USA will host final tournament to be held from October 4 - 17. USA, Canada & Mexico with automatic births to final tournament. Central America qualifying to take place in June. Caribbean qualifying in June & July. Participants tbd.
been trying to find out more info on the qualifiers from Central America & the Caribbeans, but nothing's been found or announced. There doesn't seem to be much in terms of available windows for qualifiers. The Central America & Caribbean games has their women's tournament from July 19 - August 3. The CONCACAF U-17 championship is from April 19 - 29. The U-20 WWC is from August 5 - 24. The 2014 Women's Caribbean Cup was held in June & August, but that would have to change for 2018. Wonder what the delay is with the qualifiers?
Toad455 the 1st leg of the CFU qualifiers is at the end of May. Trinidad is hosting. As you know every time CFU occurs there seems to be less and less teams participating. I suspect it all comes down to funding. So it might come down to one qualifying leg only. I'm sure we will see the usual suspect's Haiti , Jamaica , Guyana , St Kitt's , Puerto Rico , Martinique , Antigua just to name a few. Once I have more details (schedule) I will post.
don't think this is the Caribbean qualifiers as it doesn't say so in the press release. The CFU launches the Women's Challenge series, set to take place in April 18 - 29. http://www.cfufootball.org/index.php/caribbean-cup/9932-cfu-launches-womens-challenge-series-2018
not participating: Anguilla, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Is., Cayman Is., Puerto Rico, US Virgin Is.
The Central American championship UNCAF will be played next 4 -12 June . The Host TBD according to this article about a friendly match today between Panama and Trinidad & Tobago https://metrolibre.com/index.php/de...121174-caldo-deportivo-de-16-de-marzo-de-2018
Not sure what purpose the Caribbean Challenge Series serves. I'm quite shocked that the CFU is running the challenge series & CFU qualifiers literally back to back. I'm glad that the CFU is trying to further promote women's football in the region. However the cost's are being downloaded to the hosting associations. Whats the purpose of the Challenge series? Anyone in the know ? Lastly still no official schedule has been posted anywhere regarding the CFU qualifiers. If I'm a betting man don't be surprised that the Challenge series replaces the CFU qualifiers with the top 3 going to Concacaf in October.
the CFU qualifiers should be home & home series for the first two rounds(24 teams enter) so there's no hosting duties thrown on anyone. Then the CFU Finals between the final 6 teams at a host site tbd.
http://www.concacaf.com/en/world-cu...2018-concacaf-women-s-championship-in-october CFU qualifiers to start on May 5(right after the challenge cup?) with the final round on July 21-29. Central America Zone to have their qualifiers in Nicaragua from July 6-10. United States will host finals from Oct. 4-17.
draw of the Caribbean Women's qualifiers. The 5 winners of each group will play a round robin to determine the top 3 teams for Concacaf final round
UNCAF : Only 4 teams will participate for two spots in Concacaf final round. Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador and Costa Rica .
Good to see so many Caribbean nation's enter. Sad only four UNCAF nation's enter. Guatemala is banned, but don't understand why Honduras and Belize won't/can't participate.
Bahamas, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands & Cayman Islands are the only ones not participating in either tournament. Anguilla, Aruba, Bermuda & Puerto Rico are not participating in the challenge cup. Montserrat isn't participating in World Cup qualifying.
Decent teams like Dominican Rep, Cuba and Puerto Rico in group A. Jamaica and Martinique in Haiti's group B . Trinidad & Tobago in an easy group C. Guyana and Bermuda with some tradition in women soccer in the region in Group E. Group D with minnows.... Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique were in the final round of Concacaf Championship 2014 and now the are in the same group. Very unbalanced and unfair this draw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_and_Caribbean_Games The CAC Games run from July 19th - Aug 3rd. I remember the last CAC games in Mexico also conflicted with the final round of CFU & the CAC games had basically some " B " squads from the teams that made the final round. I would hope that the CFU changes the dates this time around (final round) to ensure that the CAC as well the CFU get the strongest teams available. Many CFU countries are not that deep & therefore end up pulling U-20 players and or U-17's who are not ready to compete at the Senior level. The CFU and by extension FIFA is taking the talk is respects to Women's football so its time to walk the walk. Thoughts
Having Haiti and Jamaica in the same group is Very Bad(tm), but I wouldn't think too much of Martinique. There are 9 CFU teams with FIFA ratings at or over 1000, and Martinique didn't beat ANY of them in the 2014 qualifying campaign. They only made it into the CONCACAF final round because they only faced 2 of those 9 teams in the qualifying, drawing to Puerto Rico and getting absolutely thrashed by both T&T. (They also got thrashed by Haiti, though not quite as badly, in the meaningless 3rd-place match after their loss to T&T; then they got thrashed by Jamaica in the CONCACAF finals.) BTW, of those 9 teams, here's how they're split in the five groups: A-3, B-2, C-1, D-1, E-2 So as you said in more general terms, D is all minnows (that '1' is the team right at a rating of 1000), C is a cakewalk for (who else but Warner's) T&T, and A is the group of death (kind of). Of the top 5 teams by rating, you get this breakdown: A-1, B-2, C-1, D-0, E-1 So yes, it's Very Bad(tm) to have group B with two of the strongest 5 teams while D is minnows, but the other groups should be clear.
I don't think so : " The final round of the Caribbean qualifying will be dispute August 18-26 among the first stage group winners " http://www.concacaf.com/en/article/...he-2018-concacaf-caribbean-women-s-qualifiers
Caribbean qualifiers started today. GROUP A Puerto Rico 10 - Anguilla 0 Cuba 3 - Dominican Republic 1
That Cuba - DR score was from halftime. The final score of that game is: Cuba 5 - Dominican Republic 1
Group A: 5–13 May 2018 Group B: 9–13 May 2018 Group C: 19–27 May 2018 Group D: 23–27 May 2018 Group E: 23–27 May 2018