| 2021–22TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Dates | Qualifying: 10 September 2021 – 6 February 2022 Competition proper: 13 February – 20 May 2022 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 16 Total: 51+16 (from 39 associations) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | |
| Runners-up | |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 61 |
| Goals scored | 136 (2.23 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | (6 goals) |
2022–23 → (Note: All statistics do not include qualifying play-offs) | |
The2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup (officially the2021–22TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons)[1] was the 19th edition ofAfrica's secondary clubfootball tournament organized by theConfederation of African Football (CAF) under the currentCAF Confederation Cup title after the merger ofCAF Cup andAfrican Cup Winners' Cup.
Thedefending championsRaja Casablanca were unable to defend their title as they advanced to the group stage of thethat season's CAF Champions League. Thefinal was won byRS Berkane ofMorocco 5–4 onpenalties after a 1–1 draw after 120 minutes of regulation time againstOrlando Pirates andRS Berkane at theGodswill Akpabio International Stadium inUyo,Nigeria, capturing their second title in the process.
As winners, RS Berkane earned the right to play against the winners of the2021–22 CAF Champions League,Wydad Casablanca, in the2022 CAF Super Cup.[2]
All 54 CAF member associations may enter the competition, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to theirCAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition.[2] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament (plus 16 teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which enter the play-off round) – although this level has never been reached.
For the 2020–21 season, CAF utilized the 2016–2020CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs' performance over the previous 5 seasons in CAF's club competitions. The criteria for points are as follows:[3][4][5]
| CAF Champions League | CAF Confederation Cup | |
|---|---|---|
| Winners | 6 points | 5 points |
| Runners-up | 5 points | 4 points |
| Losing semi-finalists | 4 points | 3 points |
| Losing quarter-finalists (from 2017) | 3 points | 2 points |
| 3rd place in groups | 2 points | 1 point |
| 4th place in groups | 1 point | 0.5 point |
The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:
The following 49 teams from 37 associations entered the competition.
Associations are shown according to their2017–2021 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.
[TAN] Both the winnersSimba SC and runner-upsYoung Africans S.C. of the 2020–21Tanzania FA Cup qualified for the2021-22 CAF Champions League resulting in the slot usually allocated to the winner or runner-up of theTanzania FA Cup to be awarded to the fourth placed team in the2020–21 Tanzanian Premier League.
| Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualifying | First round | 13 August 2021 | 10–12 September 2021 | 17–19 September 2021 |
| Second round | 15–17 October 2021 | 22–24 October 2021 | ||
| Play-off round | 26 October 2021 | 28 November 2021 | 5 December 2021 | |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 28 December 2021 | 13 February 2022 | |
| Matchday 2 | 20 February 2022 | |||
| Matchday 3 | 27 February 2022 | |||
| Matchday 4 | 13 March 2022 | |||
| Matchday 5 | 20 March 2022 | |||
| Matchday 6 | 3 April 2022 | |||
| Knockout stage | Quarter-finals | 5 April 2022 | 17 April 2022 | 24 April 2022 |
| Semi-finals | 8 May 2022 | 15 May 2022 | ||
| Final | 20 May 2022 atGodswill Akpabio International Stadium,Uyo | |||
Notes:
Notes:
Eliminated from2021–22 CAF Champions League:
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In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-awayround-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to thequarter-finals of theknockout stage.
| Tiebreakers |
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The teams were ranked according topoints (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21):[14]
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | AHL | PYR | CSS | ZAN | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 13[a] | Advance toknockout stage | — | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 13[a] | 2–1 | — | 1–0 | 1–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 5 | 0–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 | −6 | 3 | 2–3 | 0–2 | 1–0 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ORL | ITT | JSS | ROL | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | +10 | 13 | Advance toknockout stage | — | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 11 | 3–2 | — | 1–1 | 3–2 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | +1 | 10 | 0–2 | 1–0 | — | 2–0 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | −13 | 0 | 2–6 | 1–2 | 0–2 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | TPM | MAS | ASO | COT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 11 | Advance toknockout stage | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 10 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 2–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 2–2 | 1–0 | — | 1–1 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | −4 | 3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RSB | SIM | ASE | USG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 9 | +2 | 10[a] | Advance toknockout stage | — | 2–0 | 1–0 | 5–3 | ||
| 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 10[a] | 1–0 | — | 3–1 | 4–0 | |||
| 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 9 | 3–1 | 3–0 | — | 2–1 | |||
| 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 5 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | — |
The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
| Group | Winners | Runners-up |
|---|---|---|
| A | ||
| B | ||
| C | ||
| D |
The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals and semi-finals), which was held on 5 April 2022, 13:00GMT (15:00local time,UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters inCairo,Egypt.[15]
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 0 | 1 (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 20 May –Uyo | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 1 (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 1 (4) | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 (5) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 0 | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simba | 1–1(3–4p) | 1–0 | 0–1 | |
| Al Ittihad | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–1 | |
| Pyramids | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | |
| Al Masry | 2–2 (a) | 2–1 | 0–1 |
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al Ahli Tripoli | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | |
| TP Mazembe | 2–4 | 1–0 | 1–4 |
The final was played on 20 May 2022 atGodswill Akpabio International Stadium,Uyo.
| Orlando Pirates | 1–1 (a.e.t.) | |
|---|---|---|
| Report | |
| Penalties | ||
| 4–5 | ||
| Rank | Player | Team | MD1 | MD2 | MD3 | MD4 | MD5 | MD6 | QF1 | QF2 | SF1 | SF2 | F | Total |
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| 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||