By Victor Kanayo
The Confédération of African Football (CAF) has announced that the date for the Quarter-Finals draw of the 2024/25 CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup will be on Thursday February 20, 2025.
Also, CAF in a statement via its official website revealed that the venue for the draw will be at Doha, Qatar’s capital.
According to CAF, “the quarter-final of both competitions will be played over two legs, with the first leg of the CAF Champions League scheduled for 1-2 April and 8-9 April, while the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-final fixtures are set to take place on 2 April and 9 April, 2025.
“Both draws will feature the reigning champions of each competition: Al Ahly SC, title holders of the CAF Champions League, and Zamalek SC, the defending CAF Confederation Cup champions”.
Clubs that qualified for the CAF Champions League quarter-final stage this season are Al Ahly SC (Egypt), Al Hilal (Sudan), AS FAR (Morocco), Espérance Sportive de Tunis (Tunisia), Mamelodi Sundowns, Orlando Pirates (South Africa), Pyramids (Egypt), MC Alger (Algeria).
Those for the last eight in the CAF Confederation Cup are Zamalek SC (Egypt), Asec Mimosas (Cote d’Ivoire), Al Masry (Egypt), CS Constantine (Algeria), RS Berkane (Morocco), Simba SC (Tanzania), Stellenbosch FC (South Africa), USM Alger (Algeria).