CAF Champions League

CAF Champions League

Organising body	CAF
Founded	1964;60 years ago (1964) (rebranded in 1997)
Region	Africa
Number of teams	16 (group stage) 68 (total) (from 56 associations)
Qualifier for	CAF Super Cup FIFA Club World Cup FIFA Intercontinental Cup
Related competitions	CAF Confederation Cup
Current champions	Al Ahly (12th title)
Most successful club(s)	Al Ahly (12 titles)
Television broadcasters	List of broadcasters
Website	Official website
2024–25 CAF Champions League

The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League ^[1] and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and contested by top-division African clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout stage, and then a home and away final. It is the most prestigious club competition in African football.

The winner of the each season of the competition earns a berth for the FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, faces the winner of the CAF Confederation Cup in the following season's CAF Super Cup and from 2024 onwards, along with the next 4 best teams, a place in the new FIFA Intercontinental Cup. Clubs that finish as runners-up their national leagues, having not qualified for the Champions League, are eligible for the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup.

Egyptian clubs have the highest number of victories (18 titles), followed by Morocco with 7. Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with three clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 26 clubs, 12 of which have won it more than once. Al Ahly is the most successful club in the competition's history, having it a record 12 times, including the most recent season and are the current African champions, having beaten Espérance de Tunis 1–0 on aggregate in the 2024 final.

History

Established in 1964 as the African Cup of Champions Clubs, the first team to lift the trophy was Cameroonian team Oryx Douala who beat Stade Malien of Mali 2–1 in a one-off final. ^[2]

The 1966 edition introduced the two-legged 'home and away' final, which saw another Malian team AS Real Bamako take on Stade d'Abidjan of Ivory Coast. Real Bamako won the home leg 3–1 but it all came apart for them in the away game in Abidjan as the Ivorians went on to win 4–1 to take the title 5–4 on aggregate. ^[3]

In 1967 when Asante Kotoko of Ghana met TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (or the DRC for short), both matches ended in draws (1–1 and 2–2 respectively). CAF arranged a play-off, but Kotoko failed to appear ^[4] and the title was handed to Mazembe, who went on to win the title again the following year. ^[5]

However, the Ghanaians got their revenge in 1970, when Kotoko and Mazembe once again met in the final. Once again, the first game ended 1–1, but against expectation, the Ghanaians ran out 2–1 winners in their away game to lift the title that had eluded them three years earlier. ^[6]

The 1970s saw a remarkable rise in the fortunes of Cameroonian club football, which created the platform of success enjoyed by Cameroonian football at international level today.

Between 1971 and 1980 Cameroonian teams won the cup four times, with Canon Yaoundé taking three titles (1971, ^[7] 1978 ^[8] and 1980 ^[9] ) and US Douala lifting the cup in 1979. In between the Cameroonian victories the honor was shared with another team enjoying a golden age, Guinean side Hafia Conakry, who won it three times during this period (1972, ^[10] 1975 ^[11] and 1977 ^[12] )

1997–present: Change of name and rise in reputation

Apart from the introduction of the away goals rule, very little changed in this competition until 1997, when CAF under Issa Hayatou took the bold step to follow the lead established a few years earlier by UEFA by creating a league/group stage in the tournament and changing the name to the CAF Champions League (in line with UEFA's own Champions League). CAF also introduced prize money for participants for the first time with the initial offering of US$1 million to the winners and US$750,000 to the runners-up, making the rebranded competition the richest African club competition at the time.

In the new format, the league champions of the respective CAF member countries go through a series of qualification rounds until a round of 16 stage. The 8 winners are then drawn into two groups of 4 teams each, with each team playing each other on a home and away basis. At the end of the league stage, the top team in each group met in the final, in two-legged games (home and away). In the 2001 season, the CAF introduced the semi-final stage after group stage, then the top two teams in each group would meet in the semi-finals, with the winners going through to contest the final.

