2024 CONCACAF U20 Championship: All Teams & Tournament Thread

News!

The 2024 Concacaf U-20 Championship will start with a group stage. After round-robin play, from July 19 – 27, the top two finishers in each group and the two best third places will advance to the quarterfinals.

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Group A: United States, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica
Group B: Honduras, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Canada
Group C: Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, Haiti
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https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-...schedule-for-2024-concacaf-u-20-championship/

 

Assuming I am getting this right, if we win our group (which, of course, that's why we play the games) we get the third-place team from one of the other groups (presumably chosen through some ranking scheme I haven't bothered to figure out) and if we beat them, we're in.

Runner-up would be interesting -- we'd get a must-win game against the Group C winner, which would presumably (again, play the games and all that) be Mexico. Third place gets the Group B winner, which would not be Mexico. I'd call that a wrinkle!

EDIT: I guess there are some other scenarios where we'd get Mexico in the all-or-nothing round, but they're somewhat less likely. Like we win our group and Mexico is third in theirs...

 

Was just catching up on the tournament rules and noted a few things; if they were already mentioned, my bad:

They mention a low age cutoff of Dec. 31, 2009. That is... young, since January 2005 is the high end! I for some reason thought they were tightening up these things, but maybe it wasn't for this competition or something.

Provisional lists due 30 days before the tournament starts. Up to 60 players, 5 must be GKs (so you figure most countries will not stop at the low end, which is 21 players).

Final lists due 10 days before the tournament starts. 21 players, 3 GKs, must come from the provisional list.

I guess we can reasonably conclude from this that the provisional lists will be due mid-June and the final ones early July.

Injury replacements can be made from provisional list up to 24 hours before a team's first game.

 

Here's a training roster for Haiti. It's more players than are allowed, so there will be cuts.

L'équipe haïtienne masculine des moins de vingt ans a été convoquée pour un stage de préparation à Querétaro, Mexique. Les 26 joueurs sélectionnés se rassembleront ( 3 au 17 juillet) pour affiner leur stratégie en vue du tournoi Concacaf de la catégorie. https://t.co/cTAzheyw5G pic.twitter.com/B595yyNyDQ

— Fédération Haïtienne de Football (@fhfhaiti) July 3, 2024

 

This seems to be a training roster for the DR. It includes an American-born player based in Ireland.

Hoy fue anunciada la Prelista de la Selección U20 dirigida por @aletrionfini de cara al Campeonato de Concacaf para esa categoría. A pesar de que faltan algunos jugadores esta elección de momento está muy interesante. ¿Opiniones? 🤔#Concacaf #DocePasion pic.twitter.com/3meo0jFmGK

— Doce (@Doce_Pasion) July 2, 2024

 

By the way, someone else observed on Twitter that there isn't a single Haiti-based player on that Haiti roster. That seems notable. (Several are American.)

 

A Haiti squad beat a Mexican club's U23s.

🚨 La sélection haïtienne U20 a étrillé l’Inter Querétaro (6-0) en amical ce dimanche ! 🇭🇹

En prélude du Championnat U20 de la CONCACAF, l’équipe haïtienne a fait un premier test match ce dimanche. Contre les U23 du club mexicain de l’Inter Querétaro, cela n’a été qu’une simple… pic.twitter.com/qzDRIJjBJl

— Haiti-Tempo (@Haititempo) July 8, 2024

 

After a quick and lazy skim, this is the only place I've seen this:

Jamaica U20 squad for the upcoming CONCACAF U20 Championship in Mexico..#jamaica #football #reggaeboyz pic.twitter.com/J7w83O9HyH

— MG Sports Media (@MilitaryGooner) July 10, 2024

 

I'm a little surprised that we haven't seen more official roster announcements yet. Based on the tournament rules, all the lists should be in. One might guess that they were waiting for a break in the Copa America, but who knows. Still, I guess stuff (including, I figure, the customary all-inclusive CONCACAF list where we learn some random dude's real name is "Reinhold") will start landing soon enough.

 

Oh! Canada!

GK – Nathaniel Abraham | CAN / Toronto FC Academy
GK – Isaiah Goldson | USA / Michigan University
GK – Grégoire Swiderski | FRA / Girondins de Bordeaux B
FB – James Cameron | CAN / Vancouver FC
FB – Christian Greco-Taylor | CAN / Pacific FC
FB – Theo Rigopoulous | CAN / Toronto FC Academy
CB – Richard Chukwu | CAN / Toronto FC Academy
CB – Immanuel Mathe | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps II
CB – Adam Pearlman | CAN / Toronto FC
CB – Ethan Schilte-Brown | SCO / Kilmarnock FC B
M – Alessandro Biello | CAN / CF Montréal
M – Jeevan Badwal | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps II
M – Jesse Costa | Unattached
M – Andrei Dumitru | CAN / Toronto FC II
M – Khadim Kane | CAN / Forge FC
FW – Mataeo Bunbury | USA / Portland Timbers II
FW – Tavio Ciccarelli | CAN / Halifax Wanderers FC
FW – Oumar Diallo | AUT / LASK Linz
FW – Santiago Lopez | MEX / Pumas Unam
FW – Myles Morgan | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps II
FW – Kimani Stewart-Baynes | USA / Colorado Rapids ​

https://canada-soccer-pressroom.pre...-pour-le-championnat-u-20-de-la-concacaf-2024

Yes, it's two bad jokes in one post, but I feel obligated to say something about how one of these guys looks like a Titanic selection.

 

Another friendly win for Haiti.

Deuxième match amical, deuxième victoire pour la sélection haïtienne U20 au Mexique !

Les jeunes Grenadiers se sont imposés (4-0) hier jeudi contre l'équipe U-23 de Celaya FC. Les buteurs : Bryan Destin x2, Nelson Pierre et Isaïe Louis.

La préparation pour la CONCACAF U20… pic.twitter.com/AfjVYnqPUI

— Caleb Jephte Pierre (@Caleb_Jephte) July 12, 2024

 

The Honduran Fed published a piece explaining that Nayrobi Vargas wasn't released by his new German club.

https://fenafuth.org.hn/la-ffh-info...e-del-fsv-mainz-05-para-el-premundial-sub-20/

Someone please remind me: Is he American? Or was he just based here?

 

CONCACAF apparently put out a "what you need to know" release yesterday. I didn't see much news in it, or a mention of the timing of a roster release.

https://www.concacaf.com/under-20s-...men-s-u-20-championship-all-you-need-to-know/

I noticed that apparently the entire tournament is at two venues. Assuming that means two fields... that seems potentially like some field-condition fun could arise, since apparently the competition is 25 games.