League A: 16 Teams (Group Stage and Quarterfinals)<\/p>\n
League A will feature 16 national teams, including a Group Stage and Quarterfinals. The 12 lowest-ranked League A teams, based on the Concacaf Rankings, will compete in a Swiss-style Group Stage format, split into two groups of six teams each. Every team will play four matches \u2013 two home and two away.<\/p>\n
Group A<\/p>\n
Costa Rica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Cura\u00e7ao, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic<\/p>\n
Group B<\/p>\n
Honduras, Jamaica, Guatemala, Suriname, Martinique, El Salvador<\/p>\n
Following Group Stage play in the September-October FIFA Match Window, the top two finishers from each group will advance to the Quarterfinals, joining the four highest-ranked League A teams \u2013 Mexico (1), United States (2), Canada (3), and Panama (4) \u2013 who receive direct entry.<\/p>\n
The matchups for the Quarterfinals will be determined based on the competition regulations, and are as follows:<\/p>\n
QF1: Fourth-ranked seeded team vs Best first place (1A\/1B)
\nQF2: Third-ranked seeded team vs Next best first place (1A\/1B)
\nQF3: Second-ranked seeded team vs Best second place (2A\/2B)
\nQF4: Best-ranked seeded team vs Next best second place (2A\/2B)<\/p>\n
The Quarterfinals will be played in a home-and-away series in November 2026, with aggregate winners advancing to the Concacaf Nations League Finals, to be played at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League A: 16 Teams (Group Stage and Quarterfinals) League A will feature 16 national teams, including a Group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-780983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}