The trail to goes by means of Texas for the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce and different Concacaf nations dreaming of a spot on the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup.
The confederation introduced on Tuesday, April 21 that its 2026 W Championship will happen in Mansfield, Texas and Houston. Each match till the ultimate and third-place sport on Dec. 5 at Houston’s Shell Power Stadium will happen at Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium.
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The match returns to the U.S. after the final version passed off in Nuveo Leon, using the stadiums of each Monterrey-area Liga MX golf equipment.
This time round, the match will start with an eight-team knockout stage. The winners of these 4 matches will qualify straight for the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup in Brazil. The losers go right into a play-in — which will even happen in Mansfield — for the fitting to participate in FIFA’s intercontinental playoff. The winners of these mini-tournaments will go to the World Cup.
Meaning the strain shall be on within the first match. A win means the planning for Brazil begins. A defeat means the street is for much longer.
The . That sport is schedule to be the opening match on Nov. 27. and additionally play for a spot within the World Cup that day. The subsequent day, meets and performs .
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The match additionally serves as Concacaf qualification for the 2028 Olympics. With the video games going down in Los Angeles, the U.S. already is certified because the host nation. Meaning an American win within the quarterfinals would put the opposite three semifinalists by means of to the Olympics, too.
“This competitors represents an unbelievable alternative for our area’s prime girls’s nationwide groups to compete on the highest stage and safe coveted berths in international tournaments,” Concacaf president Victor Montagliani stated in a press release.
“, and I sit up for crowning a champion on Dec. 5 in Houston, a second that may have fun the continued rise of ladies’s soccer in Concacaf.”
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2026 Concacaf W Championship bracket2026 Concacaf W Championship schedule
There are nonetheless two worldwide dates on the calendar earlier than the must-win matches kick off in November, however the margin for error turns into a lot smaller within the W Championship. The primary video games kick off Nov. 27 and Nov. 28 with semifinals being performed Dec. 1. The ultimate and third-place sport shall be performed on Dec. 5.
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Winners will have the ability to put together for the 2027 World Cup in Brazil, which kicks off June 24 and concludes July 25.
Quarterfinals
QF1: United States (1) vs El Salvador (8) – Nov. 27, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
QF2: Canada (2) vs Panama (7) – Nov. 28, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
QF3: Mexico (3) vs Haiti (6) – Nov. 28, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
QF4: Jamaica (4) vs Costa Rica (5) – Nov. 27, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
Play-in spherical
PI1: Loser QF1 vs. Loser QF4 – Dec. 2, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
PI2: Loser QF2 vs. Loser QF3 – Dec. 2, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
Semifinals
SF1: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF4 – Dec. 1, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
SF2: Winner QF2 vs. Winner QF3 – Dec. 1, Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium
Third place
Loser SF1 vs. Loser SF2 – Dec. 5, Shell Power Stadium
Last
Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2 – Dec. 5, Shell Power Stadium
Kickoff instances and broadcast info shall be introduced nearer to the match.
The place is Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium, the place performs El Salvador?
Each match earlier than the ultimate and third-place sport will happen at Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium, a brand new facility set to open this summer season. It’s positioned in Mansfield, a Fort Value suburb not removed from the extra acquainted Arlington, Texas, the place 2026 males’s World Cup matches will happen at AT&T Stadium, the house of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
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Along with internet hosting North Texas SC, ‘ MLS Subsequent Professional squad, the Mansfield web site will function a base camp for Czechia throughout the 2026 World Cup.