The 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League A was the top division of the 2022–23 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the second season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. The group stage was held from 2 June 2022 to 28 March 2023.[1]
League A culminated with the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League Finals in June 2023 to crown the champions of the CONCACAF Nations League.[2] These matches were played at Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, United States.[3]
The top eight teams qualified to the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup, and the remaining four teams entered the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification.
League A consisted of twelve teams. The league was split into four groups of three teams. The teams competed in a home-and-away round-robin format over the course of the group phase, with matches being played in the official FIFA match windows in June 2022 and March 2023. The four group winners qualified for the Nations League Finals. As a result of a format change, no teams were relegated this season.[4]
The following were the team changes of League A from the 2019–20 season:
The draw for the 2022-23 CONCACAF Nations League took place in Miami, Florida, United States on 4 April 2022, 19:00 EDT. Each of the League's draws began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1 and placing them in Group A of their respective league. The draws continued by selecting the remaining teams from Pot 1 and positioning them into Groups B, C and D in sequential order. The same procedure was done for the remaining pots. Teams were seeded into pots using CONCACAF Ranking.[5][6]
The fixture list was confirmed by CONCACAF on 6 April 2022.[7][1]
All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) as listed by CONCACAF (local times, if different, are in parentheses).[8][9][10][11]
The four teams were ranked based on their results in the group stage to determine the semi-final matchups. The first seed played the fourth seed and the second seed played the third seed.[15]
All times are local, PDT (UTC−7).
There were 80 goals scored in 28 matches, for an average of 2.86 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal
CONCACAF announced the following squad as the best eleven of League A after the conclusion of the group stage.[16]