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2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying stage
Tournament details
Host country	Dominican Republic
Dates	5–13 November 2021
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	31
Goals scored	131 (4.23 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Juruel Bernadina; (6 goals)
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2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying took place between 5–13 November 2021 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The teams compete for four of the twenty berths in the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship final tournament.^[1]

Teams

The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Ranking as of June 2019.^[2] A total of 34 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 18 entrants participated in qualifying, where the four group winners advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.^[3]

Exempt from qualifying (16 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
1	United States	7,092
2	Mexico	6,167
3	Panama	5,065
4	Honduras	4,794
5	Costa Rica	3,466
6	El Salvador	3,395
7	Cuba	2,644
8	Haiti	2,455
9	Canada	2,404
10	Trinidad and Tobago	2,395
11	Guatemala	2,187
12	Jamaica	2,089
13	Antigua and Barbuda	1,535
14	Suriname	1,327
15	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1,325
16	Aruba	1,248

Key to colours
Group winners advance to 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Participating in qualifying stage (18 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
17	Dominican Republic	1,232
18	Bermuda	1,214
19	Curaçao	1,194
20	Nicaragua	1,193
21	Puerto Rico	1,150
23	Saint Lucia	871
24	Grenada	856
25	Guyana	773
26	Dominica	772
27	Cayman Islands	730
28	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	723
30	Belize	655
31	Barbados	528
32	Saint Martin^[a]	500
33	U.S. Virgin Islands	499
34	Sint Maarten^[a]	466
36	Anguilla	55
39	British Virgin Islands	0

Did not enter tournament (7 teams)
Rank	Team	Points
22	Guadeloupe^[a]	1,050
29	Martinique^[a]	681
35	Turks and Caicos Islands	67
37	Montserrat	0
38	French Guiana^[a]	0
40	Bonaire^[a]	0
41	Bahamas	0

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Non-FIFA members and thus ineligible to play in World Cup.

Draw

The draw for the qualifying round took place on 17 September 2021, 11:00 EST (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami.^[4] The 19 teams which initially entered the qualifying stage were drawn into four groups: three groups of five teams and one group of four teams.^[5] Montserrat, initially drawn into Group C, later withdrew before the start of the tournament.^[6]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Dominican Republic Bermuda Curaçao Nicaragua	Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Grenada Guyana	Dominica Cayman Islands Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Belize	Barbados Saint Martin U.S. Virgin Islands Sint Maarten	Anguilla ~~Montserrat~~ (W) British Virgin Islands

(W): Withdrew after draw

Qualifying stage

The winners of each group qualified for the 2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, where they enter the round of 16 of the knockout stage.

All times are local, AST (UTC-04:00). (5/6 November matches ADT (UTC-03:00).

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group was determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.3):^[7]

Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss);
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of 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;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: −1 points;
- 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 A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Curaçao	4	4	0	23	2	+21	12	2022 CONCACAF U-20 Championship
2	Grenada	4	3	1	18	6	+12	9
3	British Virgin Islands	4	2	2	2	11	−9	6
4	Sint Maarten	4	1	3	2	10	−8	3
5	Dominica	4	0	4	2	18	−16	0

Source: CONCACAF

5 November 2021