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International football competition
The 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A is the top division 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. The initial group stage was held from 5 September to 15 October 2024.
League A will culminate with the Nations League Finals in March 2025 to crown the champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.
This edition of the CONCACAF Nations League A will serve to determine the four teams that qualify directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States. The top four teams will qualify for the final tournament while the remaining League A teams can still qualify via the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
Format
League A maintains the same format introduced for the 2023–24 season, consisting of a group stage, a quarter-finals round and the finals. The 16 involved teams entering the competition in the group stage or directly into the quarter-finals according to their position in the CONCACAF Rankings (as of 31 March 2024), with the 12 lowest-ranked teams entering the group stage and the top 4 ranked teams receiving a direct pass to the quarter-final round.
The group stage consisted of two groups of six teams, with each team playing four matches against opponents of its group (two at home and two away) on a Swiss-system basis. The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals where they will join the four teams that qualified directly to this round. The bottom two teams from each group were relegated to the 2026–27 CONCACAF Nations League B, but also advanced to the play-in round, in which they will join four teams from League C in order to compete to qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
The quarter-finals will be played on a two-legged home-and-away basis, with the four winners advancing to the Nations League Finals and qualifying directly to the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Nations League Finals, consisting of a semi-final round, third place play-off and the final match, will be played in March 2025 at a centralised venue in Inglewood, California.
2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
As announced by CONCACAF in February 2023, the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League will serve as a qualifier for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. League A teams will qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament or the Gold Cup qualification tournament (also called CONCACAF Gold Cup prelims) or advance to the play-in round based on their performance in the group stage and quarter-finals round, as follows:
The four quarter-finals winners (i.e., the 4 teams involved in the finals) will qualify directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
The third and fourth placed teams of each group also qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.
The fifth and sixth placed teams of each group advanced to the play-in round, where they will face the top four teams in the League C for the last four slots in the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.
Teams
A total of sixteen national teams contest the League A, including the top twelve sides from the 2023–24 season and four promoted from the 2023–24 League B.
Team changes
The following were the team changes in League A regarding the 2023–24 season:
French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Guyana reached the top flight of the CONCACAF Nations League for the first time, with French Guaiana and Guyana spending the first three seasons in League B while Guadeloupe started in League C in the inaugural edition before spending two seasons in League B. Nicaragua had already been promoted to the League A in the previous season but were disqualified for regulatory reasons before the start of the season, so this was their first appearance in CONCACAF Nations League A.
Seeding
The pots were confirmed on 19 April 2024, with the lowest twelve League A ranked teams, based on the CONCACAF Rankings as of 31 March 2024, being split into six pots of two teams. The top four ranked teams (Mexico, the United States, Panama and Canada) were directly seeded in the quarter-finals.
The group stage draw was held on 6 May 2024, 19:00 EDT (UTC−4), in Miami, Florida, United States, where the twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The draw began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group A and then selecting the remaining team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group B. The draw continued with the same procedure done for the remaining pots.
The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 23 May 2024. All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The quarter-finals pairings were determined based on the CONCACAF Rankings published after the October 2024 FIFA Match Window for the four pre-seeded teams and the group stage results for the winners and runners-up of each group.
Quarter-final 1 (QF1): Fourth-ranked pre-seeded team vs Best ranked group winner
Quarter-final 2 (QF2): Third-ranked pre-seeded team vs Worst ranked group winner
Quarter-final 3 (QF3): Second-ranked pre-seeded team vs Best ranked group runner-up
Quarter-final 4 (QF4): First-ranked pre-seeded team vs Worst ranked group runner-up
Each tie was played on a home-and-away two-legged basis, with the order of legs being decided by the four pre-seeded teams that received a direct bye to the quarter-finals (Canada, Mexico, Panama and the United States). If the aggregate score was level at the end of the second leg the away goals rule was applied. If away goals were also equal, then 30 minutes of extra time was played without taking into account the away goals rule during this time. If still tied after extra time, the tie was decided by a penalty shoot-out.
The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 23 May 2024, with the matchups being confirmed on 16 October 2024. All match times are in EST (UTC−5) as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The four teams were ranked based on their results in the two quarter-finals legs to determine the semi-final matchups. The first seed will play the fourth seed and the second seed will play the third seed.
There have been 84 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.62 goals per match (as of 19 November 2024). Players highlighted in bold are still active in the competition.
French Guiana played their home match against Honduras at Stade omnisport, Sinnamary instead of the originally scheduled Stade Municipal Dr. Edmard Lama, Remire-Montjoly which did not meet CONCACAF requirements (playing field in poor condition).
Cuba
French Guiana
Guadeloupe
Guyana
Jamaica
Costa Rica
Honduras
Guatemala
Trinidad and Tobago
Martinique
Nicaragua
Suriname
43' (pen.)
Panama
United States
Canada
Mexico