The Draw Will Take Place on Dec. 9
The CONCACAF Champions League draw will determine the first-round matchups. This elite club competition which crowns the champion in North, Central America and the Caribbean is the sole path to the FIFA Club World Cup.
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) announced that the 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League draw will take place at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana in Mexico City on Dec. 9.
The 16 clubs that have qualified for the 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League will find out their first-round matchups during the draw. Teams that have qualified are as follows (in alphabetical order by country): Montreal Impact (CAN), AD San Carlos (CRC), Deportivo Saprissa (CRC), Alianza FC (SLV), Comunicaciones FC (GUA), CD Olimpia (HON), FC Motagua (HON), Portmore United FC (JAM), Club America (MEX), Club Leon (MEX), Cruz Azul FC (MEX), Tigres UANL (MEX), Atlanta United FC (USA), Los Angeles FC (USA), New York City FC (USA) and Seattle Sounders FC (USA).
Fans in the U.S will be able to watch the draw on TUDN. Canadian fans will be able to watch on TSN.
The official draw will be executed using a double-blind system and four pots. Pots 1 and 2 will contain the names of the 16 participating clubs, while Pots A and B will contain the sixteen possible bracket positions for the first round of the competition.
Based on the 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League Ranking, which ranks clubs based on the performance of the countries over the last five seasons of play in the competition, the clubs will be distributed evenly in two pots as follows (in alphabetical order by country):
Pot 1: Montreal Impact (CAN), Club America (MEX), Cruz Azul FC (MEX), Tigres UANL (MEX), Atlanta United FC (USA), Los Angeles FC (USA), New York City FC (USA) and Seattle Sounders FC (USA).
Pot 2: AD San Carlos (CRC), Deportivo Saprissa (CRC), Alianza FC (SLV), Comunicaciones FC (GUA), CD Olimpia (HON), FC Motagua (HON), Portmore United FC (JAM) and Club Leon (MEX).
More information on the 2020 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League Ranking is available here.
The draw will begin by randomly selecting a club from Pot 1, followed by a bracket position from Pot A. The process will continue until each of the teams from Pot 1 has been confirmed. Then clubs will be drawn from Pot 2 using the same procedure for the bracket positions with Pot B.
At the end of the draw, each round of 16 pairings will feature one team from each pot. Additionally, clubs from the same country will not face each other in the round of 16.
For the first round of competition, clubs drawn from Pot 1 will host the return matches, while the winners of matchups 1, 3, 5 and 7 will host the return leg quarterfinals.
For the semifinals and finals, the competition bracket will determine the matchups and the clubs will be ranked as per the competition regulations to determine which clubs will host the return leg matches.
