2024 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification explained

Tourney Name:	CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying
Year:	2024
Dates:	25 – 31 August 2023
Num Teams:	18
Country:	Curacao Dominican Republic Costa Rica Jamaica
Venues:	5
Cities:	5
Matches:	22
Goals:	137
Top Scorer:	Breanna Medina (7 goals)
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2025

2024 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualifying was the qualifying tournament for the 2024 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship. Eighteen teams competed for six spots in the final tournament, where they will join the 2 highest-seeded teams in the competition, the USA and Mexico.

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 6 July 2023, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami.^[1] The 28 teams which initially entered qualifying were drawn into six groups of four or five teams.^[2] Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Ranking, the originally teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:

• (W): Withdrew after draw.

Qualifying stage

The winners of each group qualified for the final tournament. All matches were played at five different locations: Willemstad in Curaçao, San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo also in the Dominican Republic, Alajuela in Costa Rica, and lastly in Kingston in Jamaica. All times are local, EST (UTC−5).

TiebreakersThe ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.3):^[3]

1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss);
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all group matches:
   • Yellow card: −1 points;
   • Indirect red card (two yellow cards): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −4 points;
   • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
8. Drawing of lots.

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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External links

• https://www.concacaf.com/en/under-17s-women/schedule-results/, CONCACAF.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Draw reveals groups for 2023 Concacaf Women’s U-17 Qualifiers. . 21 September 2023 . 6 July 2023.
2. Web site: Draw reveals groups for CWU17 Qualifying . . 18 November 2021 . 17 June 2021.
3. Web site: Regulations . . 18 November 2021.