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2023 CAF Women's Champions League

The 2023 CAF Women's Champions League was the 3rd edition of the annual African women's association football club tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football, it was hosted by Ivory Coast from 5 to 19 November 2023. The winners of this edition will automatically qualify for the group stage of the following edition of the tournament. The qualification draw was conducted on 5 July 2023 at the Mohammed VI Football Academy in Rabat, Morocco.

AS FAR are the defending champions.

Qualified teams

Qualification for this edition like the previous two editions of the tournament were made up of 6 sub-confederation qualifying tournaments which was contested between August and September 2023 with each confederation having a representative. As defending champions, AS FAR qualified automatically for the main phase of the tournament.

Draw

The draw of this edition of the tournament was held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on 9 October 2023 at 16:00 CET (16:00 GMT). The 8 confirmed teams was drawn into two groups of four teams. As club competition hosts, Athlético Abidjan was allocated to position A1.

Venues

Match officials

Referees
Assistant referees
  • Asma Feriel Ouahab
  • Nafissatou Yekini
  • Fidès Bangurambona
  • Yara Atef
  • Prisca Danielle Ta
  • Mary Njoroge
  • Bernadettar Kwimbira
  • Fanta Koné
  • Meriem Chedad
  • Queency Victoire
  • Houda Afine
  • Nancy Kasitu
Video assistant referees

Group stage

The group stage kick-off times are in West Africa Time (WAT) ().

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss).

If two teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings (Regulations Article 71):

  1. Points in head-to-head matches match between the two tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Drawing of lots.

If more than two teams were tied, the following criteria were applied instead:

  1. Points in matches between the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in matches between the tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in matches between the tied teams;
  4. If after applying all criteria above, two teams were still tied, the above criteria were again applied to matches played between the two teams in question. If this did not resolve the tie, the next three criteria were applied;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Group B

Knockout phase

Semi-finals

Third-place match

Final

Statistics

Top scorers

This is the list of the top ten scorers in the main phase of this tournament:

Final standings

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

|- | colspan="11"| Eliminated in group stage |-

Awards

The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following as the best of the tournament.

The CAF Technical Study Group has announced the tournament’s Best XI as follows:

Coach: Jerry Tshabalala

See also

References

External links