# 2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

The 2025 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship will be the 13th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, an international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. It will take place from 29 May to 8 June 2025.
Mexico are the defending champions.
The four semi-finalist teams from the tournament will qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland as the CONCACAF representatives.

## Qualification
### Qualified teams

Twenty-four teams competed for six spots in the final tournament, where they will joined the two highest-seeded teams on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking as of September 23, 2024, the United States and Mexico.
| Team | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Previous best performance | Previous World Cup appearances |
| United States | Two top-ranked entrants | 31 October 2024 | 13th | Champions (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2020, 2022) | 11 |
| Mexico (title holders) | Two top-ranked entrants | 31 October 2024 | 13th | Champions (2018, 2023) | 10 |
| Guyana | Qualification Group A winners | 25 February 2025 | 3rd | Quarter-finals (2020) | 0 |
| Puerto Rico | Qualification Group B winners | 24 February 2025 | 4th | Fourth place (2022) | 0 |
| Panama | Qualification Group C winners | 25 February 2025 | 8th | Fourth place (2012) | 0 |
| Nicaragua | Qualification Group D winners | 24 February 2025 | 5th | Group stage (2008, 2018, 2020, 2022) | 0 |
| Canada | Qualification Group E winners | 25 February 2025 | 5th | Champions (2004, 2008) | 9 |
| Costa Rica | Qualification Group F winners | 24 February 2025 | 8th | Third place (2004, 2010, 2014) | 4 |

## Venue

On 6 March 2025, CONCACAF announced that Costa Rica would host the tournament.
| Alajuela | Alajuela |
| Alajuela | Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto |
| Alajuela | Capacity: 17,895 |

## Draw

The draw of the tournament will be held on 26 March 2025 at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami, Florida. The 8 teams will be drawn into two groups of four teams, based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking at 6 March 2025.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
| United States (1)  Mexico (2) | Canada (3)  Costa Rica (4) | Puerto Rico (5)  Panama (10) | Guyana (11)  Nicaragua (13) |

## Squads

Players born on or between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010 are eligible to compete. Each team must register a squad of 21 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.

## Format

The tournament will have two groups of four teams. After round-robin play, the top two teams of each group will advance to the semi-finals. The four semi-finalists will also qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.
In the knockout stage, if a match is tied at the end of 90 minutes, extra time is played, and if still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.10).

### Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.7):
* Points obtained in all group matches;
* Goal difference in all group matches;
* Goals scored in all group matches;
* Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
* Fair play points in all group matches:
** Yellow card: −1 point
** Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points
** Direct red card: −4 points
** Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points
* Drawing of lots.

## Group stage

All times are local, CST (UTC−6).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States / Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Canada / Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Puerto Rico / Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Guyana / Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | United States / Mexico | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Canada / Costa Rica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Knockout stage |
| 3 | Puerto Rico / Panama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Guyana / Nicaragua | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |

## Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match is tied at the end of 90 minutes, extra time is played, and if still tied after extra time, the match is decided by a penalty shoot-out (Regulations Article 12.10).

### Bracket

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| 6 June – Alajuela | 6 June – Alajuela |
| Group A winners | |
| Group A winners | | 8 June – Alajuela | 8 June – Alajuela |
| Group B runners-up | | 8 June – Alajuela | 8 June – Alajuela |
| 6 June – Alajuela | 6 June – Alajuela | | |
| Group B winners | | | |
| Group A runners-up | | | |
| Group A runners-up | | Third place match | Third place match |
| | | 8 June – Alajuela | 8 June – Alajuela |

### Semi-finals

Winners qualify for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

### Final
## Goalscorers

There have been 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match (as of 28 May 2025). Source: CONCACAF

## Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2026 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Poland.
* Qualified on
* 2 June 2025
* 2 June 2025
* 3 June 2025
* 3 June 2025
    $^1$ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.