2016 CAF Confederation Cup

2016 CAF Confederation Cup

2016 Orange CAF Confederation Cup
Tournament details
Dates	12 February – 6 November 2016
Teams	51+8 (from 39 associations)
Final positions
Champions	TP Mazembe (1st title)
Runners-up	MO Béjaïa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	128
Goals scored	294 (2.3 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Rainford Kalaba (7 goals)
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The 2016 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the 2016 Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 13th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

TP Mazembe defeated MO Béjaïa in the final to win their first CAF Confederation Cup title, and earned the right to play against the winners of the 2016 CAF Champions League in the 2017 CAF Super Cup. ^[1] Étoile du Sahel were the defending champions, and after qualifying for the 2016 CAF Champions League, they entered the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup after they lost in the Champions League second round, but were eliminated in the semi-finals.

Association team allocation

All 56 CAF member associations might enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. The title holders could also enter. ^[1] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 69 teams could enter the tournament (plus eight teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which enter the play-off round) – although this level had never been reached.

For the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF used the 2010–2014 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: ^[2]

	CAF Champions League	CAF Confederation Cup
Winner	5 points	4 points
Runner-up	4 points	3 points
Losing semi-finalists	3 points	2 points
3rd place in groups	2 points	1 point
4th place in groups	1 point	1 point

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

• 2014 – 5
• 2013 – 4
• 2012 – 3
• 2011 – 2
• 2010 – 1

Teams

The following 59 teams from 39 associations entered the competition.

Teams in bold received a bye to the first round. The other teams entered the preliminary round.

Associations are shown according to their 2010–2014 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score indicated.

Association	Team	Qualifying method
Associations eligible to enter two teams (Ranked 1–12)
Tunisia (1st – 105 pts)	Espérance de Tunis	2014–15 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
	Stade Gabèsien	2014–15 Tunisian Cup runner-up
Egypt (2nd – 81 pts)	ENPPI	2014–15 Egyptian Premier League third place
	Misr Lel Makkasa	2014–15 Egyptian Premier League fourth place
DR Congo (3rd – 63 pts)	CS Don Bosco	2014–15 Linafoot third place
	FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo	2015 Coupe du Congo winner
Algeria (4th – 44 pts)	MC Oran	2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
	CS Constantine	2014–15 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 fifth place
Sudan (5th – 33 pts)	Al-Ahly Shendi	2015 Sudan Premier League third place
	Khartoum	2015 Sudan Premier League fourth place
Ivory Coast (6th – 30 pts)	SC Gagnoa	2014–15 Côte d'Ivoire Ligue 1 third place
	Africa Sports	2015 Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire de football winner
Morocco (7th – 29 pts)	Kawkab Marrakech	2014–15 Botola third place
	FUS Rabat	2015 Coupe du Trône runner-up
Cameroon (T-8th – 26 pts)	New Star de Douala	2015 Elite One third place
	UMS de Loum	2015 Cameroonian Cup winner
Congo (T-8th – 26 pts)	Vita Club Mokanda	2015 Congo Premier League sixth place before abandoned
	Diables Noirs	2015 Coupe du Congo winner
Mali (T-8th – 26 pts)	USFAS Bamako	2014–15 Malian Première Division third place
	AS Bakaridjan	2014–15 Malian Première Division fourth place
Nigeria (11th – 22 pts)	Nasarawa United	2015 Nigeria Professional Football League third place
	Akwa United	2015 Nigerian FA Cup winner
South Africa (12th – 16 pts)	Bidvest Wits	2014–15 South African Premier Division third place
	Ajax Cape Town	2014–15 Nedbank Cup runner-up
Associations eligible to enter one team
Angola (13th – 11 pts)	Sagrada Esperança	2015 Taça de Angola runner-up
Libya (14th – 7 pts)	Al-Ittihad Tripoli	2013–14 Libyan Premier League runner-up (no league in 2015)
Ghana (T-15th – 6 pts)	Medeama	2015 Ghanaian FA Cup winner
Zambia (T-15th – 6 pts)	Zanaco	2015 Zambian Premier League runner-up
Ethiopia (17th – 4 pts)	Defence Force	2015 Ethiopian Cup winner
Niger (T-18th – 1 pt)	AS SONIDEP	2015 Niger Cup winner
Zimbabwe (T-18th – 1 pt)	Harare City	2015 Cup of Zimbabwe winner
Botswana	Gaborone United	2014–15 Mascom Top 8 Cup winner
Burkina Faso	USFA	2015 Coupe du Faso winner
Burundi	Atlético Olympic	2015 Burundian Cup runner-up
Chad	Renaissance	2015 Chad Premier League third place
Comoros	Fomboni Club	2015 Comoros Cup winner
Equatorial Guinea	Deportivo Mongomo	2015 Equatoguinean Cup winner
Gabon	CF Mounana	2015 Coupe du Gabon Interclubs winner
Gambia	Wallidan	2015 Gambian Cup winner
Guinea	AS Kaloum	2015 Guinée Coupe Nationale winner
Kenya	Bandari	2015 FKF President's Cup winner
Liberia	Barrack Young Controllers II	2015 Liberian Cup winner
Madagascar	AS Adema	2015 Coupe de Madagascar runner-up
Mozambique	Liga Desportiva de Maputo	2015 Taça de Moçambique winner
Rwanda	Police	2015 Rwandan Cup winner
Senegal	Génération Foot	2015 Senegal FA Cup winner
Seychelles	Light Stars	2015 Seychelles FA Cup winner
South Sudan	Atlabara	2015 South Sudan Football Championship champion
Tanzania	Azam	2014–15 Tanzanian Premier League runner-up
Uganda	SC Villa	2014–15 Ugandan Cup winner
Zanzibar	JKU	2014–15 Zanzibar Premier League runner-up

