GUYANA’S Golden Jaguars will know their opponents for the 2022 Qatar World Cup on August 19, when the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), hosts its preliminary draw at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.

With 35 member associations from across North, Central America and the Caribbean set to be involved, CONCACAF said the preliminary draw is a significant moment that will determine the tournament pathway for the first and final rounds under the new qualification format.

Based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World ranking as of July 16, 2020, the draw for the first round will allocate the 30 lowest-ranked CONCACAF teams to six groups. This will be followed by the draw for the final round, which will indicate the position of each team within the final qualification stage, which will also be contested in a group format.

The pots for the first-round draw will see Guyana being joined by Grenada, Barbados, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Bermuda and Belize in Pot three.

El Salvador, Canada, Curacao, Panama, Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago are in Pot 1, while Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic are in Pot 2.

Pot 4 will have St Lucia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Montserrat, Dominica and the Cayman Islands. Bahamas, Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands and Anguilla are in Pot 5.

The six highest-ranked teams in the first round – El Salvador, Canada, Curacao, Panama, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago – will be pre-seeded into groups A to F respectively.

The first round will be played in a single round-robin format, meaning each team will play four matches; two home and two away.

During the second round, the six group winners will face-off in a home-and-away elimination format in three predetermined pairings. The winners of each tie will proceed to the final round.

The final round will see the three winners from the second round join the five highest-ranked CONCACAF teams, according to the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking as of July 16, 2020. They will play each other in a home-and-away round-robin format.

Fans around the world will be able to follow the draw live on FIFA.com, with the exception of the territories where the draw will be broadcast live on TV.