The 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup final was the final match of the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup, the 60th season of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean's premier club association football tournament organized by CONCACAF. It was played on 1 June 2025.
The final was a single match contested by Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer and Cruz Azul of Liga MX. Cruz Azul hosted the match due to their better record during the competition's earlier stages.
Cruz Azul won the match 5–0, the largest margin of victory in a Champions Cup final match since América's 6–0 second leg win against Pinar del Río in 1990. As winners, they qualified for the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup and the 2029 FIFA Club World Cup.
Background
Vancouver Whitecaps FC made their first appearance in a CONCACAF Champions Cup final and were the third Canadian team to do so, following the Montreal Impact in 2015 and Toronto FC in 2018.
Cruz Azul made their seventh appearance in a Champions Cup final. Including editions won without a final match in 1970 and 1996, this marks their ninth title-deciding participation.
Previous finals TeamPrevious final appearances (bold indicates winners) Cruz Azul8 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1996, 1997, 2009, 2010, 2014) Vancouver Whitecaps FC0 (debut)
Venue
Host selection The finalist with the better record during the competition's earlier stages (excluding round one), Cruz Azul, hosted the match at Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City.
Road to the final
Summary of results Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: Home; A: Away).
Cruz AzulRound Vancouver Whitecaps FCOpponent1st leg2nd legStagesOpponent1st leg2nd leg Real Hope7–0Round one Saprissa3–21–2 (A)4–10–0 (A)4–1 (H)Round of 16 Monterrey3–3 (a)2–2 (A) América2–10–0 (A)2–1 (H) Pumas UNAM3–3 (a)1–1 (H)2–2 (A) Tigres UANL2–11–1 (A)1–0 (H)Semi-finals5–12–0 (H)3–1 (A)
Broadcasting In Canada, the match was broadcast on OneSoccer, a subscription streaming service that also has a linear feed on Telus TV. Other broadcasters included Fox Sports and TUDN in the United States; Tubi in Mexico; Star+ in Central America, the Caribbean, and South America; and CONCACAF's YouTube channel in certain territories.
Format While the rest of the tournament was played as a home-and-away two-legged match pairing, the final was a single-leg match where the winners would be crowned the champions. The home team for the match would be the team with the better performance from the round of 16 to the semi-finals.
Match
Details
GK 23 Kevin MierRB 2 Jorge SánchezCB 4 Willer DittaCB 33 Gonzalo PioviLB 29 Carlos RotondiCM 19 Carlos Rodríguez CM 6 Érik LiraCM 8 Lorenzo Faravelli RF 15 Ignacio Rivero (c) CF 9 Ángel Sepúlveda LF 7 Mateusz Bogusz Substitutes:GK 1 Andrés GudiñoGK 30 Emmanuel OchoaDF 3 Omar CamposDF 5 Jesús Orozco DF 26 Carlos VargasMF 14 Alexis Gutiérrez MF 17 Amaury GarcíaMF 18 Luka Romero MF 31 Amaury Morales MF 32 Cristian JiménezFW 11 Giorgos Giakoumakis FW 21 Gabriel FernándezManager: Vicente Sánchez GK 1 Yohei TakaokaRB 18 Édier Ocampo CB 4 Ranko Veselinović (c) CB 33 Tristan BlackmonLB 3 Sam AdekugbeCM 45 Pedro Vite CM 20 Andrés CubasCM 26 J.C. Ngando RF 22 Ali AhmedCF 24 Brian WhiteLF 7 Jayden Nelson Substitutes:GK 30 Adrian ZendejasGK 32 Isaac BoehmerDF 2 Mathías Laborda DF 12 Belal HalbouniDF 15 Bjørn Inge Utvik DF 27 Giuseppe BovalinaDF 28 Tate JohnsonMF 13 Ralph Priso MF 59 Jeevan BadwalFW 11 Emmanuel Sabbi FW 14 Daniel Ríos FW 19 Damir KreilachManager: Jesper Sørensen
Man of the Match: Ángel Sepúlveda (Cruz Azul)
Assistant referees: Keytzel Corrales (Nicaragua) Raymundo Feliz (Dominican Republic) Fourth official: Ismael Cornejo (El Salvador) Video assistant referee: Benjamín Pineda (Costa Rica) : Iván Barton (El Salvador)
Notes
References
External links CONCACAF Champions Cup website