Teams entering the play-off round

Losers of the 2016 CAF Champions League second round
Mamelodi Sundowns	Al-Merrikh	TP Mazembe	Étoile du Sahel
Stade Malien	Young Africans	Al-Ahli Tripoli	MO Béjaïa

Associations which did not enter a team

Benin Cape Verde Central African Republic Djibouti Eritrea Guinea-Bissau Lesotho Malawi Mauritania Mauritius Namibia Réunion São Tomé and Príncipe Sierra Leone Somalia Swaziland Togo

Notably two team take part in the competition that do not currently play in their national top-division. They are Barrack Young Controllers II (2nd tier) and Génération Foot (2nd).

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows. ^[3] For the first time, some rounds of matches were officially scheduled in midweek (in italics) instead of on weekends. ^[4]

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Preliminary round	11 December 2015 (Dakar, Senegal) [5]	12–14 February 2016	26–28 February 2016
	First round		11–13 March 2016	18–20 March 2016
	Second round		8–10 April 2016	19–20 April 2016
	Play-off round	21 April 2016 (Cairo, Egypt) [6]	6–8 May 2016	17–18 May 2016
Group stage	Matchday 1	24 May 2016 (Cairo, Egypt) [7]	17–19 June 2016
	Matchday 2		28–29 June 2016
	Matchday 3		15–17 July 2016
	Matchday 4		26–27 July 2016
	Matchday 5		12–14 August 2016
	Matchday 6		23–24 August 2016
Knockout stage	Semi-finals		16–18 September 2016	23–25 September 2016
	Final		28–30 October 2016	4–6 November 2016

Qualifying rounds

Main article: 2016 CAF Confederation Cup qualifying rounds

The draw for the preliminary, first and second rounds was held on 11 December 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. ^{[5] [8]} 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 would be applied, and if still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 13 & 14). ^[1]

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vita Club Mokanda	1–1 (6–5 p)	Akwa United	0–1	1–0
Police	4–3	Atlabara	3–1	1–2
Sagrada Esperança	3–2	Ajax Cape Town	1–2	2–0
Wallidan	w/o [A]	MC Oran	—	—
SC Gagnoa	2–0	USFAS Bamako	2–0	0–0
Kawkab Marrakech	3–3 (5–4 p)	USFA	3–0	0–3
Light Stars	0–9	Bidvest Wits	0–3	0–6
Renaissance	3–2	New Star de Douala	1–0	2–2
Harare City	6–3	AS Adema	3–2	3–1
AS Bakaridjan	2–2 (3–4 p)	Stade Gabèsien	1–1	1–1
Nasarawa United	2–1	Génération Foot	2–1	0–0
Defence Force	1–6	Misr Lel Makkasa	1–3	0–3
FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo	3–1	Bandari	2–0	1–1
Al-Ittihad Tripoli	5–4	AS SONIDEP	4–1	1–3
UMS de Loum	0–0 (2–4 p) w/o; d/q [B]	Deportivo Mongomo	0–0	0–0
Khartoum	0–2	SC Villa	0–1	0–1
JKU	w/o [C]	Gaborone United	—	—
Fomboni Club	1–2	Atlético Olympic	1–0	0–2
Diables Noirs	2–4	Africa Sports	1–2	1–2

