2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification
The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship qualification is a women's under-17 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship. A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament.
Teams
A total of 27 CONCACAF member national teams entered, with four automatic qualifiers, and the remaining 23 teams entering regional qualification tournaments.Zone | Berths | Automatic qualifiers | Teams entering qualification |
North American Zone | 3 |
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[|Central American Zone] | 2 |
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[|Caribbean Zone] | 3 |
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- Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.
North American Zone | None |
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Central American Zone
In the Central American Zone, four UNCAF member national teams entered the qualifying competition, hosted by Panama. The four teams were placed into one group, with the winners qualifying for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives together with Nicaragua who qualified automatically as hosts.The schedule of the qualifying competition was announced on 26 September 2017. All times local,.
Group stage
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Goalscorers
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In the Caribbean Zone, 19 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition, consisting of two stages. Apart from Haiti, which received a bye as hosts of the final round, the remaining 18 teams entered the first round, and were drawn into three groups of four teams and two groups of three teams. The winners of each group advance to the final round to join Haiti, where they are divided into two groups of three teams, with the top three teams qualifying for the final tournament as the CFU representatives.
The draw of the qualifying competition was held on 6 June 2017, 10:00, at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, Florida. Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Guyana, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines were automatically seeded in Groups A–E respectively as hosts of each first round group, while the remaining 14 teams were seeded based on the results of the previous two editions of the qualifying competition. Any of the top five-ranked teams could not be drawn into the same group.
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First round
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Group E
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Final round
Group F
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Group G
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Third place match
Winner qualifies for 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship.Final
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship1 |
Automatic qualifiers | 5 | ||
Automatic qualifiers | 5 | ||
Automatic qualifiers | 5 | ||
Hosts | 0 | ||
Central American Zone winners | 3 | ||
Caribbean Zone top three | 3 | ||
Caribbean Zone top three | 0 | ||
Caribbean Zone top three | 1 |