Chairman Sandile Zungu insists AmaZulu are in the most difficult group in the CAF Champions League group stages.
Usuthu discovered their opponents at the recent draw conducted in Cairo, Egypt on Tuesday.
The KwaZulu-Natal club were drawn in Group B alongside Raja Casablanca, Horoya and ES Setifienne.
"I'm very excited, ours it's a group of death," Zungu tells KickOff.
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"If you look at all the teams in our group, they are previous winners of the CAF Champions League, and we are the novices.
"So they will approach us as the whipping boys, and we like the situation where we are underdogs.
"But we will be approaching every game with the seriousness that it deserves.
"We definitely want to reach the knockout stages and want to emerge from these group stages."