Historically it's been head-to-head first, GD and the rest later. I haven't seen any announcement of it changing for this tournament.
Caribbean Cup qualifying is done, and here are the groups for the Finals in Jamaica: Group A Cuba Trinidad and Tobago French Guiana Curaçao Group B Jamaica Martinique Haiti Antigua and Barbuda
Based on the order Wikipedia has for Group 8, the first tiebreaker is goal differential. St. Kitts and Nevis (4 points, +0) was eliminated despite beating French Guiana (4 points, +1). I think Group B has better teams than Group A.
That's the only way the Guyanese reaction makes any sense...unless they celebrated without checking the rules first, à la South Africa in 2012 AFCON qualifying.
Hold on: there's now a counterclaim (in French) that St. Kitts and Nevis went through on head-to-head. I'll wait for the CFU to clear things up tomorrow...
looked at the previous tournament. In the first round of group 2 when the 3 team earned 6 points: first became Guyana (6-3, +3), and the second St. Vincent and the Grenadines (6-2, +4). It turns out that in the first place the personal duels. From this it follows that now St. Kitts and Nevis should go to the next round.
And Manchester City didn't know the tiebreakers in the 2013-2014 UEFA Champions League. I didn't think about looking at tiebreakers from the previous round. I gave you rep.
Here are the projected points after Caribbean Cup Qualifying (Current points on left, projected points on right): 988 Costa Rica 990 963 Mexico 954 936 USA 877 374 T & T 598 540 Panama 546 534 Guatemala 516 411 Antigua and Barbuda 478 535 Honduras 477 431 El Salvador 413 295 Dominican Republic 405 266 Haiti 360 301 St Vincent & the Gren 302 257 Cuba 286 321 Jamaica 284 276 St Kitts and Nevs 279 265 Canada 267 233 Aruba 218 256 St Lucia 197 209 Grenada 176 112 Barbados 172 164 Curacao 171 175 Suriname 167 148 Guyana 148 126 Puerto Rico 119 103 Belize 99 83 Nicaragua 90 86 Montserratt 86 83 Bermuda 83 66 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 89 Dominica 53 26 Bahamas 26 23 Cayman Islands 23 28 US Virgin Islands 20 13 British Virgin Islands 8 1 Anguilla 2 Will do one more update after tomorrow friendlies S. Korea v. Costa Rica El Salvador v. Ecuador USA v. Honduras Peru v. Guatemala Canada v. Colombia (A Canada win would put them in the Top 6 of a Round 3 Draw)
The CFU have called it: French Guiana are confirmed for the finals. Either the rules got changed mid-tournament (in which case, I hope that the teams were duly informed) or the CFU will have to issue an embarrassing retraction in a couple days' time.
Ah...I misread your post - sorry about that. This is the first instance in this tournament in which applying the H2H tiebreaker would give us a different result than total GD, so perhaps the CFU switched to goal difference ahead of the tournament. I'll ask them on their Facebook page just in case.
Here are the final projected points after all CONCACAF October matches (Current points on left, projected points on right): 988 Costa Rica 974 963 Mexico 954 936 USA 862 374 T & T 598 540 Panama 546 535 Honduras 480 411 Antigua and Barbuda 478 534 Guatemala 466 295 Dominican Republic 405 431 El Salvador 392 266 Haiti 360 301 St Vincent & the Gren 302 257 Cuba 286 321 Jamaica 284 276 St Kitts and Nevs 279 265 Canada 251 233 Aruba 218 256 St Lucia 197 209 Grenada 176 112 Barbados 172 164 Curacao 171 175 Suriname 167 148 Guyana 148 126 Puerto Rico 119 103 Belize 99 83 Nicaragua 90 86 Montserratt 86 83 Bermuda 83 66 Turks and Caicos Islands 66 89 Dominica 53 26 Bahamas 26 23 Cayman Islands 23 28 US Virgin Islands 20 13 British Virgin Islands 8 1 Anguilla 2
The schedule for the Caribbean Cup finals has now been released, and we can confirm that 1) overall GD is the first tiebreaker, as French Guiana are going to participate and 2) no semifinals or Fifth Place Match will be played.
The top two in Group A have an advantage of having 1 more day rest before the Final and Third Place game.
I can understand not having a semifinal round and going straight to the finals because teams want their best players for this tournament and the international match calendar is only so many days long before clubs want their players back. In a way it makes each group game that much more important because there aren't any second chances. But why not have a tripleheader on the last matchday and include a fifth-placed game? I mean if you're going to have a CFU-UNCAF playoff for the last Gold Cup place, why not take it more seriously?
Thought this was interesting http://www.weglobalfootball.com/201...-cup-spot-cost-them-a-place-at-the-world-cup/
First of all, "We Global Football" just may be the stupidest name of a blogsite ever. And what has been dissected elsewhere in this forum, Canada's main problem is LOSING, not the fact that they get fewer chances at the 2.5-weighted points. I was at the USA-Canada Gold Cup match (my hometown of Detroit; on the Canadian border, no less). A very winnable (tie-able?) match. Canada failed. Now the website is complaining that Canada needs a "real draw" instead of the Concacaf method of placing teams in groups. Again, that is not Canada's main problem
In the Semifinals of qualifying for World Cup 2014, Canada got 1 points per game and a goal differential of -2 per game in their four games against Honduras and Panama. In the 16 Hexagonal games involving Honduras or Panama but not them playing each other, clubs playing Honduras or Panama got 1.5 points per game and a goal difference of about +0.2 per game. Not playing Gold Cup qualifiers could hurt Canada, but I'm not confident Canada would have qualified to a recent World Cup even with better seeding and/or qualifying draws.
Trinidad and Tobago just beat French Guiana 4-2, and up to now, they're still the only team to win at the Caribbean Cup underway in Jamaica. They've qualified for the Gold Cup early with six points in Group A, and a tie between Cuba and Curaçao would give them first place in the group outright.
Cuba are in as well, after holding Trinidad and Tobago to a 0-0 draw to finish second in Group A. Just out of curiosity, @Catracho_Azul : if Honduras end up playing French Guiana, how do they go about calling up players? As far as FIFA is concerned, Honduras wouldn't have any official games in that matchday.
Yes, but if it is when there are Euro qualifiers the European clubs with Honduras players won't have games then. It might be an issue for Hondurans in MLS especially if the USA doesn't play then.
Then again, getting to host World Cup participants Honduras in Cayenne would be a huge experience for them, and the biggest game in their history until they: a) qualify for a Gold Cup, b) win a Caribbean Cup or c) win a French Overseas Cup.