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.
The top two teams will qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan as the CONCACAF representatives. 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, with the tournament originally scheduled to take place between 20 March and [|1] April 2020.
On 13 March 2020, CONCACAF suspended all upcoming competitions scheduled to take place over the next 30 days due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates of the tournament to be confirmed later.
Qualification
The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:- Three teams from the North American Zone, i.e., Canada, Mexico and United States, who all qualified automatically due to them being the only teams in the region
- Three teams from the Central American Zone
- Two teams from the Caribbean Zone
Qualified teams
The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.Team | Qualification zone | Appearance | Previous best performance | Previous men's Olympic appearances |
North America | 9th | Runner-up | 3 | |
North America | 12th | Winner | 11 | |
North America | 11th | Winner | 14 | |
Central America | 7th | Winner | 3 | |
Central America | 12th | Third Place | 1 | |
Central America | 10th | Winner | 4 | |
Caribbean | 1st | Debutant | 0 | |
Caribbean | 3rd | Group stage | 0 |
Venues
The matches will be played in Guadalajara and Zapopan.Guadalajara | Zapopan |
Estadio Jalisco | Estadio Akron |
Capacity: 55,110 | Capacity: 49,850 |
Draw
The draw for the tournament took place on 9 January 2020, 19:00 CST, at the Estadio Akron, in Guadalajara, Mexico.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.
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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.Group stage
The top two teams from each group advance to the semi-finals.All times are local, CST.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Bracket
Semi-finals
Winners qualify for 2020 Summer Olympics.----
Final
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 |
TBD | ||
TBD |