Beginning with the 2009 season, the prize money increased to $1.5 million for the champions and $1 million for the runner-ups. Since the competition rebranded in 1997, teams from North Africa have come to dominate the competition and its records. Morocco's Raja Casablanca won two of the first three editions, ^[13] but Al Ahly became the most successful team, winning the 2001, ^[14] 2005, ^[15] 2006, ^[16] 2008 ^[17] and 2012 editions, ^[18] while Zamalek managed to be champions in 2002. ^[19] Tunisian teams broke into the winners' circle with Étoile du Sahel winning the 2007 edition after being a losing finalist in 2004 and 2005. ^[20] For its part, Espérance de Tunis achieved its second continental title in 2011 after having lost in the finals in the 1999, 2000, 2010 and 2012 editions. ^[21]

Despite the clear dominance of North African teams, Nigerian club Enyimba won their first two titles back-to-back in 2003 and 2004. ^{[22] [23]} ASEC Mimosas from Ivory Coast and Accra Hearts of Oak from Ghana added two championships for West Africa. In 2010, TP Mazembe from the DRC became the first club to repeat as champions on two occasions, with the first pair of wins arriving in 1967 and 1968, ^{[24] [25]} before repeating the feat again in 2009 and 2010. ^{[26] [27]} In 2017, the group phase was expanded from 2 groups of 4 teams to 4 groups of 16, with the automatic addition of the quarter-finals stage. ^{[28] [29] [30]}

The 2020–21 season was played behind closed doors due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa in line with global football leagues and competitions. Nevertheless, Al Ahly faced bitter rivals Zamalek in an-all Egyptian final (the first time two clubs from the same country compete in any final in the competition's history), ^[31] with the former emerging victorious and winning its ninth title. ^[32] Al Ahly successfully defended their title for a record-extending 10th time the following season by beating 10-men Kaizer Chiefs of South Africa, ^[33] but were unable to secure a 3rd consecutive title in a row and 11th title in 2022 as they were defeated 2–0 by Moroccan club Wydad AC who instead captured their 3rd title. ^[34] With a return to two-legged finals after a 24-month hiatus owing to the pandemic, Al Ahly roared back, got their revenge the following season and wrestled the title back from Wydad, thus claiming their 11th title in 2023 with a 3–2 aggregate win thanks to forward Mohamed Abdelmoneim's tie-breaking goal ^[35] and successfully defended it for the second time in the space of half a decade (5 years) in 2024 for a record extending 12th title with a 1–0 aggregate win over Tunisia's Esperance. ^[36]

With the introduction of the Africa Football League in the 2023–24 season, CAF plans to keep the Champions League, as the new competition will not be its replacement. ^[37] However, media reports speculate that CAF could potentially eliminate the group phase and have the competition exclusively made up of two-legged knockout matchups, as per the original format of the African Cup of Champions Clubs era from 1964 to 1996. ^[38]

Structure and qualification

Qualification

The CAF Champions League is open to the winners of all CAF-affiliated national leagues, as well as the title holders from the previous season. From the 2004 season onward, with the merging of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners' Cup to create the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup, the runners-up of football leagues of the 12 highest-ranked countries also enter the tournament, making up a total of 64 in-competition teams. The 12 countries would be ranked based on the performance of their clubs in the previous 5 seasons/editions of the competition (the plain definition of the CAF 5-year ranking ). ^[39]

The number of teams that each association enters into the CAF Champions League is determined annually through criteria as set by the CAF Competitions Committee. ^{[40] [41]} The higher an association's ranking as determined by the criteria, the more teams represent the association in the Champions League, and the fewer qualification rounds the association's teams must compete in.

The CAF Champions League operates primarily as a knockout competition, with trim-down qualification rounds, a group stage, a two-legged knockout stage and a one-off final. At the start of the competition, the 64 qualified teams enter 2 qualification rounds: the preliminary stage and the first round. After the first qualifying round, the remaining teams are split into four groups of 4, whereas the teams each first-round winner vanquished transfer to the second qualification round of the Confederation Cup for hopes of group stage progression. The winners and runners-up of each group progress to the two-legged knockout stage for hopes of progression to a one-off final for a chance to lift the trophy for their member association.

