CAF Champions League

CAF Champions League

Organising body	CAF
Founded	1964; 60 years ago (1964) (rebranded in 1997)
Region	Africa
Number of teams	16 (group stage) 68 (total) (from 56 associations)
Qualifier for	CAF Super Cup FIFA Club World Cup FIFA Intercontinental Cup
Related competitions	CAF Confederation Cup
Current champions	Al Ahly (12th title)
Most successful club(s)	Al Ahly (12 titles)
Television broadcasters	List of broadcasters
Website	Official website
2024–25 CAF Champions League

The CAF Champions League, known for sponsorship purposes as the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League^[1] and formerly the African Cup of Champions Clubs, is an annual club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and contested by top-division African clubs, deciding the competition winners through a round robin group stage to qualify for a double-legged knockout stage, and then a home and away final. It is the most prestigious club competition in African football.

The winner of the each season of the competition earns a berth for the FIFA Club World Cup, a tournament contested between the champion clubs from all six continental confederations, faces the winner of the CAF Confederation Cup in the following season's CAF Super Cup and from 2024 onwards, along with the next 4 best teams, a place in the new FIFA Intercontinental Cup. Clubs that finish as runners-up their national leagues, having not qualified for the Champions League, are eligible for the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup.

Egyptian clubs have the highest number of victories (18 titles), followed by Morocco with 7. Cameroon, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco have the largest number of winning teams, with three clubs from each having won the title. The competition has been won by 26 clubs, 12 of which have won it more than once. Al Ahly is the most successful club in the competition's history, having it a record 12 times, including the most recent season and are the current African champions, having beaten Espérance de Tunis 1–0 on aggregate in the 2024 final.