2011 CONCACAF U-20 Championship


The CONCACAF Under-20 Championship was expanded to 12 teams beginning in 2011. The tournament determined the four CONCACAF teams that participated at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be held in Colombia. In addition, the top three finishers from Central America or the Caribbean, in addition to hosts Mexico, qualified to participate at the 2011 Pan American Games. The Executive Committee approved that for men's U-20 championships all three North American teams again qualified automatically for the finals. Central America received four berths, and the Caribbean received five.
The new allocations give Central America one more berth than it had in 2009 and the Caribbean three more. On 1 September 2010 CONCACAF announced Guatemala as host of the championship, played from 3–17 April.
The championship was scheduled to be held a week later but was moved ahead one week due to a scheduling conflict.

Qualified teams

RegionQualification TournamentQualifiers
Caribbean Caribbean U-20 qualifying tournament



Central America Central American U-20 qualifying tournament


North America Automatically qualified

Squads

Venues

The tournament was hosted in two stadia.
Guatemala CityGuatemala City
Estadio Mateo FloresEstadio Cementos Progreso
Capacity: 30,000Capacity: 16,000

Draw

The draw for the final tournament took place on February 11 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, dividing the 12 sides into four, three-team groups.
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3

    • Status of Guadeloupe

    Guadeloupe is a member of CONCACAF but not a member of FIFA. As such, they are eligible to compete for CONCACAF Championships but are not eligible to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup. If they had reached the semifinals of this tournament, the 4th team from CONCACAF to qualify for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup would have been the losing quarterfinalist who gained the most points in the group stage. If two or more teams had been tied, then a drawing of lots would have been be used.

    Group stage

    Group A


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    Group B


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    Group C


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    Group D


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    Knockout stage

    Quarterfinals

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    Semifinals

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    Third Place Match

    Final

    Goalscorers

    ; 6 goals
    ; 4 goals
    ; 3 goals
    ; 2 goals
    ; 1 goal
    ;Own goals
    Note: Per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-out are counted as draws.

    Countries to participate in 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup

    Top 4 teams qualified for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

    Countries to participate in 2011 Pan American Games

    4 teams qualified for the 2011 Pan American Games.
    The highest finisher from each the Caribbean and Central American regions will qualify, along with the best qualifying team from either region