• 30 teams set to participate in Round One of the competition
  • Matches will be played between January 24 and February 2, 2026, across four different countries
  • Six group winners and the two best second-place finishers will advance to the Final Round 

 

Miami, FL - Concacaf has conducted the official draw for Round One of the 2026 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers. The first phase of the qualification process  for the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup will take place from January 24 to February 2, 2026, across four countries, and will include the participation of 30 Concacaf Member Associations.

The 2026 Concacaf U-17 Women’s Qualifiers will be the second edition of the event to be played under the current two-round format, following its introduction in 2025.

 

 

For Round One, during the official draw, the 30 participants were split into six groups of five teams each, as follows:

Group A
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Belize, US Virgin Islands, Dominica

Group B
Panama, Bermuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Bonaire

Group C
Haiti, Guatemala, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda

Group D
Honduras, Jamaica, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Aruba

Group E
Costa Rica, Cuba, Grenada, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands

Group F
El Salvador, Trinidad & Tobago, Curaçao, Barbados, Guadeloupe

Matches will be split across four countries: Aruba will host Group D, Bermuda will host Group B, Curacao will host Groups F and C, and Nicaragua will host Groups A and E.

The competition's complete match schedule is available here.

After the round-robin group stage play, the six group winners and the two best second-place finishers will advance to the Final Round, joining the four top-ranked teams in the region, which received a bye to the Final Round (listed in alphabetical order): Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the United States.

In the previous edition of the Concacaf Women's U-17 Qualifiers, played under the same format, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States topped their respective groups to secure qualification for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2025™ in Morocco.