In order to qualify for the 2025 FIFA Under-17 Women’s World Cup, the USA only needs to top a four-team group that also includes El Salvador, Honduras, and Trinidad & Tobago.
The United States Under-17 Women’s Youth National Team’s shorter qualifying path compared to previous cycles is due to a new qualification format introduced by Concacaf this year. That format now involves a final stage which only consists of three concurrent round-robin groups. In previous cycles, when the FIFA U-17 WWC was held every two years, qualifying included a traditional tournament with a group stage and a knockout stage.
Additionally, with the expansion of the FIFA U-17 WWC from 16 to 24 teams, Concacaf now has an additional slot, so four teams — the top team from each group plus the best overall second-place team — will qualify for the tournament, which will be hosted by Morocco and runs from October 17th to November 8th.
On Monday, February 24th, Concacaf conducted the draw for the Final Round of the 2025 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Qualifiers.
The full draw results are as follow:
- Group A: Mexico (host*), Haiti, Costa Rica, Bermuda
- Group B: Canada, Puerto Rico, Panama (host*), Nicaragua
- Group C: USA, El Salvador, Honduras, Trinidad & Tobago (host*)
The Final Round’s matches will be played from Monday, March 31st to Sunday, April 6th. Groups “A” and “C” will play its matches on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, while Group B will play its matches on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. Thus, teams will only have one off-day between their first two matches and two off-days between the second and third matches.
The Final Round will be played in three different nations:
- Group A: Mexico, at the headquarters of the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol in Toluca
- Group B: Panama, at Estadio Rommel Fernández in Panama City
- Group C: Trinidad & Tobago, at Ato Boldon Stadium in Couva, Trinidad
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