Sponsorship

In October 2004, MTN contracted a four-year deal to sponsor CAF's competitions worth US$12.5 million, which at that time was the biggest sponsorship deal in African sporting history. ^[42]

In 2008, CAF put a value of €100 million for a comprehensive and long-term package of its competitions when it opened tenders for a new sponsor, which was scooped up by French telecommunications giant Orange through the signing of an eight-year deal the following year in July, whose terms were not disclosed. ^[43]

On 21 July 2016, French energy and petroleum giant, TotalEnergies ^[44] (at the time known as Total S.A.) secured an 8-year sponsorship package from CAF to support its competitions, including its main competition, the Africa Cup of Nations. ^{[45] [46]}

Current Sponsors:

Title Sponsor	Official Sponsors	Former Sponsor	Ball Supplier
TotalEnergies [45]	Orange [47] 1xBet [48] TikTok [49] [50] [51] QNET [52]	Umbro [53] [54]	Puma [55]

Prizes

Trophy and medals

Official trophy

Each year, the winning team is presented with the CAF Champions League, the current version of which has been awarded since the competition name change in 1997. Forty gold medals are presented to the competition winners and 40 silver medals to the runners-up.

1997–2008

Following the competition rebranding to its current name in 1997, CAF introduced prize money for the eight participants in group stage for the first time in an African club football competition. This first tranche lasted until 2008.

Final position	Prize money
Champions	US$1,000,000
Runners-up	US$750,000
Semi-finalists	US$427,500
3rd in group stage	US$261,250
4th in group stage	US$190,000

2009–2016

CAF increased prize money to be shared between the group stage clubs, which was 8 at the time, as follows: ^[56]

Final position	Prize money
Champions	US$1,500,000
Runners-up	US$1,000,000
Semi-finalists	US$700,000
3rd in group stage	US$500,000
4th in group stage	US$400,000

2017–2022

This third tranche of the prize money from CAF showed an increase to be shared between the group stage clubs, which increased to 16 from 2017 to date, as follows: ^{[57] [58] [59] [60]}

Final position	Prize money
Champions	US$2,500,000
Runners-up	US$1,250,000
Semi-finalists	US$875,000
Quarter-finalists	US$650,000
3rd in group stage	US$550,000
4th in group stage	US$550,000

* Note: National Associations receive an additional equivalent share of 5% for each amount awarded to clubs.

2023–present

On 16 Aug 2024, CAF announced an increase in the prize money to be shared between the 16 group stage clubs including preliminary stages teams, which is the latest tranche, as follows: ^[61]

Final position	Prize money
Champions	US$4,000,000
Runners-up	US$2,000,000
Semi-finalists	US$1,200,000
Quarter-finalists	US$900,000
3rd in group stage	US$700,000
4th in group stage	US$700,000
Preliminary Stages	US$50,000

Broadcast coverage

Below are the current broadcast rights holders of this competition: ^[62]

Country/Region	Channels
Algeria	EPTV (Only Algeria)
ASEAN	beIN Sports
Benin	ORTB
Burkina Faso	RTB
Europe	Sportfive
France	beIN Sports
Ghana	GTV Sports+ StarTimes [63]
Morocco	Arryadia
Portugal	Sport TV
Latin America	ESPN
Nigeria	SuperSport
MENA	beIN Sports
South Africa	SuperSport SABC Sport [64]
Western Balkans	Sport Klub
United States	beIN Sports
Sub-Saharan Africa	Canal+ SuperSport (selected matches) StarTimes (except South Africa)
East Africa	TVZ ZBC

Records and statistics

Main article: African Cup of Champions Clubs and CAF Champions League records and statistics

List of finals

Main article: List of African Cup of Champions Clubs and CAF Champions League finals

• In 1965 and between 2020 and 2022, the final was played under a single match.
• In 1967 and 1971, the winner was defined after playing a third match.

Keys

•   Defined after a replay
•   Defined according to the away goals
•   Defined after extra time in the second leg
•   Defined on penalty shoot-out in the second leg

