2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship

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2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host countryGuatemala
CityGuatemala City
Dates11–26 February 2023
Teams20 (from 1 confederation)
2019
2024

The 2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship will be 8th edition of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship (21st edition if all eras included), the men's under-17 international football tournament organized by CONCACAF.[1] It will hosted in the Guatemala between 11 February and 22 February 2023.[2] The top four teams qualified for the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru as CONCACAF representatives.

Mexico are the title holders.

Qualified teams

The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Ranking as of December 2019.[3] A total of 38 teams entered the tournament. The sixteen highest-ranked entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked twenty-two entrants had to participate in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.[4]

Round Team Qualification Appearance Previous best performance Previous FIFA U-17 World Cup appearances
Group stage  Mexico (title holders) 1st ranked entrant 18th Champions (1985, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019)[a] 14
 United States (host) 2nd ranked entrant 19th Champions (1983, 1992, 2011)[b] 17
 Costa Rica 3rd ranked entrant 18th Champions (1994)[c] 10
 Honduras 4th ranked entrant 19th Runners-up (2015) 5
 Canada 5th ranked entrant 18th Runners-up (2011) 7
 Panama 6th ranked entrant 10th Runners-up (2013) 2
 Haiti 7th ranked entrant 9th Final group winner (2007) 2
 Jamaica 8th ranked entrant 15th Final group winner (1999) 2
 Cuba 9th ranked entrant 11th Champions (1988) 2
 El Salvador 10th ranked entrant 16th Fourth place (1999) 0
 Trinidad and Tobago 11th ranked entrant 15th Runners-up (1983) 2
 Guatemala 12th ranked entrant 12th Quarter-finals (2013) 0
 Curaçao[d] 13th ranked entrant 8th Round of 16 (2019) 0
 Suriname 14th ranked entrant 3rd First round (2017, 2019) 0
 Barbados 15th ranked entrant 3rd First round (2011, 2013, 2019) 0
 Guadeloupe 16th ranked entrant 2nd Round of 16 (2019) 0
Round of 16  Bermuda Qualifying Group A winner 3rd First round (1996, 2019) 0
 Puerto Rico Qualifying Group B winner 4th Round of 16 (2019) 0
 Dominican Republic Qualifying Group C winner 4th Round of 16 (2019) 0
 Nicaragua Qualifying Group D winner 3rd Round of 16 (2019) 0
Notes
  1. ^ Also final group winner in 1999 and 2005.
  2. ^ Also final group winner in 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007.
  3. ^ Also final group winner in 2001 and 2003.
  4. ^ Includes five appearances as the Netherlands Antilles before 2010.

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 29 September 2022, at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The sixteen teams were drawn into four groups of four teams.[4] Based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-17 Ranking, the top four ranked teams were seeded into position one of each group, while the remaining twelve teams were distributed in the other pots, as follows:

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Group stage

The top three teams in each group advanced to the round of 16, where they were joined by the four teams advancing from the qualifying round. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers were applied in the following order:

  1. Greater number of points in matches between the tied teams;
  2. Greater goal difference in matches between the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal on points);
  3. Greater number of goals scored in matches among the tied teams (if more than two teams finished equal in points);
  4. Greater goal difference in all group matches;
  5. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches;
  6. Drawing of lots.

Group E

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mexico 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Round of 16
2  Panama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Guatemala (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Curaçao 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers
(H) Host

Group F

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Round of 16
2  Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Trinidad and Tobago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Barbados 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

Group G

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Round of 16
2  Jamaica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Cuba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Guadeloupe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

Group H

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Honduras 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Round of 16
2  Haiti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  El Salvador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Suriname 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Source: CONCACAF
Rules for classification: Tie-breakers

References

  1. ^ "Guatemala host to 2023 CONCACAF U-17 Championship". International Soccerway. 3 July 2017. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Guatemala to host 2023 Concacaf U-17 finals, pre-qualification groups start end August". Insidefootball.com. 16 August 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  3. ^ "Men's Under-17 Ranking". CONCACAF. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Draw reveals groups for 2023 Concacaf U-17 Championship". CONCACAF. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.