Concacaf Champions League: Schedule released for Round of 16 By MLSsoccer staff @mls Thursday, Nov 17, 2022, 02:34 PM The five MLS teams who qualified for the 2023 Concacaf Champions. As of 2022, 21 MLS teams have appeared in the CONCACAF Champions League since the inaugural 2008-09 season. As always, the sides from Liga MX will be the favorites, but just. For the 1992 edition, Club Amrica from Mexico defeated Alajuelense from Costa Rica in the first single-legged final held at a neutral venue, the City Stadium in Santa Ana, California. The draw will begin by randomly selecting a sphere from Pot 2, followed by a sphere from Pot B to confirm the clubs round of 16 bracket position. Prior to 2018, the tournament had two parts: a group stage held from August to October, and a knockout phase held from March to May of the following year. Canadian teams in MLS CF Montral, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC qualify to the Champions League via a separate competition, the Canadian Championship, and they represent the Canadian Soccer Association. [16] Estadio Independencia in Nicaragua has since been renovated, including upgrades to stadium lighting, and Nicaraguan teams now participate. However the following year, United repeated their "double" of winning both the Supporters Shield and MLS Cup the same season. Twenty two teams participate in this tournament, eighteen from the Central American Zone (three berths each from Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, and El Salvador; two from Nicaragua; and one from Belize), three from the Caribbean Zone (the runners-up and third place team from the Caribbean Club Championship, and the winners of a playoff between the fourth-place team and the Caribbean Club Shield winners), and one from Canada (the Canadian Premier League representative). During the 2013 season, the Galaxy's chance to three-peat was thwarted by Real Salt Lake. The CONCACAF Champions League knockouts begin in March, and GOAL has all the information you need to know about the tournament. Another season, another CONCACAF Champions League with pivotal battles between MLS and Liga MX clubs. [8] The index does not rank clubs but ranks member association qualification slots and is based on the past five prior years' results. Prior to 2008, the tournament was officially called the "CONCACAF Champions' Cup", but was usually referred to simply as the "Champions' Cup". (ATX are fourth in the Supporter's Shield table, but the third USA-based club). Thanks to its success in the regular season, Austin FC earned one of the league's four spots in the 16-team CONCACAF Champions League as having the best record among U.S.-based teams who didn't . All matches will include home and away series between the first round to the semi finals, with the Final being a single match at a neutral site[13]. Italics indicate a stadium that is now inactive. Initially, only the champions of the North American leagues participated. No MLS club has ever won the CONCACAF Champions League in its current iteration, needing to go all the way back to 2000 when it was known as the CONCACAF Cup and the LA Galaxy won the tournament. Rimando and Johnson made two saves in a penalty shoot-out to give Real Salt Lake the title over the Los Angeles Galaxy and New York City FC the title over Portland Timbers, respectively. The tournament will begin with a Group Stage involving 45 clubs, divided into 15 groups of three teams. For the first 30 years, the final was contested over two legs, one at each participating club's stadium. The 16-team tournament features two-legged matchups at each stage, as capped by the Finals second leg on June 4. This forced Guadalajara to withdraw because they were on a tour of Europe at that time: therefore, the final was scratched, and Racing were declared champions. Up to five teams from MLS can qualify for the regional competition, two via national cups and three via their league performance. Each of MLS's five representatives will look to follow the path of Seattle Sounders FC, who in 2022 become the first club in league history to lift the Concacaf Champions League trophy. Philadelphia Union (USA) vs. Alianza FC (SLV) [37][38] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the top ten teams from the Eastern and top eight teams from the Western conference qualified for the playoffs in the 2020 season, with single-elimination remaining intact. The Conference Semifinals remained two-legged while the conference finals changed from a single match to a two-leg aggregate series. 4 hosting No. Dynamo striker Joseph Ngwenya leveled things at one apiece in the 61st minute, and MLS Cup Man of the Match Dwayne De Rosario gave the Dynamo a 21 lead in the 74th. This page was last edited on 31 December 2022, at 04:39. The team can display the star on other items beside their jersey in the year after winning the Cup, but only if the scudetto is not shown. The CONCACAF Champions League, known officially as the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons, is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF.The tournament is contested by clubs from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. This time the Kansas City Wizards, now known as Sporting Kansas City, won their first MLS Cup with a 10 victory over the Fire. The Crew moved its home matches to the new. The SuperLiga was an official North American association football competition between teams from the Liga MX of Mexico and Major League Soccer of the United States and Canada, the top divisions in each country.The competition was sanctioned by CONCACAF, U.S. Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association and Federacin Mexicana de Ftbol and served as the sub-regional championship for the North . The Conference Semifinals and. The Major League Soccer and MLS name and shield are registered trademarks of Major League Soccer, L.L.C. 2 seed played the next lowest seed. It will provide a huge boost to club football across the entire region, said Concacaf President and FIFA Vice President, Victor Montagliani. The first Champions League title won by an MLS side occurred in 2022, when Seattle Sounders FC defeated Mexico's UNAM 52 on aggregate in the final. [16] The club became the second-youngest to win an MLS Cup, behind the 1998 Chicago Fire, and brought the first professional sports championship for the city of Atlanta since 1995. Fourteen finals have featured teams from the same national association: Mexico (1996, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019) and Costa Rica (2004). In 1999, the Rothenberg Trophy was redesigned with a soccer ball placed on a beacon. [5], The inaugural MLS Cup in 1996 featured D.C. United and LA Galaxy. Two clubs that had MLS Cup experience, the Fire and Earthquakes, played for the final that year. The only four teams to successfully defend the trophy are all Mexican: Amrica, Cruz Azul, Pachuca and Monterrey. It is a very exciting time for the development of club football in Concacaf, added Montagliani. La MLS y la Liga MX vuelven a la CONCACAF Champions League como grandes favoritas a llevarse la corona. The group stage consisted of 24 teams playing in eight groups of three teams each, with each team playing the other two teams in its group twice. * team folded First worn by Los Angeles Galaxy in 2006, following their 2005 MLS Cup title,[11] the Houston Dynamo wore the same triangular scudettos in 2007 and 2008 during their dual-cup run. The most recent final was contested by Seattle Sounders FC and Pumas UNAM, won by the former 52 on aggregate. 22 teams compete in a new tournament played from August to December, called the CONCACAF League. Toronto FC won the match 20, and became the first Canadian team to win the MLS Cup, and the first MLS team to complete a domestic treble, after winning the Canadian Championship and Supporters' Shield earlier in the year. The single table has yet been instituted, but in 2010 the league instituted a balanced schedule. If a club's own stadium fails to meet the set standards then it may find a suitable replacement stadium within its own country. The tournament is contested by clubs from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Major League Soccer, delivered to your inbox. The most successful non-Mexican club is Saprissa of Costa Rica, with three titles. After Guadalajara protested to CONCACAF in February 1964, they were declared champions, but after a counter-protest, CONCACAF decided in April that both legs of the final should be played within two months. League goes on break: With the Concacaf Nations League and World Cup qualifying taking place, MLS goes on an extended break between games, returning to full action the weekend of June 18-20. Each round of competition consists of a two-leg home-and-away series with the winner determined by aggregate goals over both legs. The Sounders did not register a single shot on goal, becoming the first MLS club to do so in a match, regular season or otherwise. Meanwhile, MLS and Leagues Cup games, which each have 2024 qualification implications, will be shown on Apple TV in the U.S. MLS is back! [42] As is the case with awarding the Supporters' Shield, if the two finalists are tied on points, the team with the most wins hosts the final. For most of the league's history, the MLS Cup champions and runners-up have earned berths into the CONCACAF Champions League, though only U.S. teams are eligible to fill these slots. Although MLS teams have won the Concacaf Champions Cup in the past, the Sounders will be the first MLS side to take part in the Club World Cup which was established in 2000. Crew qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League 4 times,. Then, a newly expanded Champions League tournament was conducted starting in August 2008 and concluding in May 2009. It is only during the subsequent season (two years after winning the championship), that the team adds a star a common soccer signifier of titles won above the team logo. Midway through the second half, United had relinquished a penalty kick. MLS fans, be warned: This section will make for some ugly reading. The semi-finals and final were scratched and Transvaal were declared champions after Saprissa and Alajuelense withdrew. The Sigi Schmid-led club made their first run to the championship, along with their opponents the New York Red Bulls. The home of the 2016, 2019 MLS Cup AND 2022 CONCACAF Champions League winning Seattle Sounders FC! Eleven years ago, Real Salt Lake was on the brink of becoming the first MLS team to win the CONCACAF Champions League. Santos Laguna 61 Seattle Sounders FC (201112 Quarter-finals, first leg) But Raul Ruidiaz scored twice and Nico Lodeiro tallied late, giving Seattle Major League Soccer's first CCL title since 2000 . [3] Seattle's 2013 quarter-final win over Mexico's UANL was the first time since the Champions League format began in 200809 that an MLS team eliminated a Mexican team in the knockout rounds. Advertisement Coins. Still, the rivalry between the leagues has been one-sided. Title shared. Known as Home Depot Center prior to the 2013 season and StubHub Center in 2014. The Conference Semifinals, Conference Final, and MLS Cup final remain single-elimination matches hosted by the higher-seeded team in late November and early December; as before, without re-seeding.[40][41]. BC Place Stadium Vancouver, Canada, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 6:00 pm ET From 1996 to 1999 and 2003 to 2006, the top four teams per conference qualified for the playoffs. Previously, MLS teams played in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The names and logos of MLS teams are registered and/or common law trademarks of MLS or are used with the permission of their owners. The following table shows the index for the five Canadian and American teams. The official draw is set for Nov. 7 in Miami, Florida and will be conducted using a double-blind system and four pots. 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