Year	Team 1	1st. leg	2nd. leg	Replay/ Agg.	Team 2	Venue (1st leg)	Venue (2nd leg)	Venue (Replay)
African Cup of Champions Clubs
1965	Oryx Douala	2–1			Stade Malien	Accra Stadium, Accra	—
1966	Real Bamako	3–1	1–4	4–5	Stade Abidjan	Municipal, Bamako	F. Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan	—
1967	Asante Kotoko	1–1	2–2	w/o [n 1]	TP Englebert	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi	20 Mai, Kinshasa	Omnisports, Yaoundé
1968	TP Englebert	5–0	1–4	6–4	Étoile Filante	20 Mai, Kinshasa	Général Eyadema, Lomé	—
1969	TP Englebert	2–2	1–3	3–5	Ismaily	20 Mai, Kinshasa	Nasser, Cairo
1970	Asante Kotoko	1–1	2–1	3–2	TP Englebert	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi	20 Mai, Kinshasa
1971	Asante Kotoko	3–0	0–2	0–1 [n 2]	Canon Yaoundé	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi	Militaire Garoua, Yaoundé	Militaire Garoua, Yaoundé
1972	Hafia	4–2	3–2	7–4	Simba	28 Septembre, Conakry	Nakivubo, Kampala	—
1973	Asante Kotoko	4–2	0–3	4–5	Vita Club	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi	20 Mai, Kinshasa
1974	CARA Brazzaville	4–2	2–1	6–3	Ghazl El Mahalla	Revolution, Brazzaville	El Mahalla, El-Mahalla El-Kubra
1975	Hafia	1–0	2–1	3–1	Enugu Rangers	28 Septembre, Conakry	Surulere, Lagos
1976	Hafia	3–0	0–3	(1–3 p)	MC Alger	28 Septembre, Conakry	5 Juillet, Algiers
1977	Hearts of Oak	0–1	2–3	2–4	Hafia	Accra Sports, Accra	28 Septembre, Conakry
1978	Hafia	0–0	0–2	0–2	Canon Yaoundé	28 Septembre, Conakry	Omnisport, Yaoundé
1979	Hearts of Oak	1–0	0–1	(3–5 p)	Union Douala	Accra Sports, Accra	Omnisport, Yaoundé
1980	Canon Yaoundé	2–2	3–0	5–2	AS Bilima	Garoua, Garoua	20 Mai, Kinshasa
1981	JE Tizi Ouzou	4–0	1–0	5–0	Vita Club	1 November, Tizi Ouzou	20 Mai, Kinshasa
1982	Al Ahly	3–0	1–1	4–1	Asante Kotoko	Cairo International, Cairo	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi
1983	Al Ahly	0–0	0–1	0–1	Asante Kotoko	Cairo International, Cairo	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi
1984	Zamalek	2–0	1–0	3–0	Shooting Stars	Cairo International, Cairo	Surulere, Lagos
1985	AS FAR	5–2	1–1	6–3	AS Bilima	Moulay Abdellah, Rabat	Mobutu, Lubumbashi
1986	Zamalek	2–0	0–2	(4–2 p)	Africa Sports	Cairo International, Cairo	F. Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan
1987	Al Hilal	0–0	0–2	0–2	Al Ahly	Al Hilal, Omdurman	Cairo International, Cairo
1988	Iwuanyanwu Nationale	1–0	0–4	1–4	Entente de Sétif	Liberty, Ibadan	17 Juin, Constantine
1989	Raja CA	1–0	0–1	(4–2 p)	MC Oran	Mohamed V, Casablanca	19 Juin, Oran
1990	JS Kabylie	1–0	0–1	(5–3 p)	Nkana Red Devils	5 Juillet, Algiers	Independence, Lusaka
1991	Club Africain	6–2	1–1	7–3	SC Villa	El Menzah, Tunis	Nakivubo, Kampala
1992	Wydad AC	2–0	0–0	2–0	Al Hilal	Mohamed V, Casablanca	Al Hilal, Omdurman
1993	Asante Kotoko	0–0	0–0	(6–7 p)	Zamalek	Kumasi Sports, Kumasi	Cairo International, Cairo
