2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
Tournament details
Host country  Trinidad and Tobago
Dates 18–28 January 2018
Teams 8 (from 1 confederation)

The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship will be the 9th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. A total of eight teams will play in the tournament.

The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as the CONCACAF representatives.[1]

Qualification

Regional qualification tournaments will be held to determine the teams playing in the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualification Appearance Previous best performances Previous FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup appearances
North American Zone (NAFU)
 Canada Automatic 7th Winners (2004, 2008) 7
 Mexico Automatic 9th Runners-up (2010, 2014) 7
 United States Automatic 9th Winners (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) 8
Central American Zone (UNCAF) qualified through Central American qualifying competition[2]
 Costa Rica Classification stage winners 6th Third place (2004, 2010, 2014) 2
 Nicaragua Classification stage winners 2nd Group stage (2008) 0
Caribbean Zone (CFU) qualified through Caribbean qualifying competition[3]
 Trinidad and Tobago Hosts 8th Fourth place (2014) 0
Final round winners
Final round runners-up

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CONCACAF qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
2018
2018
2018
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

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