August 27 – Concacaf has launched itself into the youth gaming market in partnership with gaming and esports specialists GGTECH, with the first project being a football-specific Fortnite map, ‘Concacaf Kick-Off Stadium’.
August 23 – Leagues Cup finalists Los Angeles FC and Columbus Crew have qualified for the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup.
August 19 – More detail of the Concacaf deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is emerging with new Saudi airline Riyadh Air, which will begin operations in 2025, taking over from Qatar Airways as the confederation’s official airline partner.
August 16 – Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), owner of Premier League Newcastle United and four of the leading clubs in the Saudi Pro League, has agreed a multi-year sponsorship with Concacaf.
August 16 – The inaugural Concacaf W Champions Cup kicked off last night with Vancouver Whitecaps, following up on their national championship win last weekend, beating El Salvador’s Alianza FC 1-0 in the Preliminary Round at the Estadio Cuscaltan in San Salvador, El Salvador.
August 12 – Vancouver Whitecaps Women with a penalty shoot-out win over CS Mont-Royal Outremont retained Canada’s Women’s Inter-Provincial Championship title and for a second time won qualification to the 2025-26 Concacaf W Champions Cup, the first W Champions Cup doesn’t kick off until later this week.
August 1 – Former England manager Steve McClaren is quitting Manchester United’s backroom staff to become head coach of Jamaica’s men’s national team on a two-year deal.
July 26 – Concacaf has changed its match schedule and venues for the on-going Men’s U-20 Championships in Mexico after a police officer was murdered outside a team hotel in the city of Celaya.
June 20 – Much has been made of the Copa America in the US being a test event for the 2026 World Cup, but there has not been so much comment about the importance of the event for six Concacaf nations competing as they build their teams towards 2026.
June 20 – With all eyes still very much on Euro 2024, across the Atlantic in Atlanta the Copa America gets under way tonight with the opening game between Canada and two-time defending champions Argentina.
June 13 – The long-standing issues of VISA entry to the US for Cubans took a different twist this week with the Cayman Islands men’s team pulling out of a World Cup qualifying fixture in Cuba.
June 7 – Concacaf has drawn the groups for the second editions of its 2024 Concacaf Central American Cup and Caribbean Cup competitions, to be played between July and December 2024, and serve as qualifiers for the 2025 Champions Cup.
June 6 – US non-profit America SCORES that provides free after-school programming combining soccer, poetry, and service-learning, has launched an initiative with Concacaf and the FIFA Foundation in Miami.
June 4 – Concacaf has confirmed the 20 clubs that will participate in the 2024 Concacaf Central American Cup and the 10 clubs that will play in the 2024 Concacaf Caribbean Cup.
June 3 – Concacaf’s senior men’s club competition may have a different name, being rebranded as the Champions Cup, but the grip over the confederation’s top club competition by Mexican clubs remains the same.