For the 2019 edition the tournament was expanded from 16 to 22 teams, with the
addition of a preliminary round. The six new entrants are five teams from Central
America, who had previously directly qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League
and a team from Canada playing in the Canadian Premier League.
Winners of the 2019 CONCACAF League and the next best five teams qualified for
the CONCACAF Champions League 2020.
North America qualification:
Canada: Forge FC (Canadian Premier League spring season best team among inaugural
entrants (Edmonton FC, Valour FC & Forge FC), based on their home and away
matches in 2019 spring season).
Central America qualification:
Belize: Preliminary Round
Belmopan Bandits (Opening 2018 champions with best aggregate record in
2018/19 season).
Costa Rica: Round of 16:
San Carlos (Clausura 2019 champions with best aggregate
record in 2018/19 season)
Herediano (Apertura 2018 champion with worst aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Preliminary Round:
Deportivo Saprissa (non-champion with best aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
El Salvador: Round of 16:
Águila (Clausura 2019 champions with best aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Preliminary Round:
Santa Tecla (Apertura 2018 champions with worst aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Alianza (Apertura 208 & Clausura 2019 runners-up)
Honduras: Round of 16:
Motagua (Apertura 2018 & Clausura 2019 champions)
Olimpia (Apertura 2018 & Clausura 2019 runners-up)
Preliminary Round:
Marathón (Clausura 2019 Semifinalist with best aggregate record in 2018/19
Season)
Guatemala: Round of 16:
Guastatoya (Apertura 2018 champions with best aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Preliminary Round:
Antigua GFC (Clausura 2019 champions with worst aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Comunicaciones (Apertura 2018 runners-up with best aggregate record in
2018/19 season)
Nicaragua: Round of 16:
Managua FC (Apertura 2018 champions with best aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Preliminary Round:
Real Estelí (Clausura 2019 champions with worst aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Panama: Round of 16:
Tauro (Apertura 2018 champions with best aggregate record in 2019/19
season)
C.A.I. (Clausura 2019 champions with worst aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Preliminary Round:
San Francisco (Clausura 2019 runners-up with best aggregate record in 2018/19
season)
Caribbean Zone Qualifying (CFU Champions Cup 2019)
Jamaica: Waterhouse (2019 Caribbean Championship runners-up)
Haiti: AS Capoise (2019 Caribbean Championship third place)
Suriname: SV Robinhood (2019 Caribbean Club Shield champions and winners of playoff
against 2019 Caribbean Championship fourth place)
Preliminary Round
(Jul. 30 & Aug. 6)
Real Estelí Nic Santa Tecla ElS 2-1 0-1 2-2*