1994	Zamalek	0–0	1–3	1–3	ES Tunis	Cairo International, Cairo	El Menzah, Tunis
1995	Orlando Pirates	2–2	1–0	3–2	ASEC Mimosas	FNB, Johannesburg	F. Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan
1996	Shooting Stars	2–1	1–2	(4–5 p)	Zamalek	Lekan Salami, Ibadan	Cairo International, Cairo
CAF Champions League
1997	Obuasi Goldfields	1–0	0–1	(4–5 p)	Raja CA	Len Clay, Obuasi	Mohamed V, Casablanca	—
1998	Dynamos	0–0	2–4	2–4	ASEC Mimosas	National Sports, Harare	F. Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan
1999	Raja CA	0–0	0–0	(4–3 p)	ES Tunis	Père Jégo, Casablanca	El Menzah, Tunis
2000	ES Tunis	1–2	1–3	2–5	Hearts of Oak	El Menzah, Tunis	Sports Stadium, Accra
2001	Mamelodi Sundowns	1–1	0–3	1–4	Al Ahly	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Cairo International, Cairo
2002	Raja CA	0–0	0–1	0–1	Zamalek	Mohamed V, Casablanca	Cairo International, Cairo
2003	Enyimba	2–0	0–1	2–1	Ismaily	Enyimba International, Aba	Ismailia, Ismailia
2004	ES Sahel	2–1	1–2	(3–5 p)	Enyimba	Olympique de Sousse, Sousse	Enyimba International, Aba
2005	ES Sahel	0–0	0–3	0–3	Al Ahly	Olympique de Sousse, Sousse	Military Academy, Cairo
2006	Al Ahly	1–1	1–0	2–1	CS Sfaxien	Cairo International, Cairo	7 November, Radès
2007	ES Sahel	0–0	3–1	3–1	Al Ahly	Olympique de Sousse, Sousse	Cairo International, Cairo
2008	Al Ahly	2–0	2–2	4–2	Coton Sport	Cairo International, Cairo	Roumdé Adjia, Garoua
2009	Heartland	2–1	0–1	2–2	TP Mazembe	Dan Anyiam, Owerri	F. Kibassa Maliba, Lubumbashi
2010	TP Mazembe	5–0	1–1	6–1	ES Tunis	F. Kibassa Maliba, Lubumbashi	7 November, Radès
2011	Wydad AC	0–0	0–1	0–1	ES Tunis	Mohamed V, Casablanca	Olympique de Radès, Radès
2012	Al Ahly	1–1	2–1	3–2	ES Tunis	Borg El Arab, Alexandria	Olympique de Radès, Radès
2013	Orlando Pirates	1–1	0–2	1–3	Al Ahly	Orlando, Johannesburg	Osman Ahmed Osman, Cairo
2014	Vita Club	2–2	1–1	3–3	ES Sétif	Tata Raphaël, Kinshasa	Mustapha Tchaker, Blida
2015	USM Alger	1–2	0–2	1–4	TP Mazembe	Omar Hamadi, Algiers	TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi
2016	Mamelodi Sundowns	3–0	0–1	3–1	Zamalek	Masterpieces, Pretoria	Borg El Arab, Alexandria
2017	Al Ahly	1–1	0–1	1–2	Wydad AC	Borg El Arab, Alexandria	Mohamed V, Casablanca
2018	Al Ahly	3–1	0–3	3–4	ES Tunis	Borg El Arab, Alexandria	Olympique de Radès, Radès
2019	Wydad AC	1–1	Abandoned	0–1 [n 3]	ES Tunis	Moulay Abdellah, Rabat	Olympique de Radès, Radès
2020	Al Ahly	2–1			Zamalek	Cairo International, Cairo	—
2021	Al Ahly	3–0			Kaizer Chiefs	Mohamed V, Casablanca
2022	Wydad AC	2–0			Al Ahly	Mohamed V, Casablanca
2023	Al Ahly	2–1	1–1	3–2	Wydad AC	Cairo International, Cairo	Mohamed V, Casablanca	—
2024	Al Ahly	0–0	1–0	1-0	ES Tunis	Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis	Cairo International, Cairo	—

