The draw for the group stage will be held on 21 April 2018, 14:00 EET (UTC+2), in Cairo, Egypt. The 16 teams, all winners of the play-off round of qualifying, are drawn into four groups of four. The teams are seeded by their performances in the CAF competitions for the previous five seasons (CAF 5-Year Ranking points shown in parentheses).

Algerian side USM Alger (35 pts),Sudan’s Al Hilal Omdurman( 21pts),Nigeria’s Enyimba (8 pts ) and Congo DR ‘s AS Vita Club( 15 pts ) are the top seeded teams heading into the draws and will avoid each other in the group stages

the other 12 teams will be pooled in any of the 4 groups of four teams each

the 16 teams are as follows

-Young Africans
-Al Hilal
-Gor Mahia
-Rayon
-Aduana Stars
-ASEC Mimosas
-Enyimba
-WAC
-Djoliba
-USM Alger
-Al Masry
-Berkane
-Raja
-AS Vita
-CARA
-UD Songo

The Confederation Cup matches will now be played on weekday of  Wednesday and weekend of Sunday while the CAF Champions league will be played on Tuesday ,Saturday and Fridays