The 2026 CONCACAF W Championship will be the 12th edition of the CONCACAF W Championship, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the senior women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Eight teams will play in the tournament, which will take place in November and December 2026.[1]
The tournament will serve as the CONCACAF qualifiers to the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil. The top four teams will qualify for the World Cup, while two additional teams will advance to a play-off tournament.[2] Originally, the two finalists will qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; should the United States be one of the finalists, then the winner of the third-place match will qualify.[1] After the FIFA Council's official announcement on the number of spots distributed for confederations on 17 December 2025, the winner of the third-place match will now also qualify; should the United States reach the semi-finals, the other semi-finalists will be guaranteed qualification even before the phase to be commenced.
The United States are the three-time defending champions of the competition, having won the 2014, 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
Format
Eight teams will play in the tournament, which will be held in November 2026. They will play a single-elimination tournament consisting of quarter-finals, play-ins (between the losers of the quarter-finals), semi-finals, a third place match and a final. The competition will qualify four CONCACAF teams for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil, while two teams will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs. In addition, three teams will qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[1][2]
The two highest-ranked teams from CONCACAF in the FIFA Women's World Ranking of 7 August 2025 received a bye to the final tournament. Twenty-nine teams were drawn into five groups of five teams each and one group of four teams to play single round-robin matches during the international windows of November–December 2025, and February–March and April 2026.[3] The six group winners will advance to the final tournament.[1]
12CONCACAF confirmed the automatic qualifiers on 7 August 2025, based on the CONCACAF women's ranking published on 11 March 2024. On 14 August 2025, CONCACAF re-allocated the seedings based on the FIFA Women's World Ranking of August 2025.[3]
All teams will be seeded according to the FIFA ranking. The quarter-finals will feature the first- and eighth-seeded teams, the second- and seventh-seeded teams, the third- and sixth-seeded teams, and the fourth- and fifth-seeded teams facing off.[1]
The winners will qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics. If the United States is one of the semi-finalists, then all semi-finalists will qualify for the 2028 Summer Olympics.
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