CAF Champions League: The complete Sundowns group stage schedule

The group stage draw for the CAF Champions League for the 2025/2026 season, held Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa, has set up some intriguing matchups for Mamelodi Sundowns, last season’s runners-up, including a faceoff against MC Alger.

The South Africans have been placed in Group C, alongside Sudan’s Al-Hilal S.C., MC Alger, and FC Saint-Éloi Lupopo from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who knocked out their historic rivals Orlando Pirates in the preliminary rounds.

Mamelodi Sundowns group stage fixtures

Here is the Sundowns’ schedule for the CAF Champions League group stage:

• Matchday 1: Sundowns × Saint-Éloi Lupopo (21 - 22 November 2025)

• Matchday 2: MC Alger × Sundowns (28 - 29 November 2025)

• Matchday 3: Sundowns × Al-Hilal (23 - 24 January 2026)

• Matchday 4: Al-Hilal × Sundowns (30 - 31 January 2026)

• Matchday 5: Saint-Éloi Lupopo × Sundowns (6 - 7 February 2026)

• Matchday 6: Sundowns × MC Alger (13 - 14 February 2026)

  

Sundowns set to face Rulani Mokwena’s MC Alger in the CAF Champions League

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