2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup

The 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup will be the inaugural season of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup, an international women's football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF. The tournament will be contested by 12 teams from 20 February to 10 March 2024 in the United States.[1] Eight CONCACAF national teams will qualify for the tournament, joined by four guest teams from CONMEBOL.[2][3]

2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup
Tournament details
Host countryUnited States
Dates20 February – 10 March
Teams12 (from 2 confederations)

Format

On 10 December 2020, the CONCACAF Council approved the structure and calendar of the competition. The qualification competition, known as the "Road to Concacaf W Gold Cup", will begin with the group stage, featuring 33 women's national teams of CONCACAF split into three leagues (A, B and C). Each league will feature three groups, containing three teams each in League A, and four teams each in Leagues B and C. The teams in each group will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format. The top three teams in League A will qualify directly for the W Gold Cup. The group runners-up of League A and the League B group winners will participate in a play-in in April 2024 to compete for the final three spots at the W Gold Cup. The two CONCACAF women's national teams that qualify for the Summer Olympics in 2024 will receive a bye directly to the W Gold Cup, skipping qualification.[3]

The final tournament will be held from 20 February to 10 March 2024. Originally, CONCACAF announced the tournament would be played in June 2024, the month prior to the start of the 2024 Olympic women's football tournament,[2] but on 8 March 2023 announced it would be moved earlier to February and March.[1] The W Gold Cup will feature twelve teams, including the two teams that qualified for the Summer Olympics, the six teams that qualified from the group stage and play-in, and four guest national teams. The twelve teams will be split into three groups of four, and will compete in a single round-robin. Eight teams, the top two teams of each group and the two-best third-placed teams, will advance to the knockout stage. The knockout stage will consist of quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final to determine the champion.[2]

On 27 January 2023, the United States were confirmed as the tournament hosts. In addition, the top four teams from CONMEBOL's 2022 Copa América Femenina were confirmed as guests for the tournament.[4]

Qualification
Main article: 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup qualification

The league stage of qualification will take place in September, October and November 2023, while the play-in will take place in April 2024.[2]

Qualified teams
Team Method of
qualification		 Date of qualification FIFA ranking
at start of event
 United States (host)2022 CONCACAF W Championship winner18 July 2022
 CanadaCONCACAF Olympic play-off winner26 September 2023
Qualification Group A1 winnerNovember 2023
Qualification Group A2 winnerNovember 2023
Qualification Group A3 winnerNovember 2023
Qualification play-off winner17 February 2024
Qualification play-off winner17 February 2024
Qualification play-off winner17 February 2024
 Brazil2022 Copa América Femenina winners27 January 2023[lower-alpha 1]
 Colombia2022 Copa América Femenina runners-up27 January 2023[lower-alpha 1]
 Argentina2022 Copa América Femenina third place27 January 2023[lower-alpha 1]
 Paraguay2022 Copa América Femenina fourth place27 January 2023[lower-alpha 1]

Notes

  1. While the semi-finalists of the 2022 Copa América Femenina were confirmed on 18 July (Brazil), 20 July (Colombia and Paraguay) and 21 July 2022 (Argentina), their invitation to participate in the W Gold Cup was not confirmed until 27 January 2023.

Group stage

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 A1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 A2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 A3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 A4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: February 2024. Source: CONCACAF
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Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 B2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 B3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 B4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: February 2024. Source: CONCACAF
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Group C
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 C1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 C2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 C3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible knockout stage based on ranking
4 C4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: February 2024. Source: CONCACAF
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Ranking of third-placed teams
Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 A Third place Group A 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Advance to knockout stage
2 B Third place Group B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 C Third place Group C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: February 2024. Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage

Bracket
 
Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
2/3 March – TBD
 
 
 
 
6 March – TBD
 
 
 
 
 
2/3 March – TBD
 
 
 
 
 
10 March – TBD
 
 
 
Winner Semi-final 1
 
2/3 March – TBD
 
Winner Semi-final 2
 
 
 
6 March – TBD
 
 
 
 
 
2/3 March – TBD
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Final
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References
  1. "CONCACAF announces dates and format for inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup". CONCACAF. 8 March 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  2. "CONCACAF to launch new senior women's national team competitions to benefit entire Confederation". CONCACAF. 8 December 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  3. "Concacaf to launch revamped W Championship and new W Gold Cup". CONCACAF. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  4. "CONMEBOL and CONCACAF sign strategic collaboration agreement". CONCACAF. 27 January 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
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