The 2025 CONCACAF Nations League Finals was the final tournament of the 2024–25 edition of the CONCACAF Nations League, the fourth season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 41 member associations of CONCACAF. It was held from March 20 to 23, 2025 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, United States.
| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | United States |
| Dates | March 20–23 |
| Teams | 4 |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Mexico (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Panama |
| Third place | Canada |
| Fourth place | United States |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 4 |
| Goals scored | 9 (2.25 per match) |
| Top scorer | Raúl Jiménez (4 goals) |
| Best player | Raúl Jiménez |
| Best goalkeeper | Luis Malagón |
← 2024 2027 → | |
The three-time defending champions United States were eliminated by Panama in the semi-finals.
Mexico secured their first title by defeating Panama 2–1 in the final.
Format
The Nations League Finals were contested by the four quarter-finals winners of League A. The tournament took place over four days and was played in single-leg knockout matches, consisting of two semi-finals on March 20, and a third place play-off and final three days after on March 23, 2025.
In the CONCACAF Nations League Finals, if the scores are level at the end of normal time 30 minutes of extra time will be played. If the score is still level after extra time, the winner will be determined by a penalty shoot-out.
Venue
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SoFi Stadium, located in Inglewood, California, in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, was announced as the venue for the 2025 and 2027 CONCACAF Nations League Finals on October 9, 2024.
| City | Stadium |
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| Inglewood (Los Angeles Area) | SoFi Stadium |
| Capacity: 70,240 | |
Qualified teams
The four quarter-finals winners of League A qualified for the Nations League Finals.
| Match | Winners | Date of qualification | Appearances | Previous best CNL Finals performance | Rankings | ||
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| Total | Last | CONCACAF Feb. 2025 | FIFA Dec. 2024 | ||||
| QF1 | Panama | November 18, 2024 | 3rd | 2024 | Fourth place (2023, 2024) | 4 | 36 |
| QF2 | United States | November 18, 2024 | 4th | 2024 | Champions (2021, 2023, 2024) | 2 | 16 |
| QF3 | Canada | November 19, 2024 | 2nd | 2023 | Runners-up (2023) | 3 | 31 |
| QF4 | Mexico | November 19, 2024 | 4th | 2024 | Runners-up (2021, 2024) | 1 | 19 |
Seeding
The four teams were ranked based on their results in the two quarter-finals legs to determine the semi-final matchups. The first seed played the fourth seed and the second seed played the third seed.
| Seed | QF | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | QF3 | Canada | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 6 |
| 2 | QF2 | United States | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 6 |
| 3 | QF1 | Panama | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 4 |
| 4 | QF4 | Mexico | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 3 |
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Squads
Each national team had to submit a final squad of 23 players, three of whom had to be goalkeepers, no later than ten days before the opening match of the tournament. If a player presented medical reasons or became injured severely enough to prevent his participation from the tournament before his team's first match, he could be replaced by another player.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| March 20 – Inglewood | ||||||
| Canada | 0 | |||||
| March 23 – Inglewood | ||||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||
| Mexico | 2 | |||||
| March 20 – Inglewood | ||||||
| Panama | 1 | |||||
| United States | 0 | |||||
| Panama | 1 | |||||
| Third place play-off | ||||||
| March 23 – Inglewood | ||||||
| Canada | 2 | |||||
| United States | 1 | |||||
All match times are in EDT (UTC−4) as listed by CONCACAF (local times are in parentheses).
Semi-finals
United States v Panama
The teams had faced each other 28 times previously, but this was their first-ever meeting at the CONCACAF Nations League. Their most recent meeting was a friendly game in October 2024, won 2–0 by the United States, which marked the debut of coach Mauricio Pochettino at the helm of the USMNT. Meanwhile, their most recent competitive meeting was a 2024 Copa América Group C match on June 27, 2024, where Panama won 2–1.
| United States | 0–1 | Panama |
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| Report | Waterman 90+4' |
United States | Panama |
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Canada v Mexico
| Canada | 0–2 | Mexico |
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| Report | Jiménez 1', 75' |
Canada | Mexico |
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Third place play-off
The teams had met in 43 previous matches, including three times at the CONCACAF Nations League (CNL) with one victory per side in the group stage of the 2019–20 League A and the United States' 2–0 triumph in the final of the 2022–23 edition. Their most recent meeting was a friendly game won 2–1 by Canada in September 2024.
| Canada | 2–1 | United States |
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| Report | Agyemang 35' |
Canada | United States |
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| Man of the Match: Assistant referees: |
Final
The teams had met 30 times previously, including four CONCACAF Nations League (CNL) matches, all won by Mexico: 3–1 and 3–0 in the group stage of the 2019–20 League A, 1–0 in the third place play-off of the 2023 Finals and a 3–0 semi-finals win in the 2024 Finals, with the latter being their most recent encounter.
This was the third CNL final for Mexico, while Panama was the first Central American nation to reach the deciding match of the competition. The match crowned an unprecedented CNL champion after the elimination of the three-time defending champions United States in the semi-finals.
| Mexico | 2–1 | Panama |
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| Jiménez 8', 90+2' (pen.) | Report | Carrasquilla 45+2' (pen.) |
Mexico | Panama |
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Statistics
Goalscorers
There were 9 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 2.25 goals per match.
4 goals
- Raúl Jiménez
1 goal
- Jonathan David
- Tani Oluwaseyi
- Adalberto Carrasquilla
- Cecilio Waterman
- Patrick Agyemang
Awards
CONCACAF announced the following squad as the best eleven of the Finals after the conclusion of the tournament.
Raúl Jiménez was named best player of the tournament, scoring four goals in the finals. Luis Malagón was named best goalkeeper, making four saves and one clean sheet.
- Best XI
| Goalkeeper | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
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| Luis Malagón | Israel Reyes Moïse Bombito Johan Vásquez | Tyler Adams Edson Álvarez Aníbal Godoy Adalberto Carrasquilla | Jonathan David Cecilio Waterman Raúl Jiménez |
Controversy
In the 9th minute of the semi-final game between Mexico and Canada, Mexico's Edson Álvarez kicked Canada's Derek Cornelius on his foot inside Mexico's penalty box, but the referee Saíd Martínez did not award a penalty kick to Canada. A free kick was given in favor of Mexico instead. The VAR Benjamín Pineda did not intervene.
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