The 2014–15 CONCACAF SuperLiga was a proposed annual continental club football competition. The tournament would be a secondary tournament to an expanded version of the CONCACAF Champions League. It would have served the same purpose as the UEFA Europa 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 have consisted of a qualification round and a play-off round, with 40 surviving teams entering the group stage, joining 24 teams that qualified automatically and 16 losers from the play-off round of the CONCACAF Champions League. The 80 teams were drawn into twenty groups of four teams and played each other in a double round-robin system. The twenty group winners and twenty runners-up proceeded to the knockout phase, joined at different rounds by the third and fourth-placed teams group stage of the Champions League, ultimately culminating with the two-legged final.
The number of teams that each association enters into the CONCACAF SuperLiga is based upon the CONCACAF country coefficients, with better entrance rounds being offered to the more successful nations. Each association has a standard number of 3 berths, for a total of 117 entrants. In addition, the 44 teams entered into the CONCACAF Champions League that fail to qualify for the knockout stage of that tournament will enter at various stages, for a total of 161 teams.
Berths are awarded to the teams with the best finish in each association that failed to qualify for the CONCACAF Champions League.
Each association receives 3 berths to the CONCACAF SuperLiga, and the stage in which each team enters the tournament is determined using CONCACAF country coefficients. These coefficients take into account their performance in the CONCACAF Champions League from 2009–10 to 2013–14. Associations with the same coefficient have been ranked based on their performance in past CFU Club Championships (Belize was automatically ranked ahead of all Caribbean teams that had the same coefficient as them).
In the qualifying round and the play-off round, teams were divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their CONCACAF club coefficients, and then were drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams with the same club coefficient were ranked based on their league's ranking, with ranking within their league serving as the third tie-breaker. Teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
The draw for the first and second qualifying rounds was held on 18 July 2014. The first legs were played on 31 July, and the second legs were played on 7 August 2014.
A total of 80 teams play in the group stage. 24 teams will enter in this round, along with the 40 winners of the qualifying round and the 16 non-qualifiers from the CONCACAF Champions League play-off round.
The draw for the group stage was held on 29 August 2014. The 80 teams were allocated into four pots based on their club coefficients. They were drawn into twenty groups of four, with the restriction that teams from the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In each group, teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The matchdays will be 18 September, 2 October, 23 October, 6 November, 27 November, and 11 December 2014. The group winners and runners-up will advance to the round of 48, where they will be joined by the eight fourth-placed teams of the 2014–15 CONCACAF Champions League group stage.
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, 0 points for a loss). If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings:
higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question;
superior goal difference from the group matches played among the teams in question;
higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question;
If, after applying criteria 1 to 4 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 4 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 6 to 8 apply;
superior goal difference from all group matches played;
higher number of goals scored from all group matches played;
higher number of coefficient points accumulated by the club in question, as well as its association, over the previous five seasons (ties on coefficient points are then broken in the same manner as they are for seeding - league rank, then rank within league)
Key to colours in group tables
Group winners and runners-up advance to the round of 48
48 teams began the knockout phase: the 40 group winners and group runner-ups from the group stage, and the 8 fourth-placed teams from the CONCACAF Champions League group stage. The 24 winners advanced to the round of 32, joining the 8 third-placed teams from the Champions League group stage.
Teams will play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis. The mechanism of the draws for each round is as follows:
In the draw for the round of 48, the twenty group winners and the four fourth-placed teams from the Champions League group stage with the better group records were seeded, and the twenty group runners-up and the other four fourth-placed teams from the Champions League group stage were unseeded. The seeded teams were drawn against the unseeded teams, with the seeded teams hosting the second leg. Teams from the same group or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the round of 32, there were no seedings, but teams from the same group (in either the CONCACAF Champions League or the CONCACAF SuperLiga group stages) or the same association could not be drawn against each other.
In the draws for the round of 16 onwards, there were no seedings, and teams from the same group or the same association could be drawn against each other.
If any association had sent two teams to the semifinals, those teams would have automatically been paired with each other and the draw would have only been used to determine which team hosted the second leg of each semi-final match-up.
The draw for the round of 48 was held on 15 December 2014. The first legs were played on 22 January, and the second legs were played on 5 February 2015.
The draw for the round of 32 was held on 6 February 2015. The first legs were played on 19 February, and the second legs were played on 26 February 2015.
The draw for the quarter-finals was held on 20 March 2015. The first legs will be played on 16 April, and the second legs were played on 23 April 2015.
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