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The 2011 CAF Champions League group stage matches took place between July and September 2011. The matchdays were: 15–17 July, 29–31 July, 12–14 August, 26–28 August, 9–11 September, and 16–18 September.

The group stage featured the eight winners from the second round. They were divided into two groups of four, where they played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals.

Seeding

The draw for the group stage took place on 15 May 2011, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo.

The procedures for the group stage draw were announced on 12 May 2011. The teams were seeded into four pots, and each group contains one team from each pot.

Notes:

• Ranking score for teams is by their individual team 2006–2010 CAF 5-Year Ranking, the same ranking used to seed teams in the qualifying rounds.
• Winner of play-off due to disqualification of TP Mazembe

Tiebreakers

The order of tie-breakers used when two or more teams have equal number of points is:

1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
4. Away goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
5. Goal difference in all games;
6. Goals scored in all games;
7. Drawing of lots.

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Enyimba	6	4	2	0	11	5	+6	10	Advance to knockout stage
2	Al-Hilal	6	2	2	2	6	7	−1	6
3	Coton Sport FC	6	2	1	3	7	8	−1	5
4	Raja Casablanca	6	0	3	3	1	5	−4	3

Raja Casablanca	0 – 0	Coton Sport
	Report

Enyimba	2 – 2	Al-Hilal
Valentine Nwabili 48' Uche Kalu 60'	Report	Edward Sadomba 22', 76'

Al-Hilal	1 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Edward Sadomba 63' (pen.)	Report

Coton Sport	2 – 3	Enyimba
Chardin Madila Mfoutou 46' Saidou Idrissa 63'	Report	Uche Kalu 8', 85' Chidozie Johnson 40'

Enyimba	2 – 0	Raja Casablanca
Uche Kalu 9' Chidozie Johnson 25'	Report

Al-Hilal	2 – 1	Coton Sport
Haitham Mustafa 28' (pen.) Edet Otobong 82'	Report	Chardin Madila Mfoutou 10'

Raja Casablanca	0 – 0	Enyimba
	Report

Coton Sport	2 – 0	Al-Hilal
Jacques Haman 28' Brice Zimbori 55'	Report

Al-Hilal	1 – 2	Enyimba
Edward Sadomba 6'	Report	Valentine Nwabili 68' Samuel Tswanya 90' (pen.)

Coton Sport	2 – 1	Raja Casablanca
Osmaila Baba 54', 64'	Report	Abdessamad Ouhakki 16'

Raja Casablanca	0 – 0	Al-Hilal
	Report

Enyimba	2 – 0	Coton Sport
Ifeanyi Ede 45' (pen.) Valentine Nwabili 90'	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Espérance ST	6	2	4	0	9	4	+5	8	Advance to knockout stage
2	Wydad AC	6	1	4	1	11	9	+2	6
3	Al-Ahly	6	1	4	1	7	6	+1	6
4	MC Alger	6	1	2	3	4	12	−8	4

1. ^ Wydad AC and Al-Ahly are ranked by their head-to-head records (decided by away goals).

Tiebreaker

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	AG	Pts
Wydad AC	2	0	2	0	4	4	0	3	2
Al-Ahly	2	0	2	0	4	4	0	1	2

MC Alger	1 – 1	Espérance ST
Mohamed Megherbi 17'	Report	Oussama Darragi 7'

Al-Ahly	3 – 3	Wydad AC
Emad Moteab 2' Wael Gomaa 21' Dominique Da Silva 75'	Report	Sherif Abdel-Fadil 1' (o.g.) Mouhcine Iajour 66', 88'

Wydad AC	4 – 0	MC Alger
Fabrice N'Guessi 1' Ahmed Ajeddou 30' (pen.) Ayoub El Khaliqi 74' Jean Louis Pascal Angan 90'	Report

Espérance ST	1 – 0	Al-Ahly
Yannick N'Djeng 14'	Report

Al-Ahly	2 – 0	MC Alger
Emad Moteab 10', 31'	Report

Wydad AC	2 – 2	Espérance ST
Fabrice N'Guessi 65' Youssef Kaddioui 78' (pen.)	Report	Wajdi Bouazzi 22' Walid Hichri 37'

Espérance ST	0 – 0	Wydad AC
	Report

MC Alger	0 – 0	Al-Ahly
	Report

Espérance ST	4 – 0	MC Alger
Mejdi Traoui 8' Yannick N'Djeng 21', 43', 55'	Report

Wydad AC	1 – 1	Al-Ahly
Abderrahim Benkajjane 48'	Report	Mohamed Nagy 36'

MC Alger	3 – 1	Wydad AC
Réda Babouche 32', 36' Hervé Oussalé 61'	Report	Ahmed Ajeddou 79' (pen.)

Al-Ahly	1 – 1	Espérance ST
Mohamed Aboutrika 54'	Report	Banana Yaya 17'

References

1. Proposed Dates for Interclubes Competitions 2011
2. ^ Regulations of the CAF Champions League
3. Draw of the Group matches
4. Official draw procedure for the group matches, semi-finals and finals of the 15th Edition of Orange CAF Champions League, “CL 2011”
5. ^ Day 1 Report

External links

• CAF Champions League

• 2011 CAF Champions League