The 2021–22 CONCACAF Champions League was the 58th season of North Americas's premier club football tournament organised by CONCACAF, and the 15th season since it was renamed from the CONCACAF Champions' Cup to the CONCACAF Champions League.
A total of 78 teams from the 41 CONCACAF member associations, and 9 guest associations participate in the 2022–23 CONCACAF Champions League. The association ranking based on the CONCACAF association coefficients is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
For the 2022–23 CONCACAF Champions League, the associations are allocated places according to their 2021 CONCACAF association coefficients, which takes into account their performance in North American competitions from 2016–17 to 2020–21. This is the first time in CONCACAF history that Mexico has not occupied the top spot.
Dominica (DOM): The 2021 Dominica Premier League was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Dublanc, qualified for the Champions League.
French Guiana (GYF): The 2021–22 French Guiana Honor Division was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Etiole Matoury, qualified for the Champions League.
Panama (PAN):Tauro qualified by having the best aggregate record during the 2021–22 Liga Panameña de Fútbol that did not reach the Apertura or Clausura final.
Saint-Martin (SMT): The 2021–22 Saint-Martin Senior League was suspended during the season due to issues pertaining to the COVID-19. The team with the best record at the time of suspension, Junior Stars, qualified for the Champions League.
Trinidad and Tobago (TRI): The 2021–22 TT Pro League was cancelled due to complications surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Central and Defence Force, who had won league titles in the last five seasons received Champions League licenses by CONCACAF to compete in the 2022–23 Champions League.
The schedule of the competition is as follows. All matches are played on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Scheduled kick-off times starting from the play-off round are 18:45 and 21:00 EST/EDT.
As the 2022 FIFA World Cup takes place in Qatar between 20 November and 18 December 2022, the group stage commenced in the first week of September 2022 and will conclude in the first week of November 2022 to make way for the World Cup.
The draws for the qualifying round started at 12:00 CEST/CET and were held at the CONCACAF headquarters in New York City, United States. The group stage draw took place in Nashville, United States at the Music City Center. After a three-year gap of a truncated qualification due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America, the qualification rounds returned to a two-legged series, although the away goals rule was abolished.
The first legs were played on 5–6 July 2022 and the second leg was played on 12–13 July 2022. For the third straight season, pairings were determined by their geographic location, as opposed to their CONCACAF coefficient.