CONCACAF Nations League

This article is about the CONCACAF competition. For other uses, see Nations League (disambiguation).

This article is about CONCACAF's Nations League competition. For the CONCACAF League competition, see CONCACAF League. For the CONCACAF Champions League competition, see CONCACAF Champions League.

CONCACAF Nations League

CONCACAF Nations League.svg
Founded	2018 (2018)
Region	North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Number of teams	41
Qualifier for	CONCACAF Gold Cup
Website	Official website
2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League

The CONCACAF Nations League is an international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The tournament takes place on dates allocated for international friendlies on the FIFA International Match Calendar. A one-time qualifying tournament took place from September 2018 to March 2019 and the inaugural tournament began in September 2019.

History and format

The tournament was announced in November 2017. It is divided into three tiered leagues, A, B, and C, of four groups each, with promotion and relegation between the leagues based on finishing position within groups. The group-winners of League A enter a four-team knockout competition to be crowned champion, while the group-winners of Leagues B and C are promoted to the next tier. In Leagues A and B, the four teams at the bottom of the groups are relegated to the next-lower tier. The tournament will also determine which national teams qualify for the next edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The format proposals were first formally investigated at the XXXII CONCACAF Ordinary Congress in Oranjestad, Aruba on 8 April 2017 and confirmed by CONCACAF on 16 November 2017. CONCACAF President Victor Montagliani stated that the purpose of the competition is to have a regular schedule of international fixtures for CONCACAF's national teams, noting that some teams play fewer than 10 games in a four-year period and needed more competitive games to assist the sport's development in those nations.

Results of Nations League final championships

Season	Host		Final				Third place play-off
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place
2019–20 Details	TBD

Team performances by season

• 1st – Champion
• 2nd – Runner-up
• 3rd – Third place
• 4th – Fourth place
• – Promoted
• – No movement
• – Relegated
• Q – Qualified for upcoming CONCACAF Nations League Final Championship
•    – Hosts of CONCACAF Nations League Final Championship
• FIFA ranking updated 24 October 2019

–Countries with FIFA ranking listed as N/A are not FIFA members

Team	FIFA Ranking	2019–20		Next edition
		LG	F/P/R	LG	F/P/R
Anguilla	209	C		C
Antigua and Barbuda	127	B		B
Aruba	195	B		C
Bahamas	201	C		B
Barbados	160	C		B
Belize	168	B		B
Bermuda	168	A		B
Bonaire	N/A	C		C
British Virgin Islands	208	C		C
Canada	69	A		A
Cayman Islands	193	C		C
Costa Rica	47	A	Q	A
Cuba	179	A		B
Curaçao	76	A		A
Dominica	187	B		C
Dominican Republic	153	B		B
El Salvador	73	B		A
French Guiana	N/A	B		B
Grenada	160	B		A
Guadeloupe	N/A	C		B
Guatemala	131	C		B
Guyana	174	B		B
Haiti	88	A		B
Honduras	63	A	Q	A
Jamaica	45	B		A
Martinique	N/A	A		A
Mexico	11	A	Q	A
Montserrat	189	B		B
Nicaragua	137	B		B
Panama	80	A		A
Puerto Rico	178	C		C
Saint Kitts and Nevis	138	B		C
Saint Lucia	177	B		C
Template:Country data SMN	N/A	C		C
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	168	B		B
Template:Country data SMA	N/A	C		C
Suriname	150	B		A
Trinidad and Tobago	102	A		B
Turks and Caicos Islands	204	C		C
United States	23	A	Q	A
U.S. Virgin Islands	206	C		C

LG - league

F/P/R - final championship qualification / promotion / relegation

See also

• UEFA Nations League, a similar biennial competition for nations in the UEFA confederation

External links

• Official website