The 2007 Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club champions Harbour View will kick off their CONCACAF Champions League on Thursday when they host Pumas Unam of Mexico in the preliminary stage of the competition at the Harbour View mini-stadium at 7:00 pm.

The return game is slated for next Thursday, September 4 in Mexico at 10:00 pm.

Harbour View claimed their second CFU Club Championship after defeating Joe Public of Trinidad and Tobago 2-1 in the final at the Marvin Lee Stadium in Macoya, Trinidad.

The 'Stars of the east' are the only Jamaican club to ever achieve the feat of winning this competition twice.

This earned them the berth to the 2008 CONCACAF Champions' Cup quarter-finals played earlier this year in March against DC United and the newly created and improved 2008 CONCACAF Champions' League, which will be played on a knockout basis.

Sixteen teams will participate in this phase, with the eight winners advancing to a group stage, where they will be joined by eight seeded teams to make four groups of four teams. They play each other on a home and away basis before the top two teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals.

The four winners will then advance to the semi-finals and the top two teams meet in the final.

The winner will qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2010 in November.

The 2008 CONCACAF Champions' League will be broadcast live, but not in Jamaica, on television to over 178 countries worldwide, including Fox Sports World International regional programming channels (Fox Soccer Channel - USA; Fox Sports en Español - USA; Fox Sports Latin America Northern Cone - Caribbean, Central America & Mexico).

Harbour View depart the island for Mexico on Wednesday, September 3 for the return game, and return on Sunday, September 7, 2008.

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