The 2019 Leagues Cup was the inaugural edition of Leagues Cup, a club soccer competition featuring four clubs from Major League Soccer and Liga MX in an eight-team single-elimination tournament hosted in the United States. It began on July 23, 2019, with the first set of quarterfinals, and culminated in a final match played in Whitney, Nevada, near Las Vegas, on September 18, 2019. Cruz Azul won the final, defeating Tigres UANL 2–1.
Qualification
The inaugural edition of the Leagues Cup featured eight teams—four invitees from Major League Soccer and four Liga MX clubs chosen based on competitive results.
Teams
The following 8 teams (from two associations) participated in the tournament. +AssociationTeam AméricaCruz AzulTigres UANLTijuana Chicago FireHouston DynamoLA GalaxyReal Salt Lake
Bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
GK 1 José de Jesús Corona DF 4 Julio César Domínguez DF 23 Pablo Aguilar DF 5 Igor Lichnovsky DF 16 Adrián Aldrete MF 25 Roberto Alvarado MF 22 Rafael Baca MF 31 Orbelín Pineda MF 19 Yoshimar Yotún MF 21 Jonathan Rodríguez FW 9 Milton Caraglio Substitutes: MF 11 Elías Hernández FW 13 Bryan Angulo MF 17 Édgar Méndez Manager: Robert Siboldi
GK 1 Nahuel Guzmán DF 29 Jesús Dueñas DF 4 Hugo Ayala DF 18 Diego Reyes DF 6 Jorge Torres Nilo MF 23 Luis Quiñones MF 19 Guido Pizarro MF 8 Lucas Zelarayán MF 5 Rafael Carioca MF 20 Javier Aquino FW 10 André-Pierre GignacSubstitutes: FW 9 Eduardo Vargas MF 22 Jürgen Damm DF 28 Luis Rodríguez Manager: Ricardo Ferretti
Top goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoalsBy round1 Andrés Ibargüen América2 22 Roberto Alvarado Cruz Azul11 DaMarcus Beasley Houston Dynamo1 Nicolás Benedetti América1 Emmanuel Boateng LA Galaxy1 Washington Camacho Tijuana1 Emil Cuello LA Galaxy 1 Elías Hernández Cruz Azul1 José Madueña Cruz Azul 1 Ariel Nahuelpán Tijuana1 Orbelín Pineda Cruz Azul 1 Guido Pizarro Tigres UANL 1 Jonathan Rodríguez Cruz Azul 1 David Romney LA Galaxy1 Eduardo Vargas Tigres UANL1 Yoshimar Yotún Cruz Azul 1
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