The Lady Jaguars U17 football team departed local shores yesterday to compete in the qualifiers for the 2022 Concacaf Women’s U17 Championship (CWU17C), at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, FL, USA.
The Lady Jaguars will feature in Group C of the event alongside Honduras, Anguilla and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Guyana was initially drawn in Group-D, which comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Guadeloupe.
Similarly, the other groups were also rearranged. Group-A now consists of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, US Virgin Islands and Suriname, while Group-B comprises Barbados, Curaçao and Belize.
According to an official release from Concacaf, “At the end of group stage play, the winner of each group and the best ranked second place finisher will advance to the 2022 Concacaf Women’s U-17 Championship (CWU17). The ranking of the best second-place team will be determined using a weighted points system (total number of points divided by the number of matches played).”
The 2022 CWU17 is scheduled to take place in January. The top ranked 16 teams participating in the group stage of the championships will be divided into four groups. After round-robin play, the top three teams in each group will advance to the Round of 16, joining the four teams from the qualifiers.
A direct elimination format will decide the eventual winner of the tournament. Similarly, the winner, runner-up, and third place finisher will qualify for the 2022 FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup in India scheduled for October 11th-30th 2022.
