User:Quidster4040/sandbox/2019–20 CONCACAF SuperLiga group stage

The 2019–20 CONCACAF SuperLiga group stage will begin on 19 September and end on 12 December 2019. A total of 48 teams compete in the group stage to decide 24 of the 32 places in the knockout phase of the 2019–20 CONCACAF SuperLiga.

Draw
The draw for the group stage was held on 30 August 2019, 13:00 EST, at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Las Vegas.

The 48 teams are drawn into twelve groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other. For the draw, the teams are seeded into four pots based on their 2019 CONCACAF club coefficients.

Moreover, for associations with two or more teams, teams are paired in order to split them into two sets of six groups (A–F, G–L) for maximum television coverage. The following pairings were announced by CONCACAF after the group stage teams were confirmed:


 * El Salvador: Alianza and Santa Tecla
 * Guatemala: Coban Imperial and Malacateco
 * Honduras: Platense and Real España
 * Jamaica: Mount Pleasant and Waterhouse
 * Mexico: Santos Laguna and Juárez
 * Nicaragua: Real Estelí and Real Madriz
 * Panama: Árabe Unido and Independiente
 * Puerto Rico: Bayamón and Metropolitan FA
 * Quebec: Blainville and Lanaudière
 * Suriname: Inter Moengotapoe and Walking Boyz Company
 * Trinidad and Tobago: Central and North East Stars
 * United States: Houston Dynamo and FC Dallas

Note: Positions for scheduling do not use the seeding pots, e.g. Team 1 is not necessarily the team from Pot 1 in the draw.

There are scheduling restrictions: for example, teams from the same city (e.g. Lazio and Roma) in general are not scheduled to play at home on the same matchday (to avoid them playing at home on the same day, due to logistics and crowd control), and teams from "winter countries" (e.g. Canada) are not scheduled to play at home on the last matchday (due to cold weather).

Teams
Below are the participating teams (with their 2019 CONCACAF club coefficients), grouped by their seeding pot. They include:
 * 17 teams which enter in the group stage
 * 21 winners of the play-off round (8 from Champions Path, 13 from Main Path)
 * 6 losers of the Champions League play-off round (4 from Champions Path, 2 from League Path)
 * 4 League Path losers of the Champions League third qualifying round


 * Notes

Format
In each group, teams play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 32, where they are joined by the eight third-placed teams of the Champions League group stage.

Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:
 * 1) Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 2) Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 3) Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 4) Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
 * 5) If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
 * 6) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 7) Goals scored in all group matches;
 * 8) Away goals scored in all group matches;
 * 9) Wins in all group matches;
 * 10) Away wins in all group matches;
 * 11) Disciplinary points (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points);
 * 12) UEFA club coefficient.

Groups
The matchdays are 19 September, 3 October, 24 October, 7 November, 28 November, and 12 December 2019.

Times are EST/EDT, as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).