2013 CAF Confederation Cup

2013 CAF Confederation Cup
2013 Orange CAF Confederation Cup
Tournament details
Dates	16 February – 30 November 2013
Teams	51+8 (from 41 associations)
Final positions
Champions	CS Sfaxien (3rd title)
Runners-up	TP Mazembe
Tournament statistics
Matches played	129
Goals scored	300 (2.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Vincent Die Foneye; Mbwana Samatta; Sonito; (6 goals)
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The 2013 CAF Confederation Cup (also known as the 2013 Orange CAF Confederation Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 10th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The winner earned the right to play in the 2014 CAF Super Cup.^[1] The defending champions AC Léopards did not enter the tournament as they qualified for the 2013 CAF Champions League and reached the group stage.

In the final, CS Sfaxien of Tunisia defeated TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and were crowned CAF Confederation Cup champions for a record third time.^[2]

Association team allocation

All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to their CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. The title holders could also enter if they had not already qualified for the CAF Champions League or CAF Confederation Cup.^[1] As a result, theoretically a maximum of 69 teams could enter the tournament (plus eight teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League which entered the play-off round) – although this level has never been reached.

For the 2013 CAF Confederation Cup, the CAF used the 2007–2011 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculated points for each association based on their clubs’ performance over those 5 years in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for points were the following:^[3]

	CAF Champions League	CAF Confederation Cup
Winner	5 points	4 points
Runner-up	4 points	3 points
Losing semi-finalists	3 points	2 points
3rd place in groups	2 points	1 point
4th place in groups	1 point	1 point

The points were multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follows:

2011 – 5
2010 – 4
2009 – 3
2008 – 2
2007 – 1

Teams

The following teams entered the competition. Teams in bold received a bye to the first round. The other teams entered the preliminary round.

Associations are shown according to their 2007–2011 CAF 5-year ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score indicated.

Association	Team	Qualifying method
Associations eligible to enter two teams (Ranked 1–12)
Tunisia (1st – 100 pts)	CS Sfaxien	2011–12 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
Tunisia (1st – 100 pts)	Étoile du Sahel	2011–12 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 fourth place
Nigeria (2nd – 70 pts)	Lobi Stars	2012 Nigeria Premier League third place
Nigeria (2nd – 70 pts)	Heartland	2012 Nigerian FA Cup winner
Egypt (3rd – 64 pts)	Ismaily	2010–11 Egyptian Premier League third place^{[Note EGY]}
Egypt (3rd – 64 pts)	ENPPI	2011 Egypt Cup winner^{[Note EGY]}
Morocco (4th – 62 pts)	Wydad AC	2011–12 Botola third place
Morocco (4th – 62 pts)	FAR Rabat	2012 Coupe du Trône runner-up
Congo DR (5th – 49 pts)	DC Motema Pembe	2012 Linafoot third place
Congo DR (5th – 49 pts)	CS Don Bosco	2012 Coupe du Congo winner
Sudan (6th – 47 pts)	Al-Ahly Shendi	2012 Sudan Premier League third place
Sudan (6th – 47 pts)	Al-Khartoum	2012 Sudan Premier League fourth place
Algeria (7th – 43 pts)	USM Alger (one entrant only)	2011–12 Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1 third place
Cameroon (8th – 19 pts)	Panthère du Ndé	2012 Cameroonian Premier League third place
Cameroon (8th – 19 pts)	Unisport Bafang	2012 Cameroonian Cup winner
Angola (9th – 18 pts)	Petro de Luanda	2012 Taça de Angola winner
Angola (9th – 18 pts)	Recreativo da Caála	2012 Taça de Angola runner-up
Mali (10th – 16 pts)	US Bougouni	2012 Malian Cup winner
Mali (10th – 16 pts)	Onze Créateurs	2012 Malian Cup runner-up
Ivory Coast (T-12th – 11 pts)	ASEC Mimosas	2012 Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division third place
Ivory Coast (T-12th – 11 pts)	Stella Club d'Adjamé	2012 Coupe de Côte d'Ivoire de football winner
Associations eligible to enter one team
Libya (T-12th – 11 pts)	Al-Nasr	2009–10 Libyan Cup winner^{[Note LBY]}
Zambia (14th – 10 pts)	Power Dynamos	2012 Zambian Premier League runner-up
Niger (15th – 4 pts)	Sahel	2012 Niger Cup winner
Ghana (16th – 2 pts)	New Edubiase United	2011–12 Ghanaian FA Cup winner
South Africa (17th – 1 pt)	SuperSport United	2012 Nedbank Cup winner
Benin	Mogas 90	2012 Benin Cup winner
Botswana	Gaborone United	2012 Botswana FA Challenge Cup winner
Burkina Faso	Rail Club du Kadiogo	2012 Coupe du Faso winner
Burundi	LLB Académic	2012 Burundian Cup winner
Central African Republic	Anges de Fatima	2012 Central African Republic Coupe Nationale finalist
Chad	Elect-Sport	2012 Coupe de Ligue de N'Djaména winner
Congo	Diables Noirs	2012 Coupe du Congo winner
Equatorial Guinea	The Panthers	2012 Equatoguinean Cup winner
Ethiopia	Dedebit	2011–12 Ethiopian Premier League runner-up
Gabon	US Bitam	2011–12 Gabon Championnat National D1 runner-up
Gambia	Gamtel	2012 Gambian Cup winner
Guinea	Séquence	2012 Guinée Coupe Nationale winner
Kenya	Gor Mahia	2012 FKF President's Cup winner
Liberia	Barrack Young Controllers II	2012 Liberian Cup winner
Madagascar	TCO Boeny	2012 Coupe de Madagascar winner
Mozambique	Liga Muçulmana	2012 Taça de Moçambique winner
Rwanda	Police	2011–12 Primus National Football League runner-up
São Tomé and Príncipe	Desportivo de Guadalupe	2012 Taça Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe runner-up
Senegal	HLM	2012 Senegal FA Cup winner
Seychelles	Anse Réunion	2012 Seychelles FA Cup winner
Sierra Leone	Johansen	2011–12 Sierra Leone National Premier League fourth place
South Sudan	El Nasir	2012 South Sudan National Cup winner
Swaziland	Mbabane Highlanders	2012 Swazi Cup runner-up
Tanzania	Azam	2011–12 Tanzanian Premier League runner-up
Togo	AS Douanes Lomé	2011–12 Togolese Championnat National runner-up

