User:Bmf 051/sandbox/2017–18 CONCACAF Champions League
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The CONCACAF Champions League is an annual continental club football competition. The following is a proposed redesign for the current tournament, based on the UEFA Champions League. It is unlikely that such a design would work in reality, because many of the Caribbean Football Union associations could not be relied upon to provide teams on a regular basis (see the low participation for some nations in CFU Club Championship). Also, many associations do not have stadiums that meet FIFA and CONCACAF requirements for hosting matches in a tournament such as this. But this is just an idea.
The tournament would consist of a qualification round and a play-off round, with 10 surviving teams entering the group stage, joining 22 teams that qualify automatically. The 32 teams are drawn into eight groups of four teams and play each other in a double round-robin system. The eight group winners and eight runners-up proceed to the knockout phase that culminates with the two-legged final.
Pachuca were the defending champions, but they were eliminated in the round of 16 by the Seattle Sounders on away goals.
Herediano won the competition, defeating América 5–2 on aggregate in the final for their third championship in four years.