League of Nations CONCACAF ( eng. CONCACAF Nations League ) - the future international football tournament among the teams of North and Central America and the Caribbean, which will be held under the leadership of CONCACAF . It is first planned for 2018 in terms corresponding to the end of the 2018 World Cup . In the tournament, the principles of raising and lowering in the class will apply. The frequency of the tournament is once every 2 years, the winner is determined by odd years. The CONCACAF League of Nations is designed to replace friendly matches of national teams, as well as provide all the teams in the region with a stable number of games, while at the moment some of them can enter the field a couple of times a year or less [1] .
| CONCACAF Nations League | |
|---|---|
| CONCACAF Nations League | |
| Based | 2018 |
| Region | CONCACAF |
| Number of participants | 40 |
| Site | concacafnationsleague.com |
Format
The tournament will bring together all 40 countries that are members of CONCACAF, with the exception of Guatemala, whose membership in FIFA is currently suspended.
Four winners of each of the League A groups will reach the final stage, where they will compete for the championship, and the four worst teams will go to League B. A similar exchange is provided between all leagues.
League A will include 6 teams that participated in the decisive 5th round of the 2018 World Cup qualifying tournament: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, USA and Trinidad and Tobago.
The remaining representatives of the strongest division, as well as the composition of the other two leagues will be determined by the results of the qualifying tournament, in which 34 national teams will take part.
All of them will play 4 matches from September 2018 to March 2019 in the FIFA international dates allotted for the games of national teams, based on their results, a common summary table for the distribution by league will be compiled.
The top ten national teams of qualifications will also win vouchers for the CONCACAF-2019 Golden Cup, the participants of which are already six of the above teams [2] .
Note
- ↑ CONCACAF Nations League to Kickoff this September with Qualifiers (English) (6 March 2018). Date of treatment June 8, 2018.
- ↑ CONCACAF created the League of Nations according to the European type . SPORTARENA.com (March 8, 2018). Date of treatment June 8, 2018.