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The 2022–23 CONCACAF Confederations League was the third season of the CONCACAF Confederations League, a tertiary competition for teams that do not qualify for the SuperLiga or the Champions League.

Bethlehem Soccer Stadium in Upper Bethlehem, U.S. Virgin Islands hosted the final.

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 and 21:00 EST/EDT.

As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and will conclude in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.

The draws for the qualifying round started at 12:00 CEST/CET and were held at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City, United States. The group stage draw took place in Nashville, United States at the Music City Center. After a three-year gap of a truncated qualification due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, the qualification rounds returned to a two-legged series, although the away goals rule was abolished.

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * CW: Domestic cup winners
 * 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position of the previous season
 * LC: League cup winners
 * RW: Regular season winners
 * PW: End-of-season SuperLiga Conference League play-offs winners
 * CCL: Transferred from the Champions League
 * Q1: Losers from the first qualifying round
 * PR: Losers from the preliminary round (F: final; SF: semi-finals)
 * CSL: Transferred from the SuperLiga
 * GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
 * PO: Losers from the play-off round
 * CH/MP Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round (Champions/Main Path)
 * Abd-: League positions of abandoned season due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America as determined by the national association; all teams are subject to approval by CONCACAF as per the guidelines for entry to CONCACAF competitions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 * Lic.: Club's domestic competition was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and was granted a license by CONCACAF to participate in the competition.

The second qualifying round, third qualifying round and play-off round are divided into Champions Path (CH) and Main Path (MP).

CC: 2021 UEFA club coefficients.


 * Notes

Qualifying rounds

 * ''Main article: 2022–23 CONCACAF Confederations League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round
Due to travel logistics, Greenlandic clubs were either paired against each other or with a club from Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Advancing clubs would automatically be paired with either Saint Pierre and Miquelon or Quebec clubs.


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Second qualifying round
To minimize travel and to allow for competitive fixtures, clubs from the same countries played against each other.


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 * +Main Path


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Third qualifying round
To minimize travel and to allow for competitive fixtures, clubs from the same countries played against each other.


 * +Champions Path


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 * +Main Path


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Play-off round

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 * +Main Path


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Group stage

 * ''Main article: 2022–23 CONCACAF Confederations League group stage