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CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING 2022

New formatEdit
On 27 July 2020, CONCACAF announced a new qualifying format for the World Cup.


 * First round: CONCACAF teams ranked 6 to 35 based on the FIFA rankings of July 2020 are drawn into six groups of five and play single round-robin matches (two home and two away), with group winners and the 1 best second place team will qualifying for the final round.
 * Second round : The 7 first round qualified teams will join the top 5 CONCACAF teams based on the fifa rankings of June 2020 will Split into 2 groups of 6 and play home and away round robin matches. The top teams from the two groups qualify automatically to the world cup while the runner ups from the 2 group advance to the playoff round.
 * Third round: The two second-placed teams of each group from the final round played home-and-away over two legs. The winners qualified to world cup the losers advance to inter-confederation play-offs
 * Fourth round :

EntrantsEdit
All 35 FIFA-affiliated national teams from CONCACAF will enter qualification. Teams were seeded based on their July 2020 FIFA rankings.

ScheduleEdit
The schedule of the competition is expected to be as follows, according to the FIFA International Match Calendar.

On 25 June 2020, FIFA announced that the inter-confederation play-offs, originally scheduled to be played in March 2022, were moved to June 2022. On 8 September 2020, CONCACAF announced that the matches scheduled for October and November 2020 would be rescheduled to 2021.

The draw for the first round was held, along with the draw for the third round, on 19 August 2020, 19:00 CEST (UTC+2), at the FIFA headquarters in Zürich, Switzerland.

The seeding was based on the FIFA World Rankings of July 2020 (shown in parentheses). Teams in Pot 1 were pre-seeded to positions A1 to F1 based on their ranking (A1 as the highest-ranked team in Pot 1, and F1 as the lowest-ranked in Pot 1). The remaining teams will be drawn by pot into the first available group alphabetically. Each team will be assigned the position in their group based on their pot number (Pot 2 will be placed in position 2, Pot 3 will be placed in position 3).

Groups
The matches were originally scheduled for 7–13 October and 11–17 November 2020. However, CONCACAF announced on 8 September 2020 that the matches would be postponed, and would not begin until March 2021.

Group A
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA

March 2021

Antigua and Barbuda. 🇦🇬 1–0

March 2021.

El Salvador    2–0

March 2021

U.S. Virgin Islands. 0–4

March 2021

Montserrat       1–1

March 2021

Grenada    8–0

April 2021

Montserrat       6–0     

April 2021

Antigua and Barbuda         2–2

April 2021

U.S. Virgin Islands       0–7

April 2021

Grenada         2–0    

April 2021

El Salvador        5–0    

Group B
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA Suriname    3–0

Canada    3–0

Aruba     0–2

Cayman Islands    0–5

Bermuda      3–0

Cayman Islands      2–1

Suriname         2–1

Aruba       0–5

Bermuda      3–0

Canada       3–1

Group
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA Guatemala   3  – 1

Curaçao         4 –0

British Virgin  Islands               0 – 7

Cuba. 0  –  2

Saint Vincent     5 – 0

Cuba          5  –  0

Guatemala                –

British Virgin Islands          –

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines        –

Curaçao         –

Group D
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA Dominican Republic                     –

Panama      –

Anguilla          –

Dominica                –

Barbados            –

Dominica              –

Dominican Republic                        –

Anguilla           –

Barbados. –

Panama              –

Group E
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA Nicargua         –

Haiti           –

Turks and Caicos Islands             –

Saint Lucia           –

Belize              –

Saint Lucia       –

Nicaragua           –

Turks and Caicos Islands               –

Belize           –

Haiti        –

Group F
First match(es) will be played on a day in March 2021. Source: FIFA Saint Kitts and Nevis        –

Trinidad and Tobago        –

Bahamas. –

Puerto Rico. –

Guyana            –

Puerto Rico         –

Saint Kitts and Nevis              –           

Bahamas. –

Guyana             –

Trinidad and Tobago              –



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Second round
Main article:

The second round ties were predetermined as follows:


 * Group A winner v Group F winner
 * Group B winner v Group E winner
 * Group C winner v Group D winner

The matches will be played in March 2021.

Group A
Source: FIFA

Group B

Semi-finals
Winners qualify for the world cup loses advance to the third playoff

Third and fourth place playoff
Winner qualify for the world loser advance to inter confederation playoff