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 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 | 3 |
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[|Central American Zone] | 2 |
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[|Caribbean Zone] | 3 |
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- Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
North American Zone | None |
Central American Zone | |
Caribbean Zone |
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,.
Group stage
Group A
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Group B
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Classification stage
Winners qualify for 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.----
Goalscorers
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- Jada Brown
- Priscilla Chinchilla
- María Paula Coto
- María Paula Elizondo
- Indira González
- María Paula Salas
- Gloriana Villalobos
- Brenda Cerén
- Mara Rodríguez
- Kendra Haylock
- Sheyla Flores
- Shanelly Treminio
- Elizabeth Vega
Caribbean Zone
The draw of the qualifying competition was held on 5 June 2017, 10:00, 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.
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Pot 2 | |
Pot 3 | |
Pot 4 |
First round
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Final round
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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 |
Automatic qualifiers | 6 | ||
Automatic qualifiers | 8 | ||
Automatic qualifiers | 8 | ||
Hosts | 7 | ||
Central American Zone top two | 5 | ||
Central American Zone top two | 1 | ||
Caribbean Zone top two | 8 | ||
Caribbean Zone top two | 3 |