2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship


The 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship was the 10th edition of the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. Eight teams played in the tournament, which took place from 4–17 October in the United States.
The tournament served as the CONCACAF qualifiers to the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. The top three teams qualified for the World Cup, while the fourth-placed team advanced to a play-off against the third-placed team from the South American confederation, CONMEBOL. It also determined the CONCACAF teams playing at the 2019 Pan American Games women's football tournament in Lima.
The United States were the defending champions of the competition. They successfully defended their title as hosts, winning the final 2–0 against Canada for their 8th CONCACAF Women's Championship title.

Qualification

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

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. Canada, Mexico, and the United States, as members of the North American Football Union, qualified automatically. Two teams from the Central American Football Union and three teams from the Caribbean Football Union qualified from their regional qualifying competitions.

Venues

The venues were announced by CONCACAF on 8 April 2018. Sahlen's Stadium and H-E-B Park hosted the group stage matches, while Toyota Stadium hosted the four matches in the knockout stage.
Cary, North CarolinaEdinburg, TexasFrisco, Texas
Sahlen's StadiumH-E-B ParkToyota Stadium
Capacity: 10,000Capacity: 9,735Capacity: 20,500

Draw

The draw for the final tournament was held on 4 September 2018, 10:00 EDT, at the Univision Studios in Miami. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. They were seeded into four pots. Pot [|1] contained the United States, seeded in Group A, and Canada, seeded in Group B. The remaining six teams were allocated to Pots 2–4 based on the CONCACAF Women's Rankings. The two teams from UNCAF could not be drawn into the same group.
Pot 1Pot [|2]Pot 3Pot 4

  • Squads

    The provisional 35-player roster for each team was announced by CONCACAF on 10 September 2018. The final 20-player roster for each team was announced by CONCACAF on 26 September 2018. After the final 20-player roster was submitted, only injury-related changes would be submitted until 24 hours before each team's first match.

    Group stage

    The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.
    ;Tiebreakers
    Teams are ranked according to points. The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows :
    If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as followed:

    Group A

    All times are local, EDT.
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    Group B

    All times are local, CDT.
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    Knockout stage

    In the semi-finals, if the match was level at the end of 90 minutes, no extra time would be played and the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out. In the third place match and final, if the match was level at the end of 90 minutes, extra time would be played, and if still tied after extra time, the match would be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

    Bracket

    All times are local, CDT.

    Semi-finals

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    Canada and United States qualified for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Panama and Jamaica entered into the third place play-off.

    Third place play-off

    Jamaica qualified for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Panama entered CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off vs. Argentina.

    Final

    Awards

    Individual awards

    The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
    AwardPlayer
    Golden Ball Julie Ertz
    Golden Boot Alex Morgan
    Golden Glove Yenith Bailey
    Young Player Jody Brown
    Fair Play

    GoalkeepersDefendersMidfieldersForwards
    Yenith Bailey

    Goalscorers

    Qualification for international tournaments

    Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

    The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Panama failed to qualify losing out the play-off to 2018 Copa América Femenina third-placed team, Argentina.
    TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
    6
    7
    17.10.20180

    Qualified teams for Pan American Games

    The tournament was used to determine the four teams from CONCACAF which would qualify for the 2019 Pan American Games women's football tournament. The top team from each of the three zones, i.e., Caribbean, Central American, and North American, would qualify, with the fourth team to be determined by CONCACAF at a later date. However, both United States and Canada declined to participate to focus on the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, so Mexico qualified for the North American berth.
    TeamZoneQualified onPrevious appearances in Pan American Games2
    CFU1
    UNCAF1
    NAFU 5
    UNCAF 4