2017 CONCACAF League

2017 CONCACAF League
2017 Scotiabank CONCACAF League
Tournament details
Dates 1 August – October 2017
Teams 16 (from 8 associations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played 16
Goals scored 38 (2.38 per match)
Top scorer(s) Panama Renán Addles
Panama Carlos Small
El Salvador Rodolfo Zelaya
Uruguay Bernardo Laureiro
(2 goals each)

The 2017 CONCACAF League (known as the 2017 Scotiabank CONCACAF League for sponsorship purposes) is the inaugural edition of the CONCACAF League competition. A total of 16 teams will compete in the tournament. The winner will qualify for the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League.[1]

Qualification

A total of 16 teams participate in the CONCACAF League:

Clubs may be disqualified and replaced by a club from another association if the club does not have an available stadium that meets CONCACAF regulations for safety. If a club's own stadium fails to meet the set standards then it may find a suitable replacement stadium within its own country. However, if it is still determined that the club cannot provide the adequate facilities then it runs the risk of being replaced.

Central America

The 13 CONCACAF League berths for the Central American Football Union (UNCAF) are allocated to the seven UNCAF member associations as follows: three berths for each of Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and El Salvador, two berths for Nicaragua, and one berth for Belize. All of the leagues of Central America employ a split season with two tournaments in one season, so the following teams qualify:

If a team qualifies through multiple berths, the vacated berth is reallocated to another team from the same association based on aggregate record. If teams from any Central American associations are excluded, they are replaced by teams from other Central American associations, with the associations chosen based on results from previous Champions League tournaments. For this tournament, teams from Guatemala were excluded due to the suspension of their federation by FIFA and were replaced by additional teams from Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama.

Caribbean

The three CONCACAF League berths for the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) are allocated to the 31 CFU member associations via the CFU Club Championship, a subcontinental tournament open to the clubs of all CFU member associations. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th placed teams qualify. In order for a team to be able to enter the CFU Club Championship, they usually need to finish as the champions or runners-up of their respective association's league in the previous season, but professional teams may also be selected by their associations if they play in the league of another country.

If any Caribbean teams are excluded, they are replaced by the next best teams from the CFU Club Championship.

Teams

The competition will have three Caribbean clubs and thirteen Central American clubs participating:[2]

Association Pot Team Qualifying method
Central America (13 teams)
Costa Rica Costa Rica
2 berths[Note GUA]		 1 Alajuelense Non-champions/runners-up with best aggregate record in 2016–17 season[Note CRC]
2 Santos de Guápiles Non-champions/runners-up with 2nd best aggregate record in 2016–17 season[Note CRC]
Honduras Honduras
2 + 1 berths[Note GUA]		 1 Honduras Progreso 2017 Clausura runners-up
(Runners-up with better aggregate record in 2016–17 season)
2 Platense 2016 Apertura runners-up
Olimpia Non-finalists with best aggregate record in 2016–17 season[Note HON]
Panama Panama
2 + 1 berths[Note GUA]		 1 Árabe Unido 2016 Apertura champions
2017 Clausura runners-up
(Champions with inferior aggregate record in 2016–17 season)
Plaza Amador 2016 Apertura runners-up
2 Chorrillo Non-finalists with best aggregate record in 2016–17 season[Note PAN]
El Salvador El Salvador
2 berths		 1 Alianza 2016 Apertura runners-up
2017 Clausura runners-up
2 Águila Non-finalists with 2nd best aggregate record in 2016–17 season[Note SLV]
Nicaragua Nicaragua
2 berths		 1 Real Estelí 2016 Apertura champions
2017 Clausura champions
2 Walter Ferretti 2016 Apertura runners-up
2017 Clausura runners-up[Note NCA]
Belize Belize
1 berth		 1 Belmopan Bandits 2016 Opening Season champions
2017 Closing Season champions
Caribbean (3 teams)
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago
2 teams		 1 San Juan Jabloteh 2017 CFU Club Championship runners-up
2 Central 2017 CFU Club Championship fourth place
Jamaica Jamaica
1 team		 Portmore United 2017 CFU Club Championship third place
Notes
  1. ^ Guatemala (GUA): On October 28, 2016, FIFA suspended the National Football Federation of Guatemala for political interference by the Government of Guatemala. Until the suspension is lifted, Guatemalan teams are not permitted to participate in international competitions.[3] CONCACAF set the deadline of May 1, 2017 for the suspension to be lifted in order for Guatemala's teams to participate in this tournament,[4] and expelled all Guatemalan teams from the tournament on May 5, 2017 after the federation failed to be reinstated by FIFA.[5]
    Municipal would have qualified for the Champions League as the 2017 Clausura champions and by having a better aggregate record in the 2016–17 season than 2016 Apertura champions, Antigua. They were also the 2016 Apertura runners-up. Antigua and Guastatoya would have qualified for the CONCACAF League as the 2016 Apertura champions and the 2017 Clausura runners-up, respectively. They were replaced by teams from Costa Rica (Santos de Guápiles), Honduras (Olimpia), and Panama (Chorrillo), based on the performance of the Central American associations in the 2016–17 tournament, giving these associations four berths each.[6][7] To replace Municipal in the second stage, Herediano, which qualified for the second Costa Rican berth, were moved from the first phase to the second phase, giving Costa Rica two direct qualifiers to each phase.[8]
  2. ^ Costa Rica (CRC): Saprissa and Herediano finished as champions or runners-up in both the 2016 Invierno and 2017 Verano, so two of these berths passed to the two teams with the best aggregate records who finished outside the top 2 of both tournaments, Alajuelense and Santos de Guápiles.
  3. ^ El Salvador (SLV): Santa Tecla and Alianza reached the finals of both the 2016 Apertura and 2017 Clausura, so one of their berths passed to the non-finalists with the best aggregate record, Águila.
  4. ^ Honduras (HON): Motagua were champions of both the 2016 Apertura and 2017 Clausura, so one of their berths passed to the non-finalists with the best aggregate record, Olimpia.[9]
  5. ^ Nicaragua (NCA): Real Estelí were champions of both the 2016 Apertura and 2017 Clausura, so one of their berths passed to the runners-up of both tournaments, Walter Ferretti.
  6. ^ Panama (PAN): Árabe Unido reached the finals of both the 2016 Apertura and 2017 Clausura, so one of their berths passed to the non-finalists with the best aggregate record, Chorrillo.[10][11]

