2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage

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2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage

Dates	17 April – 20 May 2022
Tournament statistics
Matches played	13
Goals scored	20 (1.54 per match)
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The 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage started on 17 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 20 May 2022 with the final to decide the champions of the 2021–22 CAF Confederation Cup. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times are listed in local times.

The schedule was as follows.

Round	Draw date	First leg	Second leg
Quarter-finals	5 April 2022	17 April 2022	24 April 2022
Semi-finals		8 May 2022	15 May 2022
Final		20 May 2022

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 could not 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.

The knockout stage involved 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	Al Ahli Tripoli	Pyramids
B	Orlando Pirates	Al Ittihad
C	TP Mazembe	Al Masry
D	RS Berkane	Simba

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-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	Al Ittihad	0	0	0
	Al Ahli Tripoli	0	1	1
							Al Ahli Tripoli	0	1	1
							Orlando Pirates	2	0	2
	Simba	1	0	1 (3)
													20 May – Uyo
	Orlando Pirates (p)	0	1	1 (4)
													Orlando Pirates			1 (4)
													RS Berkane (p)			1 (5)
	Pyramids	0	0	0
	TP Mazembe	0	2	2
							TP Mazembe	1	1	2
							RS Berkane	0	4	4
	Al Masry	2	0	2
	RS Berkane (a)	1	1	2

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

The first legs were played on 17 April, and the second were played on 24 April 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Simba	1–1 (3–4 p)	Orlando Pirates	1–0	0–1
Al Ittihad	0–1	Al Ahli Tripoli	0–0	0–1
Pyramids	0–2	TP Mazembe	0–0	0–2
Al Masry	2–2 (a)	RS Berkane	2–1	0–1

1–1 on aggregate. Orlando Pirates won 4–3 on penalties.

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Al Ahli Tripoli won 1–0 on aggregate.

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TP Mazembe won 2–0 on aggregate.

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2–2 on aggregate. RS Berkane won on away goals.

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

The first legs were played on 8 May, and the second legs were played on 15 May 2022.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ahli Tripoli	1–2	Orlando Pirates	0–2	1–0
TP Mazembe	2–4	RS Berkane	1–0	1–4

Orlando Pirates won 2–1 on aggregate.

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RS Berkane won 4–2 on aggregate.

The final was played on 20 May 2022 at Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo.

• CAFonline.com