CONCACAF Champions League 2010/11

The CONCACAF Champions League in the 2010/2011 season is the third edition of the competition.

The tournament began at the end of July 2010 with the qualification and ended with the second leg of the final at the end of April 2011. In the final, the Mexican club CF Monterrey beat Real Salt Lake from the USA. The Mexican Javier Orozco was named the top scorer of the tournament. He scored 11 goals for CD Cruz Azul .

The winner will qualify for the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup .

Field of participants

24 teams took part in the CONCACAF Champions League 2010/11. The teams came from North America, the Caribbean and Central America.

Mexico ( Primera División ) CD Cruz Azul CF Monterrey Deportivo Toluca Santos Laguna  USA ( Major League Soccer - 2009 ) Real Salt Lake Columbus crew Los Angeles Galaxy Seattle Sounders FC  Honduras ( Liga Nacional ) CD Marathon CD Olimpia CD Motagua 1  Panama ( ANAPROF ) CD Árabe Unido Tauro FC San Francisco FC 1  Costa Rica ( Primera División ) Brujas FC Deportivo Saprissa

Guatemala ( Liga Nacional ) CSD Municipal Club Xelajú MC  El Salvador ( Primera Divisíon ) CD FAS AD Isidro Metapán  Canada ( Canadian Championship - 2010 ) Toronto FC Caribbean ( CFU Club Championship - 2010 )  Puerto Rico Islanders FC  Joe Public FC  San Juan Jabloteh

¹ CD Motagua and San Francisco FC were able to move up because Belize ( Belize Defense Force FC ) and Nicaragua ( Real Estelí ) did not receive any approval from CONCACAF. The stadiums of the countries did not meet the requirements.

Preliminary Round (Qualifying Round)

The pairings for the qualifying round were drawn on May 19, 2010 . The first legs took place between July 27th and 29th, the second leg between August 3rd and 5th.

	total		First leg	Return leg
CD FAS	3: 1	Club Xelajú MC	1: 1	2-0
Brujas FC	4: 6	Joe Public FC	2: 2	2: 4
San Juan Jabloteh	0: 6	Santos Laguna	0: 1	0: 5
San Francisco FC	2: 9	CD Cruz Azul	2: 3	0: 6
Los Angeles Galaxy	3: 5	Puerto Rico Islanders FC	1: 4	2: 1
Tauro FC	2: 4	CD Marathon	0: 3	2: 1
Seattle Sounders FC	2: 1	Isidro Metapán	1-0	1: 1
Toronto FC	3: 2	CD Motagua	1-0	2: 2

Group Stage (main round)

The Group Stage games took place from August to October 2010. The first round started on August 17, 2010.

Group A

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Real Salt Lake	6th	4th	1	1	017:110	+6	13
2.	Cruz Azul	6th	3	1	2	015: 900	+6	10
3.	Toronto FC	6th	2	2	2	005: 700	−2	08th
4th	Árabe Unido	6th	1	0	5	004:140	−10	03

Group B

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Santos Laguna	6th	4th	1	1	019: 700	+12	13
2.	Columbus crew	6th	4th	0	2	010: 400	+6	12
3.	CSD Municipal	6th	2	2	2	009:130	−4	08th
4th	Joe Public	6th	0	1	5	007:210	−14	01

Group C

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Monterrey	6th	5	1	0	011: 400	+7	16
2.	Saprissa	6th	3	1	2	011: 700	+4	10
3.	Marathon	6th	2	0	4th	005:110	−6	06th
4th	Seattle Sounders FC	6th	1	0	5	006:110	−5	03

Group D

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Olimpia	6th	4th	1	1	012: 700	+5	13
2.	Toluca	6th	3	1	2	015: 500	+10	10
3.	Puerto Rico Islanders FC	6th	2	2	2	008:100	−2	08th
4th	CD FAS	6th	0	2	4th	002:150	−13	02

Championship Round (Knockout Round)

Qualified teams

Group first  Real Salt Lake  Santos Laguna  Monterrey  Olimpia

Second in the group  Cruz Azul  Columbus crew  Saprissa  CD Toluca

Quarter finals

The draw for the quarter-finals by CONCACAF took place on November 1, 2010.

The first legs of the quarter-finals will take place from February 22 to February 24, 2011. The second legs will be played from March 1 to March 3, 2011.

	total		First leg	Return 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 semi-finals will take place on March 15 and 16, 2011. The second legs will be played on April 5 and 6, 2011.

	total		First leg	Return 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 on April 20, 2011. The second leg took place on April 27, 2011.

First leg

CF Monterrey		Real Salt Lake
	April 20, 2011 in Estadio Tecnológico ( Monterrey , Mexico ) Result: 2: 2 (1: 1) Spectators: 30,247 Referee: Joel Aguilar ( El Salvador )
	Jonathan Orozco - José María Basanta , Sergio Pérez , Hiram Mier , Ricardo Osorio - Luis Ernesto Pérez (21st Jesús Eduardo Zavala ), Neri Cardozo , Walter Ayoví - Humberto Suazo , Sergio Santana (70th Jesús Arellano ), Aldo de Nigris (22nd . Osvaldo Martínez ) coach: Víctor Manuel Vucetich	Nick Rimando - Chris Wingert , Nat Borchers , Robbie Russell (82nd Tony Beltran ), Jámison Olave - Will Johnson , Kyle Beckerman , Ned Grabavoy (61st Andy Williams ), Javier Morales - Álvaro Saborío (82nd Arturo Alvarez ), Fabián Espíndola Trainer: Jason Circle
	1-0 Aldo de Nigris (18th) 2-1 Humberto Suazo (63rd)	1: 1 Nat Borchers (35.) 2: 2 Javier Morales (89.)
	Aldo de Nigris (18th), Jesús Zavala (72.)	Kyle Beckerman (65.), Álvaro Saborío (72.), Andy Williams (74.)

Return leg

Real Salt Lake		CF Monterrey
	April 27, 2011 in Rio Tinto Stadium ( Sandy , USA ) Result: 0: 1 (0: 1) Spectators: 20,378 Referee: Roberto Moreno ( Panama )
	Nick Rimando - Chris Wingert , Nat Borchers , Robbie Russell (46th Tony Beltran ), Jámison Olave - Will Johnson , Ned Grabavoy , Andy Williams (64th Arturo Alvarez ), Javier Morales - Álvaro Saborío , Fabián Espíndola (85th Paulo Araujo Jr . ) Trainer: Jason Kreis	Jonathan Orozco - José María Basanta , Sergio Pérez , Héctor Morales , Hiram Mier , Ricardo Osorio - Neri Cardozo (77th Severo Meza ), Walter Ayoví , Osvaldo Martínez (73rd Duilio Davino ) - Humberto Suazo , Sergio Santana (60th Darío Carreño ) Coach: Víctor Manuel Vucetich
		0: 1 Humberto Suazo (45th + 1 ')
	Fabián Espíndola (30.)	Sergio Pérez (41.), Osvaldo Martínez (73.), Ricardo Osorio (74.), Neri Cardozo (74.), Humberto Suazo (90.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} 2010-2011 CONCACAF Champions League Schedule . CONCACAF. April 7, 2010. Archived from the original on June 1, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 9, 2010. 
2. ↑ CONCACAF Calendar - August 17, 2010 . CONCACAF. Archived from the original on August 20, 2010. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
3. ↑ RLS draw crew in CONCACAF Champions League . Major League Soccer. November 1, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2010.