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.

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links

• Under 20s – Women, CONCACAF.com