MIAMI – The Final Round of the 2026 Concacaf Women’s U-17 Qualifiers continues with Canada taking on Nicaragua in Group A on Tuesday at the Costa Rican Football Federation Field #2 in Alajuela, Costa Rica.
Canada begins its journey to secure qualification for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Morocco 2026 as one of the four top-ranked teams in the region that received a bye directly to the Final Round.
Nicaragua enters the Final Round as one of the two best second-place finishers in Round One. The Central Americans secured its second-place finish in Group A with a 3-0-1 record and a total nine points, scoring 28 times and only conceding two.
All-Time series
Canada and Nicaragua will face each other for the second time in the Concacaf Women’s U-17 Championship. In their first meeting, Canada won 5-0 in Group B on April 1, 2025, at Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City, Panama, with goals from Lacey Maglio Kindel, Melisa Sayra Kekic, Kaylee Marie Hunter, Olivia James Chisholm, and Emma Donnelly.
This will be the third time Canada shares a group with Central American teams, El Salvador and Nicaragua, after having faced Panama and Guatemala in 2012 and Nicaragua and Panama in 2025.
In the history of the Concacaf Women’s U-17 Championship, Nicaragua will face a North American team for the fourth time:
8-0 vs Mexico (April 19, 2008)
10-0 vs Mexico (April 23, 2022)
5-0 vs Canada (April 1, 2025).
