User:Bmf 051/sandbox/2014–15 CONCACAF SuperLiga

The 2014–15 CONCACAF SuperLiga was a proposed annual continental club football competition. The tournament would be a secondary tournament to an expanded version of the CONCACAF Champions League. It would have served the same purpose as the UEFA Europa League. It is unlikely that such a design would work in reality, because many of the Caribbean Football Union associations could not be relied upon to provide teams on a regular basis (see the low participation for some nations in CFU Club Championship). Also, many associations do not have stadiums that meet FIFA and CONCACAF requirements for hosting matches in a tournament such as this. But this is just an idea.

The tournament would have consisted of a qualification round and a play-off round, with 40 surviving teams entering the group stage, joining 24 teams that qualified automatically and 16 losers from the play-off round of the CONCACAF Champions League. The 80 teams were drawn into twenty groups of four teams and played each other in a double round-robin system. The twenty group winners and twenty runners-up proceeded to the knockout phase, joined at different rounds by the third and fourth-placed teams group stage of the Champions League, ultimately culminating with the two-legged final.

UNAM won the tournament, defeating Sporting Kansas City 4–1 on aggregate in the final.

Qualification
The number of teams that each association enters into the CONCACAF SuperLiga is based upon the CONCACAF country coefficients, with better entrance rounds being offered to the more successful nations. Each association has a standard number of 3 berths, for a total of 117 entrants. In addition, the 44 teams entered into the CONCACAF Champions League that fail to qualify for the knockout stage of that tournament will enter at various stages, for a total of 161 teams.

Berths are awarded to the teams with the best finish in each association that failed to qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.

Association ranking (2014–15)
Each association receives 3 berths to the CONCACAF SuperLiga, and the stage in which each team enters the tournament is determined using CONCACAF country coefficients. These coefficients take into account their performance in the CONCACAF Champions League from 2009–10 to 2013–14. Associations with the same coefficient have been ranked based on their performance in past CFU Club Championships (Belize was automatically ranked ahead of all Caribbean teams that had the same coefficient as them).

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
 * CCL: Transferred from the Champions League
 * GS 3rd: Third-placed teams from the group stage
 * GS 4th: Fourth-placed teams from the group stage
 * PO: Losers from the play-off round
 * Q: Losers from the qualifying round

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Qualifying round
In the qualifying round and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their CONCACAF club coefficients, and then were drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams with the same club coefficient were ranked based on their league's ranking, with ranking within their league serving as the third tie-breaker. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on 18 July 2014. The first legs were played on 31 July, and the second legs were played on 7 August 2014.


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 * Seeded teams
 * Sunset CC 0.000, League rank: 19
 * Somerset Trojans CC 0.000, League rank: 20
 * Camdonia Chelsea CC 0.000, League rank: 21
 * 🇬🇵 Siroco CC 0.000, League rank: 22
 * 🇬🇵 L'Étoile CC 0.000, League rank: 22
 * Garden Hotspurs CC 0.000, League rank: 23
 * St. Peters Strikers CC 0.000, League rank: 23
 * 🇱🇨 Lancers CC 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇱🇨 VSADC CC 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇩🇲 Exodus CC 0.000, League rank: 25
 * 🇩🇲 Dublanc CC 0.000, League rank: 25
 * Estrella CC 0.000, League rank: 26
 * Dakota CC 0.000, League rank: 26
 * 🇨🇺 La Habana CC 0.000, League rank: 27
 * 🇨🇺 Guantánamo CC 0.000, League rank: 27
 * 🇻🇮 Skills CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇻🇮 Unique CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇹🇨 Cheshire Hall CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇹🇨 Rozo CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇹🇨 SWA Sharks CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * Paradise CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * Queens Park Rangers CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * Grenada Boys' Secondary School CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * 🇩🇴 Don Bosco Jarabacoa CC 0.000, League rank: 31, Team rank: 2
 * 🇩🇴 Bauger CC 0.000, League rank: 31, Team rank: 3


