2023 Leagues Cup

Soccer tournament held in Canada and the United States

2023 Leagues Cup

Tournament details
Host countries| Canada
United States
Dates| July 21 – August 19
Teams| 47 (from 3 associations)
Venue(s)| 30 (in 30 host cities)
Final positions
Champions|  Inter Miami CF (1st title)
Runners-up|  Nashville SC
Third place|  Philadelphia Union
Fourth place|  Monterrey
Tournament statistics
Matches played| 77
Goals scored| 251 (3.26 per match)
Attendance| 1,328,669 (17,255 per match)
Top scorer(s)|  Lionel Messi
(10 goals)
Best player(s)|  Lionel Messi
Best goalkeeper|  Drake Callender

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2024 →

International football competition

The 2023 Leagues Cup was the third edition of the Leagues Cup, an international club soccer tournament between Major League Soccer (MLS) and Liga MX. It was held from July 21 to August 19, 2023, with all 77 matches held in either Canada and the United States. The tournament was organized by the two leagues (MLS and Liga MX) and sanctioned by CONCACAF, the continental governing body for the sport in North America, Central America and Caribbean.[1]

Inter Miami CF won the tournament after defeating Nashville SC on penalties in the final at Geodis Park in Nashville, Tennessee. Miami's Lionel Messi was the top goalscorer and awarded the best player of the Leagues Cup.[2]

For the first time in the history of the competition, all MLS and Liga MX teams (47 total) competed in the tournament, with both leagues taking a pause in their respective seasons to participate.[3] In addition, the Leagues Cup finalists and third-place team earned berths to the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup, with winners Inter Miami automatically advancing to that tournament's round of 16.

## Format

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The starting lineups of Seattle Sounders FC (in green) and Monterrey (in white) prior to their group stage match

The 2023 Leagues Cup was the first edition where all MLS and Liga MX teams participated. The MLS Cup 2022 winners (Los Angeles FC) and the 2022 Clausura or 2022 Apertura champions with the highest aggregate points accumulated across 2022 (Pachuca) qualified automatically for the round of 32. The remaining 45 teams were placed into 15 groups of three.[4][5]

For the group stage, teams played one match against each team in their group. Regulation wins were worth three points and regulation losses are zero points. Matches tied after 90 minutes advanced to a penalty shoot-out, where the winner earned two points and the loser earned one. All matches were held in either Canada and United States, with the MLS teams playing at home and intra-Liga MX matches played at MLS venues depending on their region.[1][4][5] Matches disrupted by inclement weather, including thunderstorms, were delayed or postponed to another date to resume at the time of the stoppage.[6]

Tie-breaking criteria for group play

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:[7]: 13

1. Points obtained in all group matches;
2. Direct head-to-head match result between the tied clubs (for clarity, a victory on penalties was considered a win for purposes of this tiebreaker);
3. Better goal differential between goals scored and goals conceded during the group stage;
4. Greater number of goals scored during the group stage;
5. Fewer number of goals conceded during the group stage;
6. Clubs fair play table

* First yellow card: –1 point
* Second yellow card (indirect red card): –3 points (The first yellow card was not considered)
* Direct red card: –3 points
* Yellow card followed by a direct red card: –4 points;

7. A draw organized by the organizing committee.

The top two teams in each group advanced to the round of 32, joining the MLS Cup winners and highest-ranked Liga MX champion. This phase of the tournament was a five-round single-leg knockout format with a third place match. As was the case during the group stage, knockout stage matches tied after 90 minutes were decided by a penalty shoot-out.[7]: 14  The two finalists and third place team earned berths for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup, with the winners automatically advancing to the Champions Cup round of 16.[1]

## Teams and draw

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The competition featured all 47 clubs from the two leagues: 29 from MLS and 18 from Liga MX.[8] Teams were ranked by league using the 2022 Supporters' Shield table for MLS and the 2022 aggregate table for Liga MX. The champions of each league received a bye to the knockout stage as the highest seed. The top 15 remaining teams from each league were placed into groups based on ranking and in reverse order (for example, the 2nd-ranked MLS club was drawn against the 16th-ranked Liga MX club). The remaining teams (13 MLS and 2 Liga MX) were drawn into groups and divided into geographical regions. The first two teams of every group were seeded. The third team was the nearest geographically located unseeded team to the other two teams.[4]

