
Houston Dynamo FC to Face Santos Laguna and Orlando City SC in the Leagues Cup 2023
January 20, 2023 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Houston Dynamo FC News Release
HOUSTON - Major League Soccer and LIGA MX announced the groups for the 2023 Leagues Cup earlier today. Houston Dynamo FC will compete against Orlando City SC and Santos Laguna from Mexico in one of the four groups in the South Region.
Tickets for Leagues Cup 2023 games and all home matches for the Dynamo at the newly renovated Shell Energy Stadium will be available on HoustonDynamoFC.com or by calling 713-276-GOAL. Dynamo 365 Members and fans who purchase the nine-game plan will receive a ticket to the first Leagues Cup game later this year.
The Leagues Cup 2023, an official Concacaf competition where all 47 clubs - 18 from LIGA MX and 29 from MLS - will play in a World Cup-style tournament that will qualify three clubs for the 2024 Concacaf Champions League. The inaugural edition of Leagues Cup will take place July 21- August 19, 2023.
The tournament groups are based on clubs' 2022 performance along with their geographic regions. The 15 groups will be broken up into four regions: West, Central, South and East. Each region will have four groups, except the West, which will have three groups due to LAFC's entrance in the Knockout Stage. Pachuca will enter the Knockout Stage in the South, opposite side of the bracket from the MLS Cup Champion and opposite quadrant from the top MLS seeded club based on the final 2022 Supporters' Shield standings.
The top 15 MLS clubs - excluding the MLS Cup champion - have been placed in their corresponding geographic region first, and then based on their position in the final 2022 Supporters' Shield standings. The top 15 LIGA MX teams, based on the combined Clausura 2022 and Apertura 2022 standings - excluding the LIGA MX champion as described above - have been paired in reverse order with the top 15 MLS clubs (No. 15 LIGA MX seeded club has been paired with No. 1 MLS seeded club and so on).
Continuing with the competitive balance criteria, the remaining 13 MLS clubs have been placed in the groups, again based first on their geographic region, and then based on their position in the final 2022 Supporters' Shield standings.
Every team will play two matches in the Group Stage, with the top two teams from each group, as determined by points, advancing to the Knockout Stage Round of 32. No matches in the Leagues Cup Group Stage will end in a tie. If a game is tied after 90 minutes, the game will proceed to a penalty shootout. For tiebreakers and other competition items, the Leagues Cup 2023 Competition Guidelines will be published in the coming months.
The Leagues Cup 2023 bracket and schedule will be announced in the coming months.
Fans around the world will be able to watch Leagues Cup* on MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app, which is available on Apple devices, smart TVs, streaming devices from Roku, Amazon, and Google, game consoles, and the web at tv.apple.com. In addition, TelevisaUnivision, FOX Sports, TSN and RDS will be the linear broadcast home for select matches in Leagues Cup. The Leagues Cup Final will be available on Univision.
As previously announced, IMG Arena will be the data distribution partner for Leagues Cup.
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