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The 2007–08 CONCACAF Champions League was the 43rd season of North America's premier club football tournament organized by CONCACAF.

The final was played on May 21, 2008 at the DSG Park in Denver, where Manchester Houston Dynamo played against Pachuca. Houston Dynamo won the match 2–0 in regulation time, making it the first time since 2001 and American team won the competition.

América were the defending champions.

Qualification
The CONCACAF Champions League commenced with a double round-robin group stage of 32 teams, which was preceded by two qualification 'streams' for teams that do not receive direct entry to the tournament proper. The two streams are divided between teams qualified by virtue of being league champions, and those qualified by virtue of finishing 2nd–5th in their national championship.

The number of teams that each association enters into the CONCACAF Champions League was based upon the CONCACAF country coefficients. These coefficients are generated by the results of clubs representing each association during the previous five Champions League seasons. The higher an association's coefficient, the more teams represent the association in the Champions League, and the fewer qualification rounds the association's teams must compete in. However, associations are limited to 1 entrant for every 3 teams at the highest level of that associations league system. Teams qualified based on the results of tournaments completed between July 2014 and June 2015 (some exceptions may be made for some associations if their competitions are completed later, so long as they are completed before teams from that association enter the tournament). Guyana, Saint Lucia, and the British Virgin Islands did not complete any major competitions during this time, so the results of their most recently completed competitions was used instead. The Bahamas season was not completed, and the standings when the season was cancelled were used (calculated as a per game average).

In addition to the previous year's champion, 21 teams qualify directly to the group stage of the tournament from associations ranked 1 through 9. Five of the remaining 10 qualifying places are granted to the winners of a three round qualifying tournament between the remaining 30 national champions, within which those champions from associations with higher coefficients receive byes to the second qualifying round. The other five places are granted to the winners of a two round play-off round between the 12 clubs from associations ranked 1 through 13 (excluding Canada), which have qualified based upon finishing second, third, fourth, or fifth in their respective national league.

The winner of the previous year's SuperLiga would have enter in play-off round if they did not qualify for the group stage via their domestic performance. The stream they entered would have depeneded on the rank the Champions League title holder's association.

Tournament
The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups. Seeding was used whilst making the draw for this stage, whilst teams from the same country may not be drawn into groups together. Each team meets the others in its group home and away in a round-robin format. The winning team and the runners-up from each group then progress to the next round.

For this stage, the winning team from one group plays against the runners-up from another group, and teams from the same association may not be drawn against each other. From the quarter-finals onwards, the draw was entirely random, without association protection (in the semifinals, two teams from the same association must be paired with each other). The tournament uses the away goals rule: if the aggregate score of the two games was tied, then the team who scored more goals at their opponent's stadium advanced. If the teams were tied on away goals, an 30 additional minutes (two 15 minute periods) of extra time would have been played. If the match remains tied, the game would have gone to penalty kicks. This is a variation of the method used in the UEFA Champions League and other tournaments, the difference being that the away goals rule is not applied after extra time.

Distribution
The table below shows the default access list. Changes would have needed to be made in the following cases:
 * If both the Champions League title holders and the SuperLiga title holders have qualified for the group stage through domestic performance, the champions of association 10 are moved from the second qualifying round to the play-off round, and the champions of associations 20 and 21 are moved from the first qualifying round to the second qualifying round.
 * If the Champions League title holders have qualified for the group stage through domestic performance while the SuperLiga title holders have not, the SuperLiga title holders enter the group stage through the berth vacated by the Champions League title holders. If the SuperLiga title holders had qualified for any of the qualifying rounds or play-off round through domestic performance, their berth would have been vacated, and teams of the highest-ranked associations are moved to a later round accordingly.
 * If the Champions League title holders have not qualified for the group stage through domestic performance, there are two sets of changes that may need to be made:
 * If the Champions League title holders have qualified for any of the qualifying rounds or play-off round through domestic performance, their berth is vacated, and teams of the highest-ranked associations are moved to a later round accordingly.
 * If the SuperLiga title holders have not qualified for the group stage through domestic performance, they enter the play-off round, where the section (Champions Route or League Route) they enter depends on whether they are league champions or not. The teams of the lowest-ranked associations are moved to an earlier round accordingly.

Qualification
League positions of the previous season shown in parentheses (TH: Champions League title holders; SL: SuperLiga title holders).

Qualifying rounds

 * Main article: 2007–08 CONCACAF Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round

In the qualifying rounds, teams were divided by geographic location to ease travel costs.

First qualifying round
The first legs were played on 28 June and 29 June, and the second legs were played on 5 and 6 July 2015. 


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Second qualifying round
Teams that received a bye to the second round in the Champions group were given seeded, while unseeded teams played based on geography to ease travel costs.

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Play-off round
Teams that received a bye to the second round in the Champions group were given seeded, while unseeded teams played based on geography to ease travel costs.

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Group F

 * Tiebreakers
 * Alajuelense, Comunicaciones and Real España are ranked by their head-to-head records, as shown below.

Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 14 December 2007. The first legs were played on 19–20 February, and the second legs were played on 4–5 March 2016.


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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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