Draw

The competition draw was held on 31 May 2017 at the Hilton Airport Hotel in Miami, Florida.[12] The event was streamed on YouTube.[13]

The qualified clubs were distributed in pots as follows:[14]

Pot 1
Costa Rica Alajuelense Panama Árabe Unido Panama Plaza Amador Honduras Honduras Progreso
El Salvador Alianza Nicaragua Real Estelí Belize Belmopan Bandits Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh
Pot 2
Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles Panama Chorrillo Honduras Platense Honduras Olimpia
El Salvador Águila Nicaragua Walter Ferretti Jamaica Portmore United Trinidad and Tobago Central

The “Bracket Position Pots” (pots A and pots B) contained the bracket positions numbered 1 through 8. Teams from pot 1 were assigned a bracket position from pot A and the teams from pot 2 were assigned a position from pot B. For the round of 16, teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other except for the three "wild card" teams: Santos de Guápiles, Olimpia, and Chorrillo.

Format

The 16 teams play a single-elimination tournament. Each tie is played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The away goals rule is used if the aggregate score is level after the second leg, and if still level, extra time is not played, and the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out (Regulations, II. D. Tie-Breaker Procedures).[1]

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

First leg Second leg
Round of 16 1–3 August 2017 8–10 August 2017
Quarterfinals 15–17 August 2017 22–24 August 2017
Semifinals September 2017 September 2017
Finals October 2017 October 2017

Bracket

  Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals
 
Finals
                                             
Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh 2 1 3  
Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles 6 2 8  
  Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles  
  Panama Chorrillo  
Honduras Honduras Progreso 0 0 0
Panama Chorrillo 1 1 2  
   
   
Panama Árabe Unido 2 3 5  
Trinidad and Tobago Central 1 0 1  
  Panama Árabe Unido
  El Salvador Águila  
Nicaragua Real Estelí 0 1 1 (3)
El Salvador Águila (p) 1 0 1 (4)  
 
 
Costa Rica Alajuelense 0 0 0  
Honduras Olimpia 2 1 3  
  Honduras Olimpia
  El Salvador Alianza  
El Salvador Alianza 2 2 4
Honduras Platense 1 1 2  
 
   
Panama Plaza Amador (p) 0 1 1 (5)  
Jamaica Portmore United 1 0 1 (4)  
  Panama Plaza Amador
  Nicaragua Walter Ferretti  
Belize Belmopan Bandits 1 0 1
Nicaragua Walter Ferretti 4 1 5  

All times are Eastern Time Zone (ET) (UTC−4)

Round of 16

In the round of 16, the matchups were decided by draw: R16-1 through R16-8. The teams from Pot 1 in the draw host the second leg.