Notes

^ ^{a b}
Egypt (EGY): The 2011–12 Egyptian Premier League third place and the 2012 Egypt Cup winner would originally represent Egypt in this tournament, but due to their cancellation, the 2010–11 Egyptian Premier League third place and the 2011 Egypt Cup winner were selected to represent Egypt.^[4]
^
Libya (LBY): As there were no club football in Libya in 2012, the 2009–10 Libyan Cup winner (last completed season) was selected to represent Libya.^[5]

The following associations did not enter a team: Zimbabwe (11th – 13 pts), Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Réunion, Somalia, Uganda, Zanzibar.

Moreover, the eight losers of the 2013 CAF Champions League second round entered the play-off round.

Schedule

The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws held at CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt).

Phase	Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Qualifying	Preliminary round	9 December 2012^[6]	15–17 February 2013	1–3 March 2013
	First round		15–17 March 2013	5–7 April 2013
	Second round		19–21 April 2013	3–5 May 2013
	Play-off round	7 May 2013^[7]	17–19 May 2013	31 May–2 June 2013
Group stage	Matchday 1	14 May 2013^[7]	19–21 July 2013
	Matchday 2		2–4 August 2013
	Matchday 3		16–18 August 2013
	Matchday 4		30 August–1 September 2013
	Matchday 5		13–15 September 2013
	Matchday 6		20–22 September 2013
Knock-out stage	Semi-finals		4–6 October 2013	18–20 October 2013
Knock-out stage	Final		22–24 November 2013	29 November–1 December 2013

Qualifying rounds

The draw for the preliminary, first and second qualifying rounds was held on 9 December 2012, and the fixtures were announced by the CAF on 10 December 2012.^[8]

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time was played).^[1]

Preliminary round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Gor Mahia	5–0	Anse Réunion	0–0	5–0
CS Don Bosco	3–4	SuperSport United	0–1	3–3
Gaborone United	2–3	Liga Muçulmana	2–2	0–1
Mogas 90	w/o^[A]	AS Douanes Lomé	—	—
Rail Club du Kadiogo	2–1	Sahel	1–1	1–0
LLB Académic	2–1	Police	1–0	1–1
Panthère du Ndé	3–1	Elect-Sport	2–0	1–1
Desportivo de Guadalupe	1–17	US Bitam	0–5	1–12
Anges de Fatima	2–5	Dedebit	0–4	2–1
TCO Boeny	3–3 (5–3 p)	Mbabane Highlanders	1–2	2–1
Gamtel	5–2	HLM	2–1	3–1
New Edubiase United	1–1 (4–5 p)	Diables Noirs	1–0	0–1
The Panthers	3–0	Séquence	1–0	2–0
Power Dynamos	1–2	Recreativo da Caála	1–0	0–2
Unisport Bafang	0–3	US Bougouni	0–1	0–2
Stella Club d'Adjamé	1–4	Onze Créateurs	1–1	0–3
Barrack Young Controllers II	1–0	Johansen	1–0	0–0
Azam	8–1	El Nasir	3–1	5–0
Al-Nasr	1–0	Al-Khartoum	0–0	1–0

Notes

^
AS Douanes advanced to the first round after Mogas 90 withdrew.

