Guyana’s Senior Women’s National football team, the Lady Jags, will soon embark on a journey to secure a spot in next year’s Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) Women’s Championship when they take to the pitch for the 2025/26 CONCACAF W Qualifiers.
The official draw was conducted on Wednesday in Miami, where Guyana was drawn in Group B of the 29-team competition alongside the likes of Jamaica, Nicaragua, Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda.
The draw excluded the Confederation’s top two (ranked) teams and will be played during the FIFA Women’s International Match Windows in November 2025 and February and April 2026.
The remainder of the groups include:
Group A: Mexico, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, United States Virgin Islands
Group C: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bermuda, Grenada, Cayman Islands
Group D: Haiti, Dominican Republic, Suriname, Belize, Anguilla
Group E: Panama, Cuba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Curacao, Aruba
Group F: Trinidad & Tobago, El Salvador, Honduras, Barbados
At the conclusion of the CONCACAF W Qualifiers, the six group winners will join the United States (US) and Canada (the two highest-ranked teams) in the eight-team CONCACAF W Championship next year. According to the Confederation, the match schedule for the 2025/26 CONCACAF W Qualifiers will be announced at a later date.
2026 CONCACAF W Championship
The W Championship will be played in November 2026 and serve as the Confederation’s qualifier for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027 and the 2028 Los Angeles (LA) Summer Olympics.
The eight teams participating in the five-round direct elimination knockout-style competition will include the US and Canada and the six group winners of the W Qualifiers.
The competition will begin with the quarter-finals, followed by a play-in, semi-finals, third-place match, and final. To determine the quarterfinal pairings and each team’s path to the final, CONCACAF will rank teams 1-8 based on the FIFA Women’s Rankings, with the highest-ranked team facing the lowest-ranked team.
At the conclusion of the quarter-finals, the four matchup winners will qualify for the semi-finals and guarantee their place in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027, while the four losers will progress to a play-in, from which the 2 winning teams will each battle for a spot in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Intercontinental Play-Off.
The W Championship finalists will also secure a berth in the 2028 LA Summer Olympics Games Women’s Football Tournament. Should the US finish as one of the two W Championship finalists, then CONCACAF’s second berth will be awarded to the competition’s third-place winner (based on the precedent of host nations’ automatic qualification for previous editions of the Olympic Football Tournament at the Summer Olympic Games).
Further details on next year’s W Championship will be announced at a later date.
The US is the current champion of the CONCACAF W Championship, having secured the 2022 title with a 1–0 win over Canada in the final held in Monterrey, Mexico. The tournament also served as the regional qualifier for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, and Haiti joined the US in the global event, marking the first time six nations from the Confederation qualified for a FIFA Women’s World Cup.
