1	14	−13	1			1–5	0–0	0–2	—

1. ^ Head-to-head points: Zanaco 4, DC Motema Pembe 1.

DC Motema Pembe	1–1	Zanaco
Kolawole 78'	Report	Souleymanou 25'

RS Berkane	3–0	ESAE
Krouch 26' Laachir 32' Ouattara 86'	Report

ESAE	0–2	DC Motema Pembe
	Report	Kombe 36', 52'

Zanaco	1–1	RS Berkane
Zulu 25'	Report	Ouattara 15'

ESAE	0–0	Zanaco
	Report

RS Berkane	3–0	DC Motema Pembe
Traoré 29' Krouch 41' Laachir 67'	Report

DC Motema Pembe	1–0	RS Berkane
Luezi 69'	Report

Zanaco	3–0	ESAE
Mbewe 54' Kola 65', 81'	Report

ESAE	1–5	RS Berkane
Sewa 1'	Report	Ajaray 30', 41', 53' Laachir 36' Aziz 75' (pen.)

Zanaco	2–1	DC Motema Pembe
Owusu 83' Souleymanou 90+3'	Report	Nkongo 7'

RS Berkane	1–1	Zanaco
Traoré 2'	Report	Dayo 39' (o.g.)

DC Motema Pembe	1–0	ESAE
Kombe 3'	Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		HAS	ENY	PAC	SNP
1	Hassania Agadir	6	3	2	1	9	5	+4	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	0–3	3–0
2	Enyimba	6	3	1	2	11	7	+4	10			1–1	—	4–1	1–0
3	Paradou AC	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8			0–2	1–0	—	0–0
4	FC San Pédro	6	0	3	3	3	10	−7	3			1–1	2–5	0–0	—

FC San Pédro	0–0	Paradou AC
	Report

Hassania Agadir	2–0	Enyimba
El Berkaoui 14' Cissé 19'	Report

Enyimba	1–0	FC San Pédro
Usule 64'	Report

Paradou AC	0–2	Hassania Agadir
	Report	Oubilla 26' Rami 48'

FC San Pédro	1–1	Hassania Agadir
Zan Bi 81'	Report	El Fahli 37'

Paradou AC	1–0	Enyimba
Ghorab 64'	Report

Enyimba	4–1	Paradou AC
Dimgba 15', 36', 76' Mbaoma 35'	Report	Kadri 89'

Hassania Agadir	3–0	FC San Pédro
El Berkaoui 50', 54', 59'	Report

Enyimba	1–1	Hassania Agadir
Oladapo 16'	Report	El Fahli 2'

Paradou AC	0–0	FC San Pédro
	Report

FC San Pédro	2–5	Enyimba
Jimoh 6' Zan Bi 44'	Report	Bashir 2' Mbaoma 3', 75' Oladapo 25' Dimgba 85'

Hassania Agadir	0–3	Paradou AC
	Report	Kismoun 10', 72' Bouzok 90+5'

Notes

1. ^ Al-Masry played their group stage home matches at Alexandria Stadium, Alexandria, instead of their regular home stadium Al Masry Club Stadium, Port Said, which is undergoing renovation.
2. The Pyramids v Enugu Rangers match, originally scheduled to be played at 30 June Stadium, was played at Cairo International Stadium, both in Cairo, due to the former hosting the first African Para Games.
3. The FC Nouadhibou v Pyramids match, originally scheduled to be played at Stade Cheikha Ould Boïdiya in Nouakchott, Mauritania, was played at 30 June Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, following request made by both clubs.
4. ^ Teams from Libya played their home matches outside the country due to security concerns from the ongoing civil war.
5. ^ ESAE played their group stage home matches at Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo, instead of their regular home stadium Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa, Cotonou.
6. ^ FC San Pédro played their home matches at Stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan, instead of their regular home stadium Stade Auguste Denise, San-Pédro, which did not meet CAF requirements.
7. ^ Paradou AC played their home matches at Mustapha Tchaker Stadium, Blida, instead of their regular home stadium Stade de Hydra, Hydra, which did not meet CAF requirements.

References

1. ^ "Interclubs competition calendar; seasons 2018/19, 2019/20 & 2020/21" (PDF). CAF.
2. ^ "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 26 July 2019.
3. "Group Phase draw for Total CAF Confederation Cup 2019/20 set for 12 November". CAF. 10 November 2019.
4. "Intriguing fixtures as Confederation Cup group stage draw completed". CAF. 12 November 2019.
5. "Total CAF Confederation Cup: Group phase" (PDF). CAF.
6. @CAF_Online (24 November 2019). "Schedule Changes" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
7. @pyramidsfc (26 January 2020). "Pyramids FC is honored to host the first-ever Special Olympics Pan African Games in our ground at the 30th of June Stadium!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. @pyramidsfc (28 January 2020). "كاف يوافق على نقل مباراة نواذيبو وبيراميدز للقاهرة" [CAF agrees to move FC Nouadhibou v Pyramids match to Cairo] (Tweet) (in Arabic) – via Twitter.

External links

• Total CAF Confederation Cup, CAFonline.com
  • CAF Total Confederation Cup 2019/20

• 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup
• December 2019 sports events in Africa
• January 2020 sports events in Africa
• February 2020 sports events in Africa