# 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification

The 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualification is a women's under-20 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament. Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

## Teams

A total of 23 (out of 41) CONCACAF member national teams entered, with four automatic qualifiers, and the remaining 19 teams entering regional qualification tournaments.
| Zone | Berths | Automatic qualifiers | Teams entering qualification |
| North American Zone (NAFU) | 3 | Canada  Mexico  United States | |
| Central American Zone (UNCAF) | 2 | | Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama |
| Caribbean Zone (CFU) | 3 | Trinidad and Tobago (hosts) | Anguilla  Antigua and Barbuda  Bermuda  Bonaire  Cuba  Curaçao  Dominica  Dominican Republic  Haiti  Jamaica  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia |

### Notes

* Teams in bold qualified for the final tournament.

## Central American zone

In the Central American Zone, six UNCAF member national teams entered the qualifying competition, hosted by Nicaragua. In the group stage, the six teams were divided into two groups of three teams. The top two teams of each group advance to the classification stage, where the winners of one group play the runners-up of the other group, with the two winners qualifying for the final tournament as the UNCAF representatives.
The schedule of the qualifying competition was announced on 17 May 2017. All times local, UTC−6.

### Group stage
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Costa Rica | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 6 | Classification stage |
| 2 | Nicaragua (H) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 3 | Classification stage |
| 3 | Belize | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 | |

#### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | El Salvador | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | 6 | Classification stage |
| 2 | Honduras | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | −1 | 3 | Classification stage |
| 3 | Panama | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | −3 | 0 | |

### Classification stage

Winners qualify for 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.

### Goalscorers
#### 7 goals

* Fabiola Villalobos

#### 3 goals

* Daniela Coto

#### 2 goals

* Mariela Campos
* Amaya González
* Maggi Segovia
* Fátima Romero
* Alys Cruz
* Yessenia Flores

#### 1 goal

* Jada Brown
* Priscila Chinchilla
* María Paula Coto
* María Paula Elizondo
* Indira González
* María Paula Salas
* Gloriana Villalobos
* Brenda Cerén
* Mara Rodríguez
* Kendra Haylock
* Sheyla Flores
* Shanelly Treminio
* Liz Vega

## Caribbean zone

In the Caribbean Zone, 13 CFU member national teams entered the qualifying competition, consisting of two stages. Apart from Saint Kitts and Nevis, which received a bye as hosts of the final round, the remaining 12 teams entered the first round, and were drawn into three groups of four teams. The winners of each group advance to the final round to join Saint Kitts and Nevis, where they are placed into one group, with the top two teams qualifying for the final tournament as the CFU representatives together with Trinidad and Tobago who qualified automatically as hosts.
The draw of the qualifying competition was held on 5 June 2017, 10:00 UTC−4, at the CONCACAF headquarters in Miami Beach, Florida. Haiti, Bermuda, and Dominican Republic were automatically seeded in Groups A–C respectively as hosts of each first round group, while the remaining nine teams were seeded based on the results of the previous two editions of the qualifying competition.
| Pot 1 (Hosts) | Haiti (Position A1)  Bermuda (Position B1)  Dominican Republic (Position C1) |
| Pot 2 | Jamaica  Cuba  Puerto Rico |
| Pot 3 | Anguilla  Curaçao  Antigua and Barbuda |
| Pot 4 | Dominica  Bonaire  Saint Lucia |
All times local, UTC−4, except Group B which is UTC−3.

### First round
#### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Haiti (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 1 | +25 | 9 | Final round |
| 2 | Cuba | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3 | +18 | 6 | |
| 3 | Dominica | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 18 | −17 | 1 | |
| 4 | Anguilla | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 27 | −26 | 1 | |

#### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Jamaica | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 6 | Final round |
| 2 | Bermuda (H) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 3 | |
| 3 | Curaçao | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 | |
| 4 | Saint Lucia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

#### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Dominican Republic (H) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 9 | Final round |
| 2 | Puerto Rico | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 1 | +16 | 6 | |
| 3 | Antigua and Barbuda | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | +1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Bonaire | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 26 | −26 | 0 | |

### Final round

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Jamaica | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | +11 | 9 | 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| 2 | Haiti | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 6 | 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship and 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games |
| 3 | Dominican Republic | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | Saint Kitts and Nevis (H) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 25 | −25 | 0 | |

## Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.
| Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship |
| Canada | Automatic qualifiers | N/A | 6 (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2015) |
| Mexico | Automatic qualifiers | N/A | 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) |
| United States | Automatic qualifiers | N/A | 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Hosts | 2017 | 7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015) |
| Costa Rica | Central American Zone top two | 24 June 2017 | 5 (2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2014) |
| Nicaragua | Central American Zone top two | 24 June 2017 | 1 (2008) |
| Jamaica | Caribbean Zone top two | 24 November 2017 | 8 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015) |
| Haiti | Caribbean Zone top two | 26 November 2017 | 3 (2002, 2012, 2015) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.