Draw set for today
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - THE St. Kitts and Nevis Under-17 Girls football team will know who its opponents are for the first round of the CONCACAF Under-17 World Cup Qualifiers when the draw is made today (June 11).
The 2022 CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Championship will include the zonal body’s 32 Member Associations and will be split into three rounds - Qualifiers, Group Stage and Knockout Stage.
The junior Sugar Girls will be entering the cohampionship in the Qualifying Round, where they will be joined by a number of Caribbean teams.
According to CONCACAF, the top 16 teams on the current CONCACAF Women’s Under-17 Ranking have qualified directly to the Group Stage, while the remaining 16 participating teams would begin play in the Qualifying Round.
St. Kitts and Nevis will be joined in the qualifiers by Honduras, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Curacao, Dominica, Cayman Islands, US Virgin Island, Anguilla, Guyana, Belize, Suriname, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guadeloupe and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The draw is slated to be held today and St. Kitts and Nevis is currently placed in Pool 1, where they will not have to face the likes of Barbados, Honduras and Antigua and Barbuda in the group phase.
Only the group winners of this phase of the competition will qualify for the next round of the CONCACAF Championship.
The zonal body reported that the Group and Knockout Stages are scheduled to take place in the first quarter of 2022, and that the 16 participating teams would be divided into four groups.
It also stated that after the round-robin play, the top three teams in each group would advance to the Round of 16, joining the four Qualifiers winners.
The winner, runner-up and third-place teams will qualify for the 2022 FIFAU-17 Women's World Cup scheduled to be played in India between October 11-30, 2022.
