2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup|
| Host country | United States |
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| Dates | February 20 – March 10 |
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| Teams | 12 (from 2 confederations) |
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| Venue(s) | 4 (in 4 host cities) |
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The 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup will be the inaugural season of the CONCACAF W Gold Cup, an international women's soccer competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF. The tournament will be contested by 12 teams from February 20 to March 10, 2024, in the United States. Eight CONCACAF national teams will qualify for the tournament, joined by four guest teams from CONMEBOL.
Format
On December 10, 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.
The final tournament will be held from February 20 to March 10, 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, but on March 8, 2023, announced it would be moved earlier to February and March. 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.
On January 27, 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.
Venues
The venues and host cities were announced on November 29, 2023.
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Host cities and venues of the 2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup
Qualification
The league stage of qualification will take place in September through December 2023, while the play-in will take place in February 2024.
Qualified teams
| Team
|
Method of
qualification
|
Date of qualification
|
FIFA ranking
at start of event
|
| United States (host) |
2022 CONCACAF W Championship winner |
July 18, 2022 |
2
|
| Canada |
CONCACAF Olympic play-off winner |
September 26, 2023 |
10
|
| Mexico |
Qualification League A Group A winner |
December 1, 2023 |
35
|
| Panama |
Qualification League A Group B winner |
December 3, 2023 |
55
|
| Costa Rica |
Qualification League A Group C winner |
December 4, 2023 |
43
|
|
Qualification play-off winner |
February 17, 2024 |
|
|
Qualification play-off winner |
February 17, 2024 |
|
|
Qualification play-off winner |
February 17, 2024 |
|
| Brazil |
2022 Copa América Femenina winners |
January 27, 2023 |
11
|
| Colombia |
2022 Copa América Femenina runners-up |
January 27, 2023 |
23
|
| Argentina |
2022 Copa América Femenina third place |
January 27, 2023 |
31
|
| Paraguay |
2022 Copa América Femenina fourth place |
January 27, 2023 |
50
|
Notes
- While the semi-finalists of the 2022 Copa América Femenina were confirmed on July 18 (Brazil), July 20 (Colombia and Paraguay) and July 21, 2022 (Argentina), their invitation to participate in the W Gold Cup was not confirmed until January 27, 2023.
Draw
The final draw for the tournament took place on December 11, 2023 in Miami at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Group stage
All match times listed are
EST (
UTC−5), as listed by CONCACAF. If the venue is located in a different time zone, the local time is also given.
Group A
First match(es) will be played: February 20, 2024. Source:
CONCACAF(H) Hosts
Notes:
Group B
First match(es) will be played: February 21, 2024. Source:
CONCACAFNotes:
Group C
First match(es) will be played: February 22, 2024. Source:
CONCACAFNotes:
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 20, 2024. Source:
CONCACAFKnockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Marketing
Branding
Broadcasting rights
In the United States, games will be broadcast in English by CBS Sports through the Paramount+ streaming service. In Spanish, games will be broadcast by ESPN Deportes and ESPN+. In Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America the broadcast rights are held by ESPN.
The following were announced as founding partners of the tournament:
