CONCACAF fleshes out qualifying road to inaugural women’s Gold Cup tournament in 2024
CONCACAF has mapped out its pathway for the inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup, scheduled to kick off subsequent yr within the United States.
Qualification is ready to begin in September, following a May 17 draw, with 9 groups transferring on to the 18-country essential match.
The CONCACAF W Gold Cup, to run Feb. 17 to March 10, 2024, will function a six-team preliminary spherical and 12-team group stage, adopted by a three-round knockout stage to determine the highest ladies’s facet in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
CONCACAF made the announcement Wednesday to mark International Women’s Day
“This new CONCACAF W Gold Cup would be the flagship occasion for girls’s nationwide crew soccer in our area and can showcase among the best possible ladies’s soccer in CONCACAF and the world,” Canadian Victor Montagliani, president of CONCACAF and vice-president of FIFA, mentioned in an announcement.
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The 12-team group stage will encompass eight CONCACAF groups and 4 visitor international locations from South America’s CONMEBOL confederation.
The top-ranked U.S. has already secured a berth within the group stage by successful the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship, the place the Americans defeated Canada 1-0 within the ultimate.
Sixth-ranked Canada can e-book its ticket to the group stage by beating No. 44 Jamaica in September within the two-legged CONCACAF Olympic Play-In. But the loser of that play-in faces an extended path to the CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
Six different CONCACAF groups will advance to the group stage by way of qualifying and the preliminary spherical. The CONMEBOL visitor groups — No. 9 Brazil, No. 27 Colombia, No. 29 Argentina and No. 50 Paraguay — had been determined by way of the 2022 Women’s Copa America.
The qualifying highway begins in September for 33 international locations, following the conclusion of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
The 33 CONCACAF groups, not together with the area’s two representatives on the 2024 Paris Olympics (the U.S. and Canada or Jamaica), might be cut up into three leagues in response to their CONCACAF rating of March 2023.
League A will function the 9 top-ranked groups divided into three teams. League B will embrace the subsequent 12 best-ranked groups divided into three teams whereas League C is comprised of the 12 lowest-ranked groups cut up into three teams.
After home-and-away play within the September, October, and November FIFA worldwide home windows, the three League A gaggle winners qualify for the CONCACAF W Gold Cup group stage.
The runners-up within the League A teams and League B group winners advance to the CONCACAF W Gold Cup prelims.
Those six groups will face off in a single-game elimination preliminary spherical, slated for Feb. 17, 2024, to determine which three transfer on to the group stage.
The six international locations might be divided into three pairings in response to their CONCACAF rating of December 2023 with the winners advancing to the group stage.
The round-robin group stage, to run Feb. 20-28, 2024, will divide the groups into three teams of 4. Following group-stage play, the three pool winners and runners-up plus the 2 finest third-place finishers will advance to the knockout stage.
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