2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship


The 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 8th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was hosted by Honduras and took place between 3–13 December 2015, as announced by CONCACAF on 7 May 2015. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.
Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top three teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.
The United States won their fifth title overall and fourth in a row with a 1–0 final victory over Canada. Both finalists and third-placed Mexico qualified for the World Cup.

Qualification

The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:
Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the four teams joining Canada, Mexico, the United States, and hosts Honduras at the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Venues

The tournament was hosted in San Pedro Sula. In the original schedule, the Estadio Francisco Morazán would host the opening day matches for Group A, as well as the semifinals, third place match and the final, while the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano would host the remaining Group A matches and all of the Group B matches. In the final schedule, eight group matches were relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana due to rain, while all matches initially scheduled for the Estadio Francisco Morazán was played at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 4 November 2015 at 10:00 CST at the Hotel Real Intercontinental in San Pedro Sula.
The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Tournament host Honduras were seeded in Group A, while defending CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship champion United States were seeded in Group B.
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  • Squads

    Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 players.

    Group stage

    The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points. If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:
    1. Goal difference in all group matches;
    2. Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches;
    3. Greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
    4. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
    5. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
    6. Drawing of lots.
    All times were local, CST.
    The two matches originally scheduled on 5 December 2015 were postponed due to heavy rain. As a result, all subsequent group matches were delayed by a day and relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana in San Pedro Sula.

    Group A

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    Group B

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    Knockout stage

    In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.

    Bracket

    Semi-finals

    Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
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    Third place playoff

    Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

    Final

    Winners

    Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

    The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
    TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1

    Goalscorers

    ;7 goals
    ;5 goals
    ;4 goals
    ;3 goals
    ;2 goals
    ;1 goal
    ;1 own goal
    The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
    ;Best XI
    ;Golden Ball
    ;Golden Boot
    ;Golden Glove
    ;Fair Play Award