… Guyana to host Group ‘D’ matches in August

GUYANA will host Barbados and Cuba in Group ‘D’ of the CONCACAF U-17 Women’s Qualifiers tournament from August 9 to 13 at a venue to be announced by the Guyana Football Federation (GFF).
The 2018 CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship qualification is a women’s Under-17 football competition which decides the participating teams of the 2018 CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship. A total of eight teams will play in the final tournament.
The 2018 CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship will be the 6th edition of the CONCACAF Women’s U-17 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship, organised by CONCACAF for the women’s Under-17 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region.

The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay as the CONCACAF representatives.
In the Caribbean Zone, 19 Caribbean Football Union (CFU)-member national teams have entered the qualifying competition, consisting of two stages.
Apart from Haiti, who received a bye as hosts of the final round, the remaining 18 teams entered the first round and were divided into three groups of four teams and two groups of three teams.

The winners of each group advance to the final round to join Haiti, where they are divided into two groups of three teams, with the top three teams qualifying for the final tournament as the CFU representatives.
Trinidad and Tobago, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Guyana, and St Vincent and the Grenadines were automatically seeded in Groups A–E respectively as hosts of each first round group, while the remaining 14 teams were seeded based on the results of the previous two editions of the qualifying competition.

Meanwhile, GFF president Wayne Forde said the team will be one that all of Guyana will be proud off and will represent the ongoing women’s National programme, the one set out by Technical Director Ian Greenwood.
Forde said while the current team is ‘all local’, the GFF is open to representation from the Diaspora, and encouraged persons to reach out.