2023-24 CONCACAF Nations League

The **2023–24 CONCACAF Nations League** is the third season of the CONCACAF Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. The group stage is being held in September, October and November 2023, and the Nations League Finals are scheduled for 21 to 24 March 2024 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Californa.

The competition will see a format change, with League A now featuring sixteen teams in one league of a Swiss system, followed by a quarter-final round. The Nations League also serves as qualification for CONCACAF teams to the 2024 Copa America in the United States.

Canada are the two-time defending champions.

## Format

On 28 February 2023, CONCACAF announced a format change for the 2023–24 season of the CONCACAF Nations League. As a result, no teams were relegated from the 2022-23 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 play six games (three home and three away. The top eight teams in League A will qualify for the new quarter-final round, 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 2023.

Promotion and relegation will continue for the 2023–24 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.

### Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.4):

1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss);
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;

If two or more teams still tied based on the above criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

1. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
2. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
3. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
4. Number of away goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question (if the tie was only between two teams);
5. Lowest number of disciplinary points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
	* Yellow card: 1 points;
	* Indirect red card (second yellow card): 3 points;
	* Direct red card: 4 points;
	* Yellow card and direct red card: 5 points;
6. Drawing of lots.

## Entrants

All of CONCACAF's 41 member associations entered in the competition. Teams were divided into leagues based on their results of the 2022-23 season and were ranked based on their ranking in the 2022-23 season, for League A and B, there was a pre-determined schedule, and a team was drawn to a number, and the team was given the number's schedule. League C will have 3 pots of 3 teams as usual.

## Schedule

 Quarter-finals, 1st leg
 Quarter-finals, 2nd leg
 Semi-finals
 Third place play-off
 Final

## League A

*Main Article: 2023-24 CONCACAF Nations League A*

### Quarter-finals

The quarter-final pairings were based upon the league rankings, with a 1v8, 2v7, 3v6 and 4v5 pairing. The lower ranked side hosts the first leg and the higher ranked side hosts the second leg.

 Jamaica
 Mexico
 Costa Rica

### Nations League Finals

*Main Article: 2024 CONCACAF Nations League Finals*

## References

1. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: League A expanding to 16 teams and swiss system tournament
2. ↑ Quarterfinal round added to CNL
3. ↑ CONCACAF Nations League: New Format for 2023-24 and 2024-25
4. ↑ CNL: How promotion and relegation works under new format
5. ↑ CNL Tiebreakers
6. ↑ CNL Draw 2023-24: How League A and B draw works