Proper in concacaf? Also, Asia uses a coefficient with Attendance and other type of stuff to come op with their slot allocation. I am sure concacaf would find a way to get American and Canadian teams into the CCL even if the game results were not there. Attendance wise Toronto and Seattle a helping the CCL attendance average, so I am sure Jack is pulling for Seattle to win the US Open cup. From a PC4th post "This is how AFC decides the allocation of Champions Leagues spot. Base on professionalism of their leagues. n 2008, the AFC compiled a so-called AFC Final Assessment Ranking to determine participation in their prime club tournament, the AFC Champions League, in 2009. This ranking, in which 500 points could be obtained, was compiled of 10 different criteria, as follows: Description Maximal Points 1. Organisation 20 2. Technical Standard 100 3. Attendance 100 4. Governance/Soundness 50 5. Marketing/Promotion 20 6. Business Scale 100 7. Game Operation 20 8. Media 20 9. Stadia 20 10. Clubs 50" https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=861099&page=4 Obviously results should be #1.
And there you go. Giving the losing MLS Cup finalist a spot over the USOC winner is absolutely backwards. I could only hope that the league would not be that stupid, if the U.S. only got 3 spots.
WTF Are you agreeing with Crew dude? It reads to me that you are not, but saying the same thing he just said, maybe I am just reading your post wrong. Sorry if that is the case. BTW, yes US Open Cup winner over loser of MLS Cup.
This is why for me: the only way a D-2 can have a spot (in USA) its in the USOC if they win, but the truth its this is going a long and hard way to a D-2 do that, not only to beat an MLS team, besides achieve and winning the final. From Canada and Puerto Rico, we still have the chance to qualify the Concachampions. We have a great team (for me, one of the beast team from the Caribbean), and I hope we can still qualify to this tournament.
More rumors and whispers (best I can do), but: in today's MLS Daily, Simon Borg specifically talked about the US Open Cup Final as being important because of "qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions League." He said it fast, so he may have just temporarily forgotten about the potential changes coming, but who knows...
Finally, a straight answer! Courtesy of @usopencup (the guys who run thecup.us): So for this year, that settles that. @ussopencup also explained that although, as we know, CONCACAF does reserve the right to declare certain teams ineligible to qualify for the CCL (e.g. only accepting first- and second-division teams from Canada), in the case of the US Open Cup...
I wonder what that means if the 'calculated' coefficient shows that the US should only get 3 teams. Not that I'm expecting that.