 The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has released a 2021-2022 Inter-Club Season Shadow. This includes the information relating to the list of countries which will be allowed to enter two clubs in the 2021-2022 season. The 2021-2022 season will kick off on September 10th with the first round of their preliminaries, while the group stages will start in February. The 12 highest ranked national associations, according to the ranking of CAF, will be allowed to engage two clubs in the CAF Champions League 2021-2022 and the CAF Confederation Cup 2021-2022. The countries are, according to their ranking, Algeria and Gola, the Republic of Congo, Egypt, Guinea, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Zambia. Also, CAF has extended the five substitutions per game rule for the 2021 Inter-Club Season.