2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification

The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification is a women's under-20 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Teams

A total of 23 (out of 41) CONCACAF member national teams entered, with four automatic qualifiers, and the remaining 19 teams entering regional qualification tournaments.

Zone	Berths	Automatic qualifiers	Teams entering qualification
North American Zone (NAFU)	3	Canada  Mexico  United States
Central American Zone (UNCAF)	2		Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama
Caribbean Zone (CFU)	3	Trinidad and Tobago (hosts)	Anguilla  Antigua and Barbuda  Bermuda  Bonaire  Cuba  Curaçao  Dominica  Dominican Republic  Haiti  Jamaica  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia

Notes

• Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

Did not enter

North American Zone (NAFU)	None
Central American Zone (UNCAF)	Guatemala (suspended)
Caribbean Zone (CFU)	Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  French Guiana  Grenada  Guadeloupe  Guyana  Martinique  Montserrat  Saint Martin  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Sint Maarten  Suriname  Turks and Caicos Islands  U.S. Virgin Islands

Central American zone

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification
(Central American Zone)

CONCACAF Clasificatoria Centroamericana Femenina Sub-20 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Nicaragua
City	Estelí
Dates	18–24 June 2017
Teams	6 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	35 (4.38 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Fabiola Villalobos (7 goals)
← 2015 2020 →

In the Central American Zone, six UNCAF member national teams entered the qualifying competition, hosted by Nicaragua. In the group stage, the six teams were divided into two groups of three teams. The top two teams of each group advance to the classification stage, where the winners of one group play the runners-up of the other group, with the two winners qualifying for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives.

The schedule of the qualifying competition was announced on 17 May 2017. All times local, UTC−6.^[1]

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	2	2	0	0	11	0	+11	6	Classification stage
2	Nicaragua (H)	2	1	0	1	5	2	+3	3
3	Belize	2	0	0	2	1	15	−14	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	El Salvador	2	2	0	0	5	1	+4	6	Classification stage
2	Honduras	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3
3	Panama	2	0	0	2	0	3	−3	0

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Classification stage

Winners qualify for 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.

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Goalscorers

7 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Caribbean zone

2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification
(Caribbean Zone)

CONCACAF Caribbean Women's Under-20 Qualifier 2017
Tournament details
Host countries	Haiti (group A) Bermuda (group B) Dominican Republic (group C) Saint Kitts and Nevis (final round)
Dates	First round: 19–23 July 2017 Final round: 22–26 November 2017
Teams	13 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Jamaica
Runners-up	Haiti
Third place	Dominican Republic
Fourth place	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Tournament statistics
Matches played	21
Goals scored	134 (6.38 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Total: Nérilia Mondésir (14 goals) Final round: Nérilia Mondésir (7 goals)
← 2015 2020 →

In the Caribbean Zone, 13 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition, consisting of two stages. Apart from Saint Kitts and Nevis, which received a bye as hosts of the final round, the remaining 12 teams entered the first round, and were drawn into three groups of four teams. The winners of each group advance to the final round to join Saint Kitts and Nevis, where they are placed into one group, with the top two teams qualifying for the final tournament as the CFU representatives together with Trinidad and Tobago who qualified automatically as hosts.

The draw of the qualifying competition was held on 5 June 2017, 10:00 UTC−4, at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, Florida.^[2] Haiti, Bermuda, and Dominican Republic were automatically seeded in Groups A–C respectively as hosts of each first round group, while the remaining nine teams were seeded based on the results of the previous two editions of the qualifying competition.

Pot 1 (Hosts)	Haiti (Position A1)  Bermuda (Position B1)  Dominican Republic (Position C1)
Pot 2	Jamaica  Cuba  Puerto Rico
Pot 3	Anguilla  Curaçao  Antigua and Barbuda
Pot 4	Dominica  Bonaire  Saint Lucia

All times local, UTC−4, except Group B which is UTC−3.^[3]

First round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Haiti (H)	3	3	0	0	26	1	+25	9	Final round
2	Cuba	3	2	0	1	21	3	+18	6
3	Dominica	3	0	1	2	1	18	−17	1
4	Anguilla	3	0	1	2	1	27	−26	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jamaica	2	2	0	0	12	1	+11	6	Final round
2	Bermuda (H)	2	1	0	1	6	3	+3	3
3	Curaçao	2	0	0	2	1	15	−14	0
4	Saint Lucia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew[4]

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dominican Republic (H)	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Final round
2	Puerto Rico	3	2	0	1	17	1	+16	6
3	Antigua and Barbuda	3	1	0	2	8	7	+1	3
4	Bonaire	3	0	0	3	0	26	−26	0

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Final round

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Jamaica	3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9	2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games
2	Haiti	3	2	0	1	16	2	+14	6
3	Dominican Republic	3	1	0	2	5	5	0	3
4	Saint Kitts and Nevis (H)	3	0	0	3	0	25	−25	0

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship1
Canada	Automatic qualifiers	N/A	6 (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015)
Mexico	Automatic qualifiers	N/A	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015)
United States	Automatic qualifiers	N/A	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015)
Trinidad and Tobago	Hosts	2017	7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015)
Costa Rica	Central American Zone top two	24 June 2017	5 (2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014)
Nicaragua	Central American Zone top two	24 June 2017	1 (2008)
Jamaica	Caribbean Zone top two	24 November 2017	8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015)
Haiti	Caribbean Zone top two	26 November 2017	3 (2002, 2012, 2015)

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

References

External links

• Under 20s – Women, CONCACAF.com
• Fútbol Femenino Sub-20, UNCAFut.com (in Spanish)
• Women's U20, CFUfootball.org