The 2020 CONCACAF Champions League was the 55th edition of the premier football club competition. UANL won the tournament and qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. The tournament was suspended on 12 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 November 2020 it was announced that the tournament would resume at a centralized location in the United States.
About 2020 CONCACAF Champions League in brief
The 2020 CONCACAF Champions League was the 55th edition of the premier football club competition. UANL won the tournament and qualified for the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar. The tournament was suspended on 12 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 2 November 2020 it was announced that the tournament would resume at a centralized location in the United States from 15 to 22 December 2020. On 10 November, Exploria Stadium in Orlando, Florida was designated as the host for the remainder of the tournament, which consisted of seven matches, including the quarter-finals, semi-final, and final. A total of 16 teams participated in the tournament. Starting from this season, only 10 of the 16 teams directly qualified, with the other six berths allocated through the CONCACaf League, where previously only the winners would have qualified. The nine direct berths for the North American Football Union were allocated as follows: four berths each for Mexico and the U.S., and one berth for Canada. For Mexico, the champions and runners-up of the Liga MX Apertura and Clausura Liguilla tournaments qualified.
If there was any team which were finalists of both tournaments, the vacated berth was reallocated using a formula, based on regular season records, that ensured that two teams qualified via each tournament. For Canada, the champions of the 2019 Canadian Championship, its domestic cup competition which awards the Voyageurs Cup, qualified. As all but four teams from Central America were from the Caribbean, between two and six teams from the Central America could qualify for the CONCacAF League. Since 2018, the CONCAF Caribbean Club Championship was open to teams from their respective professional leagues, where they could qualify through the first-tier Caribbean club tournament or the second-tier subcontinental Caribbean Club Shield. Another three teams from. the Caribbean qualified from the non-professional Caribbean League, which was open. to teams in their respective non- professional leagues.
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