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2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship


Column 1
Honduras
San Pedro Sula
3–13 December
8 (from 1 confederation)
2 (in 1 host city)
United States (5th title)
Canada
Mexico
Honduras
16
63 (3.94 per match)
Mallory Pugh (7 goals)
Mallory Pugh
Rosemary Chandler
Canada
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The 2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the 8th edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONCACAF for the women's under-20 national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was hosted by Honduras and took place between 3–13 December 2015, as announced by CONCACAF on 7 May 2015. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.

Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The top three teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Papua New Guinea.

The United States won their fifth title overall and fourth in a row with a 1–0 final victory over Canada. Both finalists and third-placed Mexico qualified for the World Cup.

The eight berths were allocated to the three regional zones as follows:

  • Three teams from the North American Zone (NAFU), i.e., Canada, Mexico and the United States, who all qualified automatically
  • Two teams from the Central American Zone (UNCAF), including Honduras who qualified automatically as hosts
  • Three teams from the Caribbean Zone (CFU)

Regional qualification tournaments were held to determine the four teams joining Canada, Mexico, the United States, and hosts Honduras at the final tournament.

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

TeamQualificationAppearancePrevious best performancesPrevious FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup appearances
CanadaAutomatic6thWinner (2004, 2008)6
MexicoAutomatic8thRunner-up (2010, 2014)6
United StatesAutomatic8thWinner (2006, 2010, 2012, 2014)7
HondurasHosts2ndGroup stage (2014)0
PanamaGroup winner5thFourth place (2012)0
HaitiFinal round winner3rdGroup stage (2002)0
JamaicaFinal round runner-up8thFourth place (2006)0
Trinidad and TobagoFinal round 3rd place7thFourth place (2014)0

The tournament was hosted in San Pedro Sula. In the original schedule, the Estadio Francisco Morazán would host the opening day matches for Group A, as well as the semifinals, third place match and the final, while the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano would host the remaining Group A matches and all of the Group B matches. In the final schedule, eight group matches were relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana due to rain, while all matches initially scheduled for the Estadio Francisco Morazán was played at the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano.

The draw for the tournament took place on 4 November 2015 at 10:00 CST (UTC−6) at the Hotel Real Intercontinental in San Pedro Sula.

The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four teams. Tournament host Honduras were seeded in Group A, while defending CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship champion United States were seeded in Group B.

Pot 1Pot 2
Honduras (Position A1)
 United States (Position B1)
 Canada
 MexicoPanama
 Haiti
 Jamaica
 Trinidad and Tobago

Players born on or after 1 January 1996 were eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 20 players (two of whom must be goalkeepers).

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:

  1. Goal difference in all group matches;
  2. Greatest number of goals scored in all group matches;
  3. Greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
  4. Goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned;
  5. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned;
  6. Drawing of lots.

All times were local, CST (UTC−6).

The two matches originally scheduled on 5 December 2015 (Jamaica vs Canada and Trinidad and Tobago vs Honduras) were postponed due to heavy rain. As a result, all subsequent group matches were delayed by a day and relocated to the Escuela Internacional Sampedrana in San Pedro Sula.

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Column 1Column 2Column 3Column 4Column 5Column 6Column 7
Semi-finalsFinal
11 December – San Pedro Sula
Canada (p)0 (5)
13 December – San Pedro Sula
Mexico0 (4)
Canada0
11 December – San Pedro Sula
United States1
United States7
Honduras0
Third place
13 December – San Pedro Sula
Mexico2
Honduras0

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

2015 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
United StatesFifth title

The following three teams from CONCACAF qualified for the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

TeamQualified onPrevious appearances in tournament1
United States11 December 20157 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Canada11 December 20156 (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014)
Mexico13 December 20156 (2002, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)

1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

7 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

Golden BallGolden BootGolden Glove
Mallory PughMallory PughRosemary Chandler
Canada

Best XI

  • Goalkeeper: Rosemary Chandler

  • Right Defender: Emily Fox

  • Central Defender: Bianca St. Georges

  • Central Defender: Natalie Jacobs

  • Left Defender: Tierna Davidson

  • Right Midfielder: Jessie Scarpa

  • Central Midfielder: Kiana Palacios

  • Central Midfielder: Savannah DeMelo

  • Central Midfielder: Sarah Stratigakis

  • Left Midfielder: Ashley Sanchez

  • Forward: Mallory Pugh

  • Under 20s – Women, CONCACAF.com

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