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CONCACAF?s 1st Round road to FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 begins next week; Haiti already qualify for the Second Round.

6.7.06 - The road to the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 begins next week for CONCACAF with the Caribbean Zone Qualification.

The US Virgin Islands will host the first of five Caribbean Opening Round Qualification Groups from 12-17 July in St. Croix. Along with US Virgin Islands, Group A consists of Bermuda, Bahamas and British Virgin Islands.

Group B, which takes place in the Dominican Republic from 28 July ? 1 August, has Anguilla, Cayman Island and Cuba, while Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica and St. Kitts & Nevis join the host Saint-Martin in Group C from 2-6 August.

St. Lucia will stage Group D that includes Barbados, Grenada and St. Vincent & The Grenadines from 20-24 August, while Aruba, Guyana and Netherlands Antilles travel to Surinam for Group E taking place from 6-10 August.

The winners of each of the five groups will join Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean Second Round Qualification where three teams will progress to the CONCACAF Final Round next year.

Elsewhere, the winners of the two Central American Zone Triangulars Qualifiers in Guatemala and Honduras, respectively, next month will also advance to the CONCACAF Final Round.

The Central American Triangular 1, which runs from 2-6 August, in Guatemala also consists of Belize and El Salvador, while the Triangular 2 that will be held in Honduras from 9-13 August has Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Mexico and Panama will each host a four-team CONCACAF Final Round Group with games due to take place in January/February 2007. The top two squads from each of these groups will qualify to the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007.

The six teams joining Mexico and Panama in the final round of qualification will consist of; three teams from the Caribbean; two Central American Triangular winners and; the USA.