CONCACAF announced on Monday a new format to the Champions League tournament. Beginning with this fall, the new format will see a shift in the club tournament to be a spring to fall, instead of the fall to spring format that we’ve seen these last few years.
The expanded CONCACAF club competitions platform will feature 31 club teams – increased from 24 -- from across the Confederation, beginning with the 2017/18 season of club competition. Sixteen clubs from countries around the region, including Canada, Mexico and the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, will compete in a concentrated CONCACAF Champions League to be disputed between February and May of each year, beginning in 2018.