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The 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup group stage started on 10 March and ended on 28 April 2021. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 22 February 2021, 13:00 GMT (15:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, which consist of the 15 winners of the play-off round of qualifying and defending champions RS Berkane, were drawn into four groups of four.

The teams were seeded by their performances in the CAF competitions for the previous five seasons (CAF 5-year ranking points shown in parentheses). Each group contained one team from each of Pot 1, Pot 2, Pot 3, and Pot 4, and each team was allocated to the positions in their group according to their pot:

Notes

1. Winners of the play-off round, whose identity was not known at the time of draw.

Format

In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The winners and runners-up of each group will advance to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Drawing of lots.

Schedule

The schedule of each matchday is as follows. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00, 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.

During the Islamic holy month Ramadan (12 April – 12 May), CAF gave clubs the option to play their home matches late in the day to avoid having large number of players fasting during matches.

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ENY	ORL	ESS	AHL
1	Enyimba	6	3	0	3	6	8	−2	9	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–1	2–1
2	Orlando Pirates	6	2	3	1	5	2	+3	9			2–1	—	0–0	3–0
3	ES Sétif	6	2	2	2	5	3	+2	8			3–0	0–0	—	1–0
4	Al Ahly Benghazi	6	2	1	3	3	6	−3	7			1–0	0–0	1–0	—

1. ^ Tied on head-to-head points (3), on head-to-head goal difference (0) and on head-to-head goals scored (2). Head-to-head away goals scored: Enyimba 1, Orlando Pirates 0.

Enyimba	2–1	Al Ahly Benghazi
Oladapo 10' Mbaoma 43'	Report	Imhamed 18' (pen.)

ES Sétif	0–0	Orlando Pirates
	Report

Orlando Pirates	2–1	Enyimba
Hotto 27' Mabasa 89'	Report	Oladapo 45+2' (pen.)

Al Ahly Benghazi	1–0	ES Sétif
Alwadawi 3'	Report

Enyimba	2–1	ES Sétif
Oladapo 40' Omoyele 60'	Report	Bakrar 13'

Al Ahly Benghazi	0–0	Orlando Pirates
	Report

Orlando Pirates	3–0	Al Ahly Benghazi
Nyauza 26' Mabasa 41' Dlamini 69'	Report

ES Sétif	3–0	Enyimba
Karaoui 31' Amoura 45+2' Djahnit 65' (pen.)	Report

Orlando Pirates	0–0	ES Sétif
	Report

Al Ahly Benghazi	1–0	Enyimba
El Taib 40'	Report

Enyimba	1–0	Orlando Pirates
Olisema 90+5'	Report

ES Sétif	1–0	Al Ahly Benghazi
Alqmati 2' (o.g.)	Report

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JSK	COT	RSB	NAP
1	JS Kabylie	6	3	3	0	7	4	+3	12	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	0–0	2–1
2	Coton Sport	6	3	0	3	10	6	+4	9			1–2	—	2–0	5–1
3	RS Berkane	6	2	2	2	4	4	0	8			0–0	2–1	—	2–0
4	NAPSA Stars	6	1	1	4	5	12	−7	4			2–2	0–1	1–0	—

RS Berkane	2–0	NAPSA Stars
Regragui 12' Iajour 45'	Report

JS Kabylie	1–0	Coton Sport
Souyad 88'	Report

Coton Sport	2–0	RS Berkane
Marou 54' Sanou 72'	Report

NAPSA Stars	2–2	JS Kabylie
Mukeya 12' Soko 63'	Report	Simwanza 82' (o.g.) Nezla 90'

NAPSA Stars	0–1	Coton Sport
	Report	Daman 16'

RS Berkane	0–0	JS Kabylie
	Report

Coton Sport	5–1	NAPSA Stars
Araina 21' Marou 35' Sanou 70' Ebandza Dzo 87' Alemi 90+1'	Report	Soko 90+3'

JS Kabylie	0–0	RS Berkane
	Report

Coton Sport	1–2	JS Kabylie
Alemi 89' (pen.)	Report	Bensayah 63' Bencherifa 68'

NAPSA Stars	1–0	RS Berkane
Soko 53'	Report

RS Berkane	2–1	Coton Sport
Namsaoui 9' Laachir 52'	Report	Araina 87'

JS Kabylie	2–1	NAPSA Stars
Bencherifa 29' Boualia 57'	Report	Mayuka 90'

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		JAR	CSS	ETS	SAL
1	ASC Jaraaf	6	3	2	1	5	3	+2	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–1	1–0	2–0
2	CS Sfaxien	6	2	4	0	6	3	+3	10			0–0	—	2–2	1–0
3	Étoile du Sahel	6	2	2	2	6	5	+1	8			2–0	0–0	—	2–1
4	Salitas	6	1	0	5	2	8	−6	3			0–1	0–2	1–0	—

CS Sfaxien	1–0	Salitas
Harzi 77' (pen.)	Report

Étoile du Sahel	2–0	ASC Jaraaf
Lahmar 65', 90+3' (pen.)	Report

Salitas	1–0	Étoile du Sahel
Boissy 82'	Report

ASC Jaraaf	1–1	CS Sfaxien
Sylla 90+2'	Report	Sokari 70'

ASC Jaraaf	2–0	Salitas
Diène 12' Paye 44'	Report

Étoile du Sahel	0–0	CS Sfaxien
	Report

CS Sfaxien	2–2	Étoile du Sahel
Ghouma 68' Chaouat 90+3' (pen.)	Report	Sfaxi 10' Kechrida 32'

