2020 CONCACAF League

Qualification

• North American Zone: 1 team
• Central American Zone: 18 teams
• Caribbean Zone: 3 teams

North America

Central America

• In the league of Costa Rica, both champions, and the non-champions with the best aggregate record, qualify. If there is any team which are champions of both tournaments, the non-champions with the second best aggregate record qualify.
• In the leagues of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Panama, both champions, and the runners-up with the better aggregate record, qualify. If there is any team which are finalists of both tournaments, the runners-up with the worse aggregate record qualify. If there are any two teams which are finalists of both tournaments, the semi-finalists with the best aggregate record qualify.
• In the league of Nicaragua, both champions qualify. If there is any team which are champions of both tournaments, the runners-up with the better aggregate record qualify.
• In the league of Belize, the champions with the better aggregate record qualify.

Caribbean

Teams

• Ten teams enter in the round of 16: two each from Costa Rica, Honduras, and Panama, and one each from El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the Caribbean.
• Twelve teams enter in the preliminary round: two each from El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Caribbean, and one each from Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua, and Belize.

Draw

The draw for the 2020 CONCACAF League will be held in summer 2020.
The draw determines each tie in the preliminary round between a team from Pot 1 and a team from Pot 2, each containing six teams. The "Bracket Position Pots" contains the bracket positions numbered 1 through 6 corresponding to each tie. The teams from Pot 1 are assigned a bracket position from Pot A and the teams from Pot 2 are assigned a bracket position from Pot B. Teams from the same association cannot be drawn against each other in the preliminary round except for "wildcard" teams which replace a team from another association.
The draw also determines each tie in the round of 16 between a team from Pot 3 and a team from Pot 4, each containing eight teams, with the six preliminary round winners, whose identity is not known at the time of the draw, in Pot 4. The "Bracket Position Pots" contains the bracket positions numbered 1 through 8 corresponding to each tie. The teams from Pot 3 are assigned a bracket position from Pot A and the teams from Pot 4 are assigned a bracket position from Pot B.
The seeding of teams are based on the CONCACAF Club Index. The CONCACAF Club Index, instead of ranking each team, is based on the on-field performance of the teams that have occupied the respective qualifying slots in the previous five editions of the CONCACAF League and CONCACAF Champions League. To determine the total points awarded to a slot in any single edition of the CONCACAF League or CONCACAF Champions League, CONCACAF uses the following formula:

Points per	Participation	Win	Draw	Stage advanced	Champions
CONCACAF Champions League	4	3	1	1	2
CONCACAF League	2	3	1	0.5	1

Teams qualify for the CONCACAF League based on criteria set by their association, resulting in an assigned slot for each team.
The 22 teams are distributed in the pots as follows:

Pot	Rank	Slot	2015–16 CCL	2016–17 CCL	2017 CL or 2018 CCL	2018 CL or 2019 CCL	2019 CL	Total	Team
Pot 1	1		0	0				48.5	Alajuelense
Pot 1	2							35	FAS
Pot 1	3		0	0				31.5	Municipal Limeño
Pot 1	4		0	0				28	Independiente
Pot 1	5		0	0				26.5	Motagua
Pot 1	6							23.5
Pot 2	7							18	Verdes
Pot 2	8				0	0		17	Comunicaciones
Pot 2	9		0	0				16.5	Managua
Pot 2	10		0	0				12.5
Pot 2	11		0	0	0	0		12	Antigua GFC
Pot 2	12		0	0	0	0		9.5	Forge FC

Qualification to CONCACAF Champions League

Starting from the round of 16, teams are ranked based on their results. Based on the ranking, the top six teams, i.e., champions, runners-up, both losing semi-finalists, and best two losing quarter-finalists, qualify for the 2021 CONCACAF Champions League.