The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification compeition, also known as the CONCACAF W Qualifiers, is an upcoming women's football tournament that will be contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of

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to decide the participating teams of the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship. The qualifying matches will take place in February and April 2022. A total of six teams in the qualifying competition will advance to the final tournament, joining

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, who received

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as the top ranked teams. The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship serves as the CONCACAF qualifiers to the

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in France.

Teams

A total 39

member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying competition, with

and the

having qualified automatically for the final tournament as the top two CONCACAF teams in the

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, and therefore ineligible to qualify for the Women's World Cup. However, only 30 teams entered the competition. Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. Notes

Format

The qualifying competition will be held in February and April 2022. Teams will be drawn into six groups of five, and will play two home and two away matches in a single round-robin format. Should more than thirty CONCACAF member associations have entered, a play-in round will be held prior to the qualifying group stage. However, as 30 teams entered qualifying, this was not necessary. The six group winners will advance to the final tournament.

Draw

The qualification draw took place on 21 August 2021, 15:00 EDT, in

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, United States. The 30 teams were seeded based on the

of June 2021 (in parentheses). The top six teams in the ranking were pre-seeded, and automatically allocated to position 1 in order from group A to F. The remaining teams were placed into pots 1 to 4 based on ranking, with each pot containing six teams. Pot 4 contained the two lowest-ranked teams, along with four unranked teams. In the draw, teams were drawn from each pot and placed in order from group A to F. The position teams were drawn into was based on their pot: pot 1 teams were drawn into position 2, pot 2 teams into position 3, pot 3 teams into position 4 and pot 4 teams into position 5. ;Notes * NR: Not ranked

Schedule

Below is the schedule of the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification tournament. On 8 October 2021, CONCACAF announced that the first window of matches was postponed from November 2021 to February 2022 due to challenges with travel to and within certain countries as a result of the

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. In addition, the match dates for qualification were also announced.

Groups

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Group E

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Group F

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Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Concacaf W Championship qualification 2022

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