The 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship was the fourth staging of the
CONCACAF Women's Championship
The CONCACAF W Championship (previously known as the CONCACAF Women's Championship, CONCACAF Women's Invitational Tournament, CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup and CONCACAF Women's World Cup Qualifying) is a football competition organized by the Confede ...
, the international
women's association football
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tournament for
North America
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,
Central America
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and
Caribbean
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nations organized by
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
. The final stage of the tournament took place at
Etobicoke
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and
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* Scarborough (surname)
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* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
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in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada.
Canada
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took the sole automatic qualifying place for the
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
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by finishing first. The runner-up,
Mexico
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, qualified after defeating
Argentina
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in a
two-leg playoff in December 1998.
The tournament was originally planned to take place in Haiti, but was moved due to disputes between the Haitian government and the
Haitian Football Federation.
This was the only edition of CONCACAF's Women's Championship or the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in which the traditional superpower of CONCACAF women's football, the
United States
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, did not participate. The U.S. team directly qualified for the 1999 Women's World Cup as hosts of the event.
Qualification
UNCAF
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Qualifying Tournament
The 1998 UNCAF Qualifying Tournament took place in
Guatemala City
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between 19 July and 25 July 1998. It was won by the hosts
Guatemala
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after defeating
Haiti
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1–0 in the final match.
Guatemala
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,
Haiti
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and
Costa Rica
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qualified for the 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship.
Group A
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Group B
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Third place play-off
Final
CFU Qualifying Round
The
CFU Qualifying Round consisted of home-and-away ties. It is not clear whether
Martinique
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and
Puerto Rico
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received a bye to the finals, or whether their (unknown) intended opponents withdrew.
1 Haiti were to play Bahamas but apparently the latter withdrew.
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Costa Rica
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,
Guatemala
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,
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
,
Martinique
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,
Puerto Rico
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and
Trinidad and Tobago
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qualified for the final tournament.
Participating teams
Venues
Final tournament
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
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Third place playoff
Final
Canada won the tournament and qualified for
1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup was the third edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the world championship for women's national soccer teams. It was hosted as well as won by the United States and took place from June 19 to July 10, 1999, at ...
. Mexico advanced to
CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off.
Awards
Statistics
Final ranking
References
External links
Tables & resultsat RSSSF.com
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Women's Championship
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WSL 2 replaced the previous level 2 d ...
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