The 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification is a women's

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competition which decides the participating teams of the

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. A total of eight teams played in the final tournament, which was held in the United States.

Teams

A total of 30 (out of 41)

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member national teams entered, with three automatic qualifiers, and the remaining 27 teams entering regional qualification tournaments.

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in March 2018 in parentheses (NR=Not ranked; N/A=Not applicable as they are not a FIFA member). ;Notes *Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament. ;Notes:

Format

In each group of all rounds, teams played each other once at a centralised venue. *Central American Zone: The top two teams of the group qualify for the final tournament. *Caribbean Zone: The winners of each first round group advance to the final round. The top three teams of the final round qualify for the final tournament.

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to

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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). The rankings of teams in each group are determined as follows (regulations Articles 12.4 and 12.7): If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings are determined as follows:

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Central American Zone

In the Central American Zone, four

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member national teams entered the qualifying competition. The four teams were placed into one group, with the top two teams qualifying for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives. The qualifying competition was originally scheduled to take place in Nicaragua, but a new host was selected due to security concerns caused by civil unrest in Nicaragua. In July 2018, CONCACAF announced that all games would be played at the

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, United States. All times local, UTC−4. ---- ----

Caribbean Zone

In the Caribbean Zone, 23 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition, consisting of two stages. All teams entered the first round, and were drawn into three groups of five teams and two groups of four teams. The winners of each group advanced to the final round, where they were placed into one group, with the top three teams qualifying for the final tournament as the CFU representatives. The draw of the qualifying competition was held on 27 March 2018, 12:00 UTC−4, at the CONCACAF headquarters in

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. Dominican Republic, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, and Guyana were automatically seeded in Groups A–E respectively as hosts of each first round group, while the remaining 18 teams were seeded based on CONCACAF's own ranking.

First round

All times local, UTC−4.

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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Final round

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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.

Goalscorers

Notes

References

External links

World Cup Qualifying – Women
CONCACAF.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Concacaf Women's Championship qualification 2018

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