New CONCACAF-CONMEBOL deal gives Canada games against top-tier foes
Canada is getting its want to play extra top-tier competitors forward of the 2026 FIFA males’s World Cup.
CONCACAF, the confederation overlaying North and Central America and the Caribbean, and South America’s CONMEBOL have signed an settlement to “strengthen and develop” soccer in each areas. The deal consists of males’s and girls’s nationwide group competitions and a brand new males’s membership event.
The U.S. will host Copa America, the South American championship, in the summertime of 2024 with 10 CONMEBOL groups plus the six finest CONCACAF groups as friends.
The six CONCACAF entries might be determined by way of the 2023-24 CONCACAF Nations League.
On the ladies’s aspect, CONCACAF has invited the highest 4 CONMEBOL groups to participate within the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup. The 12-team event might be performed within the U.S.
The two CONCACAF groups certified for the 2024 Summer Olympics (the U.S. and both Canada or Jamaica) will qualify straight for the CONCACAF W Gold Cup. The remaining six CONCACAF entries should qualify,
The 4 visitor CONMEBOL nations have been decided on the outcomes of the 2022 Women’s Copa America: Brazil (champion) Colombia (runner-up), Argentina (third place) and Paraguay (fourth place).
The two confederations will even set up a centralized “final four” membership competitors. The 4 taking part groups (two from every confederation) will qualify via present CONMEBOL and CONCACAF membership competitions with the primary version of this event slated for 2024.
“This is a partnership to assist the continued progress of males’s and girls’s soccer in Concacaf and CONMEBOL, and can really be of mutual profit to each confederations,” CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani, a former Canada Soccer president, stated in an announcement.
Canada, which ended a 36-year absence from the boys’s soccer showcase when it took half on the latest World Cup in Qatar, is co-hosting the 2026 males’s World Cup with Mexico and the U.S.
Canada coach John Herdman has made enjoying Tier 1 opposition a precedence forward of the 2206 event. The Canadian males have performed CONCACAF competitors nearly solely lately.
Canada was ranked forty first on the earth going into the Qatar World Cup, fourth in CONCACAF.
UEFA (Europe), in distinction, had 21 groups within the prime 40 whereas CONMEBOL had six.
The Canadian males, presently ranked 51st, play subsequent in March, with CONCACAF Nations League matches at No. 86 Curacao on March 23 and residential to No. 81 Honduras on March 28.
The Canadian ladies are participating within the four-team SheBelieves Cup subsequent month in Orlando.
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