League stage: September – November 2023 Play-offs: 17 February 2024
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International football competition
The 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup qualification competition, also known as the Road to CONCACAF W Gold Cup, is an upcoming women's football tournament that will be contested by 33 of the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF. The competition will decide six of the twelve participating teams of the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup, the inaugural edition of the W Gold Cup.
The league stage of the qualifying will be played between September and November 2023, with the three League A group winners qualifying for the final tournament. Three additional teams will qualify via the play-off round, contested on 17 February 2024 by the League A group runners-up and the League B group winners. These six teams will join the two CONCACAF teams qualified for the Olympics and four guests at the W Gold Cup, to be contested in February and March 2024.[1][2]
Format
On 10 December 2020, the CONCACAF Council approved the structure and calendar of the competition. The qualification competition, known as the "Road to Concacaf W Gold Cup", will begin with the group stage, featuring 33 women's national teams of CONCACAF split into three leagues (A, B and C). Each league will feature three groups, containing three teams each in League A, and four teams each in Leagues B and C. The teams in each group will play against each other home-and-away in a double round-robin format. The top three teams in League A will qualify directly for the W Gold Cup. The three group runners-up of League A and the three League B group winners will participate in a play-off on 17 February 2024 to compete for the final three spots at the W Gold Cup. The play-offs were originally planned to take place in March 2024,[2] but were moved to February to accommodate the W Gold Cup final tournament also being moved (from June to February and March 2024).[3] The two CONCACAF women's national teams that qualify for the Summer Olympics in 2024 will receive a bye directly to the W Gold Cup, skipping qualification.[2]
On 27 April 2023, CONCACAF announced 33 countries had entered into the qualifying competition (including the loser of the CONCACAF Olympic play-off).[4] The teams were split into leagues and pots based on the CONCACAF Women's Ranking of March 2023,[5] with League A containing nine teams and Leagues B and C containing twelve teams. On 11 May, the CONCACAF Council approved the late entries of Bonaire, Cuba and Saint Lucia into the competition. To preserve the integrity of the leagues, these teams were placed in League C regardless of their ranking, though the pots were updated based on the ranking of the new teams. At the same time, the British Virgin Islands (originally in League C, pot 3) were confirmed to have withdrawn from the competition, bringing the total number of qualifying entrants to 35, and the number of teams in League C to fourteen. To accommodate the newly added teams, League C was expanded from three groups of four teams to two groups of four teams (Groups A and B) and two groups of three teams (Groups C and D).[6]
The draw for the group stage took place on 17 May 2023, 19:00 EDT, in Miami, Florida, United States.[4] Teams were split into three pots of three teams in League A, four pots of three teams in League B, and three pots of four teams and one pot of two teams in League C. The pots were drawn from sequentially, with drawn teams assigned to groups in ascending order.
First match(es) will be played: September 2023. Source: CONCACAF
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Play-offs
The three group runners-up of League A and the three group winners of League B will advance to the play-offs (also known as the prelims). The six teams will be divided into three pairings based on the December 2023 CONCACAF Women's Ranking. The single-leg matches will take place in the United States on 17 February 2024, immediately prior to the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup. The three winners will qualify for the group stage.[3]
Summary
Team 1
Score
Team 2
Highest-ranked team
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Lowest-ranked team
Second-ranked team
17 Feb
Fifth-ranked team
Third-ranked team
17 Feb
Fourth-ranked team
Matches
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Third-ranked team
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Qualified teams
The following twelve teams qualified for the final tournament.
United States
Canada
Jamaica[a]
British Virgin Islands[c]
French Guiana
Montserrat
Saint Martin
Brazil
Colombia
Argentina
Paraguay