2022 CAF Women's Champions League


The 2022 CAF Women's Champions League was the 2nd edition of the annual African women's association football club tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football held in Morocco from 30 October to 13 November 2022.
Mamelodi Sundowns were the defending champions after claiming the inaugural edition title, but was dethroned after losing 0–4 to AS FAR in the final. With the first title, AS FAR automatically qualified for the group stage of the 2023 edition.

Qualified teams

Qualification was made up of 6 sub-confederation qualifying tournaments which ran from 7 August to 16 September 2022 with each confederation having a representative. As defending champions, Mamelodi Sundowns qualified automatically for the group stage of this edition of the tournament, despite losing on penalty kicks in the final of their qualification tournament.
AssociationTeamQualifying methodAppearance
AS FAR 2021–22 Moroccan Championship champions2nd
Mamelodi SundownsTitle holders 2nd
Green Buffaloes2022 CAF WCL COSAFA Qualifiers Champions1st
　Wadi Degla2022 CAF WCL UNAF Qualifiers champions2nd
Determine Girls2022 CAF WCL WAFU Zone A Qualifiers champions1st
　Simba Queens2022 CAF WCL CECAFA Qualifiers champions1st
　Bayelsa Queens 2022 CAF WCL WAFU Zone B Qualifiers champions1st
　TP Mazembe2022 CAF WCL UNIFFAC Qualifiers champions1st

Draw

The draw of this edition of the tournament was held at the Mohammed VI Technical Centre in Rabat, Morocco on 9 September 2022 at 11:30 CET. The 7 confirmed teams and the unknown UNIFFAC champion at the time of the draw were drawn into two groups of four teams. As club competition hosts, AS FAR was allocated to position A1.

Venues

On 16 October 2022, CAF indicated that this edition of the tournament will be held in Rabat and Marrakesh.

Match officials

;Referees
;Assistant referees
  • Asma Ouahab
  • Nafissatou Yekini
  • Carine Atezambong
  • Mireille Mujanayi
  • Pélagie Rakotozafinoro
  • Bernadettar Kwimbira
  • Fanta Kone
  • Mariem Chedad
  • Ihsane Nouali
  • Karima Khadiri
  • Houda Afine
  • Diana Chikotesha
;Video assistant referees

Group stage

The group stage kick-off times are in West Africa Time .

Tiebreakers

Teams were ranked according to [three three points for a win|points for a win|points].
If two teams were tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings :
  1. Points in head-to-head matches match between the two tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in all group matches;
  3. Goals scored in all group matches;
  4. Drawing of lots.
If more than two teams were tied, the following criteria were applied instead:
  1. Points in matches between the tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in matches between the tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in matches between the tied teams;
  4. If after applying all criteria above, two teams were still tied, the above criteria were again applied to matches played between the two teams in question. If this did not resolve the tie, the next three criteria were applied;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout phase

Semi-finals

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Statistics

Top scorers

This is the list of the top ten scorers in the main phase of this edition of the tournament:
RankPlayerTeamGoals
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Final standings

Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by a penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

Awards

The CAF Women's Champions League technical study group selected the following as the best of the tournament.