The 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage started on 1 December 2019 and ended on 2 February 2020. A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup.

Draw The draw for the group stage was held on 12 November 2019, 12:00 CAT (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off round of qualifying, 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 Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3, and each team was drawn into one of the positions in their group.

PotPot 1Pot 2Pot 3Teams Horoya RS Berkane Enyimba Al-Masry Hassania Agadir Zanaco Enugu Rangers Djoliba Paradou AC ESAE DC Motema Pembe Pyramids FC San Pédro Al-Nasr FC Nouadhibou Bidvest Wits

Format In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up 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): Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; 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; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Away goals scored in all group matches; Drawing of lots.

Schedule The schedule of each matchday is as follows. Effective from the Confederation Cup group stage, matches are played on Sundays. Kick-off times are fixed at 13:00, 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

MatchdayDatesMatchesOriginal datesRevised datesMatchday 11 December 2019Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3Matchday 28 December 2019Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2Matchday 329 December 2019Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2Matchday 416 February 202012 January 2020Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1Matchday 523 February 202026 January 2020Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2Matchday 68 March 20202 February 2020Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups Times are GMT as listed by CAF (local times, even if not different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Notes

References

External links Total CAF Confederation Cup, CAFonline.com CAF Total Confederation Cup 2019/20