User:Rylesbourne/sandbox/2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League

The 2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League is the 59th season of North America's premier club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 16th season since it was renamed from the Champions Cup to the CONCACAF Champions League.

The final will be played at Lower.com Field in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The winners of the 2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League will automatically qualify for the 2024–25 CONCACAF Champions League group stage, earn the right to play against the winners of the 2023–24 CONCACAF SuperLiga in the 2024 CONCACAF Super Cup, and also enter the 32-team 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the United States.

UANL are the defending champions.

Association team allocation
A total of 78 teams from 53 of the 55 UEFA member associations are set to participate in the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League (the exceptions being Liechtenstein, which does not organise a domestic league and Russia). The association ranking based on the UEFA association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
 * Associations 1–4 each have four teams qualify.
 * Associations 5–6 each have three teams qualify.
 * Associations 7–15 (except Russia) each have two teams qualify.
 * Associations 16–55 (except Liechtenstein) each have one team qualify.
 * The winners of the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League and 2022–23 UEFA Europa League are each given an additional entry if they do not qualify for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League through their domestic league.

Association ranking
For the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2022 UEFA association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2017–18 to 2021–22. The team allocation reflects Russia's ongoing suspension from UEFA competitions.

Apart from the allocation based on the association coefficients, associations may have additional teams (a maximum of 5 per association) participating in the Champions League, as noted below:
 * (UEL) – Additional berth for UEFA Europa League title holders

Distribution
The following is the default access list for the 2023–24 season.

Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
 * TH: Champions League title holders
 * SL: SuperLiga title holders
 * 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.: League positions of the previous season
 * PW: League play-offs winner
 * Ap-C: Apertura champion
 * Ap-RU: Apertura runner-up
 * Cl-C: Clausura champion
 * Cl-RU: Clausura runner-up
 * LC: League Cup champion

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

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays apart from the preliminary round final and the final.

Qualifying rounds

 * ''Main article: 2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League qualifying rounds

First qualifying round
The draw for the first qualifying round was held on 20 June 2023. The first legs were played on 11 and 12 July, and the second legs were played on 18 and 19 July 2023.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions Path second qualifying round. 13 of the 15 losers were transferred to the Confederations League Champions Path second qualifying round and 2 losers received a bye and were transferred to the Confederations Champions Path third qualifying round.


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Second qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 21 June 2023. The first legs were played on 25 and 26 July, and the second legs were played on 1 and 2 August 2023.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions Path third qualifying round.


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Third qualifying round
The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 24 July 2023. The first legs were played on 8 and 9 August, and the second legs were played on 14 and 15 August 2023.

The winners of the ties advanced to the Champions or League Path play-off round.


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Play-off round
The first legs were played on 22 and 23 August, and the second legs were played on 29 and 30 August 2023.

The winners of the ties advanced to the group stage. The losers were transferred to the SuperLiga group stage.


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Group stage

 * Main page: 2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League group stage

The group stage draw for the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League took place at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, on 31 August at 18:00 CEST. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. For the draw, the teams were seeded into four pots, each of eight teams, based on the following principles:
 * Pot 1 contained the Champions League and Europa League title holders, and the champions of the top six associations based on their 2021–22 UEFA association coefficients. Because Manchester City (the champions of the 2022–23 Premier League) won the 2022–23 UEFA Champions League, the champions of Association 7 (Netherlands) Feyenoord entered into Pot 1.
 * Pots 2, 3 and 4 contained the remaining qualified teams, with their pot being determined by UEFA club coefficient (CC).

Teams from the same association could not be drawn into the same group.

Atlético Ottawa, Austin FC, and Inter Miami made their debut appearances in the group stage.

A total of 17 national associations were represented in the group stage.

Knockout phase

 * Main article: 2023–24 CONCACAF Champions League knockout phase

Bracket


Round of 16

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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