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The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced the format of the 2008 CONCACAF Champions League today. 24 teams from Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pamana, the Caribbean and the United States will take part in the tournament that will begin in late August and conclude in April of 2009.

The Champions League will replace the Champions Cup tournament as the method of determining the CONCACAF representative in the FIFA Club World Cup. The United States will submit four representatives to the competition: the Major League Soccer (MLS) Cup champion and runner-up, the MLS regular season champion and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup champion.

As a semifinalist in last year's Open Cup, the RailHawks were only two wins away from a berth in the new CONCACAF tournament. Should the RailHawks, or any of our USL counterparts, manage to win the 2008 edition of the Open Cup, they would likely be granted a spot in the 2nd edition of this tournament (assuming no major changes in format after the first year).

For more on the CONCACAF Champions League and the US Open Cup champion's place in it, please visit USOpenCup.com.