CAF announces draw date for Champions League and Confederation Cup group stages

The group stages of the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup will begin in late November and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the date of the draw on its website Thursday.

CAF will stage the Interclub Group Stage Draw for the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup on Monday, 03 November 2025 in Johannesburg.

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The draw will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa on November 3, soon after the participants are determined. Both competitions are currently in their final qualifying stages with the group stage participants set to be determined by then.

The majority of participants will officially qualify at the conclusion of the upcoming weekend. For the teams that took part in the CAF Super Cup, CAF Champions League winners Pyramids FC of Egypt and CAF Confederation Cup champions RS Berkane of Morocco, they will finish their final qualifying round fixtures at the beginning of November to complete the list of clubs qualified.

When does the group stage and knockout stages begin for the CAF club competitions?

The opening fixtures from the group stages of both competitions will commence on the weekend of November 21 and run through mid-February. The knockout stages will then begin in mid-March, 2026.