The competition which was founded by the CAF in 2004 by merging both the African Cup Winners' Cup and the CAF Cup in a single competition based upon the European model of the UEFA Cup is played into two phases with matches of the preliminary round played according to the knock-out system. The eight teams eliminated from the 1/8th finals of the CAF Champions League will automatically qualify to play the addi- tional 1/8th finals round of the CAF Confederation Cup.
The Confederation Cup is basically a prototype of Europe’s Europa League (formerly UFA Cup); the eight teams which will qualify for the group matches from the additional 1/8th finals will be divided in two groups of four each. Each team play six matches against the other three opponent’s one match home and one match away and points granted upon the 3-1-0 system.
The two group winners shall meet in the final which shall be played in two matches, home and away. The team scoring the highest aggregate number of goals in the two matches will be declared winner.
The plus side of the Confederation Cup is that it gives many football clubs in Africa to be exposed in international football matches, the cost of participating can be huge for smaller clubs from poorer nations – but that could also be a chance for these teams to market their players to the much more lucrative leagues of Africa or in Europe.
Most of the transfers of players within Africa occur as a result of Confederation Cup and Champions League matches. To small poorer clubs, these transfer fees can be very attractive to them because some clubs sometimes owe their players up to six months salary in debt.
The actual prize-money for the Confederation Cup is not that much attractive but can be huge money for many of African football teams; the winner gets US $ 625 000 and their football association of the winning team gets US$ 35 000. Runners-up gets US$ 432,000 and their FA pocket US$ 30 000 .There is also consolation money for winners and runners up of the group stages.
One of the annual highlights of African club football is when the winning team of the CAF Confederation Cup takes the engagement of playing the CAF Super Cup against the winner of the CAF Champions League. Club Sportif Sfaxien of Tunisia has the best record in the competition winning it two times and ending up Runners-up last year.
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