- 32 Concacaf Member Associations will participate in the 2026 edition of the competition from Feb. 23 to March 4, 2026
- Six group winners will qualify for the 12-team 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship
Miami, FL – The 32 Concacaf Member Associations that will participate in the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Qualifiers have submitted their 21-player rosters ahead of the start of the tournament on Feb. 23.
The rosters have been selected and submitted by each Member Association and are published as such. To be eligible to participate in the competition, all players must fully comply with the criteria stipulated in the applicable FIFA player eligibility regulations.
Changes to the final rosters will be allowed in the event of serious injury or approved medical reasons up to 24 hours before each team´s first match. All changes must be approved by Concacaf, and the replacement player must also come from each team’s provisional lists.
To download the rosters, click here.
The U-20 Qualifiers will begin with a Group Stage featuring two groups of six teams and four groups of five teams. The groups were drawn as follows:
Group A
El Salvador, Suriname, Belize, Grenada, Saint Martin, French Guiana
Group B
Jamaica, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bonaire
Group C
Dominican Republic, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, British Virgin Islands, Dominica
Group D
Haiti, Curaçao, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla
Group E
Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, Barbados, Sint Maarten
Group F
Canada, Nicaragua, Aruba, Martinique, US Virgin Islands
Estadio Miguel Chocorrón Buitrago in Managua, Nicaragua, will host Group A and Group F; Group B and Group D matches will be played at Stadion Rignaal ‘Jean’ Francisca in Willemstad, Curaçao; and Group C and Group E matches will be held at the Complejo Deportivo FCRF-Plycem in San Rafael de Alajuela, Costa Rica.
After round-robin play, the first-place team from each group will advance to the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship, joining the six top-ranked nations that are pre-qualified directly to the tournament.
The full match schedule for the 2026 U-20 Qualifiers can be found here.
2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship
The 12-team Championship is scheduled for the summer of 2026, running from July 25 to Aug. 9, and will feature the region's 12 best men's U-20 national teams divided into three groups of four. The tournament will also serve as the qualifying competition for both the 2027 FIFA Men's U-20 World Cup, 2027 Pan American Games and the 2028 Summer Olympics.
After round-robin play, the two top teams of each group and the two best third-place teams will advance to a Knockout Stage comprised of the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Final.
Further details regarding the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship, including the tournament's host nation and draw details, will be published at a later date.
In the previous edition of the Concacaf U-20 Championship, played in Mexico in 2024, Mexico won the title by defeating the United States 2-1 in the Final.