Notes

1. TP Englebert won after Asante Kotoko failed to appear for the 3rd match.
2. For the final, only points aggregate, not goals aggregate was considered.
3. ES Tunis were declared champions after second leg was abandoned.

Performance by clubs

Performance in the African Cup and CAF Champions League by club

v t e Club	Titles	Runners-up	Seasons won	Seasons runner-up
Al Ahly	12	5	1982, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024	1983, 2007, 2017, 2018, 2022
Zamalek	5	3	1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2002	1994, 2016, 2020
TP Mazembe	5	2	1967, 1968, 2009, 2010, 2015	1969, 1970
ES Tunis	4	5	1994, 2011, 2018, 2019	1999, 2000, 2010, 2012, 2024
Wydad AC	3	3	1992, 2017, 2022	2011, 2019, 2023
Hafia FC	3	2	1972, 1975, 1977	1976, 1978
Raja CA	3	1	1989, 1997, 1999	2002
Canon Yaoundé	3	0	1971, 1978, 1980	—
Asante Kotoko	2	5	1970, 1983	1967, 1971, 1973, 1982, 1993
JS Kabylie	2	0	1981, 1990	—
ES Sétif	2	0	1988, 2014	—
Enyimba	2	0	2003, 2004	—
Vita Club	1	2	1973	1981, 2014
Hearts of Oak	1	2	2000	1977, 1979
ES Sahel	1	2	2007	2004, 2005
Ismaily	1	1	1969	2003
Orlando Pirates	1	1	1995	2013
ASEC Mimosas	1	1	1998	1995
Mamelodi Sundowns	1	1	2016	2001
Oryx Douala	1	0	1965	—
Stade d'Abidjan	1	0	1966	—
CARA Brazzaville	1	0	1974	—
MC Alger	1	0	1976	—
Union Douala	1	0	1979	—
AS FAR	1	0	1985	—
Club Africain	1	0	1991	—
AS Bilima	0	2	—	1980, 1985
Al-Hilal	0	2	—	1987, 1992
Shooting Stars	0	2	—	1984, 1996
Heartland	0	2	—	1988, 2009
Stade Malien	0	1	—	1965
Real Bamako	0	1	—	1966
Étoile Filante du Togo	0	1	—	1968
Simba FC	0	1	—	1972
Ghazl Al-Mehalla	0	1	—	1974
Enugu Rangers	0	1	—	1975
Africa Sports	0	1	—	1986
MC Oran	0	1	—	1989
Nkana FC	0	1	—	1990
SC Villa	0	1	—	1991
Ashanti Gold	0	1	—	1997
Dynamos FC	0	1	—	1998
CS Sfaxien	0	1	—	2006
Coton Sport	0	1	—	2008
USM Alger	0	1	—	2015
Kaizer Chiefs	0	1	—	2021

Performance by nations

Performances in finals by nation

Nation	Winners	Runners-up	Total
Egypt	18	10	28
Morocco	7	4	11
Tunisia	6	8	14
DR Congo	6	6	12
Algeria	5	2	7
Cameroon	5	1	6
Ghana	3	8	11
Guinea	3	2	5
Nigeria	2	5	7
South Africa	2	3	5
Ivory Coast	2	2	4
Congo	1	0	1
Mali	0	2	2
Uganda	0	2	2
Sudan	0	2	2
Togo	0	1	1
Zambia	0	1	1
Zimbabwe	0	1	1

Performances by region

Federation (Region)	Clubs	Titles
UNAF (North Africa)	Al Ahly (12), Zamalek (5), Espérance de Tunis (4), Raja CA (3), Wydad AC (3), ES Sétif (2), JS Kabylie (2), Étoile du Sahel (1), Ismaily (1), MC Alger (1), FAR Rabat (1), Club Africain (1)	36
UNIFFAC (Central Africa)	TP Mazembe (5), Canon Yaoundé (3), CARA Brazzaville (1), Oryx Douala (1), Union Douala (1), Vita Club (1)	12
WAFU (West Africa)	Hafia (3), Asante Kotoko (2), Enyimba (2), ASEC Mimosas (1), Hearts of Oak (1), Stade d'Abidjan (1)	10
COSAFA (Southern Africa)	Orlando Pirates (1), Mamelodi Sundowns (1)	2
CECAFA (East Africa)		0

All-time table (Top 25 Clubs)

