2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League

The 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League will be the fourth edition of the CONCACAF Nations League an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. The competition will begin with the league phase in September 2024 which will run through March 2025, and the Quarterfinals will take place during the FIFA International Calendar in June 2025, and then the Finals taking place during the qualifying tournament for the CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Nations League also serves as qualification for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

## Format

This will be the second edition of the new CONCACAF Nations League format, which was previously used during the 2023-24 season.

League A and B will feature sixteen teams. Instead of teams being in groups, they will all be in one giant league, using a Swiss- system tournament for each league. In 2023-24, each team played six games (three home and three away), however, in an interview on the 16 November 2023, CONCACAF president stated that ''The six game format has not really been that meaningful and it hasn't been as exciting as we hoped, so we are looking to expand the amount of games for the next edition''. On the 24 November 2023, CONCACAF confirmed that League A and B for 2024-25 will expand to 12 games, and 3 games each window for September, October, November 2024 and March 2025. Each team will play six home games and six away games. After the conformation of the expansion, another interview saw the CONCACAF president state ''The expansion of League A and B's amount of games will be beneficial for everyone, and will make the quarter-finals, promotion and relegation races more exciting.'' The top eight teams in League A will qualify for the Quarterfinals, with the game rankings being 1st vs 8th, 2nd vs 7th, 3rd vs 6th and 4th vs 5th. The lower ranked sides will host the first leg and the higher ranked side will host the second leg. The winners of the Quarterfinals will advance to the CONCACAF Nations League Finals. The Finals will be two semi-finals, a third-place play-off and a final, the semi-final matchups will be determined by league ranking, with the highest ranked team playing the lowest, and the second highest playing the second lowest.

League C will feature nine teams, split into three groups of three teams, playing a double-round robin over September, October and November 2024.

Promotion and relegation will continue for the 2024–25 season, with the bottom four teams in League A getting relegated to League B, and the top four in League B getting promoted to League A, and bottom four teams in League B getting relegated to League C. League C's group winners and best ranked runner up will all be promoted to League B.

## Entrants

All of CONCACAF's 41 member associations are expected to enter in the competition. Teams will be divided into leagues based on their results of the 2023–24 season. Thirteenth, fourteenth,fifteenth and sixteenth in League A and B from the 2023-24 season will move down a league while first, second, third and fourth in League B will move up a league and first in each group in League C and the best ranked runner up in League C will move up a league. The remaining teams will stay in their respective leagues.

Ranking is determined off of their 2023-24 league ranking.

## Schedule

Below is the schedule of the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League.

## League A

*Main Article: 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League A*

### Quarter-finals

The first and second legs will be played in June 2025. The winners will advance to the Nations League Finals.

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## League B

*Main Article: 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League B*

## League C

*Main Article: 2024-25 CONCACAF Nations League C*

## References

1. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: Future Editions
2. ↑ 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup: Qualification confirmed
3. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: Revamped format for 2023/24 and 2024/25: All you need to know
4. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: League A and B changes
5. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: 2024-25 edition will have League A and B teams playing 12 games instead of 6
6. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: Expansion of games in League A and B expected to make it ''more exciting'' says CONCACAF
7. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League Finals: How the matchups are determined
8. ↑ CNL: How the new format affects the finals
9. ↑ CNL: League C decrease and format
10. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: Promotion and Relegation for 2023/24 and 2024/25
11. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: Schedule
12. ↑ CNL: Quarterfinals: What you need to know about the new round