[Lucio Barroca 8, Juan Barrera 59; Andrés Flores Jaco 34]
[Armando Polo 9]
(Jul. 31 & Aug. 7)
Robinhood Sur AS Capoise Hai 0-0 1-1 *1-1
[Claidel Kohinor 21og; Alan da Costa 79]
Belmopan Bandits Blz Deportivo Saprissa CRi 1-3 1-3 2-6
[Jefrie James 34; Manfred Ugalde 13, 44, Johan Venegas 42pen]
[Josué Martínez 54, Cristian Bolaños 83, Manfred Ugalde 90pen; Héctor Martínez 39]
(Aug. 1 & 8)
Alianza ElS San Francisco Pan 5-1 1-0 6-1
[Jonathan Jiménez 15, Raúl Peñaranda 25, Wesley Cabrera 35og, Marvin Monterrosa 75,
Herbert Soto 81; Wesley Cabrera 42]
[Óscar Cerén 76]
Hamilton Forge FC Can Antigua GFC Gua 2-1 0-0 2-1
[Daniel Krutzen 46, David Choinière 90; Edgar Pacheco 33]
Comunicaciones Gua Marathón Hon 2-1 1-1 3-2
[Gerardo Gordillo 47, Jorge Vargas 54; Edwin Solano 4]
[Justin Arboleda 80; Cristian Hernández 88]
Round of 16
(Aug. 20 & 27)
Managua FC Nic Motagua Hon 1-2 1-1 2-3 x
[Pablo Gallego 51; Rigoberto Fuentes 19og, Denil Maldonado 60]
[Roberto Moreira 37pen; Nahun Peralta 16]
Santa Tecla WlS San Carlos CRi 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-4p
Robinhood Sur CAI Pan 1-1 1-2 2-3
[Shaquille Cairo 90; José Fajardo 77pen]
[Abdiel Ayarza 8, José Fajardo 35; Roche Rosebel 78]
(Aug. 21 & 28)
Deportivo Saprissa CRi Águila ElS 2-0 0-1 2-1
[Johan Venegas 38pen, Michael Barrantes 45]
[Fernando Castillo 78]
Comunicaciones Gua Guastatoya Gua 2-1 0-0 2-1
[Agustín Herrera 53pen, Gerardo Gordillo 78; Kendel Herrarte 17]
(Aug. 22 & 29)
Waterhouse Jam Herediano CRi 1-1 1-1 2-2 7-6p
[Andre Fletcher 3; Keyner Brown 17]
[Yeltsin Tejeda 2; Colorado Murray 28]
Alianza ElS Tauro Pan 2-0 0-1 2-1
[Raúl Peñaranda 38, Iván Mancia 57]
[Freddy Gondola 4]
Hamilton Forge FC Can Olimpia Hon 1-0 1-4 2-4x
[Christopher Nanco 4]
[Jonathan Ferrari 30, Deybi Flores 43, Junior Lacayo 75, Jerry Bengtson 79;
David Choinière 88]
x 2nd legs in San Pedro Sula
Quarterfinals
(Sep 24 & Oct 1)
Deportivo Saprissa CRi CAI Pan 3-2 1-0 4-2
[Johan Venegas 17, 45, 90pen; Jorman Aguilar 48, Omar Browne 61]
[Johan Venegas 56]
(Sep 25 & Oct 2)
Waterhouse Jam Motagua Hon 0-2 0-0 0- x
[Marcelo Pereira 66, Kevin López 71]
(Sep 26 & Oct 3)
Alianza ElS San Carlos CRi 2-0 0-1 2-1
[Raúl Peñaranda 16, Marvin Monterroza 68]
[Fernando Brenes 87]
Olimpia Hon Comunicaciones Gua 2-0 0-0 2-0y
[Matías Garrido 1, Ever Alvarado 5]
x 2nd leg in San Pedro Sula
y 1st leg in San Pedro Sula
Semifinals (Oct. 24 & 31)
Olimpia Hon Deportivo Saprissa CRi 2-0 1-4 3-4x
[Jorge Benguche 24, 80]
[Manfred Ugalde 32, Marvin Angulo 69, 88, David Ramírez 90; Jorge Daniel Álvarez 62]
Alianza ElS Motagua Hon 1-1 0-3 1-4y
[Raúl Peñaranda 45; Juan Montes 4]
[Marco Tulio Vega 31, Juan Montes 36, Marcelo Estigarribia 88]
x 1st leg in San Pedro Sula
y 2nd leg in San Pedro Sula
Final (Nov 7 & 26)
Deportivo Saprissa CRi Motagua Hon 1-0 0-0 1-0
[Johan Venegas 19]
NB: Deportivo Saprissa, Motagua, Alianza, Olimpia, San Carlos and Comunicaciones qualified
to CONCACAF Champions League 2020.