 * Unseeded teams
 * 🇩🇴 Pantoja CC 0.000, League rank: 31, Team rank: 4
 * 🇻🇬 One Love United CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇻🇬 Sugar Boys CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇻🇬 Wolues CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇧🇧 Brittons Hill CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * 🇧🇧 Pride of Gall Hill CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * 🇧🇧 Weymouth Wales CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * Lyford Cay Dragons CC 0.000, League rank: 34
 * Baha Juniors CC 0.000, League rank: 34
 * College of the Bahamas CC 0.000, League rank: 34
 * 🇦🇮 Roaring Lions CC 0.000, League rank: 35
 * 🇦🇮 Kicks United CC 0.000, League rank: 35
 * 🇦🇮 Salsa Ballers CC 0.000, League rank: 35
 * Real Rincon CC 0.000, League rank: 36
 * Uruguay CC 0.000, League rank: 36
 * Estrellas CC 0.000, League rank: 36
 * 🇬🇫 ASC Le Geldar CC 0.000, League rank: 37
 * 🇬🇫 ASU Grand-Santi CC 0.000, League rank: 37
 * 🇬🇫 ASC Agouado CC 0.000, League rank: 37
 * 🇲🇶 RC Rivière-Pilote CC 0.000, League rank: 38
 * 🇲🇶 Club Colonial CC 0.000, League rank: 38
 * 🇲🇶 Golden Lion CC 0.000, League rank: 38
 * Concordia CC 0.000, League rank: 39
 * Attackers CC 0.000, League rank: 39
 * Juventus de Saint-Martin CC 0.000, League rank: 39

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Play-off round
The draw for the play-off round was held on 8 August 2014. The first legs were played on 21 August, and the second legs were played on 28 August 2014.


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 * Seeded teams
 * 🇵🇦 Árabe Unido CC: 47.867
 * Victoria CC: 12.667
 * 🇸🇻 Atlético Marte CC: 7.567
 * Guayama CC: 7.000
 * Point Fortin Civic CC: 5.000
 * North East Stars CC: 5.000
 * 🇳🇮 Diriangén CC: 2.800
 * 🇳🇮 Walter Ferretti CC: 2.800
 * 🇳🇮 Managua CC: 2.800
 * Baltimore CC: 1.600
 * Racing des Gonaïves CC: 1.600
 * AS Petit-Goâve CC: 1.600
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana Defence Force CC: 1.000
 * 🇬🇾 Western Tigers CC: 1.000
 * 🇬🇾 Buxton United CC: 1.000
 * 🇧🇿 Police United CC: 0.000, League rank: 14
 * 🇧🇿 FC Belize CC: 0.000, League rank: 14
 * 🇧🇿 Verdes CC: 0.000, League rank: 14
 * 🇸🇷 Excelsior CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇸🇷 Walking Boyz Company CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇸🇷 Leo Victor CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇨🇼 Centro Barber CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇨🇼 Jong Holland CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇨🇼 Victory Boys CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇦🇬 Parham CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇦🇬 Hoppers CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇦🇬 Grenades CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇯🇲 Waterhouse CC: 0.000, League rank: 18
 * 🇯🇲 Harbour View CC: 0.000, League rank: 18
 * 🇯🇲 Arnett Gardens CC: 0.000, League rank: 18
 * Scholars International CC: 0.000, League rank: 19
 * George Town CC: 0.000, League rank: 19
 * Sunset CC 0.000, League rank: 19
 * North Village Rams CC: 0.000, League rank: 20
 * Flanagan's Onions CC: 0.000, League rank: 20
 * Somerset Trojans CC 0.000, League rank: 20
 * System 3 CC: 0.000, League rank: 21
 * Avenues United CC: 0.000, League rank: 21
 * Camdonia Chelsea CC 0.000, League rank: 21
 * 🇬🇵 USR Sainte-Rose CC: 0.000, League rank: 22, Team rank: 2


 * Unseeded teams
 * 🇬🇵 L'Étoile CC 0.000, League rank: 22, Team rank: 4
 * Village Superstars CC: 0.000, League rank: 23
 * Garden Hotspurs CC 0.000, League rank: 23
 * St. Peters Strikers CC 0.000, League rank: 23
 * 🇱🇨 Northern United All Stars CC: 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇱🇨 Lancers CC 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇩🇲 South East United CC: 0.000, League rank: 25
 * 🇩🇲 Exodus CC 0.000, League rank: 25
 * 🇩🇲 Dublanc CC 0.000, League rank: 25
 * Racing Club Aruba CC: 0.000, League rank: 26
 * Estrella CC 0.000, League rank: 26
 * Dakota CC 0.000, League rank: 26
 * 🇨🇺 Villa Clara CC: 0.000, League rank: 27
 * 🇻🇮 Helenites CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇻🇮 Rovers CC: 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇻🇮 Skills CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇻🇮 Unique CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇹🇨 AFC Academy CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇹🇨 Cheshire Hall CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇹🇨 Rozo CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇹🇨 SWA Sharks CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * Hard Rock CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * Paradise CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * Grenada Boys' Secondary School CC 0.000, League rank: 30
 * 🇩🇴 Moca CC 0.000, League rank: 31
 * 🇩🇴 Don Bosco Jarabacoa CC 0.000, League rank: 31
 * 🇻🇬 Islanders CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇻🇬 One Love United CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇻🇬 Wolues CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * 🇧🇧 Barbados Defence Force CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * 🇧🇧 Pride of Gall Hill CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * 🇧🇧 Weymouth Wales CC 0.000, League rank: 33
 * Bears CC 0.000, League rank: 34
 * 🇦🇮 Attackers CC 0.000, League rank: 35
 * 🇦🇮 Roaring Lions CC 0.000, League rank: 35
 * Juventus CC 0.000, League rank: 36
 * 🇬🇫 US Matoury CC 0.000, League rank: 37
 * 🇲🇶 Club Franciscain CC 0.000, League rank: 38
 * 🇲🇶 Golden Lion CC 0.000, League rank: 38
 * Junior Stars CC 0.000, League rank: 39

