MIAMI, (CMC) – The 2022 CONCACAF Men’s Under-17 Championship Qualifiers kicks off today with 10 teams all hoping for a winning start to draw closer to the 2023 Concacaf Men’s Under-17 Championship (CMU17Q) in Guatemala.

All six teams in Group A will take the field, beginning with Bahamas (9th CMU17Q) and Saint Martin (5th), followed shortly thereafter by Bonaire (2nd) facing Guyana (12th) and then Bermuda (13th) squaring off with British Virgin Islands (4th).

These first three matches of the day will take place at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
Bahamas defeated Saint Martin in their last CMU17Q meeting, a 1-0 final in 2019, while today’s contests will mark the first ever CMU17Q meetings between the other teams in Group A.

The attention will then turn to Group C at the Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic where Caribbean rivals St. Kitts and Nevis and Cayman Islands will duel, followed by host nation Dominican Republic matching up with Dominica.

The lone CMU17Q meeting between St. Kitts and Nevis and Cayman Islands came in 2008 in a 2-0 win for St. Kitts and Nevis. The Dominican Republic and Dominican last met at this level in 2019 in a 3-0 victory for the Dominican Republic.

St. Kitts and Nevis and Cayman Islands are each playing in their ninth CMU17Q, while this year’s edition marks the 12th and third CMU17Q for Dominican Republic and Dominica, respectively.