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The 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League was the 55th season of North Americas's premier club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 12th season since it was renamed from the CONCACAF Champions' Cup to the CONCACAF Champions League.

The winners of the 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League qualified as the CONCACAF representative at the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup, and also earn the right to play against the winners of the 2019–20 CONCACAF SuperLiga in the 2020 CONCACAF Super Cup.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was suspended from March until June 2020. The tournament resumed at a the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex near Orlando, Florida, United States to minimize contamination. The remaining rounds of the quarterfinals, semifinals, and final were played behind closed doors. The final was still held at Exploria Stadium in Orlando.

American side, Los Angeles FC won their first Champions League title, besting Mexican outfit, América, in penalty kicks 5–3 after drawing 1–1 in regulation.

Association ranking
For the 2019–20 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 2013–14 to 2017–18.

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.

Round and draw dates
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami, United States, unless stated otherwise).

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.: League position
 * LC: League Cup/League Playoffs winners
 * AP-1: Apertura winner
 * CL-1: Clausura winner
 * AP-2: Apertura runner-up
 * CL-2: Clausura runner-up
 * TH: Title holders
 * SL: 2018–19 CONCACAF SuperLiga winners


 * Notes

Qualifying rounds

 * Main article: 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League qualifying rounds

Preliminary round

 * Main article: 2019–20 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 14 June 2019. The quarter-final round was played on 19 June, the semi-final round was played on 23 June, and the final round was played on 26 June 2018, all at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, United States. The losers of both semi-final and final rounds entered the 2019–20 CONCACAF SuperLiga second qualifying round.

First qualifying round



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Second qualifying round



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Third qualifying round
The first legs were played on 6 and 7 August, and the second legs will be played on 13 and 14 August 2018. 


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Playoff round

 * Main article: 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League playoff round

 The first legs were played on 20 and 21 August, and the second legs were played on 27 and 28 August 2019.


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Group stage

 * Main article: 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League group stage

Knockout phase

 * Main article: 2019–20 CONCACAF Champions League knockout stage

Round of 16
The first legs were played on 18 and 19 February, and the second legs were played 25 and 26 February 2020. 


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Quarterfinals
The first legs will be played on 10 and 11 March, and the second legs were originally to be played on 17 and 18 March 2020, but were postponed to 6 and 7 June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 


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Semifinals
The first legs were to be played on 7 and 8 April, and the second legs were to be played on 14 and 15 April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first legs were delayed to 10 June and the second legs were delayed to 14 June 2020. 


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Final

 * Main article: 2020 CONCACAF Champions League Final

The final was originally schedule to be played on 4 May 2020 at Exploria Stadium in Orlando. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the match was delayed to 21 June 2020.

The "home" team (for administrative purposes) was determined by an additional draw held on 28 February 2020, 12:00 EST (after the quarter-final and semi-final draws).