2019 NSAC American Cup

The NSAC American Cup 2019, is scheduled to be the fourth edition of the NSAC American Cup, the annual international men's championship of the Americas organized by the North and South American Confederation (NSAC). The tournament will be hosted by United Great Lakes. The competition will be held in July 2019.
The finals will involve 16 teams, of which 26 come through qualifying competitions, while the host nation qualified automatically. United Great Lakes is the defending champions.
The final will take place in July at the in .
==Host selection==
Main article: NSAC American Cup 2019 Bids
The bidding procedure to host the 2019 NSAC American began in January 2019. On 6th of January 2019 Texavia announced its interest to host the cup. On 14th of June 2019 United Great Lakes announced its interest to host the tournament.
The voting began on on 20th of June 2019 and it ended three days later. A total of 16 votes were registered. The results were announced on the same day: the United Great Lakes bid won with nine votes.
2019 NSAC bidding
Bidders	Votes
 	
Texavia	7
== Qualification ==
Main article: NSAC American Cup 2019 Qualification
All the members of the North and South American Confederation were able to participate in the qualification rounds. 16 nations qualified to the final tournament. The host nation qualified automatically.
=== Qualified teams ===
The following teams qualified for the tournament:
* Alba
* Amazon Union
* Apollo Union
* Brazil-Argentina
* Buena Vista
* Caribe
* Eastland
* Falklandia	
* Hudson Federation
* Lafayette
* Novanglia
* Relam
* South Quebec
* Texavia
* United Great Lakes
* Western Republic
== Venues ==
United Great Lakes proposed the following host cities: , , , , , , and . One of the 18 stadiums, , would be renovated, and one of the venues, , would be newly constructed.
The will host the finals, while the will host the third-place match.
== Draw ==
The draw was held on 24th of June 2019 at the in . The 16 teams were drawn into 4 groups of 4, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots.
For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on their performance in the qualification rounds. Pot 1 contained the hosts United Great Lakes (who were automatically assigned to position A1).
Pot 1 	Pot 2 	Pot 3 	Pot 4
United Great Lakes Apollo Union South Quebec Amazon Union	Novanglia Western Republic Buena Vista Brazil-Argentina	Lafayette Eastland Texavia Relam	Falklandia Caribe Alba Hudson Federation
== Group stage ==
===Group A===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts 	Qualification
1 	United Great Lakes (H)	3 	2	0	1	4 	3 	6 	Advanced to knockout stage	
2 	Alba 	3 	1	1	1	2 	1 	4 	Advanced to knockout stage	
3 	Buena Vista 	3 	1	1	1	1 	2 	–1	4 	
4 	Relam 	3 	1	0	2	2 	3 	–1	3 	
===Group B===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts 	Qualification
1 	Amazon Union 	3 	2	0	1	5 	2 	6 	Advance to knockout stage	
2 	Western Republic	3 	1	1	1	4 	3 	4 	Advance to knockout stage	
3 	Caribe 	3 	1	1	1	3 	4 	–1	4 	
4 	Eastland 	3 	1	0	2	3 	6 	–3	3 	
===Group C===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts 	Qualification
1 	Texavia 	3 	2	0	1	5 	3 	6 	Advance to knockout stage	
2 	South Quebec 	3 	1	2	0	3 	2 	5 	Advance to knockout stage	
3 	Hudson Federation	3 	1	1	1	3 	3 	0 	4 	
4 	Novanglia 	3 	0	1	2	2 	5 	–3	1 	
===Group D===
Pos	Team 	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts 	Qualification
1 	Apollo Union 	3 	2	1	0	4 	1 	7 	Advance to knockout stage	
2 	Lafayette 	3 	2	0	1	4 	2 	6 	Advance to knockout stage	
3 	Brazil-Argentina	3 	1	1	1	3 	3 	0 	4 	
4 	Falklandia 	3 	0	0	3	0 	5 	–5	0 	
== Knockout stage ==
=== Bracket ===
=== Quarter-finals ===
=== Semi-finals ===
=== Third place play-off ===
=== Final ===
== Awards ==
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament. The Golden Boot (top scorer), Golden Ball (best overall player) and Golden Glove (best goalkeeper) awards were all sponsored by .
Golden Ball 	Silver Ball 	Bronze Ball
 	 	
Golden Boot 	Silver Boot 	Bronze Boot
(5 goals, 1 assists)	(4 goals, 1 assists)	(3 goals, 0 assist)
Golden Glove 	Golden Glove 	Golden Glove
 	 	
Best Young Player 	Best Young Player 	Best Young Player
 	 	
Fair Play Award 	Fair Play Award 	Fair Play Award
Alba 	Alba 	Alba
===Prize money===
Prize money amounts were announced in May 2019.
Position 	Amount (million )	Amount (million )
Position 	Per team 	Total
Champions 	20 	20
Runner-up 	18 	18
Third place 	16 	16
Fourth place 	14 	14
Semi-finals 	12 	24
Quarter-finals	10 	40
Group stage 	8 	64
Total 	Total 	196
== Marketing ==
===Match balls===
The official match ball, Adidas Lacus, was unveiled 19 November 2018. During the tournament, the Adidas Triumpus was introduced as the exclusive match ball for the knockout rounds.
===Mascot===
A public vote was held to decide the mascot for the 2019 NSAC American Cup. The official mascot of the tournament, Buddy, was unveiled as the winner of the public vote on 3 March 2019. He is an in the kit of the United Great Lakes football team.
===Official song===
The competition's official opening song was "" by featuring released on 19 April 2019. Its music video was released on 10 June 2019.
===Sponsorship===
Global sponsors	National sponsors
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