The 2019 Campeones Cup was the second edition of the
Campeones Cup
The Campeones Cup is an annual North American association football match contested between the winners of the previous MLS Cup from Major League Soccer and the winners of the Campeón de Campeones from Liga MX. The competition was established by ...
, an annual North American
football
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match contested between the champions of the previous
Major League Soccer
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season and the winner of the
Campeón de Campeones
Campeón de Campeones () is an association football competition in Mexico and the domestic super cup between the Liga MX champions of the ''Apertura'' and ''Clausura'' tournaments. It was initially a super cup match between the league and cup cha ...
from
Liga MX
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.
The match featured
Atlanta United FC
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, winners of the
2018 MLS Cup
MLS Cup 2018 was the 23rd edition of the MLS Cup, the championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), which took place on December 8, 2018. It was the final match of the 2018 MLS Cup Playoffs and was contested by Atlanta United FC and the P ...
, and
América, winners of the
2019 Campeón de Campeones. Atlanta United hosted the match at
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
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in
Atlanta
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,
Georgia
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, United States, on August 14, 2019.
Venue
Atlanta United FC hosted the match at their home stadium,
Mercedes-Benz Stadium
Mercedes-Benz Stadium is a retractable roof multi-purpose stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Opened in 2017 as a replacement for the Georgia Dome, it is the home of the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) and Atlanta ...
in
Atlanta
Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...
,
Georgia
Georgia most commonly refers to:
* Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States
Georgia may also refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
, United States. The announced attendance was 40,128 (a Campeones Cup Record). Although the stadium can hold 71,000, the upper deck was curtained off, limiting the capacity to 42,000.
Match
Details
Statistics
References
External links
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2019
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2019 in American soccer
2019–20 in Mexican football
Atlanta United FC matches
Club América matches
2019 in sports in Georgia (U.S. state)
August 2019 sports events in the United States