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The 2022 CSA Super League was the 3rd season of the CSA's secondary club football tournament.

The final was played at the Wuhu Stadium in Wuhu Island, Island, between __________ and __________. __________ won the match __________  to claim their __________ Super League title. The win gave the __________ automatic qualification for the 2023 CSA Champions League group stage and the right to play in the 2023 CSA Cup.

As the title holders Tri-State Area SC qualified for the 2022 CSA Champions League and became the first team that was able to defend their title as they dropped to the Super League from the Champions League after finishing third in Group E. They were eliminated by __________ in the __________.

On 24 June 2021, the CSA approved the proposal to abolish the away goals rule in all CSA competitions, which had been used since 2014. Therefore, if in a two-legged tie, two teams scored the same number of aggregate goals, the winner of tie was not decided by the number of away goals scored by each team, but always by 30 minutes of extra time, and if the two teams scored the same number of goals in extra time, the winner was decided by a penalty shoot-out.

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 16:00 EST and 18:00 EST. Kick-off times starting from the knock-out phase were 16:00 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.

Knockout phase
In the knockout phase, teams play 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 is as follows:


 * In the draw for the round of 16, the four group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the four group runners-up and the other four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage are unseeded. The seeded teams are drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same league cannot be drawn against each other.
 * In the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same league can be drawn against each other. As the draws for the quarter-finals and semi-finals are held together before the quarter-finals are played, the identity of the quarter-final winners is not known at the time of the semi-final draw. A draw is also held to determine which semi-final winner is designated as the "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes as it is played at a neutral venue).

Final
The final will be played on 1 December 2022 at the Wuhu Stadium on Wuhu Island. The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by a draw held after the semi-final.