Canada 

How they qualified

The Canadian’s women team automatically qualified for the Concacaf WChampionship after finishing as runners-up in 2018. They are Olympic champions from Tokyo and as one of the two highest ranked Concacaf teams – alongside the US – they were top seeded into group B, drawn with Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.

 

Tournament record

Canada are the only team to dethrone USA and their dominance of  Concacaf championship history,

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JAMAICA

How they qualified

The Reggae Girlz rose to prominence in 2019 when they qualified, unexpectedly, for the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. Their pre-tournament campaign was put together late with a federation that refused to fund training camps, eventually prompting Reggae royalty Cedilla Marley to step in alongside a crowd funded campaign.

Three years later and the Jamaican women have qualified for their second major tournament with an unbeaten record,

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HAITI

How they Qualified

Haiti stormed through their qualifying games scoring 44 times in four games and not conceding a single goal. Cuba and Honduras managed to keep the goals against down to six while St Vincent and the Grenadines and British Virgin Island shipped 11 and 21 goals respectively.

 

Star Player

Issy Les Moulineaux forward Roselord Borgella hit the back of the net 11 times while her teammate in France Batcheba Louis scored eight.

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PANAMA

How they qualified

Panama topped their group winning all four games El Salvador, Belize, Barbados and Aruba without conceding a goal but scoring 24 of their own.

 

Star player

Panama goalkeeper Yenith Bailey came to the world’s attention at the 2018 tournament, aged 17. In goal for all six of Panama’s matches, she led her side to a fourth-place finishstarting in the group stage with a clean sheet in an opening 3-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago.

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MEXICO

How they Qualified

Despite hosting the 2022 CONCACAF W Championships, Mexico still had to endure four qualifying matches on the road to competing in their own back yard. Three-hundred and sixty minutes later, and ‘La Tri’ had blitzed through everything and everyone that stood before them, scoring 34 goals and conceding a triumphant 0. They are soon set for a real challenge, though, as they face title holders and neighbours USA in their last group game on the 11th of July.

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COSTA RICA

How the Qualified

Costa Rica cruised through qualifying winning all four games, scoring 22 goals and not conceding any. Saint Kitts and Nevis, Guatemala, Curacao and US Virgin Islands were all put away by five goals or more.

 

Star Players

Raquel Rodriguez and Priscilla Chinchilla

Costa Rica’s strength is in their midfield. Portland Thorn’s Raquel Rodriguez is a pivotal box-to-box player for Costa Rica.

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USA

How they qualified 

The US Womens’ national team, popularly branded ‘USWNT’, qualified automatically for this summer’s Concacaf W Championship, although their glittering reputation as the reigning World Champions would suggest they would’ve had very little difficulty securing their place in the group stages of a competition they are more than familiar with. They have been ranked the world’s number 1 team since 2018.

 

Tournament record

USWNT’s Concacaf W Championship record is outstanding,

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Trinidad and Tobago

How they Qualified

Trinidad topped their qualification group, two points ahead of Guyana who they drew with 2-2 in their final group game. Trinidad scored 19 goals in four games against Guyana, Nicaragua, Dominica and Turks and Caicos, condeding just three.

 

Star Player

Playing her club football at Hibernian in Scotland,  at 27 Liana Hinds is one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most senior players as well as most versatile.

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