2022–23 CAF Champions League knockout stage

The 2022–23 CAF Champions League knockout stage started on 21 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 11 June 2023 with the final to decide the champions of the 2022–23 CAF Champions League. A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage.

Times were local.

The schedule was as follows.

Each tie in the knockout phase 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 (Regulations III. 26 & 27).

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 the semi-finals and final, 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 qualified as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Wydad AC	JS Kabylie
B	Mamelodi Sundowns	Al Ahly
C	Raja CA	Simba
D	Espérance de Tunis	CR Belouizdad

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals and final), which was held on 5 April 2023, 18:30 GMT (20:30 local time, UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[1]

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final
	JS Kabylie	0	1	1
	Espérance de Tunis	1	1	2
							Espérance de Tunis	0	0	0
							Al Ahly	3	1	4
	Al Ahly	2	0	2
	Raja CA	0	0	0
													Al Ahly	2	1	3
													Wydad AC	1	1	2
	Simba	1	0	1 (3)
	Wydad AC (p)	0	1	1 (4)
							Wydad AC (a)	0	2	2
							Mamelodi Sundowns	0	2	2
	CR Belouizdad	1	1	2
	Mamelodi Sundowns	4	2	6

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 5 April 2023.

The first legs were played on 21 and 22 April, and the second legs were played on 28 and 29 April 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Simba	1–1 (3–4 p)	Wydad AC	1–0	0–1
Al Ahly	2–0	Raja CA	2–0	0–0
CR Belouizdad	2–6	Mamelodi Sundowns	1–4	1–2
JS Kabylie	1–2	Espérance de Tunis	0–1	1–1

22 April 2023 (2023-04-22)

16:00 UTC+3

Simba	1–0	Wydad AC
Othos 30'	Report

National Stadium, Dar es Salaam

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Issa Sy (Senegal)

28 April 2023 (2023-04-28)

20:00 UTC+1

Wydad AC	1–0	Simba
Sambou 24'	Report
Penalties
Jabrane El Amloud Aboulfath Haimoud	4–3	Nyoni Ntibazonkiza Kapombe Phiri Chama

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 39,000

Referee: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad)

1–1 on aggregate. Wydad AC won 4–3 on penalties.

22 April 2023 (2023-04-22)

21:00 UTC+2

Al Ahly	2–0	Raja CA
Abdelmonem 45+2' Fathy 84'	Report

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 52,000

Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)

29 April 2023 (2023-04-29)

20:00 UTC+1

Raja CA	0–0	Al Ahly
	Report

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 70,000

Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

Al Ahly won 2–0 on aggregate.

22 April 2023 (2023-04-22)

20:00 UTC+1

CR Belouizdad	1–4	Mamelodi Sundowns
Rebiaï 45+3'	Report	Shalulile 6', 51' Maema 20' Mailula 90+2'

Nelson Mandela Stadium, Algiers

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)

29 April 2023 (2023-04-29)

15:00 UTC+2

Mamelodi Sundowns	2–1	CR Belouizdad
Zwane 45' Morena 49'	Report	Bouchar 24'

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Abdel Aziz Mohamed Bouh (Mauritania)

Mamelodi Sundowns won 6–2 on aggregate.

21 April 2023 (2023-04-21)

22:00 UTC+1

JS Kabylie	0–1	Espérance de Tunis
	Report	Ben Hammouda 54'

Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers^{[note 1]}

Attendance: 47,000

Referee: Amin Omar (Egypt)

29 April 2023 (2023-04-29)

20:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	1–1	JS Kabylie
Ben Romdhane 49'	Report	Redjem 85'

Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Jean Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)

Espérance de Tunis won 2–1 on aggregate.

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 5 April 2023 (after the quarter-finals draw).

The first legs were played on 12 and 13 May, and the second legs were played on 19 and 20 May 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Espérance de Tunis	0–4	Al Ahly	0–3	0–1
Wydad AC	2–2 (a)	Mamelodi Sundowns	0–0	2–2

12 May 2023 (2023-05-12)

20:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	0–3	Al Ahly
	Report	Tau 8', 55' Kahraba 75'

Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis

Attendance: 0 (close doors)

Referee: Peter Waweru (Kenya)

19 May 2023 (2023-05-19)

22:00 UTC+3

Al Ahly	1–0	Espérance de Tunis
El Shahat 22'	Report

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

Al Ahly won 4–0 on aggregate.

13 May 2023 (2023-05-13)

20:00 UTC+1

Wydad AC	0–0	Mamelodi Sundowns
	Report

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 39,000

Referee: Daniel Nii Laryea (Ghana)

20 May 2023 (2023-05-20)

15:00 UTC+2

Mamelodi Sundowns	2–2	Wydad AC
Zwane 50' Shalulile 79'	Report	El Amloud 72' Mvala 83' (o.g.)

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Mahmood Ismail (Sudan)

2–2 on aggregate. Wydad AC won on away goals.

The first leg was played on 4 June, and the second leg was played on 11 June 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al Ahly	3–2	Wydad AC	2–1	1–1

4 June 2023 (2023-06-04)

21:00 UTC+3

Al Ahly	2–1	Wydad AC
Tau 45+4' Kahraba 59'	Report	Bouhra 86'

Cairo International Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

11 June 2023 (2023-06-11)

20:00 UTC+1

Wydad AC	1–1	Al Ahly
Attiyat Allah 27'	Report	Abdelmonem 78'

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 45,000

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Al Ahly won 3–2 on aggregate.

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