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The 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League is the second season 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 ...
, an international
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competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of
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. The group phase of the tournament started on 2 June 2022, and the final tournament, which will decide the champions, will be played in June 2023. The Nations League also serves as a qualifier for the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The
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are the defending champions.


Schedule

The format for the 2022–23 Nations League was announced by CONCACAF on 27 July 2020. Due to the
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in Qatar taking place at the end of the year, the league phase will be played in June 2022 and March 2023.


Format


Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group was determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.3): # Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss); #
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in all group matches; # Number of goals scored in all group matches; # Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question; # Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question; # Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question; # Number of away goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question (if the tie was only between two teams); # Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match): #* Yellow card: −1 points; #* Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points; #* Direct red card: −4 points; #* Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points; # Drawing of lots.


Teams

All 41 CONCACAF national teams will enter the competition. The four teams which finished bottom of each group in Leagues A and B from the 2019–20 season will move down a league, while the four teams which finished top of each group in Leagues B and C will move up. The remaining teams will stay in their respective leagues.


Seeding

The draw for the league phase took place in
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, United States on 4 April 2022, 19:00 EDT. Each of the League's draws began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them in Group A of their respective league. The draws continued by selecting the remaining teams from Pot 1 and positioning them into Groups B, C and D in sequential order. The same procedure was done for the remaining pots. Teams were seeded into pots using
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.


League A


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


League B


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


League C


Group A


Group B


Group C


Group D


Top goalscorers


References


External links

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