2018 CAF Champions League knockout stage

The 2018 CAF Champions League knockout stage was played from 14 September to 9 November 2018.^[1] A total of eight teams competed in the knockout stage to decide the champions of the 2018 CAF Champions League.^[2]

Qualified teams

The winners and runners-up of each of the four groups in the group stage advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group	Winners	Runners-up
A	Al Ahly	Espérance de Tunis
B	TP Mazembe	ES Sétif
C	Wydad AC	Horoya
D	Étoile du Sahel	1º de Agosto

Format

In the knockout stage, the eight teams played a single-elimination tournament. Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still tied, extra time would not be played, and the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (Regulations III. 26 & 27).^[2]

Schedule

The schedule of each round was as follows (matches scheduled in midweek in italics).^[1] Effective from the Champions League group stage, weekend matches were played on Fridays and Saturdays while midweek matches were played on Tuesdays, with some exceptions. Kick-off times were also fixed at 13:00 (Saturdays and Tuesdays only), 16:00 and 19:00 GMT.^[3]

Round	First leg	Second leg
Quarter-finals	14–15 September 2018	21–22 September 2018
Semi-finals	2 October 2018	23 October 2018
Final	2 November 2018	9 November 2018

Bracket

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:^[2]

Round	Matchups
Quarter-finals	(Group winners host 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 host first leg, Winners SF2 host second leg) Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2

The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage (quarter-finals and semi-finals), which was held on 3 September 2018, 20:00 EET (UTC+2), at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt.^[4]^[5]^[6]

	Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final

	Horoya	0	0	0

	Al Ahly	0	4	4
							Al Ahly	2	1	3

							ES Sétif	0	2	2
	ES Sétif	1	0	1

	Wydad AC	0	0	0
													Al Ahly	3	0	3

													Espérance de Tunis	1	3	4
	1º de Agosto	0	1	1 (a)

	TP Mazembe	0	1	1
							1º de Agosto	1	2	3

							Espérance de Tunis	0	4	4
	Espérance de Tunis	2	1	3

	Étoile du Sahel	1	0	1

Quarter-finals

In the quarter-finals, the winners of one group played the runners-up of another group (teams from same group could not play each other), with the group winners hosting the second leg, and the matchups decided by draw.^[4]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
1º de Agosto	1–1 (a)	TP Mazembe	0–0	1–1
Espérance de Tunis	3–1	Étoile du Sahel	2–1	1–0
ES Sétif	1–0	Wydad AC	1–0	0–0
Horoya	0–4	Al Ahly	0–0	0–4

15 September 2018

17:00 UTC+1

1º de Agosto	0–0	TP Mazembe
	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda

Referee: Rédouane Jiyed (Morocco)

21 September 2018

15:00 UTC+2

TP Mazembe	1–1	1º de Agosto
Muleka 12'	Report	Bokamba 34'

Stade TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi

Attendance: 17,000

Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)

1–1 on aggregate. 1º de Agosto won on away goals.

15 September 2018

20:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	2–1	Étoile du Sahel
Dhaouadi 2' Derbali 77'	Report	Jemal 28'

Stade Olympique de Radès, Tunis

Attendance: 30,000

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

21 September 2018

17:00 UTC+1

Étoile du Sahel	0–1	Espérance de Tunis
	Report	Coulibaly 87'

Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Espérance de Tunis won 3–1 on aggregate.

14 September 2018

20:00 UTC+1

ES Sétif	1–0	Wydad AC
Diomande 16'	Report

Stade du 8-Mai-1945, Sétif

Attendance: 23,000

Referee: Eric Otogo-Castane (Gabon)

21 September 2018

20:00 UTC+1

Wydad AC	0–0	ES Sétif
	Report

Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca

Attendance: 43,000

Referee: Bernard Camille (Seychelles)

ES Sétif won 1–0 on aggregate.

14 September 2018

16:00 UTC±0

Horoya	0–0	Al-Ahly
	Report

Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry

Attendance: 35,000

Referee: Youssef Essrayri (Tunisia)

22 September 2018

21:00 UTC+2

Al-Ahly	4–0	Horoya
Soliman 32' Mohareb 53' S. Mohsen 69' Fathy 90+2'	Report

Al-Salam Stadium, Cairo

Attendance: 22,500

Referee: Bakary Gassama (Gambia)

Al-Ahly won 4–0 on aggregate.

Semi-finals

In the semi-finals, the four quarter-final winners played in two ties, with the matchups and order of legs decided by draw.^[4]

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Al-Ahly	3–2	ES Sétif	2–0	1–2
1º de Agosto	3–4	Espérance de Tunis	1–0	2–4

2 October 2018

21:00 UTC+2

Al-Ahly	2–0	ES Sétif
Soliman 23' Mohareb 41'	Report

Al-Salam Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

23 October 2018

20:00 UTC+1

ES Sétif	2–1	Al-Ahly
Bakir 67' Ghacha 72'	Report	Soliman 61'

Stade du 8-Mai-1945, Sétif

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Al-Ahly won 3–2 on aggregate.

2 October 2018

17:00 UTC+1

1º de Agosto	1–0	Espérance de Tunis
Buá 82'	Report

Estádio 11 de Novembro, Luanda

Attendance: 25,000

Referee: Maguette N'Diaye (Senegal)

23 October 2018

17:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	4–2	1º de Agosto
Belaïli 16' (pen.) Yacoubi 27' Jouini 73' Badri 85'	Report	Geraldo 8' Bokamba 64'

Stade Olympique de Radès, Tunis

Attendance: 50,000

Referee: Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)

Espérance de Tunis won 4–3 on aggregate.

Final

In the final, the two semi-final winners played each other, with the order of legs determined by the semi-final draw.^[4]

2 November 2018

21:00 UTC+2

Al Ahly	3–1	Espérance de Tunis
Soliman 34' (pen.), 77' (pen.) El Solia 58'	Report	Belaïli 64' (pen.)

Borg El Arab Stadium, Alexandria

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Mehdi Abid Charef (Algeria)

9 November 2018

20:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	3–0	Al Ahly
Bguir 45+1', 54' Badri 86'	Report

Stade Olympique de Radès, Tunis

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

Espérance de Tunis won 4–3 on aggregate.

References

^ ^a ^b "DATES FOR CAF INTERCLUBS COMPETITIONS 2018" (PDF). CAF.
^ ^a ^b ^c "CAF Champions League regulations" (PDF). CAF.
^ "Friday & Saturday for Champions League, Sunday for Confederation Cup". CAF. 17 April 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Draw Procedure of the 22nd Edition of Total CAF Champions League, CL 2018" (PDF). CAF. 2 September 2018.
^ "CAF Champions League 2018 DRAW". YouTube. 3 September 2018.
^ "Total CAF Champions League 2018 Draw". CAF.

External links

22nd Edition Of Total CAF Champions League, CAFonline.com

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