Concacaf W Championship 2022: Schedule, Fixtures, Format, How to Watch, World Cup and Olympic qualifying explained

The 2022 Concacaf W Championship starts off the following week. The tournament, which will be held in Mexico from July 4-18, fills in as a qualifier for both the 2023 Women’s World Cup and the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Two Olympic spots for Paris 2024 are available to grab in the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, with the USA and Canada going into it as top favorites. At the point when the activity closes on 18 July, we will know the principal country to book their ticket for France.

In spite of being a generally little tournament, there’s a great deal at stake for the eight contending nations. Here is a glance at the tournament format and schedule, World Cup and Olympic capability processes, and details on the best way to watch each game.

How does the 2022 Concacaf W Championship work?

Eight teams, divided into two groups, are contending in the Concacaf W Championship. The tournament starts off with a round-robin tournament inside each group:

Group A: United States, Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti
Group B: Canada, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago

CONCACAF 2022 format: How it works

Eight teams are in the running for a spot at Paris 2024.

After qualifiers back in February and April 2022, six teams progressed into the CONCACAF championship, while both the United States and Canada advanced automatically due to being the two highest-ranked teams.

The group stages will happen between 4 July and 11 July.

Teams who finish in the main two of their group will book their put on the plane to Australia and New Zealand for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Nations who finish 3rd will go into between confederation play-offs to attempt to get their World Cup place.

Yet, for the top two in Group A and B, a spot at the Paris 2024 Games beckons.

They will continue into the knockout round, which will see two semi-finals unfurl on 14 July.

The winner of the competition will get their Olympic spot, while the runner-up, and winner of the third-place match, will go head to head for a briefly CONCACAF spot.

How do teams qualify for the Women’s Soccer World Cup?

Toward the finish of round-robin play, the top two teams in each group will progress to the knockout semifinal round and, all the more significantly, qualify for the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

The two third-ranked teams in each group will qualify for an inter-confederation World Cup playoff, which will be held in February 2023.

What about Olympic qualifications?

The winner of the 2022 Concacaf W Championship will qualify for the women’s soccer tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The runner-up and third-place teams will qualify for the Concacaf Olympic play-in, which will be held in September 2023.

To put it bluntly: in the event that you don’t complete the top three this July in Mexico, you’re out of the Olympics two years from this point in Paris.

2022 Concacaf W Championship Schedule

All games are listed in eastern time (ET).

Date	Time	Match	How to Watch
Jul. 4	7 p.m.	USA vs. Haiti	CBSSN & Paramount+
Jul. 4	10 p.m.	Mexico vs. Jamaica	CBSSN & Paramount+
Jul. 5	7 pm.	Costa Rica vs. Panama	Paramount+
Jul. 5	10 p.m.	Canada vs. Trinidad & Tobago	Paramount+
Jul. 7	7 p.m.	Jamaica vs. USA	Paramount+
Jul. 7	10 p.m.	Haiti vs. Mexico	Paramount+
Jul. 8	7 p.m.	Trinidad & Tobago vs. Costa Rica	Paramount+
Jul. 8	10 p.m.	Panama vs. Canada	Paramount+
Jul. 11	7 p.m.	Canada vs. Costa Rica	Paramount+
Jul. 11	7 p.m.	Panama vs. Trinidad & Tobago	Paramount+
Jul. 11	10 p.m.	Jamaica vs. Haiti	Paramount+
Jul. 11	10 p.m.	USA vs. Mexico	Paramount+
Jul. 14	7 p.m.	Semifinal #1	CBSSN & Paramount+
Jul. 14	10 p.m.	Semifinal #2	CBSSN & Paramount+
Jul. 18	7 p.m.	Third-place match	Paramount+
Jul. 18	10 p.m.	Final	Paramount+

How to watch the 2022 Concacaf W Championship

In the United States, Paramount+ will be the streaming home of the 2022 Concacaf W Championship. Likewise, select games will be broadcast on linear TV.

The Concacaf tournament will be aired across all partaking countries.

Paramount+ will be the home of all the activities in the United States.

For Mexico, all activity can be seen on ESPN.

Also, One Soccer will air it across Canada.

Also, for those wanting to tune in across the remainder of the world, games will be made accessible on the Concacaf GO app.