The 2022–23 CAF Champions League group stage began on 10 February and ended on 1 April 2023. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League.
Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 12 December 2022, 12:00 GMT (14:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 winners of the second 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 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. +Pot 1 Team Al Ahly 78 Wydad AC 71 Espérance de Tunis 58 Raja CA 54+Pot 2 Team Mamelodi Sundowns 46 Zamalek 43 Petro de Luanda 31 Horoya 31+Pot 3 Team Simba 28 CR Belouizdad 27 JS Kabylie 22 Al Hilal 19.5+Pot 4 Team AS Vita Club 17 Coton Sport 14.5 Al Merrikh 9 Vipers —
Format In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.
Tiebreakers The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Drawing of lots.
Schedule The schedule of each matchday was as follows.
MatchdayDatesMatchesMatchday 110–11 February 2023Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 217–18 February 2023Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 324–25 February 2023Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 47 March 2023Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 517–18 March 2023Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 631 March – 1 April 2023Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4
Groups Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Notes
References
External links CAFonline.com