2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup
The 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup will be the inaugural season of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup, an international women's football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF. The tournament will be contested by 12 teams in June 2024. Format. On 10 December 2020, the CONCACAF Council approved the structure and calendar of the competition. The qualification competition, known as the "Road to Concacaf W Gold Cup", will begin with the group stage, featuring 33 women's national teams of CONCACAF split into three leagues (A , B and C). Each league will feature three groups, containing three teams each in League A, and four teams each in Leagues B and C. The teams in each group will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top three teams in League A will qualify directly for the W Gold Cup. The group runners-up of League A and the League B group winners will participate in a play-in in April 2024 to compete for the final three spots at the W Gold Cup. The two CONCACAF women's national teams that  qualify for the Summer Olympics in 2024 will not participate in the group stage, and will receive a bye directly to the W Gold Cup. The final tournament will be held in June 2024, the month prior to the start of the 2024 Olympic women's football tournament. The W Gold Cup will feature twelve teams, including the two teams that qualified for the Summer Olympics, the six teams that qualified from the group stage and play-in, and four guest national teams from other confederations. The twelve teams will be split into three groups of four, and will compete  in a single round-robin. Eight teams, the top two teams of each group and the two-best third-placed teams, will advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage will consist of quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final to determine the champion. Qualification. The league stage of qualification will take place in September, October and November 2023, while the play-in will take place in April 2024.