Summary

The first legs were played on 1–3 August, and the second legs were played on 8–10 August 2017.[15]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Santos de Guápiles Costa Rica 8–3 Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh 6–2 2–1
Chorrillo Panama 2–0 Honduras Honduras Progreso 1–0 1–0
Central Trinidad and Tobago 1–5 Panama Árabe Unido 1–2 0–3
Águila El Salvador 1–1 (4–3 p) Nicaragua Real Estelí 1–0 0–1
Olimpia Honduras 3–0 Costa Rica Alajuelense 2–0 1–0
Platense Honduras 2–4 El Salvador Alianza 1–2 1–2
Portmore United Jamaica 1–1 (4–5 p) Panama Plaza Amador 1–0 0–1
Walter Ferretti Nicaragua 5–1 Belize Belmopan Bandits 4–1 1–0

Matches

1 August 2017 (2017-08-01)
22:00
Santos de Guápiles Costa Rica 6–2 Trinidad and Tobago San Juan Jabloteh
 Report

8 August 2017 (2017-08-08)
20:00
San Juan Jabloteh Trinidad and Tobago 1–2 Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles
 Report
  • Garro  33'
  • Solórzano  72'
Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain
Referee: Gladway Johnson (Guyana)

1 August 2017 (2017-08-01)
20:00
Chorrillo Panama 1–0 Honduras Honduras Progreso
  • Sierra  47'
 Report

3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)
20:00
Central Trinidad and Tobago 1–2 Panama Árabe Unido
 Report
  • C. Small  39'
  • E. Small  62'
Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain
Referee: Héctor Said Martínez Sorto (Honduras)

10 August 2017 (2017-08-10)
20:00
Árabe Unido Panama 3–0 Trinidad and Tobago Central
  • Addles  3', 23'
  • C. Small  69'
 Report

2 August 2017 (2017-08-02)
20:00
Águila El Salvador 1–0 Nicaragua Real Estelí
 Report
Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador
Referee: Daneion Parchment (Jamaica)

8 August 2017 (2017-08-08)
20:00
Real Estelí Nicaragua 1–0 El Salvador Águila
  • Peralta  85'
 Report
  Penalties  
 3–4
Estadio Independencia, Estelí
Referee: Brayan López Castellanos (Guatemala)

3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)
20:00
Olimpia Honduras 2–0 Costa Rica Alajuelense
 Report

10 August 2017 (2017-08-10)
22:00
Alajuelense Costa Rica 0–1 Honduras Olimpia
Report

2 August 2017 (2017-08-02)
22:00
Platense Honduras 1–2 El Salvador Alianza
 Report
Estadio Excélsior, Puerto Cortés
Referee: José Kellys (Panama)

8 August 2017 (2017-08-08)
22:00
Alianza El Salvador 2–1 Honduras Platense
 Report
  • Marroquín  27' (o.g.)
Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador
Referee: Luis Santander Aguirre (Mexico)

2 August 2017 (2017-08-02)
20:00
Portmore United Jamaica 1–0 Panama Plaza Amador
 Report
National Stadium, Kingston
Referee: Armando Villarreal (Jamaica)

9 August 2017 (2017-08-09)
20:00
Plaza Amador Panama 1–0 Jamaica Portmore United
 Report
  Penalties  
 5–4
Estadio Rommel Fernández, Panama City
Referee: Juan Calderón Perez (Costa Rica)

3 August 2017 (2017-08-03)
22:00
Walter Ferretti Nicaragua 4–1 Belize Belmopan Bandits
 Report
Estadio Independencia, Estelí
Referee: Michel Raynel Rodríguez Roque (Cuba)

10 August 2017 (2017-08-10)
22:00
Belmopan Bandits Belize 0–1 Nicaragua Walter Ferretti
Report
  • Da Silva  12'
Isidoro Beaton Stadium, Belmopan
Referee: Ariel Sánchez (Panama)

Quarterfinals

In the quarter-finals, the matchups were determined as follows:

The winners of round of 16 matchups 1, 3, 5, 7 host the second leg.

