2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification

2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage
Tournament details
Host countries	Guyana (Group A); Saint Kitts and Nevis (Group B)
Dates	13–21 July 2019
Teams	10 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	70 (3.5 per match)

The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage took place between 13–21 July 2019. The teams competed for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship final tournament.

Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete.^[1]

Teams

The qualifying format changed from the 2018 edition, and the teams were no longer divided into regional zones.

The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Ranking as of 2018.^[2] A total of 26 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 10 entrants participated in the qualifying stage, where the two group winners and the two group runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.^[3]

Exempt from qualifying (16 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
1	United States	6,838
2	Mexico	5,769
3	Canada	4,496
4	Haiti	2,788
5	Costa Rica	2,575
6	Jamaica	2,500
7	Trinidad and Tobago	2,232
8	Honduras	1,583
9	Guatemala	1,420
10	Panama	1,356
11	Nicaragua	1,083
12	Dominican Republic	914
13	El Salvador	822
14	Cuba	777
15	Puerto Rico	757
16	Cayman Islands	462

Participating in qualifying stage (10 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
17	Bermuda	392
18	Anguilla	279
19	Antigua and Barbuda	305
21	Saint Kitts and Nevis	245
22	Grenada	224
23	Guyana	197
24	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	193
25	Suriname	175
29	Saint Lucia	31
33	Barbados	0

Did not enter tournament (15 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
20	Curaçao	293
26	Dominica	169
27	Belize	136
28	Bonaire^{[lower-alpha 1]}	41
30	British Virgin Islands	23
31	Aruba	16
32	Bahamas	0
34	French Guiana^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0
35	Guadeloupe^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0
36	Martinique^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0
37	Montserrat	0
38	Sint Maarten^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0
39	Saint Martin^{[lower-alpha 1]}	0
40	Turks and Caicos Islands	0
41	U.S. Virgin Islands	0

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 Non-FIFA members and thus ineligible to play in World Cup.

Draw

The draw for the qualifying stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 10 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into two groups of five teams.^[3] Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 10 teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:^[4]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Bermuda Anguilla	Antigua and Barbuda Saint Kitts and Nevis	Grenada Guyana	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname	Saint Lucia Barbados

Qualifying stage

The winners and runners-up of each group qualified for the final tournament, where they will enter the round of 16 of the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.4):^[1]

Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss);
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
- Direct red card: −4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
Drawing of lots.

Group A

Matches were played at the Synthetic Track and Field Facility, Leonora in Guyana. All times are local, AST (UTC−4).^[5]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guyana (H)	4	4	0	9	1	+8	12	2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
2	Saint Lucia	4	3	1	9	7	+2	9	2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
3	Bermuda	4	2	2	12	6	+6	6	2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship^{[lower-alpha 1]}
4	Suriname	4	1	3	10	14	−4	3
5	Antigua and Barbuda	4	0	4	3	15	−12	0

Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Qualifying stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Notes:

↑ The third-placed teams of the two qualifying groups qualified for the final tournament as replacements of Costa Rica and Panama, which had automatically qualified for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, and thus would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.^[6]

13 July 2019