2024–25 CAF Champions League

The 2024–25 CAF Champions League (officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons) will be the 61st season of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the 29th under the CAF Champions League title.

The winners of this edition of the competition will automatically qualify for the group stage of its next edition, earn the right to play against the winners of the 2024–25 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2025 CAF Super Cup and the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup.

Association team allocation
All 54 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to the CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. As a result, a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached.

For this season's edition, CAF will use the 2019–2024 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs’ performance over the 5 years in the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for the points are as follows:

The points are multiplied by a coefficient according to the season as follows:
 * 2023–24: × 5
 * 2022–23: × 4
 * 2021–22: × 3
 * 2020–21: × 2
 * 2019–20: × 1

Teams
The following 59 teams from 48 associations entered the competition.
 * Bold received a bye to the second round.
 * The other teams entered the first round.

Associations are shown according to their CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score (in parentheses) indicated.


 * Associations which did not enter a team



Notes

Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.