- 34 Concacaf Member Associations will participate in the 2026 edition of the competition
- Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, and Guatemala confirmed as hosts
- Eight group winners will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-17 World Cup
Miami, FL - Concacaf has conducted the official draw for the 2026 Concacaf U-17 Qualifiers, the region’s FIFA U-17 World Cup qualifying competition. The tournament will take place from Feb. 3 - 12, 2026, across six countries and include the participation of 34 Concacaf Member Associations.
The competition will follow the same format introduced for the 2025 edition, featuring a single round. The participating teams will be split into eight groups, and each team will face every other team in its group once. At the conclusion of round-robin play, the eight group winners qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
The eight groups are as follows:
Group A
Mexico, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, Saint Martin, Sint Maarten
Group B
Panama, Nicaragua, Guadeloupe, Anguilla, Dominica
Group C
Haiti, Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada
Group D
Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands
Group E
United States, Dominican Republic, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Group F
El Salvador, Curaçao, Cuba, Belize
Group G
Canada, Jamaica, Aruba, Cayman Islands
Group H
Honduras, Bermuda, Guyana, Suriname
Matches will be divided across venues in six nations; Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, and Guatemala have been confirmed as hosts.
The full match schedule for the 2026 U-17 Qualifiers can be found here.
In the previous edition of the Concacaf Under-17 Qualifiers, played under the same format, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, and the United States topped their respective groups to secure qualification for the FIFA U-17 World Cup Qatar 2025.
