With the group stage kicking off tonight, it seemed like a good time to total things up by country.
The surprises so far:
MLS Goes Five-for-Five: All four US teams made it through to the group stage. Additionally Toronto
FC made it to the group stage and propelled Canada to the top of the list thus far.
Now that we have a couple of years of data to work with, I wanted to know if how teams qualified
for the CCL had any correlation to their success. There are four ways to qualify for the
tournament:
- Win MLS Cup
- Win the US Open Cup
- Win the Supporters Shield
- Be the MLS Cup Runner Up
If the same team fills more than one of these slots (like Columbus which won MLS Cup and the
Supporters Shield in the same year) another team gets one of the slots.
