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2023–24 CAF Champions League knockout stage

The 2023–24 CAF Champions League knockout stage started on 29 March with the quarter-finals and ended on 25 May 2024 with the second legoffinal to decide the champions of the 2023–24 CAF Champions League. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times are local.

Round and draw dates[edit]

The schedule was as follows.^[1]

Format[edit]

Each tie in the knockout phase was played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scored more goals on aggregate over the two legs advanced to the next round. If the aggregate score was level, the away goals rule was applied, i.e. the team that scored more goals away from home over the two legs advanced. If away goals were also equal, then extra time was not played and the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations III. 26 &27).

The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:

• In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.
• In the draws for semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were be held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw.

Qualified teams[edit]

The knockout stage involved the 8 teams which qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the group stage.

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Mamelodi Sundowns	TP Mazembe
B	ASEC Mimosas	Simba
C	Petro de Luanda	Espérance de Tunis
D	Al Ahly	Young Africans

Bracket[edit]

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 12 March 2024, 15:00 CAT (UTC+2) at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[2]

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Espérance de Tunis (p)	0	0	0 (4)
	ASEC Mimosas	0	0	0 (2)
							Espérance de Tunis	1	1	2
							Mamelodi Sundowns	0	0	0
	Young Africans	0	0	0 (2)
	Mamelodi Sundowns (p)	0	0	0 (3)
													Espérance de Tunis	0	0	0
													Al Ahly	0	1	1
	TP Mazembe	0	2	2
	Petro de Luanda	0	1	1
							TP Mazembe	0	0	0
							Al Ahly	0	3	3
	Simba	0	0	0
	Al Ahly	1	2	3

Quarter-finals[edit]

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 12 March 2024.

Summary[edit]

The first legs were played on 29 and 30 March, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 April 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Simba	0–3	Al Ahly	0–1	0–2
TP Mazembe	2–1	Petro de Luanda	0–0	2–1
Espérance de Tunis	0–0 (4–2 p)	ASEC Mimosas	0–0	0–0
Young Africans	0–0 (2–3 p)	Mamelodi Sundowns	0–0	0–0

Matches[edit]

Simba	0–1	Al Ahly
	Report	Koka 4'

Referee: Abongile Tom (South Africa)

Al Ahly	2–0	Simba
El Solia 47' Kahraba 90+9' (pen.)	Report

Referee: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad)

Al Ahly won 3–0 on aggregate.

TP Mazembe	0–0	Petro de Luanda
	Report

Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

Petro de Luanda	1–2	TP Mazembe
Toro 29'	Report	Kinzumbi 82' Beya 90+6'

Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)

TP Mazembe won 2–1 on aggregate.

Espérance de Tunis	0–0	ASEC Mimosas
	Report

Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)

ASEC Mimosas	0–0	Espérance de Tunis
	Report
Penalties
Karidioula Koffi Diarrassouba Pokou	2–4	Meriah Bouchniba Tka Tougai

Referee: Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)

0–0 on aggregate. Espérance de Tunis won 4–2 on penalties.

Young Africans	0–0	Mamelodi Sundowns
	Report

Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)

Mamelodi Sundowns	0–0	Young Africans
	Report
Penalties
Allende Sirino Costa Maema	3–2	Aziz Ki Okrah Job Gnadou Hamad

Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

0–0 on aggregate. Mamelodi Sundowns won 3–2 on penalties.

Semi-finals[edit]

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 12 March 2024 (after the quarter-finals draw).

Summary[edit]

The first legs were played on 20 April, and the second legs were played on 26 April 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Espérance de Tunis	2–0	Mamelodi Sundowns	1–0	1–0
TP Mazembe	0–3	Al Ahly	0–0	0–3

Matches[edit]

Espérance de Tunis	1–0	Mamelodi Sundowns
Sasse 41'	Report

Referee: Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)

Mamelodi Sundowns	0–1	Espérance de Tunis
	Report	Bouchniba 57'

Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)

Espérance de Tunis won 2–0 on aggregate.

TP Mazembe	0–0	Al Ahly
	Report

Referee: Pacifique Ndabihawenimana (Burundi)

Al Ahly	3–0	TP Mazembe
Abdelmonem 68' Abou Ali 83' Tawfik 90+12'	Report

Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)

Al Ahly won 3–0 on aggregate.

Final[edit]

The first leg was played on 18 May, and the second leg was played on 25 May 2024.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Espérance de Tunis	0–1	Al Ahly	0–0	0–1

Espérance de Tunis	0–0	Al Ahly
	Report

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Mustapha Ghorbal (Algeria)

Al Ahly	1–0	Espérance de Tunis
Aholou 4' (o.g.)	Report

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)

Al Ahly won 1–0 on aggregate.

See also[edit]

• 2023–24 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• CAFonline.com