User:Rylesbourne/sandbox/2024–25 CONCACAF Champions League
 Protective Stadium in Birmingham will host the final. | |
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | Qualifying: 27 June – 30 August 2024 Competition proper: 19 September 2024 – 1 June 2025 |
| Teams | Competition proper: 32 Total: 78 (from 53 associations) |
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The 2024–25 CONCACAF Champions League is the 59th season of North Americas's premier club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the CONCACAF Champions' Cup to the CONCACAF Champions League.
This will be the first season under a new format, with 36 participating teams that play eight games each against different opponents in a league phase, all the teams being ranked in a joint group. The top sixteen finishers will qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League where they will face eight Liga MX teams and eight MLS teams that received a bye to the round of 16. This will make the first edition of the tournament MLS nor Liga MX teams will play in the qualifying of league stage of the tournament.
Teams
[edit]The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- TH: Champions League title holders
- SL: SuperLiga title holders
- PW: League playoffs winner
- Ap: Apertura
- Cl: Clausura
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round were divided into Champions Path (CH) and League Path (LP).
Notes
- ^ Dominica (DOM): The 2021 Dominica Premier League was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Dublanc, qualified for the Champions League.
- ^ El Salvador (SLV): FAS qualified by having the best aggregate record during the 2021–22 Primera División de El Salvador that did not win the Apertura or Clausura final.
- ^ Guatemala (GUA): Clausura winners, Comunicaciones, qualified for the group stage by having the better aggregate record over Apertura winners, Malacateco.
- ^ French Guiana (GYF): The 2021–22 French Guiana Honor Division was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Etiole Matoury, qualified for the Champions League.
- ^ Mexico (MEX): UANL qualified in the Clausura playoff spot for having the best aggregate record during the 2021–22 Liga MX season.
- ^ Panama (PAN): Tauro qualified by having the best aggregate record during the 2021–22 Liga Panameña de Fútbol that did not reach the Apertura or Clausura final.
- ^ Saint-Martin (SMT): The 2021–22 Saint-Martin Senior League was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Junior Stars, qualified for the Champions League.
- ^ Suriname (SUR): Due to persitant issues surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic in Suriname, the 2021–22 edition of the SVB Eerste Divisie was temporary switched to a summer season. The two teams with the best records by 30 June 2022, Inter Moengotapoe and Robinhood, qualified.
- ^ Trinidad and Tobago (TRI): The 2021–22 TT Pro League was cancelled due to complications surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Central and Defence Force, who had won league titles in the last five seasons received Champions League licenses by CONCACAF to compete in the 2022–23 Champions League.