CAF Champions League
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Association
CAF
First edition
1964 (as African Cup of Champions Clubs)
Teams
55 (2017)
Game mode
Knockout system (preliminary round / 1st round) Round tournament (4 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system (quarter-finals / semi-finals / finals)
Title holder
Tunisia Espérance Tunis (4th title)
Record winner
Egypt al Ahly SC (8 wins)
Current season
2019/20
Website
www.cafonline.com
Qualification for
FIFA Club World Cup CAF Super Cup
Historic logo of the CAF Champions League
The CAF Champions League ( French : CAF Ligue des Champions ) is the most important African club football competition , comparable to the European Champions League , which was held from 1964 to 1996, analogous to the European model, as the African Cup of Champions Clubs ( German : “Africa Cup of National Champions ") and is organized by the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) . The season begins with the first round in January and regularly ends with the finals at the end of October or beginning of November each year.
While the forerunner African Cup of Champions Clubs was played in a pure knockout system , a group phase was introduced with the introduction of the Champions League. In the current mode, two rounds are initially played in a knockout system with a return leg. Then the participants in the quarter-finals are determined in a group stage with four groups of four teams each in the first and second leg. The first and second placed in each group qualify for the renewed knockout phase, which is played back and forth until the final.
The winner of this competition qualifies for the African Supercup and the FIFA Club World Cup .
The finals and winners
Final pairing
year
winner
Results
finalist
African Cup of Champions Clubs
1964
Cameroon 1961 Oryx douala
2: 1
Mali Stade Malien
1965
not played out
1966
Ivory Coast Stade d'Abidjan
4: 1/1: 3
Mali AS Real Bamako
1967
Congo Democratic Republic 1966 Tout Puissant Mazembe
1: 1/2: 2 1
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1968
Congo Democratic Republic 1966 Tout Puissant Mazembe
5: 0/1: 4
Togo Étoile Filante de Lomé
1969
United Arab Republic Ismaily SC
2: 2/3: 1
Congo Democratic Republic 1966 Tout Puissant Mazembe
1970
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1: 1/2: 1
Congo Democratic Republic 1966 Tout Puissant Mazembe
1971
Cameroon 1961 Canon Yaoundé
2: 0/0: 3/1: 0
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1972
Guinea-a Hafia FC
4: 2/2: 3
Uganda Simba FC
1973
Zaire AS Vita Club
3: 0/2: 4
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1974
Congo People's Republic CARA Brazzaville
4: 2/2: 1
Egypt 1972 Ghazl El-Mehalla
1975
Guinea-a Hafia FC
1: 0/2: 1
Nigeria Rangers International
1976
Algeria MC Alger
3: 0/0: 3, 4: 1 i. E.
Guinea-a Hafia FC
1977
Guinea-a Hafia FC
1: 0/2: 2
Ghana Accra Hearts of Oak
1978
Cameroon Canon Yaoundé
0-0 / 2-0
Guinea-a Hafia FC
1979
Cameroon Union Douala
1: 0/0: 1, 5: 3 i. E.
Ghana Accra Hearts of Oak
1980
Cameroon Canon Yaoundé
2: 2/3: 0
Zaire AS Bilima
1981
Algeria JS Kabylie
4-0 / 1-0
Zaire AS Vita Club
1982
Egypt 1972 al Ahly SC
3: 0/1: 1
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1983
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
0: 0/1: 0
Egypt 1972 al Ahly SC
1984
Egypt al Zamalek SC
2-0 / 1-0
Nigeria Shooting Stars FC
1985
Morocco FAR Rabat
5: 2/1: 1
Zaire AS Bilima
1986
Egypt al Zamalek SC
2: 0/0: 2, 4: 2 i. E.
Ivory Coast Africa Sports National
1987
Egypt al Ahly SC
0-0 / 2-0
Sudan al-Hilal Khartoum
1988
Algeria ES Sétif
4: 0/0: 1
Nigeria Iwuanyanwu Owerri
1989
Morocco Raja Casablanca
1: 0/0: 1, 4: 2 i. E.
Algeria MC Oran
1990
Algeria JS Kabylie
1: 0/0: 1, 5: 3 i. E.
