Caf champions league: despite the clear dominance of North Afr

caf champions league Despite the clear dominance of North African teams, Nigerian club Enyimba won their first two titles back-to-back in 2003 and 2004 . [ 22 ] [ 23 ] ASEC Mimosas from Ivory Coast and Accra Hearts of Oak from Ghana added two championships for West Africa. In 2010 , TP Mazembe from the DRC became the first club to repeat as champions on two occasions, with the first pair of wins arriving in 1967 and 1968 , [ 24 ] [ 25 ] before repeating the feat again in 2009 and 2010 . [ 26 ] [ 27 ] In 2017, the group phase was expanded from 2 groups of 4 teams to 4 groups of 16, with the automatic addition of the quarter-finals stage. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ]. kết quả bóng đá concacaf Cổ động viên Bắc Phi nổi tiếng với pháo sáng và khúc hát vang dội, tạo áp lực không nhỏ cho đội khách. caf champions league The CAF Champions League is open to the winners of all CAF-affiliated national leagues, as well as the title holders from the previous season. From the 2004 season onward, with the merging of the CAF Cup and the African Cup Winners' Cup to create the second-tier CAF Confederation Cup , the runners-up of football leagues of the 12 highest-ranked countries also enter the tournament, making up a total of 64 in-competition teams. The 12 countries would be ranked based on the performance of their clubs in the previous 5 seasons/editions of the competition (the plain definition of the CAF 5-year ranking ). [ 39 ]