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2021–22 CAF Champions League knockout stage

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2021–22 CAF Champions League knockout stage
Dates15 April – 30 May 2022
Tournament statistics
Matches played13
Goals scored28 (2.15 per match)

The 2021–22 CAF Champions League knockout stage started on 15 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 30 May 2022 with the final to decide the champions of the 2021–22 CAF Champions League. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times are listed in local times.

Round and draw dates

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The schedule was as follows.

Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Quarter-finals 5 April 2022 15–16 April 2022 22–23 April 2022
Semi-finals 6–7 May 2022 13–14 May 2022
Final 30 May 2022

Format

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Each tie in the knockout stage, apart from the final, 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. In the final, which was played as a single match, if the score was level at the end of normal time, extra time was played and if the score was still level, the winners were decided by a penalty shoot-out.

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 cannot be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association can 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 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

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The knockout stage involves the 8 teams which qualify as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group Winners Runners-up
A South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns Egypt Al Ahly
B Morocco Raja Casablanca Algeria ES Sétif
C Tunisia Espérance de Tunis Algeria CR Belouizdad
D Morocco Wydad AC Angola Petro de Luanda

Bracket

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The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:

Round Matchups
Quarter-finals (Group winners hosted 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 to decide the champions

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals and semi-finals), which was held on 5 April 2022, 13:00 GMT (15:00 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.[1]

 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
                
 
 
 
 
Egypt Al Ahly213
 
 
 
Morocco Raja Casablanca112
 
Egypt Al Ahly426
 
 
 
Algeria ES Sétif022
 
Algeria ES Sétif011
 
30 May – Casablanca
 
Tunisia Espérance de Tunis000
 
Egypt Al Ahly0
 
 
 
Morocco Wydad AC2
 
Angola Petro de Luanda213
 
 
 
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns112
 
Angola Petro de Luanda112
 
 
 
Morocco Wydad AC314
 
Algeria CR Belouizdad000
 
 
Morocco Wydad AC101
 

Quarter-finals

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The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 5 April 2022.

Summary

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The first legs were played on 15 and 16 April, and the second legs were played on 22 and 23 April 2022.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al Ahly Egypt 3–2 Morocco Raja Casablanca 2–1 1–1
ES Sétif Algeria 1–0 Tunisia Espérance de Tunis 0–0 1–0
CR Belouizdad Algeria 0–1 Morocco Wydad AC 0–1 0–0
Petro de Luanda Angola 3–2 South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 2–1 1–1

Matches

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Al Ahly Egypt2–1Morocco Raja Casablanca
Report
Raja Casablanca Morocco1–1Egypt Al Ahly
Report
Attendance: 105.000

Al Ahly won 3–2 on aggregate.


Espérance de Tunis Tunisia0–1Algeria ES Sétif
Report

ES Sétif won 1–0 on aggregate.


Wydad AC Morocco0–0Algeria CR Belouizdad
Report
Attendance: 103.000
Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)

Wydad AC won 1–0 on aggregate.


Petro de Luanda Angola2–1South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns
Report
Mamelodi Sundowns South Africa1−1Angola Petro de Luanda
Report

Petro de Luanda won 3–2 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

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The draw for the semi-finals was held on 5 April 2022 (after the quarter-finals draw).

Summary

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The first legs were played on 7 May, and the second legs were played on 13 and 14 May 2022.

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Al Ahly Egypt 6–2 Algeria ES Sétif 4–0 2–2
Petro de Luanda Angola 2–4 Morocco Wydad AC 1–3 1–1

Matches

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Al Ahly Egypt4–0Algeria ES Sétif
Report
ES Sétif Algeria2–2Egypt Al Ahly
Report

Al Ahly won 6–2 on aggregate.


Petro de Luanda Angola1–3Morocco Wydad AC
Report
Wydad AC Morocco1–1Angola Petro de Luanda
Report

Wydad AC won 4–2 on aggregate.

Final

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The final was played on 30 May 2022 at Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca.

Al Ahly Egypt0–2Morocco Wydad AC
Report

Notes

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  1. ^ a b ES Sétif play their group stage home matches at Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, instead of their regular home stadium Stade 8 Mai 1945, Sétif, which did not meet CAF requirements.
  2. ^ CR Belouizdad play their group stage home matches at Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers, instead of their regular home stadium Stade du 20 Août, Algiers, which did not meet CAF requirements.

References

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  1. ^ "TotalEnergies Champions League and Confederation Cup draw date announced". CAF. 24 March 2022.
  2. ^ "CAF, Morocco FA announce TotalEnergies 2021-2022 Champions League final ticketing and spectator information". CAFOnline.com. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
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