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The 2022 CSA Champions League was the 9th season of the CSA's premier club football tournament organized by the CSA.

The final will be played at the Malibu Stadium in Malibu, Canada. The winner of the 2022 CSA Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2023 CSA Champions League group stage, and also earn the right to play in the 2023 CSA Cup.

Berry Bitty City CSC are the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous edition.

Teams
CL: Champions League title holders

SL: Super League title holders

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition was as follows (all draws were held at the CSA headquarters in Madawaska, Maine). For this season, there were staggered kick-off times in the group stage at 18:00 EST and 20:00 EST. Kick-off times starting from the knock-out phase were 18:00 EST.

Qualifying rounds
In the qualifying and play-off rounds, teams are divided into pots based on their league, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties.

First qualifying round
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 1 April 2022. The first legs were played on 4 and 13 April, and the second legs were played on 20 and 27 April. The losers entered the 2022 CSA Super League qualifying round.

Second qualifying round
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 28 April 2022. The first legs were played on 4 and 12 May, and the second legs were played on 18 and 26 May 2022. The losers entered the 2022 CSA Super League group stage.

Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams played against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:


 * In the draw for the round of 16, the eight group winners were seeded, and the eight group runners-up were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group could not be drawn against each other.
 * In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals were held together before the quarter-finals were played, the identity of the quarter-final winners was not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw was also held to determine which semi-final winner was designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it was played at a neutral venue).

Final
The final was played on 4 December 2022 at the Malibu Stadium in Malibu. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by a draw held after the semi-final.