2026 CONCACAF Champions Cup

San Diego looks like the red card inspired them.

 

SD players are all in on this concacaf madness.

Dark arts on display.

Fun match.

 

Hilarity.

 

Vazquez with his second.

 

Hilarity continues.

 

Dreyer makes it 3-1.

 

Sometimes I feel like this San Diego team needs to be tested for performance enhancing drugs. What a team.

 

25,616

 

Didn’t look like it but ok. It was raining so maybe that kept people out of the normal stands.

 

Almost an autogolazo, off the post.

 

MX teams in Concacrap are always at their most dangerous towards the end when trailing..

 

2 red cards but still leading 3-1...badass SD...Looks straight red not 2nd yellow

 

8 minutes of stoppage time...

 

Tuluca gets one back and now up two men.

 

I wouldn't actually be that surprised if this SD team scores a fourth goal while playing two men down.

 

Game over. Win for the MLS 9-man advantage team

 

What a game. Props to San Diego.

 

Thinking back to last year's Leagues Cup Seattle 7-0 Cruz Azul result and tonight's San Diego 9-man win over Toluca, MLS is getting wins over Liga MX teams that would have been unthinkable a decade or so ago.

 

San Diego is out.

 

Turned out to be a just barely good enough result when I expected so much worse.

 

I’ll say he was robbed. And the costume clearly was a giveaway.

 

I was curious about participation in the CCL/CCC during the "modern era" starting in 2008/2009, as I was reading that Seattle and Vancouver have only met once before. Below is the list (it's possible I made mistakes as I counted myself). Of note, only 3 MLS teams have not participated during this period.

Here's the list based on the number of appearances beginning with 2008/2009:

9 = Seattle
7 = LA Galaxy, Toronto
6 = Houston, Vancouver
5 = Columbus, Montreal, NYRB, Sporting KC
4 = Colorado, DC, LAFC, Philadelphia, Real Salt Lake
3 = Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas, Miami, New England, Portland
2 = Nashville, NYC, Orlando
1 = Austin, Chivas USA, San Diego, San Jose, St Louis
0 = Charlotte, Chicago, Minnesota


edited thanks to ArsenalMetro and Newtex

 

A fun fact I like to point out to Fire fans every chance I get. Chivas USA folded in 2014 and has qualified for more CCLs since the 2008 re-format than Chicago.

Also, not all 0s are created equal. Charlotte has failed to qualify for 4 tournaments, Minnesota 9, Chicago 18.

(I think you double-counted 2018 btw, you're one high on everyone who qualified that year - New York, Toronto, Colorado, Dallas, and Seattle)

 

Wikipedia has a list of club participation since 2008:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CONCACAF_Champions_Cup_and_Champions_League_records_and_statistics

The only differences I see are:

9 - Seattle
7 - LA Galaxy, Toronto
5 - NYRB
4 - Colorado
3 - Dallas, NYC
1 - Nashville