Notes

1. ^
   MC Oran won on walkover after Wallidan withdrew. ^[9]
2. ^
   The CAF announced on 2 March 2016 that UMS de Loum won on walkover after Deportivo Mongomo were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player. ^[10]
3. ^
   JKU won on walkover after Gaborone United withdrew. ^[11]

First round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vita Club Mokanda	1–0	Police	0–0	1–0
Sagrada Esperança	2–1	Liga Desportiva de Maputo	1–0	1–1
MC Oran	4–2	SC Gagnoa	2–0	2–2
Kawkab Marrakech	3–2	Barrack Young Controllers II	3–0	0–2
Bidvest Wits	3–7	Azam	0–3	3–4
Renaissance	0–7	Espérance de Tunis	0–2	0–5
Harare City	2–5	Zanaco	1–2	1–3
Stade Gabèsien	2–1	AS Kaloum	2–1	0–0
Nasarawa United	2–4	CS Constantine	1–0	1–4
Misr Lel Makkasa	3–2	CS Don Bosco	3–1	0–1
FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo	2–2 (a)	Al-Ahly Shendi	2–1	0–1
Al-Ittihad Tripoli	1–2	Medeama	1–0	0–2
UMS de Loum	2–3	FUS Rabat	1–1	1–2
SC Villa	5–0	JKU	4–0	1–0
Atlético Olympic	0–5	CF Mounana	0–2	0–3
Africa Sports	1–6	ENPPI	0–2	1–4

Second round

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Vita Club Mokanda	1–4	Sagrada Esperança	1–2	0–2
MC Oran	0–1	Kawkab Marrakech	0–0	0–1
Azam	2–4	Espérance de Tunis	2–1	0–3
Zanaco	1–4	Stade Gabèsien	1–1	0–3
CS Constantine	2–3	Misr Lel Makkasa	1–0	1–3
Al-Ahly Shendi	0–2	Medeama	0–0	0–2
FUS Rabat	7–1	SC Villa	7–0	0–1
CF Mounana	2–2 (5–4 p)	ENPPI	2–0	0–2

The eight winners of the second round advanced to the play-off round, where they were joined by the eight losers of the Champions League second round.

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 21 April 2016, 14:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. ^{[6] [12]} The winners of the Confederation Cup second round were drawn against the losers of the Champions League second round, with the former hosting the second leg. The eight winners of the play-off round advanced to the group stage.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
MO Béjaïa	1–1 (a)	Espérance de Tunis	0–0	1–1
Stade Malien	0–4	FUS Rabat	0–0	0–4
Étoile du Sahel	2–1	CF Mounana	2–0	0–1
TP Mazembe	2–2 (a)	Stade Gabèsien	1–0	1–2
Al-Ahli Tripoli	1–1 (a)	Misr Lel Makkasa	0–0	1–1
Al-Merrikh	1–2	Kawkab Marrakech	1–0	0–2
Young Africans	2–1	Sagrada Esperança	2–0	0–1
Mamelodi Sundowns	3–3 (a) [D]	Medeama	3–1	0–2

Notes

4. ^
   The CAF announced on 24 May 2016 that Mamelodi Sundowns won their Champions League second round tie on walkover after AS Vita Club were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player in their preliminary round tie against Mafunzo. ^[13] Mamelodi Sundowns played in the Confederation Cup play-off round before they were reinstated to the Champions League.

Group stage

Main article: 2016 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

MO Béjaïa

TP Mazembe

Medeama

Al-Ahli

FUS

Kawkab

Y. Africans

ES Sahel

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Location of teams of the 2016 CAF Confederation Cup group stage.
Group A.
Group B.

The draw for the group stage was held on 24 May 2016, 14:30 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. ^{[7] [14]} The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. 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 semi-finals.

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 would be applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21): [1] Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned; Goal difference in games between the teams concerned; Goals scored in games between the teams concerned; Away goals scored in games between the teams concerned; If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 9 apply; Goal difference in all games; Goals scored in all games; Away goals scored in all games; Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		TPM	MOB	MED	YAN
1	TP Mazembe	6	4	1	1	10	5	+5	13	Knockout stage		—	1–0	3–1	3–1
2	MO Béjaïa	6	2	2	2	2	2	0	8			0–0	—	1–0	1–0
3	Medeama	6	2	2	2	8	8	0	8			3–2	0–0	—	3–1
4	Young Africans	6	1	1	4	4	9	−5	4			0–1	1–0	1–1	—

