2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship

The 2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship will be the 11th edition of the CONCACAF Women's Championship, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Eight teams will play in the tournament, which will take place in July 2022.[1]

2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host countryTBD
DatesJuly 2022
Teams8

The tournament will serve as the CONCACAF qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The top four teams will qualify for the World Cup, while two additional teams will advance to a play-off tournament.[2]

The United States are the two-time defending champions of the competition, having won the 2014 and 2018 tournaments.[3]

Qualification
Main article: 2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship qualification

The qualifying competition will be held in November 2021 and April 2022. Teams will be drawn into six groups of five, and will play single round-robin matches (two home and two away). Should more than thirty CONCACAF member associations enter, a play-in round will be held prior to the qualifying group stage. The six group winners will advance to the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following teams have qualified for the final tournament. Canada and the United States, the two highest-ranked CONCACAF teams in the FIFA Women's World Rankings, qualified automatically.

Team Qualification Appearance Previous best performance Previous FIFA Women's World Cup appearances FIFA ranking
at start of event[4]
 Canada Automatic 10th Champions (1998, 2010) 7 TBD
 United States (title holders) Automatic 10th Champions (1991, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2014, 2018) 8 TBD

Format

Eight teams will play in the tournament, which will be held in July 2022. They will be drawn into two groups of four teams and will play single round-robin matches. The top teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage.[1] The competition will qualify four CONCACAF teams for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, while two additional teams will advance to a play-off tournament.[2] This is an expansion from the previous Women's World Cup qualifying competition, which only allocated 3.5 spots to CONCACAF.[5]

Qualification for international tournaments

Qualified teams for FIFA Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF will qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in FIFA Women's World Cup1
TBDJuly 2022
TBDJuly 2022
TBDJuly 2022
TBDJuly 2022
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "CONCACAF to launch new senior women's national team competitions to benefit entire Confederation". CONCACAF. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  2. "Update on FIFA Women's World Cup and men's youth competitions". FIFA. 24 December 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
  3. "Lavelle and Morgan lift the United States over Canada for the 2018 CWC title". CONCACAF. 17 October 2018.
  4. "Women's Ranking (CONCACAF)". FIFA.com.
  5. "Circular #1565 - FIFA women's tournaments 2018-2019" (PDF). FIFA.com. 11 November 2016.
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