MLS (2022 Supporters' Shield table)  | Rank | Team | Pot

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1 | Los Angeles FC | Bye
2 | Philadelphia Union | Seeded
3 | CF Montréal | Seeded
4 | Austin FC | Seeded
5 | New York City FC | Seeded
6 | New York Red Bulls | Seeded
7 | FC Dallas | Seeded
8 | LA Galaxy | Seeded
9 | Nashville SC | Seeded
10 | FC Cincinnati | Seeded
11 | Minnesota United FC | Seeded
12 | Inter Miami CF | Seeded
13 | Orlando City SC | Seeded
14 | Real Salt Lake | Seeded
15 | Portland Timbers | Seeded
16 | Columbus Crew | Seeded
17 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | Unseeded
18 | Colorado Rapids | Unseeded
19 | Charlotte FC | Unseeded
20 | New England Revolution | Unseeded
21 | Seattle Sounders FC | Unseeded
22 | Sporting Kansas City | Unseeded
23 | Atlanta United FC | Unseeded
24 | Chicago Fire FC | Unseeded
25 | Houston Dynamo FC | Unseeded
26 | San Jose Earthquakes | Unseeded
27 | Toronto FC | Unseeded
28 | D.C. United | Unseeded
–[a] | St. Louis City SC | Unseeded
Liga MX (2022 aggregate table)  | Rank | Team | Pot

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1 | Pachuca | Bye
2 | América | Seeded
3 | UANL | Seeded
4 | Monterrey | Seeded
5 | Santos Laguna | Seeded
6 | Cruz Azul | Seeded
7 | Puebla | Seeded
8 | Guadalajara | Seeded
9 | Toluca | Seeded
10 | León | Seeded
11 | Necaxa | Seeded
12 | Atlético San Luis | Seeded
13 | Atlas | Seeded
14 | Mazatlán | Seeded
15 | UNAM | Seeded
16 | Tijuana | Seeded
17 | Juárez | Unseeded
18 | Querétaro | Unseeded

Teams receiving bye to knockout stage.

Teams assigned to a group based on league ranking.

Teams drawn into a group.

1. ^

St. Louis City SC joined Major League Soccer in 2023 and therefore had no 2022 season ranking.

## Schedule

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The schedule of the competition was as follows:[9]

Schedule for 2023 Leagues Cup  Phase  | Round  | Date

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Group stage  | Matchday 1  | July 21–23, 2023
Matchday 2  | July 25–27, 2023
Matchday 3  | July 29–31, 2023
Knockout stage  | Round of 32  | August 2–4, 2023
Round of 16  | August 6–8, 2023
Quarter-finals  | August 11–12, 2023
Semi-finals  | August 15, 2023
Third place play-off  | August 19, 2023
Final

## Group stage

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Main article: 2023 Leagues Cup group stage

The group stage was played from July 21 to 31.[10] Competing teams were divided into fifteen groups of three teams. Teams in each group played one another in a single round-robin, where the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage.

### West

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West 1  | West 2  | West 3

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| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  UANL | 2  | 6
2  |  Portland Timbers | 2  | 3
3  |  San Jose Earthquakes | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Monterrey | 2  | 6
2  |  Real Salt Lake | 2  | 3
3  |  Seattle Sounders FC | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  León | 2  | 5
2  |  Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 2  | 4
3  |  LA Galaxy | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

### Central

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Central 1  | Central 2

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| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Columbus Crew | 2  | 6
2  |  América | 2  | 3
3  |  St. Louis City SC | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Chicago Fire FC | 2  | 4
2  |  Minnesota United FC | 2  | 3
3  |  Puebla | 2  | 2

Source: Leagues Cup

Central 3  | Central 4

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  FC Cincinnati | 2  | 5
2  |  Sporting Kansas City | 2  | 4
3  |  Guadalajara | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Toluca | 2  | 6
2  |  Nashville SC | 2  | 3
3  |  Colorado Rapids | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

### South

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South 1  | South 2

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| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Mazatlán | 2  | 5
2  |  Juárez | 2  | 4
3  |  Austin FC | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Orlando City SC | 2  | 5
2  |  Houston Dynamo FC | 2  | 3
3  |  Santos Laguna | 2  | 1

