2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup: Teams involved, groups, fixtures, results and how it works
Anticipation is building for the inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup.
12 teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean will feature in the competition's debut in the upcoming February international window. But with the tournament overlapping two weeks of Women's Super League fixtures, concerns are already mounting for English clubs and fans alike.
The tournament is set to garner plenty of attention during a stacked international window which also includes Olympic qualifiers, Nations League play-offs and friendlies.
Here's how the inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup will work, alongside group-stage standings, fixtures, results and more.
The inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup will be contested by 12 women's national teams from North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The group stage will begin on 21 February before the final takes place on 11 March.
The tournament will be played across four venues: Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, Shell Energy Stadium in Houston and San Diego's Snapdragon Stadium, which will host the final with a capacity of 35,000.
12 teams will be split into three groups of four and compete in a single round-robin format. The top two of each group and the two best third-placed teams advance to the knockout stages, which consists of quarter-finals, semi-finals and a final.
The tournament was initially slated to take place in June but was rescheduled due to a clash with the 2024 Olympics.
The United States were announced as hosts of the inaugural tournament in January 2023. The tournament will feature the pair of teams that qualified for the Summer Olympics through the CONCACAF W Championship — the USWNT and Canada — three group winners in qualifying, three
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