2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League

2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League
	America First Field in Sandy hosted the second leg Final
Tournament details
Dates	July 27, 2010–April 27, 2011
Teams	24 (from 10 associations)
Final positions
Champions	Monterrey (1st title)
Runners-up	Real Salt Lake
Tournament statistics
Matches played	78
Goals scored	241 (3.09 per match)
Attendance	657,012 (8,423 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Javier Orozco; (11 goals)
	← 2009–10 2011–12 →

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.

Qualification

Puerto Rico Islanders

Joe Public

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Location of teams of the 2010–11 CONCACAF Champions League

Brown: Group A;

Red: Group B;

Orange: Group C;

Yellow: Group D.

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
Costa Rica 2 berths	Saprissa	2010 Verano champion
Guatemala 2 berths	Municipal	2009 Apertura champion and 2010 Clausura champion
Guatemala 2 berths	Xelajú	2010 Clausura runner-up with better aggregate record
El Salvador 2 berths	FAS	2009 Apertura champion
El Salvador 2 berths	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
Trinidad and Tobago	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
Pot A	Brujas	Marathón	FAS	Toronto FC
Pot B	Xelajú	Tauro	Isidro Metapán	Motagua
Pot B	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, United States)	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, United States)	February 22–24, 2011	March 1–3, 2011
	Semifinals		March 15–16, 2011	April 5–6, 2011
	Final		April 20, 2011	April 27, 2011

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

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 v t e	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: ^{[citation needed]}

Group B

Team v t e	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: ^{[citation needed]}

Group C

Team v t e	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: ^{[citation needed]}

Group D

Team v t e	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: ^{[citation needed]}

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

Final

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	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
2	Emanuel Villa	Cruz Azul	8
4	Héctor Mancilla	Toluca	6
5	José María Cárdenas	Santos Laguna	5
	Juan Cuevas	Toluca
	Roger Rojas	Olimpia
8	Christian Giménez	Cruz Azul	4
	Nicholas Addlery	Puerto Rico Islanders
	Claudio Cardozo	Marathón
	Aldo de Nigris	Monterrey
	David Foley	Puerto Rico Islanders
	Guillermo Ramírez	Municipal
	Humberto Suazo	Monterrey

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "2010-2011 CONCACAF Champions League Schedule" (PDF). CONCACAF. 2010-04-07. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2010-06-09.
^ "Qualifying 2010/11". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved May 19, 2010.
^ "CONCACAF Executive Committee tightens stadium standards for next year's Champions League". CONCACAF Official site. 2008-11-07. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-11-12.
^ "CONCACAF Executive Committee alters youth championships qualifying format". CONCACAF. 2009-11-23. Archived from the original on 2009-11-27. Retrieved 2009-11-24.
^ "Motagua, San Francisco get CCL berths". CONCACAF.com. May 18, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-19.
^ "CONCACAF Champions League Regulations 2010/2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
^ "Cruz Azul gets San Francisco for CCL Preliminary Round". CONCACAF.com. May 19, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-05-22. Retrieved 2010-05-20.
^ "Domestic rivalries highlight CCL quarterfinals". CONCACAF.com. November 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2010-11-02.

External links

CONCACAF Champions League official website

[schedule-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "2010-2011 CONCACAF Champions League Schedule" (PDF). CONCACAF. 2010-04-07. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2010-06-09.

[2] "Qualifying 2010/11". CONCACAF. Archived from the original on 2010-10-31. Retrieved May 19, 2010.

[3] "CONCACAF Executive Committee tightens stadium standards for next year's Champions League". CONCACAF Official site. 2008-11-07. Archived from the original on 2009-01-07. Retrieved 2008-11-12.

[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.

[5] "Motagua, San Francisco get CCL berths". CONCACAF.com. May 18, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2010-05-19.

[regulations-6] "CONCACAF Champions League Regulations 2010/2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-02-11. Retrieved 2011-02-21.

[7] "Cruz Azul gets San Francisco for CCL Preliminary Round". CONCACAF.com. May 19, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-05-22. Retrieved 2010-05-20.

[8] "Domestic rivalries highlight CCL quarterfinals". CONCACAF.com. November 1, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-04. Retrieved 2010-11-02.

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