2017 CAF Champions League group stage

2017 CAF Champions League group stage

Dates	12 May – 9 July 2017
Tournament statistics
Matches played	46
Goals scored	106 (2.3 per match)
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The 2017 CAF Champions League group stage was played from 12 May to 9 July 2017.^[1] A total of 16 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2017 CAF Champions League.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held on 26 April 2017, 14:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[3][4][5] The 16 teams, all winners of the first 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).^[6]

Pot	Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Teams	Al Ahly (45 pts) Zamalek (36 pts) Étoile du Sahel (31 pts) Mamelodi Sundowns (25 pts)	Al-Hilal (20 pts) Espérance de Tunis (20 pts) Wydad AC (16 pts) USM Alger (16 pts)	Al-Merrikh (14 pts) Coton Sport (12 pts) AS Vita Club (12 pts) Al-Ahli Tripoli (5 pts)	Saint George (2 pts) Ferroviário Beira Zanaco CAPS United

Format

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (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):^[2]

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 was as follows (matches scheduled in midweek in italics).^[1][7]

Matchday	Dates	Matches
Matchday 1	12–14 May 2017	Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3
Matchday 2	23–24 May 2017	Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2
Matchday 3	2–4 June 2017	Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2
Matchday 4	20–21 June 2017	Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1
Matchday 5	30 June – 2 July 2017	Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2
Matchday 6	7–9 July 2017	Team 1 vs. Team 3, Team 2 vs. Team 4

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ESS	CFB	MER	HIL
1	Étoile du Sahel	6	3	3	0	13	4	+9	12	Quarter-finals		—	5–0	3–0 (awd.)[a]	1–1
2	Ferroviário Beira	6	2	2	2	6	8	−2	8			1–1	—	1–0	0–0
3	Al-Merrikh	6	2	1	3	6	9	−3	7			1–2	2–1	—	2–1
4	Al-Hilal	6	0	4	2	4	8	−4	4			1–1	0–3 (awd.)[a]	1–1	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		USM	AHT	ZAM	CAP
1	USM Alger	6	3	2	1	12	5	+7	11	Quarter-finals		—	3–0	2–0	4–1
2	Al-Ahli Tripoli	6	2	3	1	11	10	+1	9			1–1	—	0–0	4–2
3	Zamalek	6	1	3	2	6	8	−2	6[a]			1–1	2–2	—	2–0
4	CAPS United	6	2	0	4	10	16	−6	6[a]			2–1	2–4	3–1	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		EST	MSD	STG	VIT
1	Espérance de Tunis	6	3	3	0	11	4	+7	12	Quarter-finals		—	0–0	4–0	3–1
2	Mamelodi Sundowns	6	2	3	1	6	4	+2	9			1–2	—	0–0	1–1
3	Saint George	6	1	2	3	2	7	−5	5[a]			0–0	0–1	—	1–0
4	AS Vita Club	6	1	2	3	7	11	−4	5[a]			2–2	1–3	2–1	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		WAC	AHL	ZAN	COT
1	Wydad AC	6	4	0	2	7	3	+4	12	Quarter-finals		—	2–0	1–0	2–0
2	Al Ahly	6	3	2	1	7	3	+4	11[a]			2–0	—	0–0	3–1
3	Zanaco	6	3	2	1	4	2	+2	11[a]			1–0	0–0	—	2–1
4	Coton Sport	6	0	0	6	2	12	−10	0			0–2	0–2	0–1	—

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Notes

References

External links

• Total Champions League 2017, CAFonline.com