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 The Concacaf Nations League was founded in 2018, and is made up of 41 teams. This tournament is an international competition for senior men’s national teams from the member associations of Concacaf.

This competition has a format divided into three tiers of leagues. A, B and C, each having four groups within them.

The winners of each of the four groups in League A enter a four team knockout competition to be crowned the champion of the Nations League.

The winners of the four groups in Leagues B and C gain promotion to the next league e.g. B moves to A.

The bottom members of each group in Leagues A and B are relegated to the tier below, e.g. B moves down to C.

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 Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, and it began back in 1996 after the USA hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Originally represented by 10 teams, MLS has witnessed incredible growth, welcoming 12 new clubs to the league since 2015. 

  With players from 79 countries across six continents represented on 2024 rosters, Major League Soccer features the most geographically diverse and youthful player pool of any men’s professional league across North America. 

 Per a Sportico report in January 2025, MLS clubs were valued at an average of $721 million, which is up 31% from Sportico’s first valuations in 2021. In 2025, five different MLS clubs were valued at more than $1 billion. 

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 The CONCACAF Champions League, known officially as the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League for sponsorship reasons, is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONCACAF. The tournament currently uses a knockout format; it had a group stage prior to the 2018 competition. Unlike its European and South American counterparts, the winner of the CONCACAF Champions League does not automatically qualify for the following season’s competition. 

  Before Concacaf's official founding on September 18, 1961, in Mexico City, following the merger of the Central American and Caribbean Football Confederation (CCCF) and the North American Football Confederation (NAFC), there was already a club tournament. This competition invited national champions to participate between 1959 and 1961.  

 In 1959, the inaugural edition featured four teams: CD Olimpia (Honduras), CD Guadalajara (Mexico), LD Alajuelense (Costa Rica), and CD FAS (El Salvador). The tournament followed a round-robin format with home-and-away matches. CD Olimpia emerged victorious, finishing ahead of CD Guadalajara thanks to a superior goal difference (+2). 

 For the second edition in 1961, Jong Holland from the Netherlands Antilles (now Curaçao) joined the competition. Only LD Alajuelense and CD Olimpia returned from the first tournament, while newcomers included CD Águila (El Salvador) and Comunicaciones FC (Guatemala). Unlike the 1959 all-play-all format, the 1961 tournament was divided into regional groups, culminating in LD Alajuelense defeating Jong Colombia in the final with a resounding 7-1 aggregate score. 

The CONCACAF Champions League was founded in 1962, 60 years ago. The tournament has been rebranded in 2008. When it was first organized in 1962, the competition was called the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The title has been won by 28 clubs, 13 of which have won the title more than once. Mexican clubs have accumulated the highest number of victories, with 36 titles in total. The second most successful league has been Costa Rica’s Primera División, with six titles in total. Mexican side Club América are the most successful club in the competition’s history, with seven titles, followed by fellow Mexican side Cruz Azul with six titles. The most successful non-Mexican club is Saprissa of Costa Rica, with three titles. The only four teams to successfully defend the trophy are all Mexican: América, Cruz Azul, Pachuca and Monterrey. 

 The tournament employs a 16-team knockout format and is played between February and May. Ten teams qualify automatically based on domestic performance, along with the top six teams (champion, runner-up, two losing semi-finalists, and two best losing quarter-finalists) of the CONCACAF League, played at the end of the previous calendar year. Each round of competition consists of a two-leg home-and-away series with the winner determined by aggregate goals over both legs. If aggregate goals are equal, the away goals rule is applied. If away goals are also equal, the game is decided by an immediate penalty shoot-out; there are no overtime periods. 

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Source Information: https://www.concacaf.com/champions-cup/news/the-champions-cup-history-1962-1980/

 The CONCACAF Men's U17 Championship is a biennial cup competition held for under-17 national teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean region. This tournament began in 1983, with the USA beating Trinidad and Tobago to win the inaugural title. The competition acts as the region’s qualification tournament for the FIFA U-17 World Cup, with the top four teams from the CONCACAF U17 Championship earning tickets to the FIFA event. 

Source Information: https://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/international/concacaf-u17-championship/

The CONCACAF Women’s U17 Championship is a cup competition held for under-17 women’s national teams from North America, Central America, and the Caribbean region. This tournament, which has been held biennially, for the most part, began in 2008, with the USA beating Costa Rica to win the inaugural title. This competition acts as the region’s qualification tournament for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, with the top three teams from the CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship (the champions, runners-up, and third-placed side) earning tickets to the FIFA event. 

Source Information: https://www.livesoccertv.com/competitions/international/concacaf-womens-u17-championship/

 The USL Championship was formed when two existing professional leagues were combined into a single league property before the 2011 season. The league was designed to help ensure the long-term stability of professional soccer in North America and featured 12 teams in a pair of six-team divisions during its initial campaign. Among the league’s founding members were five longtime USL clubs with more than 100 years of operation among them, including the Charleston Battery, Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC and the Richmond Kickers. 

 Over the course time, the sophisticated business model that provides the foundation for the USL has allowed the league to grow into the largest professional soccer league in North America, with 36 current members that include world-class ownership groups. The league’s current club owners also hold stakes in teams that compete in the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, Minor League Baseball and the NBA G-League. In January of 2017, after a thorough application review process, the U.S. Soccer Federation granted the USL Division II status beginning in the 2017 season, recognizing the significant investment and high level of operating excellence within the USL and its member clubs. 

  Through the league's headquarters in Tampa, Florida, the clubs are provided with unparalleled support with a growing team of more than 100 professionals across 20 departments, ranging from operations to marketing, communications and sponsorship. 

 The USL Championship has a national media partnership with both ESPN and CBS platforms which sees all league matches broadcast on digital and linear channels. The league also operates USL Productions, which includes a state-of-the-art facility that produced and distributed more than 500 league matches and more than 1,000 hours of original content to national partners, local affiliates and international markets throughout the 2024 season. 

Source Information: https://www.uslsoccer.com/usl-championship

 The USL W League is a leader in pre-professional soccer in North America, developing the next generation of women's talent both on and off the field. The USL W League strives to use women’s soccer as a force for societal good by creating a national platform to increase opportunity, gender equity, and career development. The League and its member clubs are committed to investing in women’s soccer – through not only financial resources but also with time, energy, and attention – and are united in our mission to grow the women’s game. 

Source Information: https://www.uslwleague.com/about