2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League

The 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League was the 3rd edition of the CONCACAF Champions League under its current format, and overall the 46th edition of the premier football club competition organized by CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The tournament began on July 27, 2010 and ended on April 27, 2011.[1] Monterrey of Mexico won their first title, defeating Real Salt Lake of the United States 3-2 on aggregate in the final. As winners, Monterrey qualified for the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup as the CONCACAF representative.

2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League
Tournament details
DatesJuly 27, 2010–April 27, 2011
Teams24 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions Monterrey (1st title)
Runners-up Real Salt Lake
Tournament statistics
Matches played78
Goals scored241 (3.09 per match)
Attendance657,012 (8,423 per match)
Top scorer(s) Javier Orozco
(11 goals)

Qualification

Twenty-four teams participated in the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League from the North American, Central American, and Caribbean zones.[2] Nine of the teams came from North America, twelve from Central America, and three from the Caribbean.

Teams may be disqualified and replaced if they do not have a stadium for the tournament that CONCACAF deems suitable. If a club fails to meet the standards for its home stadium, this club must find a suitable stadium in its own country. If said club fails to provide the adequate facilities, it runs the risk of being replaced.[3]

  • Central America: 12 Central American clubs can qualify to the Champions League. If one or more clubs is precluded, it is supplanted by a club from another Central American federation. The reallocation would be based on results from the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League.
  • Caribbean: If any Caribbean club is precluded, it is supplanted by the "2010 CFU Club Championship" 4th-place finisher.

For the Central American representatives that qualify via split seasons, in nations that play a playoff to determine a national champion, the winner gains the nation's top spot, and in nations that do not, total points over both seasons, followed by other tiebreakers, determine which team gains the nation's top spot.

After having analyzed previous results, the CONCACAF Executive Committee approved a reallocation of berths compared to the previous two seasons, giving Panama one automatic place in the Group Stage while making both of El Salvador's qualifiers go through the Preliminary Round.[4]

Teams

Teams in bold qualify directly for the Group Stage.

Association Club Qualifying method
North America (9 teams)
Mexico
4 berths		 Monterrey 2009 Apertura champion
Toluca 2010 Bicentenario champion
Cruz Azul 2009 Apertura runner-up
Santos Laguna 2010 Bicentenario runner-up
United States
4 berths		 Real Salt Lake 2009 MLS Cup champion
Columbus Crew 2009 MLS Supporters' Shield winner
Los Angeles Galaxy 2009 MLS Cup runner-up
Seattle Sounders FC 2009 U.S. Open Cup champion
Canada
1 berth		 Toronto FC 2010 Canadian Championship champion
Central America (12 teams)
Honduras
3 berths		 Marathón 2009 Apertura champion
Olimpia 2010 Clausura champion
Motagua 2010 Clausura runner-up1
Panama
3 berths		 Árabe Unido 2009 Apertura champion and 2010 Clausura champion
Tauro 2009 Apertura runner-up
San Francisco 2010 Clausura runner-up1
Costa Rica
2 berths		 Brujas 2009 Invierno champion
Saprissa 2010 Verano champion
Guatemala
2 berths		 Municipal 2009 Apertura champion and 2010 Clausura champion
Xelajú 2010 Clausura runner-up with better aggregate record
El Salvador
2 berths		 FAS 2009 Apertura champion
Isidro Metapán 2010 Clausura champion
Caribbean (3 teams)
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Islanders 2010 CFU Club Championship champion
Trinidad and Tobago Joe Public 2010 CFU Club Championship runner-up
San Juan Jabloteh 2010 CFU Club Championship third place

1 Berths originally awarded to Belize (Belize Defence Force) and Nicaragua (Real Estelí), but both countries failed CONCACAF stadium requirements, so the spots vacated were awarded to Honduras (Motagua) and Panama (San Francisco) based on the performances of clubs from those countries last season.[5]

Format

Like the previous editions, the tournament featured a two-legged Preliminary Round for 16 clubs. The eight winners of the aggregate series qualified along with the eight seeded teams that earned a direct spot to enter the Group Stage. The clubs involved in Group Stage were placed into four groups of four with each team playing the others in its group in both home and away matches in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each group advanced to the Quarterfinals of the Championship Round, which consisted of two-legged, home and away, knockout fixtures. For the two-legged ties, the away goals rule would be used, but not after a tie enters extra time, and so a tie would be decided by penalty shootout if the aggregate score is level after extra time.[6]

Teams from the same association (excluding "wildcard" teams which replace a team from another association) may not be drawn with each other in the Preliminary Round and Group Stage, but may be drawn with each other in the Championship Round, where the only restriction is that in the quarterfinals, a group winner was drawn with the runner-up of another group and hosted the second leg.

Group Stage
Pot A Monterrey Toluca Columbus Crew Real Salt Lake
Pot B Saprissa Olimpia Municipal Árabe Unido
Preliminary Round
Pot A Cruz Azul Santos Laguna Los Angeles Galaxy Seattle Sounders FC
Brujas Marathón FAS Toronto FC
Pot B Xelajú Tauro Isidro Metapán Motagua
San Francisco Puerto Rico Islanders Joe Public San Juan Jabloteh

Schedule
Round Draw date First leg Second leg
Preliminary Round Preliminary May 19, 2010
(New York, USA)		 July 27–29, 2010 August 3–5, 2010
Group Stage Matchday 1 August 17–19, 2010
Matchday 2 August 24–26, 2010
Matchday 3 September 14–16, 2010
Matchday 4 September 21–23, 2010
Matchday 5 September 28–30, 2010
Matchday 6 October 19–21, 2010
Championship Round Quarterfinals November 1, 2010
(New York, USA)		 February 22–24, 2011 March 1–3, 2011
Semifinals March 15–17, 2011 April 5–7, 2011
Finals April 19–21, 2011 April 26–28, 2011

