Toyota Stadium To Host CONCACAF Women’s Championship
Frisco, Texas – Toyota Stadium will host the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship Game on Wednesday, October 17, U.S. Soccer announced today. Toyota Stadium will also host the all-important Semifinals on Sunday, October 14 as well as the Third-Place Match on October, 17.
The 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship, which will qualify three teams to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France and a fourth into a two-game playoff with the third-place team from South America, will be played in two host cities, in addition to Frisco, Texas: Cary, N.C., and Edinburg, Texas.
On March 23, Concacaf announced that the tournament would be played in the United States and would take place from October 4-17. The competition will feature eight countries divided into two groups of four. After round-robin play within the groups, the top two finishers from each group will move on to the semifinals.
FOX Sports, the home of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, will present 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship coverage across the FOX Sports family of networks.
The USA, which is ranked first in the world, will be seeded into Group A while Canada, which is ranked fourth, will be seeded into Group B. The USA, Canada and Mexico have automatic berths into the tournament. The five remaining participants will qualify via the upcoming 2018 Concacaf Caribbean Women’s Qualifier and 2018 Concacaf Central America Women’s Qualifier. The placement in the groups for the other six teams will become known at the Final Draw later this year.
All three first round doubleheaders in Group A – which will take place on Oct. 4, 7 and 10 – will be played at the 10,000-seat Sahlen’s Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. All three doubleheaders in Group B – which will be played on Oct. 5, 8 and 11 – will take place at H-E-B Park in Edinburg, Texas, a 9,700-seat stadium that is home to the Rio Grande Valley FC Toros of the USL.
The top two finishers in each group will then cross over to meet in the crucial Semifinals on Oct. 14 at Toyota Stadium. The Third-Place Match and Championship Game will be at Toyota Stadium on Oct. 17.
