The New York Red Bulls qualified for the 2017-18 CONCACAF Champions League by winning the 2016 MLS Eastern Conference regular-season title. It is not really a "title": no team really celebrates winning its Conference in MLS beyond the fact that it brings preferential seeding in the playoffs (which doesn't necessarily amount to much, as RBNY can attest) and qualification for CCL.
By the time RBNY actually kicks off its next CCL campaign, winning the East in 2016 will have been long forgotten, not least because RBNY won't kick off its next CCL campaign until 2018.