the Concacaf announce this Thursday the creation of two new selection tournaments, Which will help to improve the classification routes to different events and enhance the level of the region. This is the CONCACAF Gold Cup W and the Concacaf Championship W, Contests of women’s soccer.
“the The 2022 CONCACAF Championship will qualify teams for the Women’s World Cup of FIFA 2023 and the Olimpic games of the2424. The inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup will be held in the summer of 2024 with 12 nations“, Said the mother house of zonal football in a corresponding note.
Concacaf W Championship: what it is, when and how it will be done
The same will consist of one qualifying and the Final Phase which will deliver, as we have already mentioned, contingents to the Paris 2024 Games and the next Women’s World Cup. “It will begin in November 2021, with the Qualifying for the CONCACAF W Championship, which will include 30 nations“, They indicated.
The draw will take place on August 21st at 3PM Eastern Time, and the development of the preliminary instance will take place at FIFA dates November 2021 and April 2022. In it will be all but the United States and Canada who will enter directly into the decisive round (to be the top two in the ranking).
they will conform six groups of five, With two first-leg games and two back-to-back games, and only the best of each zone will advance to the CONCACAF W Championship (a format identical to the first stage of the Men’s Qualifiers in Qatar 2022). In this one there will be two groups of four, where the first two will play the semifinals, Also having a duel for third place and a final.
The semifinalists will qualify for the World Cup; the two thirds of group will go to a repechaje to accede to the same. The champions will have their passage in Paris 2024 and the Gold Cup W 2024; while the other two on the podium will go on an intercontinental rematch for a spot at the Olympics (and also for the W Gold Cup).
Concacaf W Championship Format (Photo: CONCACAF)
CONCACAF W Gold Cup: what it is, when and how it will be made
the preliminary round of this female version of the Gold Cup will begin once the 2023 World Cup is over. 33 selections (excluding the two that will dispute the Games of Paris 2024) will be divided in three leagues: League A (the nine best ranked teams, in three groups of three teams); League B: (the next 12 teams best ranked in three groups of four teams) and League C (the 12 lowest in three groups of four teams).
Concluded the group stage of each division, which will be round trip, the first in each zone in League A go to the Gold Cup; the seconds of each quadrant will intersect at one repechage with the best of League B. To these six countries will join to the final phase of the tournament the champion of the Championship Concacaf W; the one of the Olympic repechaje and 4 guests of other confederations.
This dozen selected will be distributed in three groups of four nations each. The first two of each and the pair of best third will reach the quarterfinals, which will continue with semifinals and final.