CAF CL Draw Today - Orlando Pirates FC

The draw for the group stages of the 24/25 TotalEnergies CAF Champions League will be held in Cairo, Egypt later today and the Confederation Africaine de Football (CAF) has announced the procedure of the draw.

Orlando Pirates – who return to the Group Stages of the competition for the first in five years, will be in Pot 3 along with Al Hilal (Sudan), GD Sagrada Esperança (Angola) and AS FAR (Morocco).

The draw format will be as follows:

The teams will be divided into four pots according to their CAF rankings.

Pot 4 

MC Alger (Algeria) AS Maniema Union (DR Congo) Djoliba de Bamako (Mali) Stade d’Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire)

The draw for this pot will assign each team to one of the groups as follows:

The first ball drawn will go directly to Group A in position A4. The second ball drawn will go to Group B in position B4. The third ball drawn will go to Group C in position C4. The fourth ball drawn will go to Group D in position D4.

Pot 3 

Al Hilal (Sudan) Orlando Pirates (South Africa) GD Sagrada Esperança (Angola) AS FAR (Morocco)

The assignment of teams from Pot 3 will proceed similarly:

The first ball drawn will go to Group A in position A3. The second ball drawn will go to Group B in position B3. The third ball drawn will go to Group C in position C3. The fourth ball drawn will go to Group D in position D3.

Pot 2 

CRB (Algeria) Raja CA (Morocco) Young Africans (Tanzania) Pyramids FC (Egypt)

The draw procedure for Pot 2 will follow the same format:

The first ball drawn will go to Group A in position A2. The second ball drawn will go to Group B in position B2. The third ball drawn will go to Group C in position C2. The fourth ball drawn will go to Group D in position D2.

Pot 1

Al Ahly SC (Egypt) Esperance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia) Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa) TP Mazembe (DR Congo)

The final draw for Pot 1 will assign teams as follows:

The first ball drawn will go to Group A in position A1. The second ball drawn will go to Group B in position B1. The third ball drawn will go to Group C in position C1. The fourth ball drawn will go to Group D in position D1.

The TotalEnergies CAF Champions League Draw will commence at 13h00 (South African Time)