Zambia Nkana Red Devils
1991
Tunisia Club Africain Tunis
6: 2/1: 1
Uganda Villa SC
1992
Morocco Wydad Casablanca
2-0 / 0-0
Sudan Al-Hilal Khartoum
1993
Egypt al Zamalek SC
0: 0/0: 0, 7: 6 i. E.
Ghana Asante Kotoko SC
1994
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
0: 0/3: 1
Egypt al Zamalek SC
1995
South Africa Orlando Pirates
2: 2/1: 0
Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas
1996
Egypt al Zamalek SC
2: 1/1: 2, 5: 4 i. E.
Nigeria Shooting Stars FC
CAF Champions League
1997
Morocco Raja Casablanca
1: 0/0: 1, 5: 4 i. E.
Ghana AshantiGold SC
1998
Ivory Coast ASEC Mimosas
0: 0/4: 2
Zimbabwe Dynamos FC
1999
Morocco Raja Casablanca
0: 0/0: 0, 4: 3 i. E.
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
2000
Ghana Accra Hearts of Oak
2: 1/3: 1
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
2001
Egypt al Ahly SC
1: 1/3: 0
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
2002
Egypt al Ahly SC
0: 0/1: 0
Morocco Raja Casablanca
2003
Nigeria FC Enyimba
2: 0/0: 1
Egypt Ismaily SC
2004
Nigeria FC Enyimba
1: 2/2: 1, 5: 3 i. E.
Tunisia Étoile Sportive du Sahel
2005
Egypt al Ahly SC
0: 0/3: 0
Tunisia Étoile Sportive du Sahel
2006
Egypt al Ahly SC
1: 1/1: 0
Tunisia CS Sfax
2007
Tunisia Étoile Sportive du Sahel
0: 0/3: 1
Egypt al Ahly SC
2008
Egypt al Ahly SC
2: 0/2: 2
Cameroon Cotonsport Garoua
2009
Congo Democratic Republic Tout Puissant Mazembe
1: 2/1: 0
Nigeria Heartland FC
2010
Congo Democratic Republic Tout Puissant Mazembe
5: 0/1: 1
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
2011
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
0: 0/1: 0
Morocco Wydad Casablanca
2012
Egypt al Ahly SC
1: 1/2: 1
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
2013
Egypt al Ahly SC
1: 1/2: 0
South Africa Orlando Pirates
2014
Algeria ES Sétif
2: 2/1: 1
Congo Democratic Republic AS Vita Club
2015
Congo Democratic Republic Tout Puissant Mazembe
2: 1/2: 0
Algeria USM Algiers
2016
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
3: 0/0: 1
Egypt al Zamalek SC
2017
Morocco Wydad Casablanca
1: 1/1: 0
Egypt al Ahly SC
2018
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
1: 1/1: 0
Egypt al Ahly SC
2018/19
Tunisia Espérance Tunis
Where
Morocco Wydad Casablanca
2019/20
1 A play-off was scheduled a month after the second leg, but when Kotoko did not play, probably because they had not been informed by the Ghanaian Association, Mazembe was declared the winner.
Leaderboards
by clubs
rank
club
title
Year (s)
1
al Ahly SC
8th
1982, 1987, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
2
al Zamalek SC
5
1984, 1986, 1993, 1996, 2002
Tout Puissant Mazembe
5
1967, 1968, 2009, 2010, 2015
4th
Espérance Tunis
4th
1994, 2011, 2018, 2019
5
Raja Casablanca
3
1989, 1997, 1999
Hafia FC
3
1972, 1975, 1977
Canon Yaoundé
3
1971, 1978, 1980
8th
Asante Kotoko SC
2
1970, 1983
FC Enyimba
2
2003, 2004
JS Kabylie
2
1981, 1990
ES Sétif
2
1988, 2014
Wydad Casablanca
2
1992, 2017
13
Mamelodi Sundowns
1
2016
Étoile Sportive du Sahel
1
2007
AS Vita Club
1
1973
Ismaily SC
1
1969
Accra Hearts of Oak
1
2000
ASEC Mimosas
1
1998
Oryx douala
1
1964
Union Douala
1
1979
Stade d'Abidjan
1
1966
FAR Rabat
1
1985
Club Africain Tunis
1
1991
Orlando Pirates
1
1995
MC Alger
1
1976
CARA Brazzaville
1
1974
Web links
See also
International club competitions in football
Former international club competitions in football
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