2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage

The 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup knockout stage started on 23 April with the quarter-finals and ended on 3 June 2023 with the final to decide the champions of the 2022–23 CAF Confederation Cup. 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, 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	Marumo Gallants	USM Alger
B	ASEC Mimosas	Rivers United
C	ASFAR	Pyramids
D	Young Africans	Union Monastirienne

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
	Rivers United	0	0	0
	Young Africans	2	0	2
							Young Africans	2	2	4
							Marumo Gallants	0	1	1
	Pyramids	1	0	1
	Marumo Gallants	1	1	2
													Young Africans	1	1	2
													USM Alger (a)	2	0	2
	Union Monastirienne	0	0	0
	ASEC Mimosas	0	2	2
							ASEC Mimosas	0	0	0
							USM Alger	0	2	2
	USM Alger	2	2	4
	ASFAR	0	3	3

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

The first legs were played on 23 April, and the second legs were played on 30 April 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Pyramids	1–2	Marumo Gallants	1–1	0–1
Union Monastirienne	0–2	ASEC Mimosas	0–0	0–2
USM Alger	4–3	ASFAR	2–0	2–3
Rivers United	0–2	Young Africans	0–2	0–0

23 April 2023 (2023-04-23)

18:00 UTC+2

Pyramids	1–1	Marumo Gallants
Sobhi 90+2' (pen.)	Report	Chivaviro 55'

30 June Stadium, Cairo

Referee: Ibrahim Kalilou Traore (Ivory Coast)

30 April 2023 (2023-04-30)

18:00 UTC+2

Marumo Gallants	1–0	Pyramids
Ngema 39'	Report

Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

Referee: Pierre Atcho (Gabon)

Marumo Gallants won 2–1 on aggregate.

23 April 2023 (2023-04-23)

17:00 UTC+1

Union Monastirienne	0–0	ASEC Mimosas
	Report

Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis^{[note 1]}

Referee: Bamlak Tessema Weyesa (Ethiopia)

30 April 2023 (2023-04-30)

16:00 UTC±0

ASEC Mimosas	2–0	Union Monastirienne
Zouzou 45+1' Zouzoua 90+1'	Report

Stade Bouaké, Bouaké^{[note 2]}

Referee: Samuel Uwikunda (Rwanda)

ASEC Mimosas won 2–0 on aggregate.

23 April 2023 (2023-04-23)

20:00 UTC+1

USM Alger	2–0	ASFAR
Radouani 44' Belaïd 62'	Report

Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers

Referee: Ahmad Imtehaz Heeralall (Mauritius)

30 April 2023 (2023-04-30)

20:00 UTC+1

ASFAR	3–2	USM Alger
Chita 8' (o.g.) Diney 60' Hrimat 90+7' (pen.)	Report	Radouani 12' Bousseliou 78'

Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat

Referee: Mohamed Marouf Eid Mansour (Egypt)

USM Alger won 4–3 on aggregate.

23 April 2023 (2023-04-23)

14:00 UTC+1

Rivers United	0–2	Young Africans
	Report	Mayele 73', 81'

Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo

Referee: Abongile Tom (South Africa)

30 April 2023 (2023-04-30)

19:00 UTC+3

Young Africans	0–0	Rivers United
	Report

National Stadium, Dar es Salaam

Referee: Redouane Jiyed (Morocco)

Young Africans won 2–0 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 10 May, and the second legs were played on 17 May 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Young Africans	4–1	Marumo Gallants	2–0	2–1
ASEC Mimosas	0–2	USM Alger	0–0	0–2

10 May 2023 (2023-05-10)

16:00 UTC+3

Young Africans	2–0	Marumo Gallants
Aziz Ki 64' Morrison 90+2'	Report

National Stadium, Dar es Salaam

Referee: Mahmoud El Banna (Egypt)

17 May 2023 (2023-05-17)

18:00 UTC+2

Marumo Gallants	1–2	Young Africans
Chivaviro 90+1'	Report	Mayele 45+1' Musonda 62'

Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

Referee: Ibrahim Mutaz (Libya)

Young Africans won 4–1 on aggregate.

10 May 2023 (2023-05-10)

16:00 UTC±0

ASEC Mimosas	0–0	USM Alger
	Report

Stade Bouaké, Bouaké^{[note 2]}

Referee: Alhadi Allaou Mahamat (Chad)

17 May 2023 (2023-05-17)

20:00 UTC+1

USM Alger	2–0	ASEC Mimosas
Bousseliou 28' Belkacemi 80'	Report

Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers

Referee: Pierre Atcho (Gabon)

USM Alger won 2–0 on aggregate.

The first leg was played on 28 May, and the second leg was played on 3 June 2023.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Young Africans	2–2 (a)	USM Alger	1–2	1–0

28 May 2023 (2023-05-28)

16:00 UTC+3

Young Africans	1–2	USM Alger
Mayele 82'	Report	Mahious 32' Merili 84'

Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, Dar es Salaam

Attendance: 60,000

Referee: Jean Jacques Ndala Ngambo (DR Congo)

3 June 2023 (2023-06-03)

20:00 UTC+1

USM Alger	0–1	Young Africans
	Report	Shabani 7' (pen.)

Stade du 5 Juillet, Algiers

Attendance: 64,000

Referee: Dahane Beida (Mauritania)

2–2 on aggregate. USM Alger won on away goals.

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