1. Its officially known as Total CAF Confederation Cup.
  2. It is an annual club association football established in 2004 by the Confederation of African Football.
  3. Teams that qualify to participate are chosen based on their performance in local leagues – Cup winners Champions and third-placed winners of super leagues from the 55 CAF-member national football associations. Rangers are Nigeria’s AETO Cup Champions
  4. It is a competition National Cup as well as for 3rd placed teams in individual local leagues in Africa. While the League Champions play the more prestigious CAF Champions Cup, the CAF Confederation Cup is reserved for runners up in the local League.
  5. Interestingly, the winners of both contests – CAF Confederation and CAF Champions Cups – will meet in the following season to vie for the CAF Super Cup which will determine the Numero Uno Team in Africa. Thus, if Enugu Rangers were to prevail in her current campaign for the Confederation Cup and then goes on to win the Super Cup, she will wear the crown as the Number One Team in Africa for 2020.
  6. There are two phases to the competition. Phase A features preliminary matches with a knockout system where ties are broken through the away goals rule. Interestingly, the 16 teams eliminated from the CAF Champions League will be downgraded to automatically play the additional rounds of the CAF Confederation Cup.
  7. In Phase B, 16 teams which qualified from group matches will be divided into four groups of four teams each. Each team will play six matches against the other on home and away basis.
  8. The group winners and runners up from the four groups will now play a knockout round in two home-and-away matches in three rounds that effectively become the quarter finals, semifinals and final.
  9. Where there are equal number of goals scored during the two matches, the team that score more away goals will advance. If the away goals are the same, penalty matches will be used to calculate which team will advance.
  10. The winner will play the CAF Super Cup against the winner of CAF Championship League. The Super Cup is played in the following year in one match at a CAF Championship Venue.

Some interesting statistics
• Founded 15 years ago (2004)
• Began as CAF Cup (1992-2003)
• Has not been won by any Nigerian Club side
• 16 Teams play at Group Stage
• Winner qualifies to play CAF Super Cup
• Zamalek SC of Egypt are current champions
• Most successful Club is CS Sfaxien of Tunisia which has won it three times.

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