Source: Leagues Cup

South 3  | South 4

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Inter Miami CF | 2  | 6
2  |  Cruz Azul | 2  | 2
3  |  Atlanta United FC | 2  | 1

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Charlotte FC | 2  | 5
2  |  FC Dallas | 2  | 4
3  |  Necaxa | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

### East

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East 1  | East 2

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| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Philadelphia Union | 2  | 6
2  |  Querétaro | 2  | 3
3  |  Tijuana | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  UNAM | 2  | 4
2  |  D.C. United | 2  | 3
3  |  CF Montréal | 2  | 2

Source: Leagues Cup

East 3  | East 4

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  Atlas | 2  | 6
2  |  New York City FC | 2  | 3
3  |  Toronto FC | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

| Pos | Team

* v
* t
* e

| Pld | Pts

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1  |  New York Red Bulls | 2  | 5
2  |  New England Revolution | 2  | 4
3  |  Atlético San Luis | 2  | 0

Source: Leagues Cup

## Knockout stage

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Main article: 2023 Leagues Cup knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if the scores were equal at the end of regulation time, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winners.[7]: 15

The host team was determined by several criteria, including group winner for round of 32 and the 2022 regular season standings for matches between two MLS clubs, where the team with the higher number of points hosted starting in round of 16. For MLS vs. Liga MX matches, the MLS club hosted. Matches between two Liga MX teams were hosted at a neutral venue appointed by the Organizing Committee from a predetermined list.[11]

### Bracket

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| Round of 32| | Round of 16| | Quarter-finals| | Semi-finals| | Final

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|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

| August 2 – Los Angeles, CA| | | | | | | | | | |

|  Los Angeles FC| 7

| August 8 – Los Angeles, CA

|  Juárez| 1 |

|  Los Angeles FC| 4

| August 4 – Sandy, UT

| |  Real Salt Lake| 0 |

|  León| 1

| | August 11 – Pasadena, CA

|  Real Salt Lake| 3 |

|  Los Angeles FC| 2

| August 4 – Vancouver, BC

| |  Monterrey| 3 |

|  UANL| 1 (5)

| August 8 – Houston, TX|

|  Vancouver Whitecaps FC| 1 (3) |

|  UANL| 0

| August 4 – Portland, OR

| |  Monterrey| 1 |

|  Monterrey| 1

| | August 15 – Nashville, TN

|  Portland Timbers| 0 |

|  Monterrey| 0

| August 4 – Columbus, OH

| |  Nashville SC| 2 |

|  Columbus Crew| 3 (3)

| August 8 – Saint Paul, MN|

|  Minnesota United FC (p)| 3 (4) |

|  Minnesota United FC (p)| 2 (4)

| August 4 – Kansas City, KS

| |  Toluca| 2 (2) |

|  Toluca| 4

| | August 11 – Nashville, TN

|  Sporting Kansas City| 1 |

|  Minnesota United FC| 0

| August 4 – Bridgeview, IL

| |  Nashville SC| 5 |

|  Chicago Fire FC | 0

| August 8 – Nashville, TN|

|  América | 1 |

|  América| 2 (5)

| August 4 – Cincinnati, OH

| |  Nashville SC (p)| 2 (6) |

|  FC Cincinnati| 1 (4)

| | August 19 – Nashville, TN

|  Nashville SC (p)| 1 (5) |

|  Nashville SC| 1 (9)

| August 3 – Chester, PA

| |  Inter Miami CF (p)| 1 (10)

|  Philadelphia Union (p)| 0 (5)

| August 8 – Chester, PA|

|  D.C. United| 0 (4) |

|  Philadelphia Union (p)| 1 (4)

| August 3 – Harrison, NJ

| |  New York Red Bulls| 1 (3) |

|  New York Red Bulls| 1

| | August 11 – Chester, PA

|  New York City FC| 0 |

|  Philadelphia Union| 2

| August 3 – Washington, D.C.

