# 2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage

The 2024–25 CAF Champions League knockout stage will start on 1 April with the quarter-finals and end on 1 June 2025 with the second leg of the final to decide the champions of the 2024–25 CAF Champions League. 8 teams will compete in the knockout stage.
Times are local.

## Round and draw dates

The schedule will be as follows.
| Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
| Quarter-finals | 20 February 2025 | 1 April 2025 | 8 April 2025 |
| Semi-finals | 20 February 2025 | 18–19 April 2025 | 25–26 April 2025 |
| Final | 20 February 2025 | 24 May 2025 | 1 June 2025 |

## Format

Each tie in the knockout phase will be played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that will score more goals on aggregate over the two legs will advance to the next round. If the aggregate score will be level, the away goals rule will be applied, i.e. the team that will score more goals away from home over the two legs will advance. If away goals will also be equal, then extra time will not be played and the winners will be decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations III. 26 & 27).
The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:
* In the draw for the quarter-finals, the four group winners were seeded, and the four group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other, while teams from the same association could be drawn against each other.
* In the draws for the semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw.

## Qualified teams

The knockout stage will involve the 8 teams qualifying as winners and runners-up of each of the eight groups in the group stage.
| Group | Winners | Runners-up |
| A | Al Hilal | MC Alger |
| B | AS FAR | Mamelodi Sundowns |
| C | Orlando Pirates | Al Ahly |
| D | Espérance de Tunis | Pyramids |

## Bracket

The bracket of the knockout stage was determined as follows:
| Round | Matchups |
| Quarter-finals | (Group winners will host second leg, matchups decided by draw, teams from same group cannot play each other) QF1 QF2 QF3 QF4 |
| Semi-finals | (Matchups and order of legs decided by draw, between winners QF1, QF2, QF3, QF4) SF1 SF2 |
| Final | Winners SF1 and SF2 will face each other in two legs to decide the champions |
The bracket was decided after the draw for the knockout stage, which was held on 20 February 2025, 18:00 AST (UTC+3) at the beIN Sports headquarters in Doha, Qatar.
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final |
| Mamelodi Sundowns | | |
| Espérance de Tunis | | |
| Espérance de Tunis | QF3 winner | |
| | QF1 winner | |
| Al Ahly | QF1 winner | |
| Al Hilal | | |
| Al Hilal | | SF1 winner |
| | | SF2 winner |
| MC Alger | | | SF2 winner |
| Orlando Pirates | | |
| Orlando Pirates | QF4 winner | |
| | QF2 winner | |
| Pyramids | QF2 winner | |
| AS FAR | | |

## Quarter-finals

The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 February 2025.

### Summary

The first legs will be played on 1 April, and the second legs will be played on 8 and 9 April 2025.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Al Ahly | QF1 | Al Hilal | 1 Apr | 8 Apr |
| Pyramids | QF2 | AS FAR | 1 Apr | 8 Apr |
| Mamelodi Sundowns | QF3 | Espérance de Tunis | 1 Apr | 8 Apr |
| MC Alger | QF4 | Orlando Pirates | 1 Apr | 9 Apr |

### Matches
## Semi-finals

The draw for the semi-finals was held on 20 February 2025 (after the quarter-finals draw).

### Summary

The first legs will be played on 18 and 19 April, and the second legs will be played on 25 and 26 April 2025.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| QF3 winner | SF1 | QF1 winner | 18–19 Apr | 25–26 Apr |
| QF4 winner | SF2 | QF2 winner | 18–19 Apr | 25–26 Apr |

### Matches
## Final

The first leg will be played on 24 May, and the second leg will be played on 1 June 2025.
| Team 1 | Agg. Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| SF1 winner | F | SF2 winner | 24 May | 1 Jun |