# 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup final

The 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup final was the final match of the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup, the 59th season of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean's premier club soccer tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was played at Estadio Hidalgo in Pachuca, Mexico, on 1 June 2024.
The final was a single match contested by Pachuca of Liga MX and the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Pachuca hosted the match due to their better record during the competition's earlier stages. The final was originally scheduled to take place on 2 June 2024. However, CONCACAF announced that the date would move if a Mexican team hosts the final due to the 2024 Mexican general election taking place that day. After determining that Pachuca was the host, the date was moved up one day to 1 June.

## Background
### Previous finals

| Team | Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners) |
| Pachuca | 5 (2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2017) |
| Columbus Crew | 0 (debut) |

## Venue

This was the fifth CONCACAF Champions Cup final to take place at Estadio Hidalgo in Pachuca, Mexico, having previously been held in 2007, 2008, 2010, and 2017.

### Host selection

In the final (winners of SF1 vs. winners of SF2), the finalist which had the better performances in previous rounds (excluding round one), Pachuca, hosted the single-leg match.

#### Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final |
| 1 | Pachuca (H) | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 3 | +13 | 14 | Host |
| 2 | Columbus Crew | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 12 | |
Due to 2024 Mexican general election taking place that day, CONCACAF announced that if a Mexican team were to host the final, CONCACAF would move the match and/or venue to another date.

## Road to the final
### Summary of results

    Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: Home; A: Away).
| Pachuca | Pachuca | Pachuca | Pachuca | Round | Columbus Crew | Columbus Crew | Columbus Crew | Columbus Crew |
| Opponent | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | 1st leg | 2nd leg | | Opponent | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye | Round one | Bye | Bye | Bye | Bye |
| Philadelphia Union | 6–0 | 0–0 (A) | 6–0 (H) | Round of 16 | Houston Dynamo | 2–1 | 1–0 (A) | 1–1 (H) |
| Herediano | 7–1 | 5–0 (A) | 2–1 (H) | Quarterfinals | UANL | 2–2 (4–3 p) | 1–1 (H) | 1–1 (4–3 p) (A) |
| América | 3–2 | 1–1 (A) | 2–1 (H) | Semifinals | Monterrey | 5–2 | 2–1 (H) | 3–1 (A) |

## Format

While the rest of the tournament was played as a home-and-away two-legged match pairing, the final was a single-leg match where the winner would be crowned the champion. The "home" team for the match was the team with the better performance in the round of 16 and beyond.

## Match
### Details

* Match rules
* 90 minutes
* 30 minutes of extra time if necessary
* Penalty shoot-out if scores still level
* Twelve named substitutes
* Maximum of five substitutions, with a sixth allowed in extra time

## Post-match

After the match, Columbus head coach Wilfried Nancy reported that members of the team and coaching staff had contracted a stomach illness—believed to be food poisoning—prior to the match while in Pachuca.