2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round

The 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League preliminary round was the first round of the 2009–10 CONCACAF Champions League. Sixteen teams were entered in this round, and were drawn into eight matchups that were contested in a two-legged tie. The first leg of each of the preliminary round matchups was played July 28–30, 2009, and the second leg was played August 4–6. This tournament's preliminary round was scheduled to begin one month earlier than the previous season in order to alleviate schedule congestion for participants due to fourth round of CONCACAF qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.^[1] The matchup draw for the preliminary and group stages was conducted on June 11.^[2] The match schedule was announced five days later on June 16.^[3]

Matches

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
San Francisco	2–3	San Juan Jabloteh	2–0	0–3
Pachuca	10–1	Jalapa	3–0	7–1
W Connection	4–3	New York Red Bulls	2–2	2–1
Olimpia	2–2 (a)	Árabe Unido	2–1	0–1
Herediano	2–6	Cruz Azul	2–6	0–0
D.C. United	2–2 (5–4 p)	Luis Ángel Firpo	1–1	1–1 (aet)
Liberia Mía	3–6	Real España	3–0	0–6
Toronto FC	0–1	Puerto Rico Islanders	0–1	0–0

All match-times are listed in local time.

First leg

July 28, 2009

20:00 EDT (UTC-4)

D.C. United	1–1	Luis Ángel Firpo
Moreno 42' (pen.)	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Benítez 26'

RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.

Attendance: 8,026

Referee: Paúl Delgadillo (Mexico)

July 28, 2009

21:00 CDT (UTC-5)

Pachuca	3–0	Jalapa
Cacho 42' Caballero 57' Giménez 76'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Hidalgo, Pachuca, Hidalgo

Attendance: 10,000

Referee: Mark Geiger (United States)

July 29, 2009

20:00 EDT (UTC-4)^[4]

Toronto FC	0–1	Puerto Rico Islanders
	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Jagdeosingh 67'

BMO Field, Toronto

Attendance: 20,758

Referee: Hugo Cruz (Costa Rica)

July 29, 2009

19:00 EST (UTC-5)

San Francisco	2–0	San Juan Jabloteh
Vilarete 5' (pen.) Pérez 83'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Agustín Muquita Sánchez, La Chorrera

Attendance: 2,600

Referee: Walter López (Guatemala)

July 29, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Liberia Mía	3–0	Real España
Umaña 31' (pen.) Alpízar 75', 90'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto, Alajuela

Attendance: 675

Referee: José Rivera (El Salvador)

July 30, 2009

20:00 ECT (UTC-4)

W Connection	2–2	New York Red Bulls
Faña 40' Hector 72'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Öbster 47' Joseph 60' (o.g.)

Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella

Attendance: 6,500

Referee: Raymond Bogle (Jamaica)

July 30, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Herediano	2–6	Cruz Azul
Herron 59' Guity 76'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Vela 2' Orozco 50', 57', 74' Villa 70' Zeballos 88'

Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero, Heredia

Attendance: 1,237

Referee: José Pineda (Honduras)

July 30, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Olimpia	2–1	Árabe Unido
Nascimento 48' (pen.) Ferreira 56'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Rodríguez 18'

Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino, Tegucigalpa

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)

Second leg

August 4, 2009

20:00 AST (UTC-4)

Puerto Rico Islanders	0–0	Toronto FC
	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium, Bayamón

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)

Puerto Rico Islanders won 1–0 on aggregate.

August 4, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Jalapa	1–7	Pachuca
Piñeyro 43' (pen.)	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Giménez 4' Mendivil 13', 36', 77' Aguilar 50' Benitez 64' Caballero 86'

Estadio Las Flores, Jalapa

Attendance: 1,861

Referee: Wálter Quesada (Costa Rica)

Pachuca won 10–1 on aggregate.

August 4, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Luis Ángel Firpo	1–1 (a.e.t.)	D.C. United
Franco 39' (pen.)	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Gómez 42'
Penalties
Alas J. Sánchez Merino Salazar C. Sánchez	4–5	Pontius Szetela Olsen Burch Gómez

Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador

Attendance: 11,000

Referee: Óscar Moncada (Honduras)

2–2 on aggregate. D.C. United won 5–4 on penalties.

August 5, 2009

20:00 EDT (UTC-4)

New York Red Bulls	1–2	W Connection
Wolyniec 19'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}	Toussaint 40', 45'

Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey

Attendance: 6,549

Referee: Paul Ward (Canada)

W Connection won 4–3 on aggregate.

August 5, 2009

21:00 CDT (UTC-5)

Cruz Azul	0–0	Herediano
	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Azul, Mexico City

Attendance: 4,311

Referee: Terry Vaughn (United States)

Cruz Azul won 6–2 on aggregate.

August 6, 2009

19:00 EST (UTC-5)

Árabe Unido	1–0	Olimpia
Mendieta 27'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Agustín Sánchez, La Chorrera

Attendance: 850

Referee: Roberto García (Mexico)

2–2 on aggregate. Árabe Unido won on away goals.

August 6, 2009

20:00 ECT (UTC-4)

San Juan Jabloteh	3–0	San Francisco
Sam 30' Oliver 62', 76'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain

Attendance: 2,000

Referee: Stanley Lancaster (Guyana)

San Juan Jabloteh won 3–2 on aggregate.

August 6, 2009

20:00 CST (UTC-6)

Real España	6–0	Liberia Mía
Mattoso 4', 90+' Pavón 18', 73', 80' Peña 47'	Report^{[permanent dead link]}

Estadio Francisco Morazán, San Pedro Sula

Attendance: 1,500

Referee: Roberto Moreno (Panama)

Real España won 6–3 on aggregate.

References

^ Next season's CONCACAF Champions League to begin last week of July, New York City: CONCACAF, 2008-11-13, archived from the original on 2008-12-21, retrieved 2009-06-18
^ Champions League Draw sets Preliminary Round pairings, determines four-team groups, New York City: CONCACAF, 2009-06-11, archived from the original on 2009-06-15, retrieved 2009-06-18
^ "D.C. United-Chalatenango to open 2009–2010 CONCACAF Champions League", CONCACAF, 2009-06-16, archived from the original on 2009-06-20, retrieved 2009-06-17
^ "CONCACAF ticket information announced - Reds play Puerto Rico Islanders at BMO Field on July 29" (Press release). Toronto FC. June 30, 2009. Archived from the original on July 6, 2009. Retrieved July 12, 2009.