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CONCACAF Champions Cup 2026 bracket, schedule, results, format explained as Messi aims for continental title
The Round of 16 features 10 MLS and Liga MX teams competing in two-legged ties with seeded byes; Inter Miami enters as 2025 MLS Cup champions seeking continental success.
- The 2026 CONCACAF Champions Cup will determine North America's club champion, with matchups set by the draw on December 9, 2025, and the winner qualifying for the FIFA Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.
- Under the format, five seeded teams receive byes into the Round of 16 while the remaining 22 participants ranked by CONCACAF coefficient start in Round One.
- Opening-Round action saw lopsided scores, including FC Cincinnati's 9-0 win over O&M and Philadelphia Union's 7-0 victory over Defence Force, while LAFC dominated Real España with 6-1 and 1-0 results.
- This week, Round of 16 fixtures include Philadelphia Union hosting Club América at Subaru Park on Tuesday, with the second leg in Mexico City on March 18, 2026.
- Hosting for the final depends on the higher-performing side via a de facto points table awarding three points per win, with aggregate scoring, away goals, extra time and penalties used in earlier rounds.
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Club America arrived in the region after defeating Queretaro in Liga MX, ending their losing streak in the domestic tournament.
By Federico Leiva, CNN en Español. The most important club competition in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean is ready to begin its Round of 16. Unlike other continental tournaments such as the Champions League in Europe or the Copa Libertadores in South America, the Concacaf Champions Cup did not have a group stage, repeating the model of recent years with two-legged knockout matches leading up to the final. Twenty-seven teams qua…
Of the sixteen teams that will play the eighth finals of the Concacaf Champions Cup, there is only one from Central America and one from the Caribbean, along with powerful clubs of the Major League Soccer (MLS) and Mexico football.Liga Deportiva Alajuelense becomes the only Central American team currently in competition in the Concachampions.The red picture jumped in the first round, in which the other clubs of the Central American isthmus that …
CONCACAF Champions Cup 2026 bracket, schedule, results, format explained as Messi aims for continental title
This competition has been traditionally dominated by Liga MX clubs, but Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are hoping to buck that trend on the heels of winning the club's first-ever MLS Cup title.
Unless the goalkeeper of America, Luis Ángel Malagon, becomes official, he will lose the 2026 Football Cup after an injury he suffered to the left leg in the first time of the first round of the eighth-final match of the Concacaf Champions Cup against the Philadelphia Union. [...] The article Without becoming official, Luis Malagon lost the Football Cup first appeared in: 88.9 News.
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