2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification

The 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification competition, was a women's football tournament that was contested by the under-20 women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF to decide the participating teams of the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. The qualifying matches were scheduled to take place between 14 and 23 April 2023. A total of six teams in the qualifying competition advanced to the final tournament, joining United States and Mexico, who received byes as the top-ranked teams. The 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship will serve as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Teams

A record number of 32 CONCACAF member associations entered the qualifying competition,.

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Notes

Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

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Venues

On 17 February 2023, CONCACAF announced the tournament would be hosted in Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua, with Curaçao hosting Groups B and D and the Dominican Republic hosting groups A and C, and Nicaragua hosting Groups E and F.

Willemstad	San Cristóbal	Santo Domingo	Managua
Rignaal Jean Francisca Stadium	Estadio Panamericano	Félix Sánchez Olympic Stadium	Nicaragua National Football Stadium
Capacity: 3,000	Capacity: 2,800	Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 15,000

Format

The qualifying competition was held from 14 to 23 April 2023 across three countries namely Curaçao, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. Teams were drawn into six groups, and to play in a single round-robin format. The six group winners will advance to the final tournament.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows :

Points obtained in all group matches ;
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 :
*Yellow card: −1 points;
*Indirect red card : −3 points;
*Direct red card: −4 points;
*Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
Drawing of lots.

Draw

The qualification draw took place on 16 February 2023, 11:00 EDT, in Miami, Florida, United States. The 32 teams were seeded based on the CONCACAF U-20 Women's Rankings of August 2022. In the draw, teams were drawn from each pot and placed in order from groups A to F. The position teams were drawn into was based on their pot: pot [|1] teams were drawn into position 1, pot 2 teams into position 2, pot 3 teams into position 3, pot 4 teams into position 4 pot 5 teams into position 5/6.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5

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NR: Not ranked

Groups

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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Group F

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship¹
		15 2 2023	11
		15 2 2023	11
	Group A Winners	22 4 2023	9
	Group B Winners	18 4 2023	6
	Group C Winners	19 4 2023	3
	Group D Winners	19 4 2023	2
	Group E Winners	18 4 2023	11
	Group F Winners	23 4 2023	6