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Group stage
A total of 80 teams play in the group stage. 24 teams will enter in this round, along with the 40 winners of the qualifying round and the 16 non-qualifiers from the CONCACAF Champions League play-off round.

The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2014. The 80 teams were allocated into four pots based on their club coefficients. They were drawn into twenty groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.

In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays will be 18 September, 2 October, 23 October, 6 November, 27 November, and 11 December 2014. The group winners and runners-up will advance to the round of 48, where they will be joined by the eight fourth-placed teams of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:
 * 1) higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
 * 2) superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
 * 3) higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
 * 4) higher number of goals scored away from home in the group matches played among the teams in question;
 * If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 8 apply;
 * 1) superior goal difference from all group matches played;
 * 2) higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
 * 3) higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons (ties on coefficient points are then broken in the same manner as they are for seeding - league rank, then rank within league)

Group A

 * Tiebreakers
 * Dandy Town Hornets are ahead of Buxton United based on head-to-head points earned (4–1)

Group C

 * Tiebreakers
 * Big Players are ahead of North East Stars based on head-to-head goal difference (4–3).

Group G

 * Tiebreakers
 * Vancouver Whitecaps, Britannia, and Juventud Independiente are ranked in that order based on head-to-head points earned (7, 6, and 4 respectively).

Group I

 * Tiebreakers
 * Uruguay are ahead of Jong Holland based on head-to-head goal difference (5–3).

Group K

 * Tiebreakers
 * LA Galaxy are ahead of Plaza Amador based on head-to-head points earned (4–1).

Group M

 * Tiebreakers
 * FAS are ahead of Grenades based on head-to-head points earned (4–1).

Group P

 * Tiebreakers
 * Alpha United are ahead of Real España based on head-to-head points earned (4–1).
 * Don Bosco Jarabacoa are ahead of Centro Barber based on head-to-head points earned (4–1).

Group S

 * Tiebreakers
 * Cheshire Hall are ahead of Point Fortin Civic based on head-to-head goal difference (7–3).

Group T
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 * Seeding pot 1
 * 🇲🇽 Toluca CC: 89.650
 * 🇺🇸 LA Galaxy CC: 75.350
 * 🇲🇽 UNAM CC: 67.650
 * 🇺🇸 Seattle Sounders CC: 64.350
 * 🇨🇦 Toronto FC CC: 62.800
 * 🇵🇦 Árabe Unido CC: 47.867
 * Marathón CC: 44.667
 * 🇲🇽 Morelia CC: 44.650
 * 🇲🇽 América CC: 31.650
 * Xelajú CC: 29.000
 * 🇺🇸 D.C. United CC: 27.350
 * Real España CC: 26.667
 * 🇸🇻 FAS CC: 22.567
 * Motagua CC: 19.667
 * Cartaginés CC: 18.233
 * 🇺🇸 New England Revolution CC: 14.350
 * Victoria CC: 12.667
 * 🇵🇦 Chorrillo CC: 11.867
 * 🇨🇦 Vancouver Whitecaps CC: 11.800
 * 🇨🇦 FC Edmonton CC: 11.800


 * Seeding pot 2
 * Universidad de Costa Rica CC: 11.233
 * Carmelita CC: 11.233
 * Uruguay CC: 11.233
 * Suchitepéquez CC: 9.000
 * Marquense CC: 9.000
 * 🇵🇦 Río Abajo CC: 7.867
 * 🇵🇦 Plaza Amador CC: 7.867
 * 🇸🇻 Dragón CC: 7.567
 * 🇸🇻 Juventud Independiente CC: 7.567
 * 🇸🇻 Atlético Marte CC: 7.567
 * Sevilla CC: 7.000
 * Criollos de Caguas CC: 7.000
 * Academia Quintana CC: 7.000
 * Guayama CC: 7.000
 * Central CC: 5.000
 * Defence Force CC: 5.000
 * Point Fortin Civic CC: 5.000
 * North East Stars CC: 5.000
 * 🇬🇾 Alpha United CC 5.000
 * 🇳🇮 Managua CC: 2.800


