USA Schedule Set For 2022 Concacaf U-20 Championship In Honduras

CHICAGO (March 3, 2022) – The U.S. Under-20 Men’s Youth National Team will face St. Kitts and Nevis, Cuba and Canada in Group E play at the 2022 Concacaf U-20 Championship, running from June 18 through July 3 in Honduras. The tournament will serve as qualification for four teams to the 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Indonesia and two teams to the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

 

The USA will kick off the competition on Saturday, June 18 vs. St. Kitts and Nevis, face regional rival Canada on Monday, June 20 and wrap up the group stage on Wednesday, June 22 against Cuba. All three of the USA’s group stage games will be played at Estadio Nacional in Tegucigalpa, Honduras’ capital city. San Pedro Sula’s Estadio Morazan and Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano will also serve as venues for the competition.

 

2022 Concacaf U-20 Championship

USA - Group E Schedule

 

Date	Match-up	Kickoff (ET)	Venue
June 18	USA vs. St. Kitts and Nevis	TBD	Estadio Nacional; Tegucigalpa, Honduras
June 20	USA vs. Canada	TBD	Estadio Nacional; Tegucigalpa, Honduras
June 22	USA vs. Cuba	TBD	Estadio Nacional; Tegucigalpa, Honduras

 

After the round-robin group stage, the top three teams in each of the four groups will advance to the 16-team knockout stage from June 25-July 3, joined by four group winners from a preliminary knockout round (Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and Puerto Rico) that was played last November.

 

The tournament’s four semifinalists will advance to next year’s U-20 World Cup, while the two finalists will qualify for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Concacaf is the first confederation to hold a qualifying tournament for either competition.

 

The top four teams in the Concacaf U-20 rankings - the USA, Mexico, Panama and Honduras - were seeded for the draw.

 

Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
USA	Mexico	Panama	Honduras
Cuba	Haiti	El Salvador	Costa Rica
Canada	Trinidad and Tobago	Guatemala	Jamaica
St. Kitts and Nevis	Suriname	Aruba	Antigua and Barbuda

 

Groups A, B, C and D were contested as qualifying groups during the November 2021 international window in the Dominican Republic, with each group winner advancing directly to the knockout stage.

 

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
1. Curaçao* (12 pts.)	1. Dominican Republic* (10 pts.)	1. Puerto Rico* (6 pts.)	1. Nicaragua* (9 pts.)
2. Grenada (9 pts.)	2. Saint Lucia (8 pts.)	2. St. Vincent and the Grenadines (6 pts.)	2. Cayman Islands (4 pts.)
3. British Virgin Islands (6 pts.)	3. Belize (7 pts.)	3. Bermuda (6 pts.)	3. Guyana (4 pts.)
4. Sint Maarten (3 pts.)	4. Anguilla (1 pt.)	4. Barbados (0 pts.)	4. U.S. Virgin Islands (0 pts.)
5. Dominica (0 pts.)	5. Saint Martin (1 pt.)

*Qualified to tournament proper

 

After the cancellation of the scheduled 2020 Concacaf U-20 Championship (also slated to be played in Honduras) due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. is looking for its third-straight regional title in 2022. The U-20 MYNT won its first two confederation crowns back-to-back in 2017 and 2018 and is one of six nations to qualify for the last four FIFA U-20 World Cups. The USA is seeking its first berth to the Men’s Olympic Football Tournament since Beijing 2008.