At present, those associations ranked in the top 12 may enter two teams into each of the two club competitions, while the remaining associations are limited to a single team in each competition.
Note: For associations which have the same number of points, they are listed as having the same rank as CAF did not publish any tiebreaking criteria.
There was a tie for determining the 12th ranked association on two occasions: Club results of the previous 5 seasons and the current season based on the current points system are as follows:[3] If a team was disqualified, they will not obtain any ranking points.
For example, ES Sétif were disqualified from the 2016 CAF Champions League during the group stage.
[6] As a result, they did not obtain a position for that edition and thus were not counted when calculating the ranking for Algeria.