Preliminary round
Main article: 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League Preliminary Round

The draw for the Preliminary Round and the Group Stage was held on May 19, 2010, at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City.[7] The first legs of the Preliminary Round were played July 27–29, 2010, while the second legs were played August 3–5, 2010.[1]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
FAS 3–1 Xelajú 1–1 2–0
Brujas 4–6 Joe Public 2–2 2–4
San Juan Jabloteh 0–6 Santos Laguna 0–1 0–5
San Francisco 2–9 Cruz Azul 2–3 0–6
Los Angeles Galaxy 3–5 Puerto Rico Islanders 1–4 2–1
Tauro 2–4 Marathón 0–3 2–1
Seattle Sounders FC 2–1 Isidro Metapán 1–0 1–1
Toronto FC 3–2 Motagua 1–0 2–2

Group stage
Main article: 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage

The Group Stage was played in 6 rounds during August–October 2010. The rounds are August 17–19, August 24–26, September 14–16, September 21–23, September 28–30, and October 19–21.[1]

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts RSL CRU TOR ÁRA
Real Salt Lake 6 4 1 1 17 11 +6 13 3–1 4–1 2–1
Cruz Azul 6 3 1 2 15 9 +6 10 5–4 0–0 2–0
Toronto FC 6 2 2 2 5 7 −2 8 1–1 2–1 1–0
Árabe Unido 6 1 0 5 4 14 −10 3 2–3 0–6 1–0
Source:

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts SAN CLB MUN JOE
Santos Laguna 6 4 1 1 19 7 +12 13 1–0 6–1 5–1
Columbus Crew 6 4 0 2 10 4 +6 12 1–0 1–0 3–0
Municipal 6 2 2 2 9 13 −4 8 2–2 2–1 1–1
Joe Public 6 0 1 5 7 21 −14 1 2–5 1–4 2–3
Source:

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts MON SAP MAR SEA
Monterrey 6 5 1 0 11 4 +7 16 1–0 2–0 3–2
Saprissa 6 3 1 2 11 7 +4 10 2–2 4–1 2–0
Marathón 6 2 0 4 5 11 −6 6 0–1 2–1 2–1
Seattle Sounders FC 6 1 0 5 6 11 −5 3 0–2 1–2 2–0
Source:

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts OLI TOL PRI FAS
Olimpia 6 4 1 1 12 7 +5 13 2–1 3–0 2–0
Toluca 6 3 1 2 15 5 +10 10 4–0 3–0 5–0
Puerto Rico Islanders 6 2 2 2 8 10 −2 8 1–1 3–2 4–1
FAS 6 0 2 4 2 15 −13 2 1–4 0–0 0–0
Source:

Championship Round
Main article: 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League Championship Round

Bracket

The draw for the Championship Round was made on November 1, 2010.[8] In the quarterfinals, the group winners were assured of playing the second leg at home, and were drawn against the group runners-up, with the only restriction being that they could not face the same team that it played in the Group Stage (and thus they may face a team from the same association).

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                                   
Toluca 0 0 0  
Monterrey 1 1 2  
  Monterrey 2 1 3  
  Cruz Azul 1 1 2  
Cruz Azul 2 3 5
Santos Laguna 0 1 1  
  Monterrey 2 1 3
  Real Salt Lake 2 0 2
Columbus Crew 0 1 1  
Real Salt Lake 0 4 4  
  Real Salt Lake 2 1 3
  Saprissa 0 2 2  
Saprissa 1 2 3
Olimpia 0 1 1  

Quarterfinals

The first legs of the Quarterfinals were played February 22–24, 2011, and the second legs were played March 1–3, 2011.[1]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Toluca 0–2 Monterrey 0–1 0–1
Cruz Azul 5–1 Santos Laguna 2–0 3–1
Columbus Crew 1–4 Real Salt Lake 0–0 1–4
Saprissa 3–1 Olimpia 1–0 2–1

Semifinals

The first legs of the Semifinals were played March 15–16, 2011, and the second legs were played April 5–6, 2011.[1]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Real Salt Lake 3–2 Saprissa 2–0 1–2
Monterrey 3–2 Cruz Azul 2–1 1–1

Finals
Main article: 2011 CONCACAF Champions League Finals

The first leg of the Final was played April 20, 2011, and the second leg was played April 27, 2011.[1]

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Monterrey 3–2 Real Salt Lake 2–2 1–0
CONCACAF Champions League
2010–11 Champion
Monterrey
First Title

Top goalscorers
Pos Name Club Goals
1 Javier Orozco Cruz Azul 11
2 Álvaro Saborío Real Salt Lake 8
Emanuel Villa Cruz Azul 8
3 Héctor Mancilla Toluca 6
4 José María Cárdenas Santos Laguna 5
Juan Cuevas Toluca 5
Roger Rojas Olimpia 5
5 Christian Giménez Cruz Azul 4
Nicholas Addlery Puerto Rico Islanders 4
Claudio Cardozo Marathón 4
Aldo de Nigris Monterrey 4
David Foley Puerto Rico Islanders 4
Guillermo Ramírez Municipal 4
Humberto Suazo Monterrey 4

References
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  4. "CONCACAF Executive Committee alters youth championships qualifying format". CONCACAF. 2009-11-23. Archived from the original on 2009-11-27. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
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