Guyana drawn in Group B as CONCACAF completes U-17 Men’s Qualifiers draw
…Qualifiers set for February 2025
Guyana’s Junior Jaguars have been drawn in Group B, alongside longtime rivals Trinidad and Tobago, for the 2025 CONCACAF Under-17 Men’s Qualifiers. The draw was hosted on Friday, and the younger Golden Jaguars outfit was pulled alongside Costa Rica, T&T, British Virgin Islands, and Sint Maarten.
The region’s FIFA U-17 World Cup qualifying competition will take place from February 7-16, 2025 across six venues, and would include the participation of 35 CONCACAF Member Associations.
The new CONCACAF U-17 Men’s Qualifiers consist of a single round in which the participating Member Associations are split into eight groups. After round-robin play, wherein each team will play against each team in its group once, the eight group winners would qualify to participate in the 2025 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Guyana has, for quite some time now, been in steady preparation for this all-important U17 assignment
The eight groups are as follows:
Group A: Canada, Bermuda, Curacao, Anguilla, and Turks and Caicos Islands
Group B: Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana, British Virgin Islands, and Sint Maarten
Group C: Mexico, Nicaragua, Barbados, Belize, and Dominica
Group D: Honduras, Puerto Rico, Bonaire and Saint Martin
Group E: Haiti, Guatemala, Antigua & Barbados, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Group F: United States, Cuba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and US Virgin Islands
Group G: Panama, Dominican Republic, Aruba, and Grenada
Group H: Jamaica, El Salvador, Cayman Islands, and Saint Lucia.
Matches will be divided across six venues: Bermuda will host Group A, Costa Rica Groups B and F, Mexico Group C, Honduras Group D, Guatemala Groups E and H, and Panama Group G.
According to initial fixtures released by CONCACAF, Guyana would open their account in the Qualifiers on Friday, February 7, against the twin island Republic of T&T at the Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto in Costa Rica. Then they will take on Saint Maarten on Tuesday, February 11; Costa Rica on Thursday, February 13; and British Virgin Islands on Sunday, February 16; all at the same Costa Rican venue.
