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The 2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League B was the second division of the 2023–24 edition of the
CONCACAF Nations League The CONCACAF Nations League (, ) is an association football competition organized by CONCACAF as its secondary continental tournament for men's senior national teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The tournament takes pla ...
, the third season of the international
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competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of
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. It was held from 7 September to 21 November 2023.


Format

Unlike Leagues A and C, League B maintained the same format as in previous editions. League B consisted of sixteen teams which were split into four groups of four teams. The teams competed in a home-and-away, round-robin format over the course of the group phase, with matches being played in the official FIFA match windows in September, October and November 2023. The first-placed team of each group was promoted to the
2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A The 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A was the top division of the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League, 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international Association football, football competition involving th ...
and the fourth-placed team of each group was relegated to the
2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League C The 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League C was the third and lowest division of the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League, 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international Association football, football competition ...
.


Teams

A total of sixteen national teams contested the League B, including twelve sides from the 2022–23 season and four promoted from the 2022–23 League C. As a result of the expansion to 16 teams in the League A, there were no teams relegated to the League C from the previous season, so the fourth placed team of each group from the 2022-23 season remained in the League B for this edition.


Team changes

The following were the team changes of League B from the 2022–23 season:
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had originally qualified for promotion to League A as League B Group C winners, but they were disqualified for fielding an ineligible player. As a result, on 12 June 2023, they were replaced by Trinidad and Tobago in League A, and they were forced to stay in League B, replacing Trinidad and Tobago.


Teams promoted from League C

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and
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returned to the League B after a one-season absence.
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and
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reached the second division of the CONCACAF Nations League for the first time after spending the first two seasons in League C.


Seeding

The pots were confirmed on 2 May 2023, with the sixteen League B teams being split into four pots of four teams, based on the
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as of 31 March 2023.


Draw

The groups draw was held on 16 May 2023, 19:00 EDT, in
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, United States, where the sixteen involved teams were drawn into four groups of four. The draw began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them in Group A and then selecting the remaining teams from Pot 1 and placling them into Groups B, C and D in sequential order. The draw continued with the same procedure done for the remaining pots. The draw resulted in the following groups: ;Note


Groups

The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 6 July 2023. All match times are in EDT ( UTC−4) for September and October matches and EST ( UTC−5) for November matches, 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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Goalscorers


Notes


References


External links

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