That means the Canadian men, starting in October, will have to play a total of 20 matches to reach their destination
Under the new blueprint, only the five highest-ranked teams in the region, based on the July 16 FIFA rankings, will go straight to the final round. Those are Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Honduras.Canada and 29 other countries in North and Central America and the Caribbean will have to go through two rounds to join them.
“When we looked at it, we had to pick an objective criteria obviously and the only criteria was within the original top six, who was mathematically not able to be caught? And there were five of them,” he told reporters. The final eight teams will play each other home and away, with each side playing 14 matches. The final round will start in the June, 2021 FIFA window and continue in match windows of September, October, November 2021 and January and March 2022.
“Which months or how is still not decided … If ‘21 starts mimicking 2020 well then I think it’s not just CONCACAF that’s back to the drawing table, it’s the entire football world.”
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