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2022–23 CAF Champions League knockout stage
Dates21 April – 11 June 2023
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored28 (2 per match)
Attendance506,000 (36,143 per match)
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International football competition

The 2022–23 CAF Champions League knockout stage started on 21 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 11 June 2023 with the final to decide the champions of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times were local.

Round and draw dates

The schedule was as follows.

Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Quarter-finals 5 April 2023 21–22 April 2023 28–29 April 2023
Semi-finals 12–13 May 2023 19–20 May 2023
Final 4 June 2023 11 June 2023

Format

Each tie in the knockout phase was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was not played and the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations III. 26 & 27).

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 cannot be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association can be drawn against each other.
  • In the draws for the semi-finals and final, 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.

Qualified teams

The knockout stage involved the 8 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group Winners Runners-up
A Morocco Wydad AC Algeria JS Kabylie
B South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns Egypt Al Ahly
C Morocco Raja CA Tanzania Simba
D Tunisia Espérance de Tunis Algeria CR Belouizdad

Bracket

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:

Round Matchups
Quarter-finals (Group winners hosted second leg, matchups decided by draw, teams from same group cannot play each other)
  • QF1
  • QF2
  • QF3
  • QF4
Semi-finals (Matchups and order of legs decided by draw, between winners QF1, QF2, QF3, QF4)
  • SF1
  • SF2
Final Winners SF1 and SF2 faced each other in two legs to decide the champions

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final), which was held on 5 April 2023, 18:30 GMT (20:30 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
            
Algeria JS Kabylie 0 1 1
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 1 1 2
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 0 0 0
Egypt Al Ahly 3 1 4
Egypt Al Ahly 2 0 2
Morocco Raja CA 0 0 0
Egypt Al Ahly 2 1 3
Morocco Wydad AC 1 1 2
Tanzania Simba 1 0 1 (3)
Morocco Wydad AC (p) 0 1 1 (4)
Morocco Wydad AC (a) 0 2 2
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 0 2 2
Algeria CR Belouizdad 1 1 2
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 4 2 6

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 5 April 2023.

Summary

The first legs were played on 21 and 22 April, and the second legs were played on 28 and 29 April 2023.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Simba Tanzania 1–1 (3–4 p) Morocco Wydad AC 1–0 0–1
Al Ahly Egypt 2–0 Morocco Raja CA 2–0 0–0
CR Belouizdad Algeria 2–6 South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 1–4 1–2
JS Kabylie Algeria 1–2 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 0–1 1–1

Matches

Simba Tanzania1–0Morocco Wydad AC
Report
National Stadium, Dar es SalaamAttendance: 70,000Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)
Wydad AC Morocco1–0Tanzania Simba
Report
Penalties
4–3
Stade Mohammed V, CasablancaAttendance: 39,000Referee: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad)

1–1 on aggregate. Wydad AC won 4–3 on penalties.

Al Ahly Egypt2–0Morocco Raja CA
Report
Cairo International Stadium, CairoAttendance: 52,000Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)
Raja CA Morocco0–0Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Stade Mohammed V, CasablancaAttendance: 70,000Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

Al Ahly won 2–0 on aggregate.

CR Belouizdad Algeria1–4South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
Report
Nelson Mandela Stadium, AlgiersAttendance: 40,000Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa2–1Algeria CR Belouizdad
Report
Loftus Versfeld Stadium, PretoriaAttendance: 10,000Referee: Abdel Aziz Mohamed Bouh (Mauritania)

Mamelodi Sundowns won 6–2 on aggregate.

JS Kabylie Algeria0–1Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
Report
Stade du 5 Juillet, AlgiersAttendance: 47,000Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)
Espérance de Tunis Tunisia1–1Algeria JS Kabylie
Report
Stade Hammadi Agrebi, TunisAttendance: 40,000Referee: Jean Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)

Espérance de Tunis won 2–1 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 5 April 2023 (after the quarter-finals draw).

Summary

The first legs were played on 12 and 13 May, and the second legs were played on 19 and 20 May 2023.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Espérance de Tunis Tunisia 0–4 Egypt Al Ahly 0–3 0–1
Wydad AC Morocco 2–2 (a) South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 0–0 2–2

Matches

Espérance de Tunis Tunisia0–3Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Stade Hammadi Agrebi, TunisAttendance: 0 (close doors)Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)
Al Ahly Egypt1–0Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
Report
Cairo International Stadium, CairoAttendance: 10,000Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

Al Ahly won 4–0 on aggregate.

Wydad AC Morocco0–0South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
Report
Stade Mohammed V, CasablancaAttendance: 39,000Referee: Daniel Nii Laryea (Ghana)
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa2–2Morocco Wydad AC
Report
Loftus Versfeld Stadium, PretoriaAttendance: 50,000Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)

2–2 on aggregate. Wydad AC won on away goals.

Final

Main article: 2023 CAF Champions League final

The first leg was played on 4 June, and the second leg was played on 11 June 2023.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al Ahly Egypt 3–2 Morocco Wydad AC 2–1 1–1


Al Ahly Egypt2–1Morocco Wydad AC
Report
Cairo International Stadium, CairoAttendance: 50,000Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)
Wydad AC Morocco1–1Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Stade Mohammed V, CasablancaAttendance: 45,000Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Al Ahly won 3–2 on aggregate.


Notes

  1. JS Kabylie played their knockout stage home matches at Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, instead of their regular home stadium 1 November 1954 Stadium, Tizi Ouzou, which did not meet CAF requirements.

References

  1. "TotalEnergies CAF Interclub Quarterfinals Draw to be conducted on 05 April". CAF. 29 March 2023.

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