| |  Querétaro| 1 |

|  UNAM| 0

| August 7 – Foxborough, MA|

|  Querétaro| 1 |

|  Querétaro (p)| 1 (4)

| August 3 – Foxborough, MA

| |  New England Revolution| 1 (3) |

|  Atlas| 2 (7)

| | August 15 – Chester, PA

|  New England Revolution (p)| 2 (8) |

|  Philadelphia Union| 1

| August 2 – Frisco, TX

| |  Inter Miami CF| 4 | | Third place play-off

|  Mazatlán| 1

| August 6 – Frisco, TX| | August 19 – Chester, PA

|  FC Dallas| 2 |

|  FC Dallas| 4 (3)|  Philadelphia Union| 3

| August 2 – Fort Lauderdale, FL

| |  Inter Miami CF (p)| 4 (5) | |  Monterrey| 0

|  Inter Miami CF| 3

| | August 11 – Fort Lauderdale, FL|

|  Orlando City SC| 1 |

|  Inter Miami CF| 4

| August 2 – Houston, TX

| |  Charlotte FC| 0 |

|  Pachuca| 0 (3)

| August 7 – Houston, TX|

|  Houston Dynamo FC (p)| 0 (5) |

|  Houston Dynamo FC| 1

| August 3 – Frisco, TX

| |  Charlotte FC| 2 |

|  Charlotte FC (p)| 0 (4)

|  Cruz Azul| 0 (3) |

### Round of 32

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The matches were played from August 2 to 4, 2023.

Team 1  |  Score  | Team 2

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Inter Miami CF | 3–1 |  Orlando City SC
Mazatlán | 1–2 |  FC Dallas
Pachuca | 0–0 (3–5 p) |  Houston Dynamo FC
Los Angeles FC | 7–1 |  Juárez
Atlas | 2–2 (7–8 p) |  New England Revolution
Philadelphia Union | 0–0 (5–4 p) |  D.C. United
UNAM | 0–1 |  Querétaro
New York Red Bulls | 1–0 |  New York City FC
Charlotte FC | 0–0 (4–3 p) |  Cruz Azul
León | 1–3 |  Real Salt Lake
Columbus Crew | 3–3 (3–4 p) |  Minnesota United FC
FC Cincinnati | 1–1 (4–5 p) |  Nashville SC
Chicago Fire FC | 0–1 |  América
Toluca | 4–1 |  Sporting Kansas City
Monterrey | 1–0 |  Portland Timbers
UANL | 1–1 (5–3 p) |  Vancouver Whitecaps FC

### Round of 16

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The matches were played from August 6 to 8, 2023.

Team 1  |  Score  | Team 2

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FC Dallas | 4–4 (3–5 p) |  Inter Miami CF
Querétaro | 1–1 (4–3 p) |  New England Revolution
Charlotte FC | 2–1 |  Houston Dynamo FC
América | 2–2 (5–6 p) |  Nashville SC
Philadelphia Union | 1–1 (4–3 p) |  New York Red Bulls
Toluca | 2–2 (2–4 p) |  Minnesota United FC
UANL | 0–1 |  Monterrey
Los Angeles FC | 4–0 |  Real Salt Lake

### Quarter-finals

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The matches were played on August 11, 2023.

Team 1  |  Score  | Team 2

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Inter Miami CF | 4–0 |  Charlotte FC
Nashville SC | 5–0 |  Minnesota United FC
Philadelphia Union | 2–1 |  Querétaro
Los Angeles FC | 2–3 |  Monterrey

### Semi-finals

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The matches were played on August 15, 2023.

Team 1  |  Score  | Team 2

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Philadelphia Union | 1–4 |  Inter Miami CF
Monterrey | 0–2 |  Nashville SC

### Third place play-off

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The winner of the third place match qualified for the first round of the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup.

August 19, 2023 (2023-08-19)

18:00

Philadelphia Union | 3–0|  Monterrey

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* Bueno 1'
* Uhre 45+2'
* Bedoya 69'

| Report |

Subaru Park, Chester, Pennsylvania

Attendance: 17,731

Referee: Juan Calderón

### Final

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Main article: 2023 Leagues Cup final

Both clubs qualified for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions Cup, with the winners qualifying directly to the round of 16.