Source: CAF

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		FUS	ESS	KAC	AHL
1	FUS Rabat	6	3	3	0	9	4	+5	12	Knockout stage		—	0–0	3–1	1–0
2	Étoile du Sahel	6	3	2	1	9	4	+5	11			1–1	—	3–1	3–0
3	Kawkab Marrakech	6	2	1	3	9	13	−4	7			1–3	2–1	—	2–2
4	Al-Ahli Tripoli	6	0	2	4	4	10	−6	2			1–1	0–1	1–2	—

Source: CAF

Knockout stage

Main article: 2016 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage

In the knockout stage, the four teams played a single-elimination tournament. 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 would be applied, and if still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 26 & 27). ^[1]

Bracket

	Semi-finals							Final
	1	MO Béjaïa (a)	0	1	1
	4	FUS Rabat	0	1	1
								MO Béjaïa		1	1	2
								TP Mazembe		1	4	5
	3	Étoile du Sahel	1	0	1
	2	TP Mazembe (a)	1	0	1

Semi-finals

In the semi-finals, the group A winners played the group B runners-up, and the group B winners played the group A runners-up, with the group winners hosting the second leg.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Étoile du Sahel	1–1 (a)	TP Mazembe	1–1	0–0
MO Béjaïa	1–1 (a)	FUS Rabat	0–0	1–1

Final

Main article: 2016 CAF Confederation Cup Final

In the final, the two semi-final winners played each other, with the order of legs decided by an additional draw held after the group stage draw. ^[14]

29 October 2016 (2016-10-29)

20:30  UTC+1

MO Béjaïa	1–1	TP Mazembe
Yaya 66'	Report	Bolingi 43' (pen.)

Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Bernard Camille (Seychelles)

6 November 2016 (2016-11-06)

15:30  UTC+2

TP Mazembe	4–1	MO Béjaïa
Bokadi 7' Kalaba 44', 62' Bolingi 77'	Report	Khadir 75'

Stade TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi

Attendance: 18,000

Referee: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)

TP Mazembe won 5–2 on aggregate.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Rainford Kalaba	TP Mazembe	7
2	Jonathan Bolingi	TP Mazembe	6
	Love	Sagrada Esperança
4	Mohammad El Fakih	Kawkab Marrakech	5
	Abass Mohammed	Medeama
	Mohammed Nahiri	FUS Rabat
7	Abdelilah Amimi	Kawkab Marrakech	4
	Abdessalam Benjelloun	FUS Rabat
Ahmed Hosni	Stade Gabèsien
10	Ahmed Akaïchi	Étoile du Sahel	3
	Amr Barakat	Misr Lel Makkasa
	Mourad Batna	FUS Rabat
	Hichem Essifi	Stade Gabèsien
	Haythem Jouini	Espérance de Tunis
	Tchétché Kipré	Azam
	Hamza Lahmar	Étoile du Sahel
	Raphael Manuvire	Harare City
	Iheb Msakni	Étoile du Sahel
	Nana Poku	Misr Lel Makkasa

See also

• 2016 CAF Champions League
• 2017 CAF Super Cup

References

1. "Regulations of the CAF Confederation Cup" (PDF). Confédération Africaine de Football. Retrieved 23 May 2016.
2. "CAF disowns club ranking published by some websites". Cafonline.com. 9 June 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
3. "Orange CAF CL FINAL 2015: CAF Flash Magazine" (PDF). CAF.
4. "CAF clubs create history with midweek games". CAF. 18 April 2016.
5. "Preliminary draw for CC and CL 2016 conducted". CAF. 11 December 2015.
6. "Draw for Confed Cup 2nd 1/8th round holds April 21". CAF. 19 April 2016.
7. "Accreditation for Interclubs Group Phase draw". CAF. 9 May 2016.
8. "Fixtures – CAF Confederation Cup 2016" (PDF). CAF.
9. "MC Oran - Après le forfait d'Al Wallidan". Le Quotidien d'Oran. M. Benboua. 6 January 2016.
10. "Coupe de la Confédération: le club de Mongomo disqualifié". Africa Top Sports. 3 March 2016.
11. "Gaborone United pull out of Confed Cup". SuperSport. 9 February 2016.
12. "Results of CC 2nd 1/8th Round draw". CAF. 21 April 2016.
13. "Disqualification of AS Vita Club". CAF. 24 May 2016.
14. "CC draw results: Group phase". CAF. 24 May 2016.

External links

• Orange CAF Confederation Cup 2016, CAFonline.com