New England Revolution qualify for 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup revolutionsoccer.net Saturday, Dec 9, 2023, 07:46 PM
For more about the draw, there are 3 seeded teams based on the CONCACAF club rankings. All three are LigaMX teams. Revs are one of 8 teams in Pot 1 along with 5 other MLS Teams (Philly, Cincy, Nashville, Orlando and Houston). Pot 2 has 11 teams (only St. Louis from MLS). Those 22 teams will be in the first round draw. 5 teams are automatically into the round of 16 (Miami and Crew included).
This is good info. Tiny correction as it looks like Vancouver is in Pot 2 as well. Canadian team that didn’t qualify through MLS so easy to miss.
Five teams with bye to the Round of 16: Columbus: MLS Cup winner Miami: Leagues Cup champion Pachuca: 2022-23 Liga MX Apertura champion Alajuelense (Costa Rica): Central American Club champion Robinhood (Suriname): Caribbean Club champion Top 3 ranked teams pre-seeded in Round 1: Club America CF Monterrey Tigres UANL Next 8 ranked teams, in Pot 1: Philadelphia Toluca Guadalajara Orlando Nashville Cincinnati New England Houston Pot 2 (11 teams): Vancouver Saprissa St. Louis Herediano Comunicaciones (Guatemala) Independiente (Panama) Cavalry FC Forge FC Real Esteli (Nicaragua) Moca FC (Dominican Republic) Cavalier FC (Jamaica)
So is it a random draw with each team in Pot 1 playing a home and home with one of the Pot 2 teams? Then the 11 winners go into round of 16 with the 5 seeded teams. Makes sense, but I hope we don't get drawn with St. Louis or Vancouver.
Basically, yes. The top 3 seeds are not part of the draw, for some reason. So only 8 teams will be in pot 1, and 8 positions in pot A (A3,A7 and A9 removed). Then 11 teams will be drawn from pot 2, and 11 positions from pot B.
Well, we know who we are playing in round one, CA Independiente from Panama. And if we advance, we'd play Alajuelense from Costa Rica in the round of 16. The New England Revolution will face C.A. Independiente de La Chorrera of Panama in the first round of the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup.The Liga Panameña de Fútbol side won the 2023 Panamanian Championship after a 11-4-1 regular season record.#NERevs | #MLS | #Concachampions pic.twitter.com/05ugXBsw8M— Caleb Pongratz (@CalebPongratz10) December 14, 2023
Will the home leg in the round of 16 be played in Costa Rica, or Bermuda? (no, I'm not still bitter...)
Yeah, but that was 20 years ago. There's no memory or mental baggage with the players for either club so it will make no difference (except perhaps to supporters with a long memory) should the revs advance this year. I'm more focused on the revs getting out of the first round injury-free and dealing with the travel to and from Panama.
This is the only thing I remember about those Alajuelense matches. I couldn't even have told you that they were against Alajuelense, just that we played the CONCACAF match "home legs" abroad and we lost them both.
For some reason I thought it was Saprissa... But I remember one of the Revs got a red for a pretty much run-of-the mill foul fairly early in the game. Daniel Hernandez questioned the ref and the ref showed him a red for dissent! He must have been shocked that he could speak Spanish. 9 vs 11 with ~75 minutes to play? Yeah, good luck with that!
Arenal, Monteverde, Manuel Antonio and San Jose. I've heard it described as the CR 'getting your feet wet tour.
I'm really glad we can play these opening round legs in a 3,000 seat stadium in Panama and then on a Thursday night at Gillette at 8:15PM in February. This is definitely going to be reflective of what we want professional soccer to look like in America, much more so than the lousy US Open Cup. TEAM NEWS 🔵🔴The #NERevs begin Round One of @TheChampions against @CAIPanama in February. 📝⬇️— New England Revolution (@NERevolution) December 18, 2023
Twenty-six days until CCC starts (Feb 6th). Vancouver starts Feb 7th (hosting Tigres), the only MLS team to play in the first 2 weeks. The other 7 MLS clubs (including the Revs) start in week 3 (Feb 20-22).
Whoever wins this qualifies for the fifa club world cup in 2025 which is a huge deal. Miami is going to go all out in this to get messi into the club wc. For those of you that dont know 2025 club wc is the first of the new format and it will be every 4 years after 2025. The prize money is going to be huge and every club will be sending their first teams. Theyre trying to make this a huge even, and honestly i think itll work. You qualify by winning the CCC in the 4 years leading up.
Does that mean in 2029 each region will send 4 teams--the winners for the past 4 years? I dunno, 4 years is an eternity and a once-great team might already be on a rebuilding phase at that point