North American Zone Mexico Qualification: América as Apertura 2018 champions Tigres UANL as Clausura 2019 champions Cruz Azul as Apertura 2018 runners-up León as Clausura 2019 runners-up USA Qualification: Seattle Sounders as MLS Cup 2019 champions New York City as best regular season winners MLS East Conference Atlanta United as US Open Cup 2019 champions Los Angeles FC as 2019 MLS regular seasons winners (MLS Supporters Shield). Canada Qualification: Canadian Championship 2019 First Round First Legs [May 15] Vaugn Azzuri 2-3 HFX Wanderers [Jarek Whiteman 51, Ryan Raposo 60; Tomasz Skulak 2, Akeem Garcia 39, Mohamed Kourouma 90pen] Blainville 0-0 York9 Pacific 0-2 Cavalry [Dominick Zator 9, Oliver Minatel 16] Second Legs [May 22] HFX Wanderers 0-1 Vaughn Azzurri [Peter Schaale 27og] York9 1-0 Blainville [Ryan Telfer 70] Cavalry 2-1 Pacific [Marcus Haber 2og, Julian Buscher 67; Marcus Haber 73] Second Round First Legs [Jun 4] Hamilton Forge 1-1 Cavalry [Emery Welshman 48; Dominique Malonga 90pen] [Jun 5] HFX Wanderers 2-1 Valour [Tomasz Skublak 39, Mohamed Kourouma 41; Marco Bustos 33] York9 3-1 FC Edmonton [Luca Gasparotto 28, Rodrigo Gattas 31, Simon Karlsson Adjei 51; Oumar Diouck 66] Second Legs [Jun 11] Cavalry 2-1 Hamilton Forge [Dominique Malonga 41, Sergio Camargo 58; Kyle Bekker 13] [Jun 12] Valour 0-2 HFX Wanderers [Mohamed Kourouma 58, Andre Bona 90] FC Edmonton 1-0 York9 [Mele Temguia 90] Third Round [Jul 10] HFX Wanderers 2-3 Ottawa Fury [Luis Alberto Perea 32pen, Dakota Barnathan 62og; Thiago de Freitas 23, 35, Maxime Tissot 67] York9 2-2 Montréal Impact [Ryan Telfer 83, Rodrigo Gattas 88; Omar Browne 62, Saphir Taider 90pen] Cavalry 0-0 Vancouver Whitecaps Second Legs [Jul 24] Ottawa Fury 2-2 HFX Wanderers [Onua Obasi 45, Christiano Francois 66; Tomasz Skublak 30, Luis Alberto Perea 43] Montréal Impact 1-0 York9 [Ignacio Piatti 55pen] Vancouver Whitecaps 1-2 Cavalry [Hwang In-Boeom 67; Jordan Brown 7, Dominick Zator 72] Toronto FC qualified to semifinals. Semifinals First Legs [Aug 7] Ottawa Fury 0-2 Toronto FC [Drew Moor 30, Tsubasa Endoh 90] Montréal Impact 2-1 Cavalry [Ignacio Piatti 32, 49; Sergio Camargo 69] Second Legs [Aug 14] Toronto FC 3-0 Ottawa Fury [Nicholas DeLeon 14, 39, Patrick Mullins 37] Cavalry 0-1 Montréal Impact [Anthony Jackson-Hamel 13] Final First Leg [Sep 18] Montréal Impact 1-0 Toronto FC [Ignacio Piatti 17] Second Leg [Sep 25] Toronto FC 1-0 Montréal Impact [1-3pen] [Tsubasa Endoh 70] Montréal Impact qualified Central American Zone Deportivo Saprissa (Costa Rica) as CONCACAF League 2019 champions Motagua (Honduras) as CONCACAF League 2019 runners-up Olimpia (Honduras) as CONCACAF League 2019 third place Alianza (El Salvador) as CONCACAF League 2019 fourth place Comunicaciones (Guatemala) as CONCACAF League 2019 fifth place AD San Carlos (Costa Rica) as