User:Quidster4040/sandbox/2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga

The 2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga will be the 12th season of North America's secondary club football tournament organised by CONCACAF.

The 2018 CONCACAF SuperLiga Final will be played at Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana, Cuba.

Association team allocation
A total of 191 teams from all 40 CONCACAF member associations, and 22 invitee associations geographically located in Noth America are expected to participate in the 2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga. The association ranking based on the CONCACAF country coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
 * Associations 1–43 each have three teams qualify.
 * Associations 44–50 each have two teams qualify.
 * Associations 52–54 each have two teams qualify.
 * Associations 55–62 each have one team qualify.
 * Moreover, five teams qualify based on CONCACAF Fair Play ranking, which is measured by association clubs that have the highest displinary scores. The top five associations send a team with the best domestic fair play ranking that has not already qualified for North American competitions.
 * Moreover, 33 teams eliminated from the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League are transferred to the SuperLiga.

Association ranking
For the 2016–17 CONCACAF SuperLiga, the associations are allocated places according to their 2015 CONCACAF country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in North American competitions from 2010–11 to 2014–15. In this scenario, the island territories of the Crasqui Islands, Culebra, Vieques are allowed to submit their domestic cup winner, since there is no formal league.

Apart from the allocation based on the country coefficients, associations may have additional teams participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
 * (CL) – Additional berth for Champions League participants
 * (FP) – Additional berth for Fair Play/Invitee participants

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * CW: Cup winners
 * 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
 * P-W: End-of-season North American competition play-offs winners
 * CCL: Transferred from the Champions League
 * GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
 * PO: Losers from the play-off round
 * Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round

Note: Teams in italics may still qualify for the 2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League, either through domestic performance, or by winning the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League or the 2016–17 CONCACAF SuperLiga.


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Qualifying rounds

 * Main article: 2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga qualifying phase

In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2017 CONCACAF club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.

First qualifying round
The first legs were played on 28–29 June, and the second legs were be played on 4–6 July 2017. 


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Second qualifying round
The first legs were played on 13 July, and the second legs were played on 20 July 2017. 


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Third qualifying round
The first legs will be played on 27 July and the second legs will be played on 3 August. 


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Play-off round
The first legs were played on 16 and 17 August, and the second legs were played on 24 August 2017. 


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Group stage

 * Main article: 2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga group stage

Knockout phase

 * ''Main article: 2017–18 CONCACAF SuperLiga 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 32, the twelve group winners and the four third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records are seeded, and the twelve 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 association cannot be drawn against each other.
 * In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Round of 32
 The first legs were played on 22 February, and the second legs were played on 1 March 2018.


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Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 2 March 2018, 13:00 EST, at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City, United States.

The first legs were played on 15 March, and the second legs were played on 5 April 2018. 


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Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarterfinals was held on 6 April 2018, 13:00 EST, at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City, United States.

The first legs were played on 12 April, and the second legs were played on 19 April 2018. 


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Semi-finals
The draw for the quarterfinals was held on 20 April 2018, 13:00 EST, at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City, United States.

The first legs were played on 26 April, and the second legs were played on 3 May 2018. 


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Final

 * Main page: 2018 CONCACAF SuperLiga Final

The 2018 CONCACAF SuperLiga Final will be played at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana on 9 May 2018. The "home" team for the final (for administrative purposes) will be determined by an additional draw held after the semi-final draw.