 * Seeding pot 3
 * AS Mirebalais CC: 1.600
 * Racing des Gonaïves CC: 1.600
 * AS Petit-Goâve CC: 1.600
 * 🇬🇾 Guyana Defence Force CC: 1.000
 * 🇬🇾 Western Tigers CC: 1.000
 * 🇬🇾 Buxton United CC: 1.000
 * 🇧🇿 Police United CC: 0.000, League rank: 14
 * 🇧🇿 Verdes CC: 0.000, League rank: 14
 * 🇸🇷 Inter Moengotapoe CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇸🇷 Excelsior CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇸🇷 Leo Victor CC: 0.000, League rank: 15
 * 🇨🇼 Centro Barber CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇨🇼 Jong Holland CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇨🇼 Victory Boys CC: 0.000, League rank: 16
 * 🇦🇬 Parham CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇦🇬 Hoppers CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇦🇬 Grenades CC: 0.000, League rank: 17
 * 🇯🇲 Harbour View CC: 0.000, League rank: 18
 * 🇯🇲 Arnett Gardens CC: 0.000, League rank: 18
 * George Town CC: 0.000, League rank: 19


 * Seeding pot 4
 * Dandy Town Hornets CC: 0.000, League rank: 20
 * North Village Rams CC: 0.000, League rank: 20
 * Flanagan's Onions CC: 0.000, League rank: 20
 * Somerset Trojans CC 0.000, League rank: 20
 * System 3 CC: 0.000, League rank: 21
 * Avenues United CC: 0.000, League rank: 21
 * Camdonia Chelsea CC 0.000, League rank: 21
 * 🇬🇵 CS Moulien CC: 0.000, League rank: 22
 * St. Paul's United CC: 0.000, League rank: 23
 * 🇱🇨 Big Players CC: 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇱🇨 Lancers CC 0.000, League rank: 24
 * 🇩🇲 South East United CC: 0.000, League rank: 25
 * Britannia CC: 0.000, League rank: 26
 * 🇨🇺 Villa Clara CC: 0.000, League rank: 27
 * 🇻🇮 Unique CC 0.000, League rank: 28
 * 🇹🇨 Cheshire Hall CC 0.000, League rank: 29
 * 🇩🇴 Moca CC 0.000, League rank: 31
 * 🇩🇴 Don Bosco Jarabacoa CC 0.000, League rank: 31
 * 🇻🇬 One Love United CC 0.000, League rank: 32
 * Juventus CC 0.000, League rank: 36

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Knockout phase
48 teams began the knockout phase: the 40 group winners and group runner-ups from the group stage, and the 8 fourth-placed teams from the CONCACAF Champions League group stage. The 24 winners advanced to the round of 32, joining the 8 third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.

Teams will play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows: <!--===Qualified teams===
 * In the draw for the round of 48, the twenty group winners and the four fourth-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records were seeded, and the twenty group runners-up and the other four fourth-placed teams from the Champions League group stage were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
 * In the round of 32, there were no seedings, but teams from the same group (in either the CONCACAF Champions League or the CONCACAF SuperLiga group stages) or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
 * In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.
 * If any association had sent two teams to the semifinals, those teams would have automatically been paired with each other and the draw would have only been used to determine which team hosted the second leg of each semi-final match-up.


 * CONCACAF SuperLiga group stage winners and runners-up


 * Champions League group stage fourth-placed teams

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 * Champions League group stage third-placed teams

Bracket
Below is the bracket for the knockout stage, excluding the Round of 48.

Round of 48
The draw for the round of 48 was held on 15 December 2014. The first legs were played on 22 January, and the second legs were played on 5 February 2015.

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Round of 32
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 6 February 2015. The first legs were played on 19 February, and the second legs were played on 26 February 2015.

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Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 27 February 2015. The first legs were played on 12 March, and the second legs were played on 19 March 2015.


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Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 March 2015. The first legs will be played on 16 April, and the second legs were played on 23 April 2015.


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Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals and final was held on 24 April 2015. The first legs were played on 7 May, and the second legs were played on 14 May 2015.


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Final
The first leg of the final was played on 27 May, and the second leg was played on 3 June 2015.


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