2011 CAF Champions League group stage

The 2011 CAF Champions League group stage matches took place between July and September 2011. The matchdays were: 15–17 July, 29–31 July, 12–14 August, 26–28 August, 9–11 September, and 16–18 September.[1]

2011 CAF Champions League group stage
Dates16 July – 16 September 2011
Main article: 2011 CAF Champions League

The group stage featured the eight winners from the second round. They were divided into two groups of four, where they played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each group advanced to the semifinals.[2]

Seeding

The draw for the group stage took place on 15 May 2011, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo.[3]

The procedures for the group stage draw were announced on 12 May 2011.[4] The teams were seeded into four pots, and each group contains one team from each pot.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Al-Ahly (43 pts)
Al-Hilal (31 pts)

Espérance ST (24 pts)
Coton Sport (12 pts)

Enyimba (11 pts)
MC Alger (0 pts)

Raja Casablanca (0 pts)
Wydad Casablanca† (0 pts)

Notes:

  • Ranking score for teams is by their individual team 2006–2010 CAF 5-Year Ranking, the same ranking used to seed teams in the qualifying rounds.
  • † Winner of play-off due to disqualification of TP Mazembe

Tiebreakers

The order of tie-breakers used when two or more teams have equal number of points is:[2]

  1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
  3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  4. Away goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  5. Goal difference in all games;
  6. Goals scored in all games;
  7. Drawing of lots.

Groups

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts ENY HIL COT RCA
Enyimba 6 4 2 0 11 5 +6 14 — 2–2 2–0 2–0
Al-Hilal 6 2 2 2 6 7 −1 8 1–2 — 2–1 1–0
Coton Sport FC 6 2 1 3 7 8 −1 7 2–3 2–0 — 2–1
Raja Casablanca 6 0 3 3 1 5 −4 3 0–0 0–0 0–0 —
Source:
Enyimba 2 – 2 Al-Hilal
Valentine Nwabili  48'
Uche Kalu  60'		 Report Edward Sadomba  22', 76'
Referee: Farouk Mohamed (Egypt)[5]
Coton Sport 2 – 3 Enyimba
Chardin Madila Mfoutou  46'
Saidou Idrissa  63'		 Report Uche Kalu  8', 85'
Chidozie Johnson  40'
Enyimba 2 – 0 Raja Casablanca
Uche Kalu  9'
Chidozie Johnson  25'		 Report
Al-Hilal 2 – 1 Coton Sport
Haitham Mustafa  28' (pen.)
Edet Otobong  82'		 Report Chardin Madila Mfoutou  10'
Raja Casablanca 0 – 0 Enyimba
Report
Coton Sport 2 – 0 Al-Hilal
Jacques Haman  28'
Brice Zimbori  55'		 Report
Al-Hilal 1 – 2 Enyimba
Edward Sadomba  6' Report Valentine Nwabili  68'
Samuel Tswanya  90' (pen.)
Coton Sport 2 – 1 Raja Casablanca
Osmaila Baba  54', 64' Report Abdessamad Ouhakki  16'
Raja Casablanca 0 – 0 Al-Hilal
Report
Enyimba 2 – 0 Coton Sport
Ifeanyi Ede  45' (pen.)
Valentine Nwabili  90'		 Report

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts EST WAC AHL MCA
Espérance ST 6 2 4 0 9 4 +5 10 — 0–0 1–0 4–0
Wydad Casablanca 6 1 4 1 11 9 +2 7[lower-alpha 1] 2–2 — 1–1 4–0
Al-Ahly 6 1 4 1 7 6 +1 7[lower-alpha 1] 1–1 3–3 — 2–0
MC Alger 6 1 2 3 4 12 −8 5 1–1 3–1 0–0 —
Source:
Notes:
  1. Wydad Casablanca and Al-Ahly are ranked by their head-to-head records (decided by away goals).
Tiebreaker
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD AG Pts
Wydad Casablanca 2 0 2 0 4 4 0 3 2
Al-Ahly 2 0 2 0 4 4 0 1 2
Source:
Wydad Casablanca 4 – 0 MC Alger
Fabrice N'Guessi  1'
Ahmed Ajeddou  30' (pen.)
Ayoub El Khaliki  74'
Jean Louis Pascal Angan  90'		 Report
Attendance: 50,000
Wydad Casablanca 2 – 2 Espérance ST
Fabrice N'Guessi  65'
Youssef Kaddioui  78' (pen.)		 Report Wajdi Bouazzi  22'
Walid Hichri  37'
Attendance: 67,000
Espérance ST 4 – 0 MC Alger
Mejdi Traoui  8'
Yannick N'Djeng  21', 43', 55'		 Report
Wydad Casablanca 1 – 1 Al-Ahly
Abderahim Benkhajjan  48' Report Mohamed Nagy  36'

References
  1. Proposed Dates for Interclubes Competitions 2011
  2. Regulations of the CAF Champions League
  3. Draw of the Group matches
  4. Official draw procedure for the group matches, semi-finals and finals of the 15th Edition of Orange CAF Champions League, “CL 2011”
  5. Day 1 Report
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