August 19, 2023 (2023-08-19)

8:00 p.m. CDT

Nashville SC | 1–1|  Inter Miami CF

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* Picault 57'

| Report |

* Messi 23'

Penalties

* Mukhtar
* Leal
* Godoy
* Zimmerman
* Surridge
* Moore
* Lovitz
* MacNaughton
* Davis
* Shaffelburg
* Panicco

| 9–10 |

* Messi
* Busquets
* Campana
* Miller
* Ulloa
* Kryvtsov
* Alba
* Gómez
* Ruiz
* Yedlin
* Callender

Geodis Park, Nashville, Tennessee

Attendance: 30,109

Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

## Statistics

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### Top goalscorers

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Note: Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs are not counted towards players' goal counts or to match goal counts.[12]

Team eliminated for this round.

Player was inactive for this round.

Rank  | Player  | Team  | MD1 | MD2 | MD3 | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | 3rd | F | Total

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1  |  Lionel Messi |  Inter Miami CF | 1 | 2 |  | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |  | 1  | 10
2  |  Bongokuhle Hlongwane |  Minnesota United FC | 2 | 2 |  | 2 | 1 |  |  | 7
3  |  Denis Bouanga |  Los Angeles FC |  | 3 | 2 | 1 |  | 6
4  |  Germán Berterame |  Monterrey |  | 2 | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 5
Brandon Vázquez |  FC Cincinnati | 1 | 3 |  | 1 |
6  |  Dániel Gazdag |  Philadelphia Union | 1 | 3 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4
Robert Taylor |  Inter Miami CF | 1 | 2 |  |  |  | 1 |  |  |
8  |  Gustavo Bou |  New England Revolution |  | 1 |  | 2 |  |  | 3
Cucho Hernández |  Columbus Crew | 1 |  | 2 |  |
Josef Martínez |  Inter Miami CF |  |  |  | 1 |  | 1 | 1 |  |
Fafà Picault |  Nashville SC |  | 1 |  |  |  |  | 1 |  | 1
Harold Preciado |  Santos Laguna |  | 2 | 1 |
Sam Surridge |  Nashville SC |  |  |  |  | 1 | 1 | 1 |  |
Giacomo Vrioni |  New England Revolution |  | 3 |  |  |  |

## Marketing and symbols

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The official song of the tournament was "Tiki Taka Toco", sung in Spanish by California-based Mexicana group Fuerza Regida. A short instrumental version of the song is used for match broadcasts on MLS Season Pass as well as advertisements and stadium announcements.[13] The marketing for the tournament focused heavily on the arrival of Lionel Messi at Inter Miami CF, which was credited with increasing subscriptions and viewership;[14] on the day of Messi's debut for Miami, subscriptions to MLS Season Pass rose by 110,000 in the United States.[15]

## Controversies

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This edition received accusations of being designed to favor MLS teams. Most notably, the fact that all matches were played at MLS venues in Canada or United States.[16][17] Some Mexican coaches and players considered the format unfair, since there was no games in Mexico. For example, Nicolás Larcamón, coach of Club León stated: "there is a benefit for the MLS teams, on their field, in their environment, in their climate. I would love to have a second game in León, It would be ideal to play in both stadiums to equilibrate the balance".[18]

The Mexican (and LAFC) player Carlos Vela declared: "Obviously, for me, the fairest thing is we should also had games in Mexico, that it shouldn't be all playing in the United States, so that everyone could had a little bit of playing away, at home, and being a little more even" he also added: "Not only does (being local) benefit, the Mexican team has to be away from their home and their families for a long time and it is not fair. I believe that, if you hold a tournament, everyone must have the same possibilities, or the same advantages and disadvantages, in that aspect I think that those from the MLS have a little more advantage, (Although) in the end we know that anything can happen on the field ".[19]

Noticeably, this was also reflected in a greater travel effort for the Mexican squads since the 18 Liga MX clubs traveled more than twice as many kilometers as all 29 in the MLS. Mexicans added an estimated 69,495 km; while combined Americans and Canadians, only 33,995. The criticism was more severe from the president of Club Monterrey, who, prior to their match against Los Angeles FC, pointed out that the Mexicans had moved more than 9,000 km, while throughout the Leagues Cup the team from the MLS had not left the Los Angeles metropolitan area.[16][20]

"It'll be our fifth game (traveling), while LA(FC) will be home with their players eating dinner with their families every night, going to the movies, resting," he stated.[17]

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