Amakhosi are among the remaining 16 teams in the 2025/26 TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup and will most likely be in Pot 3 when the group stage draw is conducted at 13h00 on 3 November at the SuperSport studios in Johannesburg.

What Chiefs do know is that a trip to North Africa is a certainty as the four top-seeded teams all hail from that region of the continent. The highest seeded team are Moroccan outfit, Wydad Casablanca, followed by Egyptian side, Zamalek, who were champions in 2019 and 2024. Algerian pair USM Alger and CR Belouizdad round off the top-ranked teams.

Chiefs have faced Wydad four times previously, defeating them twice en route to the 2020/21 CAF Champions League final. Amakhosi have also met Zamalek before, losing to them on away goals in the 1993 CAF Champions League.

While Chiefs have not yet faced Algerian opposition, current coaches Khalil Ben Youssef and Cedric Kaze were runners-up with Young Africans in the 2023 edition, losing to USM Alger in the final. There could also be a reunion for Chiefs striker Khanyisa Mayo should Chiefs face CR Belouizdad.

The next four teams in the second pot contain another Egyptian club, Al Masry, plus Djoliba from Mali, and another trip to the DRC is on the cards with Union Maniema among these teams. Chiefs could even possibly get fellow PSL rivals Stellenbosch, who round off Pot 2, with CAF rules allowing for a maximum of two teams from the same country to be drawn in the same group.

Other teams that Chiefs can be drawn with are Nairobi United of Kenya, AS Otohô of Congo, San Pedro of Cote d’ Ivoire, Olympic Safi of Morocco, or Tanzanian opponents in the form of Azam or Singida Black Stars. There is also the possibility of coming up against Zesco United of Zambia, a team Chiefs met in the Confederation Cup in 2018/19.