2007 U-20 World Cup CONCACAF qualifying tournament explained

Tourney Name:CONCACAF U-20 Qualification
Year:2007
Country:Panama
Country2:Mexico
Dates:January 7  - February 25
Num Teams:8
Confederations:1
Venues:2
Cities:2
Matches:12
Goals:34
Attendance:96571
Top Scorer: Andre Akpan (3 goals)
Jean Carlos Solórzano
Prevseason:2005
Nextseason:2009
Updated:March 18, 2009

The 2007 CONCACAF U-20 Qualifying Tournament was held to determine the four CONCACAF entrants into the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which was hosted by Canada. The tournament final was held in two groups of four with the top two from each group advancing. Group A was held in Panama and Group B was held in Mexico. On January 21, 2007, the United States and Panama qualified to the U-20 World Cup. On February 23, 2007, Mexico and Costa Rica achieved qualification as well.

Qualification

See main article: 2007 U-20 World Cup CONCACAF qualifying tournament qualifying.

The following teams qualified for the tournament:

Region Qualification Qualifiers
Caribbean (CFU)Caribbean qualifying

Central America (UNCAF)Central American qualifying
host
North America (NAFU)
automatically qualified

Squads

See main article: 2007 U-20 World Cup CONCACAF qualifying tournament squads.

Group A

Panama hosted Group A. All of the matches were played at Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City between January 17 - 21.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
United States321091+87
311148-44
310257-23
302113-22
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Group B

Mexico hosted Group B. All of the matches were played at Estadio Banorte in Culiacán, Sinaloa between February 21 - 25.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
321051+47
321063+37
301236-31
301215-41
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