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2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals

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2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals
Tournament details
Host countryUnited States
DatesMarch 20–23
Teams4
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
2024
2027

The 2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals will be the final tournament of the 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. It will be held from March 20 to 23, 2025 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, United States.[1]

The United States are the three-time defending champions.

Format

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The Nations League Finals will be contested by the four quarter-finals winners of League A. The tournament will take place over four days and will be played in single-leg knockout matches, consisting of two semi-finals on March 20, and a third place play-off and final three days after on March 23, 2025.[citation needed]

In the CONCACAF Nations League Finals, if the scores were level at the end of normal time:[2]

  • In the semi-finals and final, 30 minutes of extra time would be played. If the score was still level after extra time, the winner was determined by a penalty shoot-out.
  • In the third place play-off, extra time would not be played, and the winner would be determined by a penalty shoot-out.

Venue

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Location of the Host city of the 2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals.

SoFi Stadium, located in the Hollywood Park neighborhood in Inglewood, California and part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, was announced as the venue for the 2025 and 2027 CONCACAF Nations League Finals on October 9, 2024.[1][3]

Los Angeles
(Inglewood, California)
SoFi Stadium
Capacity: 70,240

Qualified teams

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The four quarter-finals winners of League A qualified for the Nations League Finals.

Match Winners Date of
qualification
CONCACAF Rankings
February 2025
FIFA Rankings
November 2024
QF1  Costa Rica or  Panama November 18, 2024
QF2  Jamaica or  United States November 18, 2024
QF3  Suriname or  Canada November 18, 2024
QF4  Honduras or  Mexico November 18, 2024

Seeding

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The four teams were ranked based on their results in the two quarter-finals legs to determine the semi-final matchups. The first seed played the fourth seed and the second seed played the third seed.

Seed QF Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 QF1 QF1 winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 QF2 QF2 winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 QF3 QF3 winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 QF4 QF4 winners 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: November 18, 2024. Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Squads

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Each national team had to submit a final squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers, no later than ten days before the opening match of the tournament. If a player presents medical reasons or became injured severely enough to prevent his participation from the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.[2]

Bracket

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
March 20 – Inglewood, CA
 
 
Quarter-final winner ranked 2
 
March 23 – Inglewood, CA
 
Quarter-final winner ranked 3
 
Winner Match 1
 
March 20 – Inglewood, CA
 
Winner Match 2
 
Quarter-final winner ranked 1
 
 
Quarter-final winner ranked 4
 
Third place play-off
 
 
March 23 – Inglewood, CA
 
 
Loser Match 1
 
 
Loser Match 2

All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) as listed by CONCACAF (local times are in parentheses).

Semi-finals

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Quarter-final winner ranked 2Match 1Quarter-final winner ranked 3

Quarter-final winner ranked 1Match 2Quarter-final winner ranked 4

Third place play-off

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Loser Match 1Match 3Loser Match 2

Final

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Winner Match 1Match 4Winner Match 2

References

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  1. ^ a b "Hollywood Park and SoFi Stadium awarded 2025 and 2027 Concacaf Nations League Finals". Miami, FL: CONCACAF. October 9, 2024. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
  2. ^ a b "CONCACAF Nations League Regulations 2024" (PDF). CONCACAF. April 17, 2024 [Approved on March 2024]. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  3. ^ Calhoun, Damian (October 10, 2024). "SoFi Stadium to host 2025 and 2027 CONCACAF Nations League Finals". www.dailynews.com. Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved October 11, 2024.
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