• As of 22 May 2023. All matches including qualifying were taken into account with a game decided by penalties counted as draw. No awarded/withdrawn games were counted.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Al Ahly (34)	327	169	89	69	518	249	+269	596
2	Espérance de Tunis (28)	276	144	76	56	440	229	+211	508
3	ASEC Mimosas (30)	220	110	50	60	325	204	+121	380
4	Zamalek (26)	217	105	49	63	324	202	+122	364
5	TP Mazembe (27)	205	99	58	48	317	185	+132	355
6	Al Hilal (35)	210	81	61	68	265	221	+44	304
7	Mamelodi Sundowns (16)	142	76	38	28	246	126	+120	266
8	Wydad AC (15)	150	71	37	42	217	121	+96	250
9	Raja CA (20)	148	70	38	40	220	125	+95	248
10	Asante Kotoko (28)	145	68	37	40	219	140	+79	241
11	Étoile du Sahel (15)	127	64	29	34	173	107	+66	221
12	JS Kabylie (17)	122	64	21	37	156	103	+53	213
13	AS Vita Club (22)	128	55	30	43	185	147	+38	195
14	Al Merrikh (26)	139	54	33	52	163	165	−2	195
15	Enyimba (12)	107	55	19	33	186	101	+85	184
16	Hearts of Oak (19)	111	54	21	36	167	138	+29	183
17	Petro de Luanda (21)	120	50	33	37	177	144	+33	183
18	Dynamos (18)	103	49	18	36	139	113	+26	165
19	Simba (20)	109	47	19	43	147	131	+16	160
20	Nkana (15)	89	45	23	21	137	85	+52	158
21	ES Sétif (12)	96	41	27	28	148	106	+42	150
22	Coton Sport (18)	106	42	22	42	124	113	+11	148
23	Ismaily (10)	75	40	18	17	132	70	+62	138
24	Canon Yaoundé (13)	79	40	17	22	120	87	+33	137
25	Africa Sports (21)	88	40	17	31	128	99	+29	137

Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

* Number in parentheses show number of participations.

Top goalscorers

Year	Footballer	Club	Goals
African Cup of Champions Clubs era
1965	Salif Keïta	Stade Malien	3
1966			14
1967	Badawi Abdel Fattah Ahmed El-Qazzaz Osei Kofi Pierre Kalala Leonard Saidi Kamunda Tshinabu	Al Olympi Al Olympi Asante Kotoko TP Englebert TP Englebert TP Englebert	2
1968	Pierre Kalala	TP Englebert	7
1969	Ali Abo Greisha	Ismaily	7
1970	Pierre Kalala	TP Englebert	4
1971	Cecil Jones Attuquayefio	Accra Great Olympics	6
1972	Godfrey Chitalu	Kabwe Warriors	13
1973	Chérif Souleymane	Hafia FC	5
1974	Paul Moukila	CARA Brazzaville	10
1975	N’Jo Léa	Hafia FC	4
1976	Abdesslem Bousri	MC Alger	5
1977	Mahmoud El Khatib	Al Ahly	4
1978	Seydouba Bangoura Mayanga Maku	Hafia FC AS Vita Club	2
1979	Ally Thuwen	Simba SC	3
1980	Jean Manga Onguéné	Canon Yaoundé	9
1981	Mahmoud El Khatib	Al Ahly	6
1982
1983
1984	Felix Owolabi	Shooting Stars	5
1985	Mokhtar Chibani Saâd Dahane Abdellah Haidamou Abderrazak Khairi	GCR Mascara FAR Rabat FAR Rabat FAR Rabat	4
1986	Gamal Abdel Hamid	Zamalek	7
1987	Mahmoud El Khatib	Al Ahly	5
1988	Abdeslam Laghrissi	FAR Rabat	7
1989	Mourad Meziane	MC Oran	5
1990	Nacer Bouiche	JS Kabylie	7
1991	Faouzi Rouissi Adel Sellimi	Club Africain	6
1992	Kenneth Malitoli	Nkana	6
1993	Ayman Mansour	Zamalek	5
1994	Anthony Nwaigwe	Iwuanyanwu Nationale	7
1995	Kofi Deblah Sékou Bamba	Obuasi Goldfields ASEC Mimosas	4
1996	Ahmed El-Kass Ayman Mansour Tarek Mostafa Mohamed Sabry Julien Ndagano Skander Souayah	Zamalek Zamalek Zamalek Zamalek APR FC CS Sfaxien	2
Champions League era
1997	Kossi Noutsoudje	Obuasi Goldfields	7
1998	Aseged Tesfaye Reda Ereyahi	Ethiopian Coffee Raja CA	6
1999	Hossam Hassan	Al Ahly	6
2000	Emmanuel Osei Kuffour	Accra Hearts of Oak	10
2001	Kapela Mbiyavanga	Petro Atlético	9
2002	Ahmed Belal Antonin Koutouan Hicham Aboucherouane	Al Ahly ASEC Mimosas Raja CA	7
2003	Dramane Traoré	Ismaily	8
2004	Mamadou Diallo	USM Alger	10
2005	Mohamed Barakat Joetex Frimpong	Al Ahly Enyimba	7
2006	Mohamed Aboutrika	Al Ahly	8
2007	Trésor Mputu	TP Mazembe	9
2008	Stephen Worgu	Enyimba	13
2009	Dioko Kaluyituka	TP Mazembe	8
2010	Michael Eneramo	Espérance de Tunis	8
2011	Edward Sadomba	Al-Hilal	14
2012	Emmanuel Clottey	Berekum Chelsea	12
2013	Alexis Yougouda Kada	Coton Sport	7
2014	El Hedi Belameiri Haythem Jouini Ndombe Mubele Mrisho Ngasa	ES Sétif Espérance de Tunis AS Vita Club Young Africans	6
2015	Bakri Al-Madina Mbwana Samatta	Al-Merrikh TP Mazembe	7
2016	Mfon Udoh	Enyimba	9
2017	Taha Yassine Khenissi Saladin Said	Espérance de Tunis Saint George	7
2018	Anice Badri	Espérance de Tunis	8
2018–19	Moataz Al-Mehdi	Al-Nasr	7
2019–20	Jackson Muleka	TP Mazembe	7
2020–21	Mohamed Sherif	Al Ahly	6
2021–22	Tiago Azulão	Petro Atlético	6
2022–23	Mahmoud Kahraba Peter Shalulile	Al Ahly Mamelodi Sundowns	6
2023–24	Sankara William Karamoko	ASEC Mimosas	4

