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The 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League will be the 54th season of North Americas's premier club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 11th season since it was renamed from the CONCACAF Champions' Cup to the CONCACAF Champions League.

The winners of the 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League will qualify as the CONCACAF representative at the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2018–19 CONCACAF SuperLiga in the 2019 CONCACAF Super Cup.

Association ranking
For the 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2017 CONCACAF country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in North American competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17.

Distribution
The table below shows the default access list.

The access list above is provisional, as changes will be made depending on whether the Champions League and Europa League title holders qualify for the tournament via their domestic leagues. The Champions League title holders always enter directly into the group stage. The Europa League title holders also enter directly into the group stage if either they or the Champions League title holders qualify for the group stage via their domestic leagues (if both teams qualify for the group stage via their domestic leagues, the champions of association 13 enter directly into the group stage). Otherwise, the Europa League title holders enter directly the play-off round, with the route they enter depending on the Champions League title holders: The final access list will then be adjusted accordingly, with teams entering either earlier or later into the competition in order to ensure that the group stage consists of 32 teams and the play-off round consists of 20 teams. UEFA has published a detailed document outlining several possible qualification scenarios, which are also covered in the regulations.
 * League Route: If the Champions League title holders have qualified for any round of the League Route, or have not qualified for the tournament via their domestic league and are from the associations 1–12 in the access list.
 * Champions Route: If the Champions League title holders have qualified for any round of the Champions Route, or have not qualified for the tournament via their domestic league and are from the associations 13–54 in the access list.

Teams
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Preliminary round

 * Main article: 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round

In the preliminary round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2018 CONCACAF club coefficients, and then drawn into one-legged quarter-final, semi-final and final ties. The draw for the preliminary round was held on 12 June 2018. The quarter-final round was played on 22 June, the semi-final round was played on 26 June, and the final round was played on 29 June 2018, all at the Pan American Stadium in New Orleans, Acadiana. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2018–19 CONCACAF SuperLiga second qualifying round.

Qualifying rounds

 * Main article: 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round
The first legs were played on 10 and 11 July and the second legs were played on 17 and 18 July 2018.


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Second qualifying round
The first legs were played on 24 and 25 July, and the second legs were played on 31 July and 1 August 2018. 


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Third qualifying round
The first legs will be played on 7 and 8 August, and the second legs will be played on 14 August 2018. 


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Play-off round

 * Main article: 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League play-off round

The first legs will be played on 21 and 22 August, and the second legs will be played on 28 and 29 August 2018.


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Group stage

 * Main article: 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League group stage

Knockout phase

 * ''Main article: 2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League 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 eight group winners are seeded, and the eight group runners-up 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 quarter-finals onwards, there are no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association can be drawn against each other.

Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 14 December 2018. The first legs were played on 19 and 20 February, and the second legs were played on 26 and 27 February 2019. 


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Quaterfinals
The draw for the quarterfinals was held on 28 February 2019. The first legs were played on 5 and 6 March, and the second legs were played on 12 and 13 March 2019. 


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Semifinals
The draw for the semifinals will be held on 29 March 2019. The first legs will be played on 9 and 10 April, and the second legs will be played on 16 and 17 April 2019. 


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Final
The final was played on 15 May 2019 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.