Summary

The first legs will be played on 15–17 August and the second legs will be played on 22–24 August 2017.[16]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Chorrillo Panama QF1 Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles 15 Aug 22 Aug
Águila El Salvador QF2 Panama Árabe Unido 16 Aug 23 Aug
Alianza El Salvador QF3 Honduras Olimpia 17 Aug 24 Aug
Walter Ferretti Nicaragua QF4 Panama Plaza Amador 17 Aug 24 Aug

Matches

15 August 2017 (2017-08-15)
22:00
Chorrillo Panama v Costa Rica Santos de Guápiles
Report

22 August 2017 (2017-08-22)
22:00
Santos de Guápiles Costa Rica v Panama Chorrillo
Report

16 August 2017 (2017-08-16)
22:00
Águila El Salvador v Panama Árabe Unido
Report

23 August 2017 (2017-08-23)
22:00
Árabe Unido Panama v El Salvador Águila
Report

17 August 2017 (2017-08-17)
22:00
Alianza El Salvador v Honduras Olimpia
Report

24 August 2017 (2017-08-24)
22:00
Olimpia Honduras v El Salvador Alianza
Report

17 August 2017 (2017-08-17)
20:00
Walter Ferretti Nicaragua v Panama Plaza Amador
Report

24 August 2017 (2017-08-24)
20:00
Plaza Amador Panama v Nicaragua Walter Ferretti
Report

Semifinals

In the semi-finals, the matchups were determined as follows:

The semi-finalists in each tie which have the better performance in previous rounds host the second leg.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Host
1 Winner QF1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Second leg
2 Winner QF2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 First leg
1 Winner QF3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Second leg
2 Winner QF4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 First leg
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Drawing of lots.[1]

Summary

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Winners of QF2 SF1[†] Winners of QF1 – –
Winners of QF4 SF2[†] Winners of QF3 – –
  1. † Order of legs to be decided, with the team having the better performance in previous rounds hosting the second leg.

Matches

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Finals

In the finals (Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2), the finalists which have the better performance in previous rounds host the second leg.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Host
1 Winner SF1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Second leg
2 Winner SF2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 First leg
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Drawing of lots.[1]

Summary

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Winners of SF2 F[†] Winners of SF1 – –
  1. † Order of legs to be decided, with the team having the better performance in previous rounds hosting the second leg.

Matches

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October 2017 (2017-10)
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Top goalscorers

Rank Player Team Goals
1 Panama Renán Addles Panama Árabe Unido 2
Uruguay Bernardo Laureiro Nicaragua Walter Ferretti
Panama Carlos Small Panama Árabe Unido
El Salvador Rodolfo Zelaya El Salvador Alianza
5 28 players tied 1

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Scotiabank CONCACAF League 2017 Regulations – English Edition" (PDF). Scotiabank CONCACAF League.
  2. ↑ "CONCACAF Announces Expansion of International Club Championship Field, New Format for Champions League". CONCACAF.com. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  3. ↑ "Suspension of the Guatemala Football Association". FIFA. October 28, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Deadlines Set for FEDEFUT". CONCACAF.com. November 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Javier Pineda (May 5, 2017). "Concacaf confirma que Guatemala no estará en la Liga de Campeones" [CONCACAF confirms Guatemala will not be in the Champions League]. GuateFutbol.com.
  6. ↑ Jeison Solano (April 12, 2017). "Honduras, Costa Rica y Panamá tendrían un cupo más para la Concachampions" (in Spanish). Diez.
  7. ↑ Douglas Suruy. "Amarga noticia para el campeón Antigua GFC y el futbol en general" [Bitter news for the champion Antigua GFC and football in general] (in Spanish). PubliNews.
  8. ↑ "Costa Rica tendrá 4 equipos en la Liga de Campeones" [Costa Rica will have 4 teams in the Champions League] (in Spanish). Costa Rican Football Federation. May 5, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Concacaf oficializa qué equipos hondureños participarán en la Liga de Campeones" [CONCACAF officializes which Honduran teams will participate in Champions League] (in Spanish). Diez. May 24, 2017.
  10. ↑ "CONCACAF Liga de Campeones tendrá otra apariencia desde el 2017/2018" [Another CONCACAF Champions League berth from 2017/18] (in Spanish). [BitacoraDeportiva.com]. January 24, 2017.
  11. ↑ "¡Llegó la hora!" [The time has come!] (in Spanish). El Siglo. May 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Details revealed for newly launched Scotiabank CONCACAF League". CONCACAF. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  13. ↑ "Scotiabank CONCACAF League – OFFICIAL DRAW". CONCACAF. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Official draw confirmed for the inaugural season of the Scotiabank CONCACAF League". CONCACAF via AIPSmedia.com. 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  15. ↑ "CONCACAF Announces Schedule of Round of 16 Matchups for 2017 Scotiabank CONCACAF League". CONCACAF.com. 14 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Quarterfinal matches set in 2017 Scotiabank CONCACAF League Regional Club Championship". CONCACAF. 11 August 2017.
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