2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage
# 2019–20 CAF Confederation Cup group stage

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.

| Pot | Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
| - | - | - | - |
| Teams | Horoya (30 pts) RS Berkane (28 pts) Enyimba (16 pts) Al-Masry (12 pts) | Hassania Agadir (10 pts) Zanaco (6 pts) Enugu Rangers (5 pts) Djoliba (2 pts) | 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.

| Matchday | Dates | Dates | Matches |
| - | - | - | - |
| Matchday | Original dates | Revised dates | Matches |
| Matchday 1 | 1 December 2019 | 1 December 2019 | Team 1 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 3 |
| Matchday 2 | 8 December 2019 | 8 December 2019 | Team 3 vs. Team 1, Team 4 vs. Team 2 |
| Matchday 3 | 29 December 2019 | 29 December 2019 | Team 4 vs. Team 3, Team 1 vs. Team 2 |
| Matchday 4 | 16 February 2020 | 12 January 2020 | Team 3 vs. Team 4, Team 2 vs. Team 1 |
| Matchday 5 | 23 February 2020 | 26 January 2020 | Team 4 vs. Team 1, Team 3 vs. Team 2 |
| Matchday 6 | 8 March 2020 | 2 February 2020 | Team 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

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | PYR | MAS | RAN | FCN |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Pyramids | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 15 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–0 | 0–1 | 6–0 |
| 2 | Al-Masry | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–2 | — | 4–2 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Enugu Rangers | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 6 | | 1–3 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 |
| 4 | FC Nouadhibou | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | −9 | 2 | | 0–1 | 2–3 | 0–0 | — |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | HOR | NAS | DJO | BID |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Horoya | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | +7 | 14 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 |
| 2 | Al-Nasr | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | −3 | 8 | Advance to knockout stage | 0–2 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| 3 | Djoliba | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | +1 | 8 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | Bidvest Wits | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 2 | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | — |

* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Al-Nasr 4, Djoliba 1.

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | RSB | ZAN | DCM | ESA |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | RS Berkane | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 4 | +9 | 11 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 1–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Zanaco | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 4 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–1 | — | 2–1 | 3–0 |
| 3 | DC Motema Pembe | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10 | | 1–0 | 1–1 | — | 1–0 |
| 4 | ESAE | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 14 | −13 | 1 | | 1–5 | 0–0 | 0–2 | — |

* 1 2 Head-to-head points: Zanaco 4, DC Motema Pembe 1.

### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | HAS | ENY | PAC | SNP |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Hassania Agadir | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 11 | Advance to knockout stage | — | 2–0 | 0–3 | 3–0 |
| 2 | Enyimba | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 10 | Advance to knockout stage | 1–1 | — | 4–1 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Paradou AC | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 8 | | 0–2 | 1–0 | — | 0–0 |
| 4 | FC San Pédro | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 3 | | 1–1 | 2–5 | 0–0 | — |
