CONCACAF on Thursday carried out the official draw for the 2023 Street to CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
The dwell occasion in Miami was hosted by sports activities anchor Carmen Boquin and included the participation of Concacaf President and FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani, in addition to former gamers Maylee Atthin-Johnson (Trinidad and Tobago) and Wendy Acosta (Costa Rica).
The street to the first-ever CONCACAF W Gold Cup will start this September, after the conclusion of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup which takes place this summer season in Australia and New Zealand, and can embrace a file six competing CONCACAF ladies’s nationwide groups.
Thirty-five CONCACAF ladies’s nationwide groups, excluding the 2 who will compete within the 2024 Paris Summer season Olympic Video games Ladies’s Soccer Event (USA and Canada or Jamaica), have been cut up into three leagues in line with their CONCACAF Ladies’s Rating as of March 2023, and sub-divided into teams.
The 2023 Street to CONCACAF W Gold Cup teams are as follows:
League A (9 top-ranked groups divided into three teams of three)
Group A: Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, and Puerto Rico.
Group B: Canada or Jamaica, Panama, and Guatemala.
Group C: Costa Rica, Haiti, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
League B (subsequent 12 best-ranked groups divided into three teams of 4 groups)
Group A: Guyana, Antigua and Barbuda, Suriname, and Dominica.
Group B: El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Martinique.
Group C: Dominican Republic, Bermuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados.
League C (14 remaining groups divided into two teams of 4 groups and two teams of three groups)
Group A: Belize, Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Bonaire.
Group B: Cuba, Saint Lucia, Guadeloupe, and Saint Maarten.
Group C: US Virgin Islands, Grenada, and Bahamas.
Group D: Curacao, Cayman Islands, and Anguilla.
After house and away group stage play, inside every League, within the FIFA Ladies’s Worldwide match home windows of September, October, and November 2023, the highest finishers in every of the League A teams (three groups) will qualify for the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup Group Stage.
Moreover, the second-place finishers in every of the League A teams (three groups) and the first-place finishers in every of the League B teams (three groups) will advance to the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup Prelims.
CONCACAF will announce the 2023 Street to W Gold Cup schedule at a later date.
2024 CONCACAF W GOLD CUP
The W Gold Cup is the area’s premier competitors for ladies’s senior nationwide groups and is a key a part of the ” CONCACAF W” ladies’s soccer technique the Confederation launched in 2019.
The inaugural version will likely be performed between February 17 – March 10, 2024, in america, and can embrace a six-team Prelims, a 12-team group stage, and a three-round Knockout Stage.
2024 W Gold Cup Competitors Format and Dates
W Gold Cup Prelims: February 17, 2024
(Qualifies three groups into the Group Stage)
The Prelims will likely be composed of a single spherical. The six individuals, to be decided through the 2023 Street to W Gold Cup, will likely be divided into three pairings in line with their CONCACAF Ladies’s Rating of December 2023 (revealed after the final match of the Street to CONCACAF W Gold Cup), as follows:
- Highest-ranked group vs lowest-ranked group
- Second-ranked group vs Fifth-ranked group
- Third-ranked group vs Fourth-ranked group
After single-match elimination play, the profitable group in every of the matchups will advance to the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup Group Stage.
Group Stage: February 20-28, 2024
(Qualifies eight groups into the Knockout Stage)
The 2024 W Gold Cup Group Stage will embrace the participation of eight CONCACAF Member Associations and 4 CONMEBOL company. CONMEBOL’s groups have been invited as a part of a strategic collaboration settlement between each Confederations.
For the Group Stage, groups will likely be cut up into three teams of 4. Every group will play each different group of their group as soon as, for a complete of three matches per group.
The 12 nations taking part within the group stage will likely be decided as follows:
- 2022 CONCACAF W Championship champion (United States)
- CONCACAF Olympic Play-In winner (Canada OR Jamaica)
- Street to Concacaf W Gold Cup League A Group winners (three groups)
- Concacaf W Gold Cup Prelims winners (three groups)
- CONMEBOL company (4 groups): Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, and Paraguay (decided primarily based on the outcomes of the 2022 Ladies’s Copa America).
Knockout Stage: March 2-10, 2024
Following Group Stage play, the three group winners and runners-up, plus the 2 finest third-place finishers will advance to the Knockout Stage (eight groups in whole). The Knockout Stage will likely be performed in a single match direct elimination format and will likely be comprised of Quarter-finals (March 2-3), Semi-finals (March 6), and a Last, on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
The Last, on Sunday, March 10, will crown CONCACAF’s finest ladies’s nationwide group and can conclude a cycle of elite ladies’s soccer within the area, which additionally included the 2022 CONCACAF W Qualifiers and 2022 CONCACAF W Championship.