2025–26 CAF Champions League
The 2025–26 CAF Champions League, officially the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League for sponsorship purposes, is the 62nd season of Africa's premier club football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football and the 30th under the CAF Champions League title.
The winners of this edition of the competition will automatically qualify for its next edition, the 2026 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup and earn the right to play against the winners of the 2025–26 CAF Confederation Cup in the 2026 CAF Super Cup.
Association team allocation
All 56 CAF member associations may enter the CAF Champions League, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to the CAF 5-year ranking eligible to enter two teams in the competition. As a result, a maximum of 68 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached.For this season's edition, CAF used the 2020–2025 CAF 5-year ranking, which calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs performance over the 5 years in the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup. The criteria for the points were as follows:
| CAF Champions League | CAF Confederation Cup | |
| Winners | 6 points | 5 points |
| Runners-up | 5 points | 4 points |
| Losing semi-finalists | 4 points | 3 points |
| Losing quarter-finalists | 3 points | 2 points |
| 3rd place in groups | 2 points | 1 point |
| 4th place in groups | 1 point | 0.5 point |
The points were multiplied by a coefficient according to the season as follows:
- 2024–25: × 5
- 2023–24: × 4
- 2022–23: × 3
- 2021–22: × 2
- 2020–21: × 1
Teams
The following 62 teams from 50 associations entered the competition.- Bold received a bye to the second round.
- The other teams entered the first round.
; Associations which did not enter a team
Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying tournament is as follows.Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player | Team | Total | ||||||||||||
| 1 |  fbaicon|EGY |