By Brian Straus The tournament will grow to 27 teams starting in 2024, with different paths to qualification opening up as a result. View the original article to see embedded media. Eighteen North American clubs—up to nine could come from the U.S.—will take part in the expanded Concacaf Champions League kicking off in 2024. Organizers unveiled most of the 27-team format’s complex qualifying criteria Wednesday morning, detailing how three new regional tournaments and multiple leagues and overlapping domestic cups (in the U.S. and Canada) will feed into the enlarged continental competition. The …