2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship

The 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship will be the 15th edition of the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international age-restricted football tournament organised by CONCACAF to determine which men's under-23 national teams from the North, Central American and Caribbean region qualify for the Olympic football tournament.

2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship
Tournament details
Host countryMexico
Dates18–30 March 2021
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 2 host cities)

The top two teams will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan as the CONCACAF representatives.[1] Mexico are the defending champions.

In August 2019, it was announced that the tournament would be hosted in Guadalajara and Zapopan, both cities in the state of Jalisco, Mexico,[2] with the tournament originally scheduled to take place between 20 March and 1 April 2020.[3]

On 13 March 2020, CONCACAF suspended all upcoming competitions scheduled to take place over the next 30 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic in North America.[4] On 14 January 2021, CONCACAF announced that the Men's Olympic Qualifiers will take place between 18 and 30 March 2021, as the Olympics had been postponed to July 2021.[5]

Qualification
Further information: 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship qualification

The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:[6]

Regional qualification tournaments will be held in Central America and Caribbean to determine the five teams joining Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Qualification zone Appearance Previous best performance Previous men's Olympic appearances
 Canada North America (automatic) 9th Runner-up (1984, 1996) 3
 Mexico (hosts & title holders) North America (automatic) 12th Winner (1964, 1972, 1976, 1996, 2004, 2012, 2015) 11
 United States North America (automatic) 11th Winner (1988, 1992) 14
 Costa Rica Central America 7th Winner (1980, 1984) 3
 El Salvador Central America 12th Third Place (2012) 1
 Honduras Central America 10th Winner (2000, 2008) 4
 Dominican Republic Caribbean 1st Debutant 0
 Haiti Caribbean 3rd Group stage (2008, 2015) 0

Venues

The matches will be played in Guadalajara and Zapopan.

Guadalajara Zapopan
Estadio Jalisco Estadio Akron
Capacity: 55,110 Capacity: 49,850
20°42′18″N 103°19′41″W 20°40′54″N 103°27′46″W

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 9 January 2020, 19:00 CST (UTC−6), at the Estadio Akron, in Guadalajara, Mexico.[7][8]

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. The teams were seeded into four pots for the draw. Pot 1 contained Mexico, seeded in Group A as the host nation, and Honduras, seeded in Group B as the best performing team in the last editions among the other teams. Pot 2 contained the two remaining teams from North America, Canada and United States, Pot 3 contained the two remaining teams from Central America, Costa Rica and El Salvador, while Pot 4 contained the two teams from the Caribbean, Dominican Republic and Haiti.[9]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4

Squads
Main article: 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship squads

Players born on or after 1 January 1997 are eligible to compete in the tournament.

Match officials

The match officials of the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship were announced by CONCACAF on 6 March 2020.[10]

Group stage

The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals.

All times are local, CST (UTC−6).[11]

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mexico (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2  United States 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  Costa Rica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Dominican Republic 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 18 March 2021. Source: CONCACAF
(H) Host.
United States Match 1 Costa Rica
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Mexico Match 2 Dominican Republic
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Dominican Republic Match 5 United States
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Costa Rica Match 6 Mexico
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Costa Rica Match 9 Dominican Republic
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Mexico Match 10 United States
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Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Honduras 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2  Canada 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3  El Salvador 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4  Haiti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played on 19 March 2021. Source: CONCACAF
Canada Match 3 El Salvador
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Honduras Match 4 Haiti
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Haiti Match 7 Canada
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El Salvador Match 8 Honduras
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El Salvador Match 11 Haiti
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Honduras Match 12 Canada
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Knockout stage

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
28 March – Guadalajara
 
 
Winner Group B
 
30 March – Zapopan
 
Runner-up Group A
 
Winner SF1
 
28 March – Guadalajara
 
Winner SF2
 
Winner Group A
 
 
Runner-up Group B
 

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for 2020 Summer Olympics.

Group B winnerMatch 13Group A runner-up
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Group A winnerMatch 14Group B runner-up
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Final
Winner Match 13Match 15Winner Match 14
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Qualified teams for Summer Olympics

The following two teams from CONCACAF qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympic men's football tournament.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in Summer Olympics1
TBD30 March 2021
TBD30 March 2021
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

References
  1. "OC for FIFA Competitions approves procedures for the Final Draw of the 2018 FIFA World Cup". FIFA.com. 14 September 2017.
  2. "Guadalajara Set to Host the 2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament". www.concacaf.com. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  3. "2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship Schedule Confirmed". CONCACAF.com. 10 February 2020.
  4. "Concacaf suspends all its competitions scheduled to take place over the next 30 days". CONCACAF. 13 March 2020.
  5. "Concacaf confirms Guadalajara to host Men's Olympic Qualifiers in March 2021". CONCACAF. 14 January 2021.
  6. "Concacaf Announces Details for the Preliminary Rounds of the Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifiers". CONCACAF. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  7. "Concacaf to Host 2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Draw on January 9 in Guadalajara". CONCACAF.com. 22 November 2019.
  8. "Draw Reveals Groups for 2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship". CONCACAF.com. 9 January 2020.
  9. "2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship Official Draw". CONCACAF.com.
  10. "Match Officials Appointed for 2020 Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying". CONCACAF. 6 March 2020.
  11. "2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Schedule" (PDF). CONCACAF.
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