2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League group stage

The 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League group stage was played from August 2 to October 20, 2016.^[1] A total of 24 teams competed in the group stage to decide the eight places in the knockout stage of the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League.^[2]

Draw

The draw for the tournament was held on May 30, 2016, 20:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.^[3][4][5]

The 24 teams were drawn into eight groups of three, with each group containing one team from each of the three pots. Teams from the same association (excluding "wildcard" teams which replace a team from another association) could not be drawn with each other in the group stage, and teams from Mexico and the United States had to be drawn into separate groups.^[2]

The allocation of teams to each pot was based on the results of the last four editions of the competition under the current format:^[3]

• Pot 1 contained the second team from Panama, two teams from El Salvador, one team each from Nicaragua and Belize, and three teams from the Caribbean.
• Pot 2 contained two teams each from Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala, the first team from Panama, and one team from Canada.
• Pot 3 contained four teams each from Mexico and the United States.

Pot 1
Plaza Amador	Alianza	Dragón	Real Estelí
Police United	Central	W Connection	Don Bosco
Pot 2
Herediano	Saprissa	Olimpia	Honduras Progreso
Suchitepéquez	Antigua	Árabe Unido	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Pot 3
UANL	Pachuca	UNAM	Monterrey
Portland Timbers	New York Red Bulls	FC Dallas	Sporting Kansas City

Format

In the group stage, each group was played on a home-and-away round-robin basis. The winners of each group advanced to the quarter-finals of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order (Regulations, II. D. Tie-Breaker Procedures):^[2]

1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
3. Away goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
4. Goal difference in all group matches;
5. Goals scored in all group matches;
6. Away goals scored in all group matches;
7. Drawing of lots.

Groups

The matchdays were August 2–4, August 16–18, August 23–25, September 13–15, September 27–29, and October 18–20, 2016.^[1]

All times U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UNA	HON	WCO
1	UNAM	4	3	0	1	15	5	+10	9	Quarter-finals		—	2−0	8−1
2	Honduras Progreso	4	2	1	1	4	4	0	7			2–1	—	1–0
3	W Connection	4	0	1	3	4	14	−10	1			2–4	1–1	—

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Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAP	POR	DRA
1	Saprissa	4	2	2	0	11	3	+8	8	Quarter-finals		—	4–2	6−0
2	Portland Timbers	4	2	1	1	7	7	0	7			1−1	—	2–1
3	Dragón	4	0	1	3	2	10	−8	1			0−0	1–2	—

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Group C

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		VAN	SKC	CEN
1	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	4	4	0	0	10	2	+8	12	Quarter-finals		—	3–0	4–1
2	Sporting Kansas City	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4			1–2	—	3–1
3	Central	4	0	1	3	4	10	−6	1			0–1	2–2	—

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Group D

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		ÁRA	MON	DON
1	Árabe Unido	4	4	0	0	12	5	+7	12	Quarter-finals		—	2–1	2–0
2	Monterrey	4	2	0	2	9	5	+4	6			2–3	—	3–0
3	Don Bosco	4	0	0	4	2	13	−11	0			2–5	0–3	—

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Group E

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		PAC	OLI	POL
1	Pachuca	4	3	1	0	19	4	+15	10	Quarter-finals		—	1–0	3–0
2	Olimpia	4	2	1	1	13	6	+7	7			4–4	—	4–0
3	Police United	4	0	0	4	1	23	−22	0			0–11	1–5	—

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Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		NYR	ALI	ANT
1	New York Red Bulls	4	2	2	0	5	1	+4	8	Quarter-finals		—	1–0	3–0
2	Alianza	4	1	2	1	5	4	+1	5			1–1	—	1–1
3	Antigua	4	0	2	2	2	7	−5	2			0–0	1–3	—

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Group G

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		UAN	HER	PLA
1	UANL	4	3	0	1	9	3	+6	9	Quarter-finals		—	3–0	3–1
2	Herediano	4	1	1	2	4	7	−3	4			1–3	—	2–0
3	Plaza Amador	4	1	1	2	3	6	−3	4			1–0	1–1	—

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Group H

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		DAL	SUC	EST
1	FC Dallas	4	2	2	0	8	4	+4	8	Quarter-finals		—	0–0	2–1
2	Suchitepéquez	4	1	2	1	4	6	−2	5			2–5	—	1–0
3	Real Estelí	4	0	2	2	3	5	−2	2			1–1	1–1	—

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References

External links

• CONCACAF "Champions League". Archived 2015-12-12 at the Wayback Machine.