2011 CAF Confederation Cup
The 2011 CAF Confederation Cup was the 8th edition of the CAF Confederation Cup, Africa's secondary club football competition organized by the Confederation of African Football. The winners qualified to play in the 2012 CAF Super Cup.
Association team allocation
Theoretically, up to 55 CAF member associations may enter the 2011 CAF Confederation Cup, with the 12 highest ranked associations according to CAF 5-Year Ranking eligible to enter 2 teams in the competition. For this year's competition, CAF used . As a result, a maximum of 67 teams could enter the tournament – although this level has never been reached.Ranking system
CAF calculates points for each entrant association based on their clubs' performance over the last 5 years in the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup, not taking into considering the running year. The criteria for points are the following:| CAF Champions League | CAF Confederation Cup | |
| Winner | 5 points | 4 points |
| Runner-up | 4 points | 3 points |
| Semi-finalists | 3 points | 2 points |
| 3rd of the groups | 2 points | 1 point |
| 4th of the groups | 1 point | 1 point |
The points shall be multiplied by a coefficient according to the year as follow:
- 2009 – 5
- 2008 – 4
- 2007 – 3
- 2006 – 2
- 2005 – 1
Entrants list
Below is the entrants list for the competition. Nations are shown according to their 2005–2009 CAF 5-Year Ranking – those with a ranking score have their rank and score indicated. Teams were also seeded using their individual team 2006–2010 5-Year Ranking. The top twelve sides received byes to the first qualifying round.;Notes
- Associations that did not enter a team: Botswana, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Somalia
- Unranked associations have no ranking points and hence are equal 20th.
Schedule of dates for 2011 competition.
† The second leg of the preliminary round matches are postponed to 25–27 February in case the club have at least three players in the 2011 African Nations Championship.
Qualifying rounds
The fixtures for the preliminary, first and second qualifying rounds were announced on 20 December 2010.Qualification ties were decided over two legs, with aggregate goals used to determine the winner. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shootout.
Preliminary round
First round
Second round
Play-off round
In the [|play-off round], the winners from the second round play against the losers from the 2011 CAF Champions League second round. The winners of the CAF Confederation Cup second round host the second leg at home.The draw for the play-off round and group stage was held on 15 May 2011.
For the play-off round draw, the top-seeded loser from the Champions League and the top-seeded winner from the Confederation Cup would not be drawn against each other. Moreover, the winners of the two ties they are involved in would be drawn into different groups in the group stage draw.
Group stage
| Key to colours in group tables |
| Group winners and runners-up advance to the [|Semifinals] |
Group A
Group B
Knock-out stage
Bracket
Semifinals
Final
Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 2011 CAF Confederation Cup are as follows:| Rank | Name | Team | Goals |
| 1 |  Salakiaku Matondo | DC Motema Pembe | 6 |
| 2 |  Hamza Abourazzouk | Maghreb de Fès | 5 |
| 2 | Tarik Sektioui | Maghreb de Fès | 5 |
| 4 |  Chemseddine Nessakh | JS Kabylie | 4 |
| 4 |  Jude Aneke | Kaduna United | 4 |
| 4 | Ajani Ibrahim | Sunshine Stars | 4 |