{"id":78020,"date":"2025-11-04T09:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78020"},"modified":"2025-11-04T09:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:51:31","slug":"caf-unveils-2025-26-champions-league-group-stage-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/04\/caf-unveils-2025-26-champions-league-group-stage-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"CAF Unveils 2025\/26 Champions League Group Stage Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Rivers United and Zambia\u2019s Power Dynamos have been drawn in Group A of the 2025\/26 CAF Champions League alongside defending champions Pyramids FC of Egypt and Morocco\u2019s RS Berkane.<\/p>\n<p>The draw, held Monday in Johannesburg, produced several exciting pairings, including a rematch between Pyramids and Berkane after their CAF Super Cup clash.<\/p>\n<p>Record 12-time champions Al Ahly headline Group B with Tanzania\u2019s Young Africans, AS FAR of Morocco, and JS Kabylie of Algeria. Group C features Mamelodi Sundowns (South Africa), Al Hilal (Sudan), MC Alger (Algeria), and St \u00c9loi Lupopo (DR Congo). Group D has Esp\u00e9rance de Tunis (Tunisia), Simba SC (Tanzania), Petro de Luanda (Angola), and Stade Malien (Mali).<\/p>\n<p>The group stage begins November 21-23, 2025, pauses for AFCON Morocco 2025, and resumes January 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The champions will earn $4 million, while runners-up take home $2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s Rivers United and Zambia\u2019s Power Dynamos have been drawn in Group A of the 2025\/26 CAF Champions League alongside defending champions Pyramids FC of Egypt and Morocco\u2019s RS Berkane. The draw, held Monday in Johannesburg, produced several exciting pairings, including a rematch between Pyramids and Berkane after their CAF Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78022,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78020\/revisions\/78022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}