2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A
The 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League A was the top division of the 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. The initial group stage was held from 5 September to 15 October 2024.
League A culminated with the Nations League Finals in March 2025 to crown the champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.
This edition of the CONCACAF Nations League A served to determine the four teams that qualify directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States. The top four teams qualified for the final tournament, while the remaining League A teams could still qualify via the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
Format
League A maintained the same format introduced for the 2023–24 season, consisting of a group stage, a quarter-finals round and the finals. The 16 involved teams entered the competition in the group stage or directly into the quarter-finals according to their position in the CONCACAF Rankings, with the 12 lowest-ranked teams entering the group stage and the top four ranked teams receiving a direct pass to the quarter-final round.The group stage consisted of two groups of six teams, with each team playing four matches against opponents of its group on a Swiss-system basis. The top two teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals where they joined the four teams that qualified directly to this round. The bottom two teams from each group were relegated to the 2026–27 CONCACAF Nations League B, but also advanced to the play-in round, in which they joined four teams from League C in order to compete to qualify for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
The quarter-finals were played on a two-legged home-and-away basis, with the four winners advancing to the Nations League Finals and qualifying directly to the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Nations League Finals, consisting of a semi-final round, third place play-off and the final match, were played in March 2025 at a centralised venue in Inglewood, California.
2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification
As announced by CONCACAF in February 2023, the 2024–25 CONCACAF Nations League served as a qualifier for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. League A teams qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup final tournament or the Gold Cup qualification tournament or advanced to the play-in round based on their performance in the group stage and quarter-finals round, as follows:- The four quarter-finals winners qualified directly for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
- The four quarter-finals losers qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
- The third and fourth placed teams of each group also qualified for the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
- The fifth and sixth placed teams of each group advanced to the play-in round, where they faced the top four teams in the League C for the last four slots in the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification tournament.
Teams
A total of sixteen national teams contested League A, including the top twelve sides from the 2023–24 season and four promoted from the 2023–24 League B.Team changes
The following were the team changes in League A regarding the 2023–24 season:Teams promoted from League BFrench Guiana, Guadeloupe and Guyana reached the top flight of the CONCACAF Nations League for the first time, with French Guaiana and Guyana spending the first three seasons in League B while Guadeloupe started in League C in the inaugural edition before spending two seasons in League B. Nicaragua had already been promoted to the League A in the previous season but were disqualified for regulatory reasons before the start of the season, so this was their first appearance in CONCACAF Nations League A.SeedingThe pots were confirmed on 19 April 2024, with the lowest twelve League A ranked teams, based on the CONCACAF Rankings as of 31 March 2024, being split into six pots of two teams. The top four ranked teams were directly seeded in the quarter-finals.
DrawThe group stage draw was held on 6 May 2024, 19:00 EDT, in Miami, Florida, United States, where the twelve involved teams were drawn into two groups of six. The draw began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group A and then selecting the remaining team from Pot 1 and placing them into Group B. The draw continued with the same procedure done for the remaining pots.The draw resulted in the following groups:
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