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.
ZoneBerthsAutomatic qualifiersTeams entering qualificationNorth American Zone(NAFU)3Central American Zone(UNCAF)2Caribbean Zone(CFU)3 (hosts)
Notes Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
+Did not enterNorth American Zone (NAFU)NoneCentral American Zone (UNCAF) (suspended)Caribbean Zone (CFU)
Central American zone
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.
Group stage Group A
Group B
Classification stage Winners qualify for 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.
Goalscorers 7 goals
Fabiola Villalobos
3 goals
Daniela Coto
2 goals
Mariela Campos Amaya González Maggi Segovia Fátima Romero Alys Cruz Yessenia Flores
1 goal
Jada Brown Priscila Chinchilla María Paula Coto María Paula Elizondo Indira González María Paula Salas Gloriana Villalobos Brenda Cerén Mara Rodríguez Kendra Haylock Sheyla Flores Shanelly Treminio Liz Vega
Caribbean zone
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. 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)
Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4
All times local, UTC−4, except Group B which is UTC−3.
First round Group A
Group B
Group C
Final round
Qualified teams The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
Team Qualified as Qualified onPrevious appearances in CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship1 Automatic qualifiers 6 (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015) Automatic qualifiers 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) Automatic qualifiers 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) Hosts 7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015) Central American Zone top two 5 (2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014) Central American Zone top two 1 (2008) Caribbean Zone top two 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) Caribbean Zone top two 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 Women's U20, CFUfootball.org