The 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup will be the 60th season of North, Central America, and the Caribbean's premier club association football tournament organized by CONCACAF. The final will be played on June 2025. The winners of the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup, and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.

Qualification

Twenty-seven teams will qualify for the tournament, with five of them earning direct qualification to the round of 16. The remaining twenty-two teams will enter in round one. In addition to national league competitions in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, 12 of 27 berths will be determined by international competitions, including the revamped North American zonal competition, the

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(three), and the existing regional or zonal championships in the Caribbean and Central America, the

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(three) and

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(six), respectively. Two Canadian Premier League teams will qualify automatically while the United States-only

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knockout competition and the Canada-only equivalent, the

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, will provide one berth each. The winners of the three zonal championships, along with the winner of

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and the highest-scoring champion from the 2023–24 Liga MX season, will receive the five byes into the round of 16.

Distribution

A total of 27 teams (from 10 associations) qualify for the tournament. * North American Zone: 18 teams (from 3 associations) * Central American Zone: 6 teams (from up to 6 associations) * Caribbean Zone: 3 teams (from up to 3 associations) Five teams receive a bye into the round of 16. * The champion of the regional competitions for each of CONCACAF's constituent zones; North American, Central American and Caribbean * The champions of

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of Mexico and

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of the United States and Canada (Liga MX have a split Clausura and Apertura system, so the champion team with the higher aggregate points take this place.) The remaining 22 teams will enter in round one. * The runners-up and third-place team from the MLS–Liga MX Leagues Cup * The runners-up and third-place team from the Caribbean Cup * The runners-up, remaining semi-finalists and two play-in winners from the Central American Cup * The

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champion * The

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winner * The Canadian Premier League regular season winner and playoff champion * The remaining winner, two runners-up, and the two best next clubs by season aggregate from

* The MLS Supporters' Shield winner * The remaining MLS Conference regular season leader, and the next two teams in the Supporters' Shield table

Teams

''The following table includes the number of appearances, last appearance, and previous best from the CONCACAF Champions Cup tournament.''

References

External links

Official website
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