Salitas	0–1	ASC Jaraaf
	Report	Paye 10'

ASC Jaraaf	1–0	Étoile du Sahel
Paye 25'	Report

Salitas	0–2	CS Sfaxien
	Report	Chaouat 7' (pen.) Eduwo 51'

Étoile du Sahel	2–1	Salitas
Lahmar 6' Coulibaly 47'	Report	Dramé 72'

CS Sfaxien	0–0	ASC Jaraaf
	Report

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		RCA	PYR	NKA	NAM
1	Raja Casablanca	6	6	0	0	13	0	+13	18	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–0	2–0	1–0
2	Pyramids	6	4	0	2	7	5	+2	12			0–3	—	3–0	1–0
3	Nkana	6	2	0	4	2	8	−6	6			0–2	0–1	—	1–0
4	Namungo	6	0	0	6	0	9	−9	0			0–3	0–2	0–1	—

Raja Casablanca	1–0	Namungo
Rahimi 54' (pen.)	Report

Pyramids	3–0	Nkana
Wadi 2' Issa 9' Farouk 90+1'	Report

Namungo	0–2	Pyramids
	Report	Ramadan 71' (pen.) Gaber 84'

Nkana	0–2	Raja Casablanca
	Report	Rahimi 47' (pen.) Sadaoui 87'

Namungo	0–1	Nkana
	Report	Chikwekwe 69'

Raja Casablanca	2–0	Pyramids
Ekramy 15' (o.g.) Malango 21'	Report

Nkana	1–0	Namungo
Tshimenga 71'	Report

Pyramids	0–3	Raja Casablanca
	Report	Ngoma 15' Malango 42' Rahimi 77'

Nkana	0–1	Pyramids
	Report	El Said 78'

Namungo	0–3	Raja Casablanca
	Report	Haddad 8' Ngoma 14' Habti 36'

Pyramids	1–0	Namungo
Adel 65'	Report

Raja Casablanca	2–0	Nkana
Idbouiguiguine 18' Sadaoui 42'	Report

Notes

1. The ES Sétif v Orlando Pirates match, originally scheduled to be played at Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif, was played outside Algeria at Accra Sports Stadium, Accra (Ghana) due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic imposed by Algeria on travelers from South Africa out of concern of the variant 501.V2.
2. The Al Ahly Benghazi v ES Sétif match, originally scheduled to be played at Benina Martyrs Stadium, Benghazi, was played outside Libya at Petro Sport Stadium, Cairo (Egypt) due to unavailability.
3. The Al Ahly Benghazi v Enyimba match, originally scheduled to be played on 21 April 2021 at 21:00 local time (UTC+2), was postponed for 24 hours due to unavailability of direct flights from Nigeria to Libya, which prevented Enyimba from appearing for the match in time.
4. ^ Étoile du Sahel played their home matches at Stade Olympique de Radès, Tunis, instead of their regular home stadium Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse, which was undergoing renovation.
5. The Salitas v ASC Jaraaf match, originally scheduled to be played on 11 April 2021, was postponed for 24 hours due to the 2021 Beninese presidential election.
6. ^ Starting from their second group stage home fixture, Salitas played their home matches at Stade Charles de Gaulle, Porto-Novo (Benin), instead of their regular home stadium Stade du 4 Août, Ouagadougou, which was undergoing renovation.
7. ^ Namungo played their home matches at National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, instead of their regular home stadium Majaliwa Stadium, Lindi, which did not meet CAF requirements.
8. ^ Nkana played their home matches at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium, Ndola, instead of their regular home stadium Nkana Stadium, Kitwe, due to unavailability.
9. The Namungo v Nkana match, originally scheduled to be played at 16:00 local time (UTC+3), was postponed for one hour due to unconfirmed reasons.

References

1. ^ "2020 - 2021 IC Season (Final)" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
2. ^ "CAF Confederation Cup regulations" (PDF). CAF. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
3. "Total CAF Confederation Cup Group Stage draw to be conducted on Monday". CAF. 18 February 2021.
4. "وفاق سطيف الجزائري يستضيف أورلاندو بايرتس الجنوب أفريقي في غانا" [Ghana set to host CCC tie between Algeria's ES Sétif and Orlando Pirates of South Africa]. Shorouk News (in Arabic). 1 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
5. "Benina Martyrs stadium to host Libya football team's CAF matches". The Libya Observer. 11 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
6. "الأهلي بنغازي يواجه وفاق سطيف في القاهرة" [Al Ahly Benghazi set to face ES Sétif in Cairo]. Al Wasat Libya (in Arabic). 3 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
7. "تأجيل مباراة الأهلي بنغازي وإنيمبا النيجيري" [Al Ahly Benghazi match against Nigeria's Enyimba postponed]. Libya Al Ahrar (in Arabic). 21 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
8. "Coupe CAF : Le match Salitas – Jaraaf reporté au 12 Avril" [CAF CC: Salitas - Jaraaf match postponed to 12 April]. Africa Foot United (in French). 7 April 2021. Retrieved 11 April 2021.
9. "CC CAF : Le Stade Charles de Gaulle de Porto-Novo pour accueillir la suite des matchs de Salitas FC" [CAF CC: Stade Charles de Gaulle in Porto-Novo set to host remaining Salitas home matches]. Africa Foot United (in French). 26 March 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

External links

• CAFonline.com

• 2020–21 CAF Confederation Cup
• March 2021 sports events in Africa
• April 2021 sports events in Africa