The Liga MX and Major League Soccer are the leagues with the most players on provisional rosters for the 16 countries playing in the Copa America Centenario next month.
A total of 58 players from Liga MX and 54 from MLS were included among the names on the 40-man provisional squads handed into the organizing committee last week. The teams must trim their squads to 23 by May 20 with only Brazil having announced its final squad thus far.
The competition, which is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the formation of CONMEBOL, will take place for the first time outside of South America and will be held across the United States from June 3-26. Six CONCACAF nations will compete along with the 10 South American nations. A total of 47 Premier League players and 46 from La Liga grace the provisional rosters.
The United States provisional squad features 19 players from MLS and four from Liga MX while Mexico's 40-man roster includes 27 active Liga MX players and just one from MLS -- LA Galaxy's Giovani dos Santos.
Club America and Tigres have the greatest number of players represented in the early rosters with eight each. Jamaica's early picks include 11 MLS players, including the Portland Timbers trio of Alvas Powell, Jermaine Taylor and Darren Mattocks.
The 58 Liga MX players are: Nahuel Guzman (Tigres), Agustin Marchesin (Santos), Guido Pizarro (Tigres), Fernando Meneses (Veracruz), Bryan Rabello (Santos), Francisco Silva (Chiapas), Stefan Medina (Pachuca), Óscar Murillo (Pachuca), Edwin Cardona (Monterrey), Dayro Moreno (Tijuana), Luis Quiñones (Pumas), Walter Ayoví (Monterrey), Michael Arroyo (América), Fidel Martínez (Pumas), Jesús Corona (Cruz Azul), Jonathan Orozco (Monterrey), Alejandro Palacios (Pumas), Alfredo Talavera (Toluca), Paul Aguilar (América), Néstor Araujo (Santos), Yasser Corona (Querétaro), Israel Jiménez (Tigres), Raúl López (Chivas), Rafa Márquez (Atlas), Jesús Molina (Santos), Arturo Rivas (Tigres), Carlos Salcedo (Chivas), José Torres Nilo (Tigres), Jesús Dueñas (Tigres), Elías Hernández (León), Carlos Peña (Chivas), Rodolfo Pizarro (Pachuca), José Juan Vázquez (León), Javier Aquino (Tigres), Isaac Brizuela (Chivas), Jürgen Damm (Tigres), Eduardo Herrera (Pumas), Hirving Lozano (Pachuca), Oribe Peralta (América), Orbelín Pineda (Chivas), Cándido Ramírez (Monterrey), Felipe Baloy (Atlas), Pablo Aguilar (América), Paulo da Silva (Toluca), Miguel Samudio (América), Osvaldo (América), Edgar Benítez (Querétaro), Jorge Benítez (Cruz Azul), Christian Cueva (Toluca), Egidio Arévalo (Atlas), Álvaro González (Atlas), Brian Lozano (América), Carlos Sánchez (Monterrey), Ventura Alvarado (América), Edgar Castillo (Monterrey), Omar González (Pachuca), Michael Orozco (Tijuana) and Roberto Nurse (Mineros).
The U.S. starts training May 16 in Miami and has exhibitions May 22 at Puerto Rico, against Ecuador four days later at Frisco, Texas, and versus Bolivia on May 28 at Kansas City, Kansas.
The host country opens the tournament against Colombia at Santa Clara, California, play Costa Rica four days later at Chicago and complete the first round June 11 against Paraguay at Philadelphia.