The 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League A was the top division of the
2019–20 edition of the
CONCACAF Nations League
The CONCACAF Nations League ( es, Liga de Naciones CONCACAF, french: Ligue des Nations de la CONCACAF) is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the ...
, the inaugural season of the international
football
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competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
. League A culminated with the
final championship in June 2021 to crown the inaugural champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.
Format
League A consisted of twelve teams, with the six participants of the
2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying hexagonal joined by the top six teams from
qualifying. The league was split into four groups of three teams. The teams competed in a home-and-away,
round-robin format over the course of the group phase, with matches played in the official FIFA match windows in September, October and November 2019. The four group winners qualified to the Nations League final championship, while the four last-placed teams in each group were relegated to League B for the next edition of the tournament.
The
Nations League Finals took place in June 2021, and was played in a knockout format in the United States, the centralized location selected by CONCACAF. The four teams played the semi-finals, with the matchups determined by the group stage rankings (1 vs 4 and 2 vs 3), followed by the third place match and the final (Regulations Articles 12.8 and 12.10).
In September 2019, it was announced that the Nations League would also provide qualification for the
2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The top two teams from each of the four League A groups qualified for the Gold Cup, while the third-placed teams entered the first round of
Gold Cup qualification.
Seeding
Teams were seeded into the pots of League A according to their position in the November 2018
CONCACAF Ranking Index
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
.
The draw for the group phase took place at
The Chelsea in
Las Vegas, Nevada
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, United States on 27 March 2019, 22:00
EDT (19:00 local time,
PDT).
Groups
The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 21 May 2019.
Times are
EDT/EST, as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Nations League Finals
Seeding
Bracket
Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Final
Goalscorers
Notes
References
External links
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