The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage took place between 13–21 July 2019. The teams competed for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship final tournament.
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete.[1]
The qualifying format changed from the 2018 edition, and the teams were no longer divided into regional zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Ranking as of 2018.[2] A total of 26 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 10 entrants participated in the qualifying stage, where the two group winners and the two group runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.[3]
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.5Non-FIFA members and thus ineligible to play in World Cup.
Draw
The draw for the qualifying stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 10 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into two groups of five teams.[3] Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 10 teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:[4]
↑The third-placed teams of the two qualifying groups qualified for the final tournament as replacements of Costa Rica and Panama, which had automatically qualified for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, and thus would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[6]
↑The third-placed teams of the two qualifying groups qualified for the final tournament as replacements of Costa Rica and Panama, which had automatically qualified for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, and thus would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.[6]