The 2025 CONCACAF Central American Cup will be the third edition of the

CONCACAF Central American Cup The CONCACAF Central American Cup () is an international association football competition organized by CONCACAF as its top regional tournament for clubs from Central America. It serves as a qualification method for the CONCACAF Champions Cup. ...

, the first-tier annual international club

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competition in the

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n region, contested by clubs whose football associations are affiliated with the

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(UNCAF), a sub-confederation of

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. The winners of the 2025 CONCACAF Central American Cup will qualify directly for the

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Round of 16, while the second through sixth place teams will qualify to Round One of the same competition.

Teams

Twenty teams from the seven UNCAF member associations qualified for the tournament based on results from their domestic leagues. Eighteen slots were predetermined by CONCACAF while the remaining two slots were again granted to Costa Rica and Nicaragua as the national associations whose clubs were finalists in the previous edition of the tournament. The slot allocation for this edition was as follows: * Costa Rica: 3+1 berths * El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama: 3 berths * Nicaragua: 2+1 berths * Belize: 1 berth

Draw

Schedule

The schedule of the competition is as follows.

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

References

Notes

External links

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