2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage

2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage
Dates1 April – 1 June 2025
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored23 (1.64 per match)
Attendance387,000 (27,643 per match)
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The 2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage started on 1 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 1 June 2025 with the second leg of the final to decide the champions of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League. 8 teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times are local.

Round and draw dates

The schedule was as follows.[1]

Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Quarter-finals 20 February 2025 1 April 2025 8 April 2025
Semi-finals 18–19 April 2025 25–26 April 2025
Final 24 May 2025 1 June 2025

Format

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 is 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 the 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 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

The knockout stage involved the 8 teams qualifying as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group Winners Runners-up
A Sudan Al Hilal Algeria MC Alger
B Morocco AS FAR South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
C South Africa Orlando Pirates Egypt Al Ahly
D Tunisia Espérance de Tunis Egypt Pyramids

Bracket

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:

Round Matchups
Quarter-finals (Group winners hosted the second leg, matchups decided by draw, teams from same group cannot play each other)
  • QF1
  • QF2
  • QF3
  • QF4
Semi-finals (Matchups and order of legs decided by draw, between winners QF1, QF2, QF3, QF4)
  • SF1
  • SF2
Final Winners SF1 and SF2 faced each other in two legs to decide the champions

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 20 February 2025, 18:00 AST (UTC+3) at the beIN Sports headquarters in Doha, Qatar.[2]

Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
            
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 1 0 1
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 0 0 0
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns (a) 0 1 1
Egypt Al Ahly 0 1 1
Egypt Al Ahly 1 1 2
Sudan Al Hilal 0 0 0
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 1 1 2
Egypt Pyramids 1 2 3
Algeria MC Alger 0 0 0
South Africa Orlando Pirates 1 0 1
South Africa Orlando Pirates 0 2 2
Egypt Pyramids 0 3 3
Egypt Pyramids 4 0 4
Morocco AS FAR 1 2 3

Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 February 2025.

Summary

The first legs were played on 1 April, and the second legs were played on 8 and 9 April 2025.

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Al Ahly Egypt2–0Sudan Al Hilal1–01–0
Pyramids Egypt4–3Morocco AS FAR4–10–2
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa1–0Tunisia Espérance de Tunis1–00–0
MC Alger Algeria0–1South Africa Orlando Pirates0–10–0

Matches

Al Ahly Egypt1–0Sudan Al Hilal
  • Hany 11'
 Report
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad)
Al Hilal Sudan0–1Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Pierre Atcho (Gabon)

Al Ahly won 2–0 on aggregate.

Pyramids Egypt4–1Morocco AS FAR
 Report
  • Hadraf 45'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)
AS FAR Morocco2–0Egypt Pyramids
 Report
Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

Pyramids won 4–3 on aggregate.

Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa1–0Tunisia Espérance de Tunis
 Report
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Jean-Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)
Espérance de Tunis Tunisia0–0South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)

Mamelodi Sundowns won 1–0 on aggregate.

MC Alger Algeria0–1South Africa Orlando Pirates
Report
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)
Orlando Pirates South Africa0–0Algeria MC Alger
Report
Attendance: 35,000
Referee: Ibrahim Kalilou Traoré (Ivory Coast)

Orlando Pirates won 1–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 20 February 2025 (after the quarter-finals draw).

Summary

The first legs were played on 19 April, and the second legs were played on 25 April 2025.

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa1–1 (a)Egypt Al Ahly0–01–1
Orlando Pirates South Africa2–3Egypt Pyramids0–02–3

Matches

Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa0–0Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)
Al Ahly Egypt1–1South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
 Report
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

1–1 on aggregate. Mamelodi Sundowns won on away goals.

Orlando Pirates South Africa0–0Egypt Pyramids
Report
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Pacifique Ndabihawenimana (Burundi)
Pyramids Egypt3–2South Africa Orlando Pirates
 Report
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Tanguy Mebiame (Gabon)

Pyramids won 3–2 on aggregate.

Final

Main article: 2025 CAF Champions League final

The first leg was played on 24 May, and the second leg was played on 1 June 2025.

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa2–3Egypt Pyramids1–11–2
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa1–1Egypt Pyramids
 Report
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)
Pyramids Egypt2–1South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
 Report
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Omar Abdulkadir Artan (Somalia)

Pyramids won 3–2 on aggregate.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Al Hilal played their knockout stage home matches at Cheikha Ould Boïdiya Stadium in Nouakchott (Mauritania), instead of their regular stadium, Al Hilal Stadium, Omdurman, due to the Sudanese civil war.
  2. ^ AS FAR played their knockout stage home matches at Honneur Stadium, Meknes, instead of their regular stadium, Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat, due to renovation works.

References

  1. ^ "CAF Competitions Calendar 2025" (PDF). Confederation of African Football. 19 December 2024.
  2. ^ "CAF announces Quarter-Finals Draw Dates for TotalEnergies CAF Champions League and TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup". Confederation of African Football. 5 February 2025.
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