CONCACAF League 2019 sixth place Caribbean Zone Portmore United (Jamaica) as CONCACAF Caribbean Club Champions Cup 2019 winners CONCACAF Champions League 2020 Round of 16 (Feb 18 & 25) Motagua Hon Atlanta United USA 1-1 0-3 1-4 x [Roberto Moreira 34; Josef Martínez 35] [Gonzalo Martínez 40, 83, Josef Martínez 61] Portmore United Jam Cruz Azul Mex 1-2 0-4 1-6 [Rondee Smith 74; Lucas Passerini 90, Jonathan Rodríguez 95] [Orbelín Pineda 22, Lucas Passerini 59, Pablo Ceppelini 76pen, Jonathan Borja 90] (Feb 18 & 27) León Mex Los Angeles FC USA 2-0 0-3 2-3 [Jean Meneses 21, Ángel Mena 88] [Carlos Vela 27, 77, Diego Rossi 79] (Feb 19 & 26) Comunicaciones Gua América Mex 1-1 1-1 2-2 3-5p [Gerardo Gordillo 81; Sebastián Córdova 90] [Emmanuel Aguilera 80pen; Agustín Herrera 62pen] Alianza ElS Tigres UANL Mex 2-1 2-4 4-5 [Felipe Ponce 47pen, Omar Blanco 54; Juan José Sánchez 34] [Enner Valencia 9, André-Pierre Gignac 17, 23pen, Nahuel Guzmán 90+4; Juan Carlos Portillo 33, 42] Deportivo Saprissa CRi Montréal Impact Can 2-2 0-0 2-2* [Johan Venegas 80, Ariel Rodríguez 90; Orji Okwonkwo 12, Rommel Quioto 22] (Feb 20 & 26) AD San Carlos CRi New York City FC USA 3-5 0-1 3-6 y [Jorman Aguilar 45, Marco Mena 63, Omar Browne 79; Heber Dos Santos 13, 35, 52pen, Alexander Callens 61, Alexandru Mitrita 90] [Alexander Callens 41] (Feb 20 & 27) Olimpia Hon Seattle Sounders USA 2-2 2-2 4-4 4-2p x [Justin Arboleda 63, 81; Joao Paulo 6, Jordan Morris 54] [Cristian Roldán 21, Joao Paulo 64; Elvin Oliva 4, Carlos Pineda 86] x First leg in San Pedro Sula. y First leg in Alajuela. Due to Covid-19 pandemic one complete series and three returns were postponed on Mar. 11; on Nov. 2, CONCACAF announced a new format in a single venue. Quarterfinals (Mar 10 & Dec 15) Montréal Impact Can Olimpia Hon 1-2 1-0 2-2*x [Saphir Taider 47; Jerry Bengtson 15, Jorge Benguche 41] [Amar Sejdic 57] (Mar 11 & Dec 15) New York City FC USA Tigres UANL Mex 0-1 0-4 0-5x [Eduardo Jesús Vargas 90] [André-Pierre Gignac 30, Leonardo Fernández 49, Rafael de Souza 64, Javier Aquino 85] (Mar 11 & Dec 16) América Mex Atlanta United USA 3-0 0-1 3-1x [Leonardo Suárez 11, Henry Josué Martín 13, Bruno Valdez 36] [Jackson Conway 82] (Dec 16) Los Angeles FC USA Cruz Azul Mex 2-1y [Carlos Vela 38pen, Kwadwo Opoku 71; Yoshimar Yotún 15pen] x Second leg in Orlando, USA. y One single leg in Orlando, USA Semifinals and Final stages at one single leg in Exploria Stadium, Orlando, USA Semifinals (Dec 19) Tigres UANL Mex Olimpia Hon 3-0 [André-Pierre Gignac 45pen, 57pen, Elvin Oliva 78og] Los Angeles FC USA América Mex 3-1 [Carlos Vela 46, 47, Latif Blessing 90; Sebastián Cáceres 11] Final (Dec 22) Tigres UANL Mex Los Angeles FC USA 2-1 [Hugo Ayala 72, André-Pierre Gignac 84; Diego Rossi 61]overview | 2018/19 | 2020/21
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