The 2020 CONCACAF U-20 Championship will be the 7th edition of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The top four teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia as the CONCACAF representatives.[1]
The format for qualification has changed since the 2018 edition. The qualifying competition no longer features Caribbean and Central American zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Under-20 Ranking.
A total of 33 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 17 entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.
Venues
To be confirmed.
Draw
he draw for the qualifying round took place on 20 November 2019, 11:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami.[2] The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Under-20 Ranking, the top four ranked teams were seeded into position one of each group, while the remaining 12 teams were distributed in the other pots, as follows:[3]