All-time top scorers

Rank	Nat	Name	Club	Goals	Apps
1		Trésor Mputu	TP Mazembe Kabuscorp	39	73
2		Mohamed Aboutrika	Al Ahly	31	85
3		Flávio Amado	Al Ahly	30
4		Mahmoud El Khatib	Al Ahly	28	30
5		Emad Moteab	Al Ahly	24	74
6		Ali Zitouni	Espérance de Tunis	23	22
		Edward Sadomba	Dynamos Al-Hilal Al-Ahly Benghazi	23	24
8		Mbwana Samatta	TP Mazembe Simba SC	21	26
		Clatous Chama	Simba SC RS Berkane	21	51
10		Mouhcine Iajour	Moghreb Tétouan Wydad AC Raja CA	20	36
		Dioko Kaluyituka	TP Mazembe	20	45
13		Emmanuel Osei Kuffour	Accra Hearts of Oak	19	13
		Bakri Al-Madina	Al-Merrikh Al-Hilal	19	35
15		Gamal Abdel-Hamid	Al Ahly Zamalek	18	41
		Kelechi Osunwa	Al-Merrikh Al-Hilal	18	21
		Hussein El Shahat	Al Ahly	18	55
18		Mudather El Tahir	Al-Hilal	17	27
		Hossam Hassan	Al Ahly Zamalek	17	31
		Walid Soliman	Al Ahly	17	82
		Mohamed Barakat	Al Ahly	17	68
		Salif Keïta	AS Real Bamako Stade Malien	17
		Themba Zwane	Mamelodi Sundowns	17	70
24		Billel Dziri	USM Alger Étoile du Sahel	16
		Joetex Asamoah Frimpong	Enyimba CS Sfaxien	16
		Kamilou Daouda	Coton Sport Al-Ittihad Tripoli	16	37
		Ocansey Mandela	Horoya	16	55
28		Karim Aribi	Étoile du Sahel CR Belouizdad	15	24
		Ali Maaloul	Al Ahly CS Sfaxien	15	87
		Yannick N'Djeng	JSM Béjaïa Espérance de Tunis	15	39
		Tiago Azulão	Atlético Petróleos de Luanda	15	38
31		Muhannad El Tahir	Al-Hilal	14	17
		Achraf Bencharki	Wydad AC Zamalek	14	38
		Jackson Muleka	TP Mazembe	14	38
		Mohamed Nahiri	Wydad AC Difaâ Hassani El Jadidi Raja CA	14	40
		Mohamed Sherif	Al Ahly	14	39
		Anice Badri	Espérance de Tunis	14	56
		Emeka Nwanna	Enyimba Heartland	14	18
		Peter Shalulile	Mamelodi Sundows	14	29

See also

• Football in Africa portal
• Association football portal

• African Football League
• CAF Women's Champions League
• CAF Confederation Cup
• CAF Super Cup
• African Cup Winners' Cup
• CAF Cup

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External links

• Official website
• List of Past and Present Winners at RSSSF