CFU revised format for U-16 Youth Cup; Top 4 CFU teams to contest for 2 spots

bana2166 · #1 08-21-06, 02:24 PM

Revised format for youth cup.

Top 4 CFU teams to contest for 2 spots.

Trinidad and Tobago?s Under 16 footballers will have some further matches to play on their way through to the CONCACAF Final qualifying round in the Journey to the 2007 FIFA Under 17 World Championship in Korea.

After initially being carded to go through to the quarter finals of the ongoing Under 16 Youth Cup where they would have faced the best second placed team Suriname, T&T will now contest a four-team group comprising of the remaining four Caribbean teams (with the exception of Jamaica) to battle for two places in the CONCACAF Final Round.

Caribbean Football Union President Jack Warner explained late on Saturday that based on the advice of Senior Vice President, Lisle Austin, and with the approval of the Emergency Committee of the Caribbean Football Union, it was agreed that there be a revision of the competition format of the Caribbean Youth Cup for the determination of the two Caribbean teams which shall qualify for the CONCACAF final qulifying round for the FIFA World U 17 Championship.

Since there are 5 Caribbean teams remaining in the competition - Jamaica, Barbados, Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago and best 2nd placed Suriname - the 4 Caribbean teams (excluding Jamaica ) will be placed in one Group - Group A - and participate in a Group League play off. From that play off, the first and second placed teams will subsequently qualify for the CONCACAF final round of the competition. Jamaica, being the host of one leg of that competition, will be placed in a Group with the other three non Caribbean Group winners - Canada, Panama and Mexico and this shall form Group B and will be played in a similar format as Group A.

The first placed teams of Group A and B will play for the Caribbean Youth Championship while the second placed teams of each Group will play for the 3rd and 4th places.

The new schedule:

Group A - Barbados, Haiti, Surinam, Trinidad & Tobago

Group B - Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama

The Match Schedule is as follows:

Monday, August 21st - Mannie Ramjohn Stadium - Marabella

Haiti vs Surinam - 3:00pm

Trinidad & Tobago vs Barbados - 5:00pm

Dwight Yorke Stadium, Tobago

Panama vs Mexico - 3:00pm

Canada vs Jamaica - 5:00pm

Wednesday, August 23rd - Ato Boldon Stadium - Couva

Barbados vs Haiti - 3:00pm