The group stage of the 2004 CAF Champions League was played from 10 July to 17 October 2004. A total of eight teams competed in the group stage, the group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout stage playing semifinal rounds before the final.^[1]

Format

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners and the runners-up of each group advanced to the Knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order (Regulations III. 20 & 21):

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
5. If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
6. Goal difference in all group matches;
7. Goals scored in all group matches;
8. Away goals scored in all group matches;
9. Drawing of lots.

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Étoile du Sahel	6	3	2	1	8	5	+3	8	Advance to knockout stage
2	Enyimba	6	2	2	2	11	4	+7	6
3	Africa Sports National	6	2	1	3	6	10	−4	5
4	Bakili Bullets	6	1	3	2	5	11	−6	5

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	ES Tunis	6	4	0	2	12	7	+5	8	Advance to knockout stage
2	Jeanne d'Arc	6	3	2	1	8	9	−1	8
3	USM Alger	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	5
4	Supersport United	6	1	1	4	5	9	−4	3

10 July 2004

: UTC+2

Supersport United	1–2	ES Tunis
	Report

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa

11 July 2004

17:00 UTC±0

ASC Jeanne d'Arc	2–1	USM Alger
N'Diaye 30' Diarra 80'	Report	Diallo 73'

Stade Demba Diop, Dakar, Senegal

Referee: Evene Divine Raphael (Cameroon)

23 July 2004

: UTC+1

USM Alger	2–1	Supersport United
Diallo 34', 90+4'	Report	Raselemane 84'

Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers, Algeria

Referee: Mohamed Guezzaz (Morocco)

24 July 2004

: UTC+1

ES Tunis	5–0	ASC Jeanne d'Arc
	Report

Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia

6 August 2004

20:00 UTC+1

Espérance de Tunis	2–1	USM Alger
Zitouni 23', 67'	Report	Dziri 57'

Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia

Referee: Aboubacar Sharaf (Ivory Coast)

7 August 2004

: UTC+2

Supersport United	1–1	ASC Jeanne d'Arc
	Report

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa

10 September 2004

: UTC+1

USM Alger	3–0	Espérance de Tunis
Bourahli 15', 55' Diallo 50'	Report

Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers, Algeria

Referee: Chukwujekwu Chukwudi (Nigeria)

11 September 2004

: UTC±0

ASC Jeanne d'Arc	2–0	Supersport United
	Report

Stade Demba Diop, Dakar, Senegal

25 September 2004

18:00 UTC+1

USM Alger	1–1	ASC Jeanne d'Arc
Diallo 72'	Report	N'Doye 14'

Stade Mustapha Tchaker, Blida, Algeria

Referee: Coffi Codjia (Benin)

26 September 2004

: UTC+1

ES Tunis	2–0	Supersport United
	Report

Stade El Menzah, Tunis, Tunisia

17 October 2004

: UTC+2

Supersport United	2–0	USM Alger
Mokoro 77' Mahlangu 86'	Report

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa

17 October 2004

: UTC±0

ASC Jeanne d'Arc	2–1	ES Tunis
	Report

Stade Demba Diop, Dakar, Senegal