The Philadelphia Union’s second Concacaf Champions League campaign will begin in El Salvador.
The Union drew El Salvadorian club Alianza FC in the draw televised live on Monday. Alianza FC was the first Central American team to win the Concacaf Champions Cup in 1967 and is one of three Salvadorian clubs to be crowned continental champion.
Los Elefantes Blancos qualified for the 2023 Concacaf Champions League as the best ranked losing quarterfinalist in the 2022 Scotiabank Concacaf League. The El Salvadorian side finished atop Group B of the 2022 Apertura Salvadoran Primera Division with a 6-1-3 record before falling in the quarterfinals via a 2-1 aggregate to Platense.