It will likely be a showdown in Texas for the Concacaf W Championship. On Tuesday, that the 2026 Concacaf W Championship will happen at Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium in Mansfield and Shell Power Stadium in Houston from November twenty seventh by way of December fifth.
The 2026 Concacaf W Championship will function the qualifying match for each the 2027 Girls’s World Cup and the 2028 Summer time Olympics. The USA Girls’s Nationwide Group, together with Canada, routinely certified by being within the prime 2 within the Concacaf rankings. They are going to be joined by Mexico, , , El Salvador, , and . The match will encompass an 8-team bracket that begins with the quarterfinals. The 4 quarterfinal winners will qualify immediately for the Girls’s World Cup and advance to the Concacaf W Championship semifinals. Accordingly, will solely have to win their first match to immediately qualify for subsequent summer time’s match.
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The 4 quarterfinal losers will transfer to the play-in spherical, the place the 2 play-in winners will qualify for the 2 Concacaf slots within the FIFA Girls’s World Cup playoffs. The 4 semifinalists will compete, with the winners advancing to the Concacaf W Championship Last and the losers competing within the third Place match. The 2 finalists and the third Place winner will qualify for the 2028 Summer time Olympics. As a result of the Olympics are being hosted in LA, the USWNT routinely qualifies because the host. Thus, in the event that they end within the prime 3, the 4th place finisher will get Concacaf’s remaining Olympic spot.
The quarterfinals, semifinals, and play-in matches shall be performed in Mansfield, situated within the south central a part of the Dallas-Fort Value Metroplex, at Texas Well being Mansfield Stadium. The 7000-seat stadium, set to open in June, would be the new dwelling of MLS Subsequent Professional aspect North Texas SC. Play begins on November twenty seventh and twenty eighth for the quarterfinal rounds, with the semifinals going down on December 1st and the play-in video games on December 2nd. The semifinalists will then head to Houston, the place the Last and third Place match will happen at Shell Power Stadium on December fifth. The 22,039-seat stadium is the house to the NWSL’s Houston Sprint and MLS’s .
The quarterfinal matchups had been primarily based on the , with the groups seeded 1-8 from highest ranked to lowest ranked. The USWNT will face El Salvador, who will make their debut look within the Concacaf W Championship, within the quarterfinals on Black Friday, which falls on November twenty seventh. The opposite quarterfinal matchups will see Canada face Panama, Mexico in opposition to Haiti, and Jamaica taking over Costa Rica. The USWNT will face Jamaica or Costa Rica of their subsequent match, which might be the semifinal spherical ought to they defeat El Salvador, formally qualifying for the Girls’s World Cup within the course of.
The total schedule for the 2026 Concacaf W Championship (occasions TBA):
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QuarterfinalsFriday, November twenty seventh (Mansfield)QF1: United States vs. El SalvadorQF4: Jamaica vs. Costa Rica
Saturday, November twenty eighth (Mansfield)QF2: Canada vs. PanamaQF3: Mexico vs. Haiti
SemifinalsTuesday, December 1st (Mansfield)SF1: Winner QF1 vs. Winner QF4SF2: Winner QF2 vs. Winner QF3
Play-InsWednesday, December 2nd (Mansfield)PI1: Loser QF1 vs. Loser QF4PI2: Loser QF2 vs. Loser QF3
Last and Third PlaceSaturday, December fifth (Houston)third Place: Loser SF1 vs. Loser SF2Final: Winner SF1 vs. Winner SF2