User:Quidster4040/sandbox/2015–16 CONCACAF SuperLiga
Tournament details | |
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Dates | 30 June – 27 August 2015 (qualifying) 17 September 2015 – 18 May 2016 (competition proper) |
Teams | 48+8 (competition proper) 158+33 (total) (from 54 associations) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Querétaro (1st title) |
Runners-up | Columbus Crew |
← 2014–15 2016–17 → |
The 2015–16 CONCACAF League was the 10th season of Europe's secondary club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 7th season since it was renamed from the UEFA Cup to the UEFA Europa League.
The 2016 UEFA Europa League Final was played between Querétaro and Columbus Crew at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, United States and won by Querétaro, their first title.
Querétaro qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League group stage as the Europa League title holders, but qualified for the Europa League by finishing third in the Champions League group stage and successfully defended their title.
Teams
[edit]- CW: Cup winners
- 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, etc.: League position
- LC: League Cup winners
- P-W: End-of-season Europa League play-off winners
- FP: Fair Play
- UCL: Transferred from the Champions League
- GS: Third-placed teams from the group stage
- PO: Losers from the play-off round
- Q3: Losers from the third qualifying round
- Notes
- ^ Aruba (ARU): Britannia, the second-placed team of the 2014–15 Aruban Division di Honor, also won the 2014–15 Torneo Copa Betico Croes, allowing fifth-place team Dakota to qualify.[1]
- ^ United States (USA): Seattle Sounders FC, the winners of the 2014 U.S. Open Cup had qualified for the CONCACAF Champions League for winning the Supporters' Shield. The eighth-placed 2014 Major League Soccer season side, RB New York to their place instead.[2]
Round and draw dates
[edit]The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws held at CONCACAF headquarters in Miami, United States, unless stated otherwise).
Phase | Round | Draw date | First leg | Second leg |
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Qualifying | First qualifying round | 22 June 2015 | 2 July 2015 | 9 July 2015 |
Second qualifying round | 16 July 2015 | 23 July 2015 | ||
Third qualifying round | 17 July 2015 | 30 July 2015 | 6 August 2015 | |
Play-off | Play-off round | 7 August 2015 | 20 August 2015 | 27 August 2015 |
Group stage | Matchday 1 | 28 August 2015 (Port-of-Spain) |
17 September 2015 | |
Matchday 2 | 1 October 2015 | |||
Matchday 3 | 22 October 2015 | |||
Matchday 4 | 5 November 2015 | |||
Matchday 5 | 26 November 2015 | |||
Matchday 6 | 10 December 2015 | |||
Knockout phase | Round of 32 | 14 December 2015 | 18 February 2016 | 25 February 2016 |
Round of 16 | 26 February 2016 | 10 March 2016 | 17 March 2016 | |
Quarter-finals | 18 March 2016 | 7 April 2016 | 14 April 2016 | |
Semi-finals | 15 April 2016 | 28 April 2016 | 5 May 2016 | |
Final | 18 May 2016 at Sporting Park, Kansas City |
Matches in the qualifying, play-off, and knockout rounds may also be played on Tuesdays or Wednesdays instead of the regular Thursdays due to scheduling conflicts.
Qualifying rounds
[edit]In the qualifying rounds and the play-off round, teams are divided into seeded and unseeded teams based on their 2015 CONCACAF club coefficients, and then drawn into two-legged home-and-away ties. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other.
First qualifying round
[edit]Second qualifying round
[edit]Third qualifying round
[edit]Playoff-round
[edit]Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Chorrillo | 4–3 | Pasaquina | 4–0 | 0–3 |
Real Sociedad | 10–1 | Camagüey | 3–0 | 7–0 |
Real Estelí | 1–5 | Bauger | 1–4 | 0–1 |
Placencia Assassins | 3–3 (a) | Moca | 1–1 | 2–2 |
Police United | 0–2 | Georgetown Santos | 0–1 | 0–1 |
FC Edmonton | 6–1 | Orléans Attackers | 2–0 | 4–1 |
Querétaro | 14–0 | Liberation Stars | 3–0 | 11–0 |
Tauro | 6–3 | Brittons Hill | 2–3 | 4–0 |
Águila | 9–3 | Helenites | 4–2 | 5–1 |
Municipal | 1–2 | System 3 | 0–2 | 1–0 |
York Region Shooters | 1–0 | Ocotal | 0–0 | 1–0 (a.e.t.) |
Sporting Kansas City | 9–1 | CSD Barber | 4–0 | 5–1 |
Belize Defence Force | 3–2 | Pastures United | 1–1 | 2–1 |
Racing Club | 2–0 | Leones | 0–0 | 2–0 |
Puerto Rico Islanders | v | Pride of Gall Hill | 0–0 | 0–0 |
Belén | 3–2 | RCA | 1–2 | 2–0 |
Carmelita | 5–1 | Dorados | 1–0 | 4–1 |
San Francisco | 2–3 | Santiago de Cuba | 0–2 | 2–1(a.e.t.) |
Antigua GFC | 4–0 | Tempête | 1–0 | 3–0 |
Defence Force | 1–0 | Harbour View | 0–0 | 1–0 |
Montego Bay United | 4–0 | Greenbay Hoppers | 2–0 | 2–0 |
Point Fortin Civic | 1–2 | WBC | 1–2 | 0–0 |
Group stage
[edit]- Main article: 2015–16 CONCACAF SuperLiga group stage
Knockout stage
[edit]- Main article: 2015–16 CONCACAF SuperLiga knockout phase