First round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ENPPI	3–0	Gor Mahia	3–0	0–0
Petro Luanda	0–2	SuperSport United	0–0	0–2
Lobi Stars	4–8	Liga Muçulmana	3–1	1–7
Wydad AC	4–1	AS Douanes Lomé	3–0	1–1
Rail Club du Kadiogo	2–3^[B]	ASEC Mimosas	1–2	1–1
DC Motema Pembe	1–2	LLB Académic	1–0	0–2
USM Alger	4–2	Panthère du Ndé	1–0	3–2
Heartland	w/o^[C]	US Bitam	2–1	—
Al-Ahly Shendi	1–0	Dedebit	1–0	0–0
Ismaily	4–2	TCO Boeny	2–0	2–2
CS Sfaxien	7–3	Gamtel	4–2	3–1
Diables Noirs	6–1	The Panthers	6–1	0–0
Recreativo da Caála	6–0	US Bougouni	4–0	2–0
Étoile du Sahel	5–3	Onze Créateurs	2–1	3–2
Barrack Young Controllers II	1–2	Azam	1–2	0–0
FAR Rabat	2–1	Al-Nasr	1–0	1–1

Notes

^
Order of legs reversed after original draw.
^
US Bitam advanced to the second round after Heartland arrived late for the second leg, as per ruling made by the CAF.

Second round

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
ENPPI	3–1	SuperSport United	0–0	3–1
Liga Muçulmana	3–3 (a)	Wydad AC	2–0	1–3
ASEC Mimosas	1–1 (2–4 p)	LLB Académic	1–0	0–1
USM Alger	0–3	US Bitam	0–0	0–3
Al-Ahly Shendi	0–0 (3–4 p)	Ismaily	0–0	0–0
CS Sfaxien	4–2	Diables Noirs	3–1	1–1
Recreativo da Caála	2–7	Étoile du Sahel	1–1	1–6
Azam	1–2	FAR Rabat	0–0	1–2

Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 May 2013.^[9] The winners of the Confederation Cup second round were drawn against the losers of the Champions League second round, with the former hosting the second leg.^[1]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Stade Malien	6–0	LLB Académic	5–0	1–0
Enugu Rangers	w/o^[D]	CS Sfaxien	1–0	0–0
FUS Rabat	4–3	FAR Rabat	1–0	3–3
CA Bizertin	3–1	Ismaily	3–0	0–1
ES Sétif	2–2 (5–3 p)	US Bitam	2–0	0–2
JSM Béjaïa	3–4	Étoile du Sahel	2–2	1–2
TP Mazembe	5–2	Liga Muçulmana	4–0	1–2
Saint George	3–3 (a)	ENPPI	2–0	1–3

Notes

^
CS Sfaxien advanced to the group stage after Enugu Rangers, which had originally won 1–0 on aggregate, was ruled by the CAF to have fielded an ineligible player in the second leg and thus disqualified.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 14 May 2013.^[10] The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. Each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and runners-up of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:^[1]

Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned
Goal difference in games between the teams concerned
Away goals scored in games between the teams concerned
Goal difference in all games
Goals scored in all games

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	CSS	SM	ESS	SG
CS Sfaxien	6	4	2	0	8	3	+5	14		0–0	1–0	1–0
Stade Malien	6	2	2	2	3	4	−1	8	1–2		0–0	1–0
Étoile du Sahel	6	1	3	2	3	4	−1	6	1–1	0–1		2–1
Saint George	6	1	1	4	4	7	−3	4	1–3	2–0	0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	TPM	CAB	FUS	ESS
TP Mazembe	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10		1–0	3–0	4–2
CA Bizertin	6	2	2	2	3	3	0	8^[a]	1–0		1–0	0–0
FUS Rabat	6	2	2	2	5	6	−1	8^[a]	2–0	1–1		1–0
ES Sétif	6	1	3	2	5	7	−2	6	1–1	1–0	1–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Tiebreakers: CA Bizertin are ranked ahead of FUS Rabat on head-to-head record.

Knockout stage

Knock-out ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time was played).^[1]

Bracket

Semi-finals					Final

1	CA Bizertin	0	0	0

4	CS Sfaxien	0	1	1
					CS Sfaxien	2	1	3

					TP Mazembe	0	2	2
3	Stade Malien	1	0	1

2	TP Mazembe	2	1	3

Semi-finals

In the semi-finals, the group A winners played the group B runners-up and the group B winners played the group A runners-up, with the group winners hosting the second leg.^[1]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
CA Bizertin	0–1	CS Sfaxien	0–0	0–1
Stade Malien	1–3	TP Mazembe	1–2	0–1

Final

In the final, the order of the legs was decided by a draw.

23 November 2013

18:00 UTC+1

CS Sfaxien	2–0	TP Mazembe
Ndong 16' Khenissi 90+1'	Report

Stade Olympique de Radès, Radès

Referee: Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)

30 November 2013

15:30 UTC+2

TP Mazembe	2–1	CS Sfaxien
Traoré 10' Samatta 24'	Report	Ben Youssef 88'

Stade TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi

Referee: Daniel Bennett (South Africa)

CS Sfaxien won 3–2 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Vincent Die Foneye	ENPPI	6
	Mbwana Samatta	TP Mazembe	6
	Sonito	Liga Muçulmana	6
4	Franck Guedegbe	US Bitam	5
	Idrissa Kouyaté	CS Sfaxien	5
	Mossaâb Sassi	Étoile du Sahel	5
7	Fakhreddine Ben Youssef	CS Sfaxien	4
	Étienne Alain Djissikadié	US Bitam	4
	Taha Yassine Khenissi	CS Sfaxien	4
	Losseni Komara	Diables Noirs	4