2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Honduras
City	San Pedro Sula
Dates	3–13 December 2015
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	United States (5th title)
Runners-up	Canada
Third place	Mexico
Fourth place	Honduras
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	63 (3.94 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mallory Pugh (7 goals)
Best player	Mallory Pugh
Best goalkeeper	Rosemary Chandler
Fair play award	Canada

The 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 8th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was hosted by Honduras and took place between 3–13 December 2015, as announced by CONCACAF on 7 May 2015.^[1] A total of eight teams played in the tournament.

Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top three teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.^[2]

The United States won their fifth title overall and fourth in a row with a 1–0 final victory over Canada. Both finalists and third-placed Mexico qualified for the World Cup.^[3]

Qualification

The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:^[1]

• Three teams from the North American Zone (NAFU), i.e., Canada, Mexico and the United States, who all qualified automatically
• Two teams from the Central American Zone (UNCAF), including Honduras who qualified automatically as hosts
• Three teams from the Caribbean Zone (CFU)

Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the four teams joining Canada, Mexico, the United States, and hosts Honduras at the final tournament.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualification	Appearance	Previous best performances	Previous FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup appearances
North American Zone (NAFU)
Canada	Automatic	6th	Winner (2004, 2008)	6
Mexico	Automatic	8th	Runner-up (2010, 2014)	6
United States	Automatic	8th	Winner (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014)	7
Central American Zone (UNCAF) qualified through Central American qualifying competition[4]
Honduras	Hosts	2nd	Group stage (2014)	0
Panama	Group winner	5th	Fourth place (2012)	0
Caribbean Zone (CFU) qualified through Caribbean qualifying competition[5]
Haiti	Final round winner	3rd	Group stage (2002)	0
Jamaica	Final round runner-up	8th	Fourth place (2006)	0
Trinidad and Tobago	Final round 3rd place	7th	Fourth place (2014)	0

Venues

The tournament was hosted in San Pedro Sula. In the original schedule, the Estadio Francisco Morazán would host the opening day matches for Group A, as well as the semifinals, third place match and the final, while the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano would host the remaining Group A matches and all of the Group B matches.^[6] In the final schedule, eight group matches were relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana due to rain, while all matches initially scheduled for the Estadio Francisco Morazán was played at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.^[7]

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 4 November 2015 at 10:00 CST (UTC−6) at the Hotel Real Intercontinental in San Pedro Sula.^[6]

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Tournament host Honduras were seeded in Group A, while defending CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship champion United States were seeded in Group B.^[8]

Pot 1	Pot 2
Honduras (Position A1)  United States (Position B1)  Canada  Mexico	Panama  Haiti  Jamaica  Trinidad and Tobago

Squads

Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers).^[9]

Group stage

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:^[9]

1. Goal difference in all group matches;
2. Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches;
3. Greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
4. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
5. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
6. Drawing of lots.

All times were local, CST (UTC−6).^[10]

The two matches originally scheduled on 5 December 2015 (Jamaica vs Canada and Trinidad and Tobago vs Honduras) were postponed due to heavy rain.^[11] As a result, all subsequent group matches were delayed by a day and relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana in San Pedro Sula.^[12]

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	11	0	+11	9	Knockout stage
2	Honduras (H)	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Jamaica	3	1	1	1	8	10	−2	4
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	1	10	−9	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	0	14	3	+11	7	Knockout stage
2	Mexico	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7
3	Haiti	3	1	0	2	3	13	−10	3
4	Panama	3	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.^[9]

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	11 December – San Pedro Sula
	Canada (p)	0 (5)
					13 December – San Pedro Sula
	Mexico	0 (4)
					Canada	0
	11 December – San Pedro Sula
					United States	1
	United States	7
	Honduras	0
					Third Place
					13 December – San Pedro Sula
					Mexico	2
					Honduras	0

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

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Third place playoff

Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Final

Winners

2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
United States Fifth title

Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup

The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament1
United States	02 !11 December 2015	07 !7 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Canada	01 !11 December 2015	06 !6 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014)
Mexico	03 !13 December 2015	06 !6 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[13]

Best XI

• Goalkeeper: Rosemary Chandler
• Right Defender: Emily Fox
• Central Defender: Bianca St. Georges
• Central Defender: Natalie Jacobs
• Left Defender: Tierna Davidson
• Right Midfielder: Jessie Scarpa
• Central Midfielder: Kiana Palacios
• Central Midfielder: Savannah DeMelo
• Central Midfielder: Sarah Stratigakis
• Left Midfielder: Ashley Sanchez
• Forward: Mallory Pugh

Golden Ball

• Mallory Pugh

Golden Boot

• Mallory Pugh (7 goals)

Golden Glove

• Rosemary Chandler

Fair Play Award

•  Canada

References

External links

• Under 20s – Women, CONCACAF.com