2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying

The 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship qualifying tournament determined the Caribbean and Central American Under-20 association football national teams that would participate in the 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship, which itself will qualify national teams to the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Qualification began on 14 May 2008. The final round of qualification was a one-game playoff on 2 March 2009, between the runner-up from the Caribbean zone, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the 3rd-place finisher from the Central American zone, Honduras. The three North American zone nations, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, as well as tournament hosts Trinidad and Tobago, were automatically entered into the final tournament without need for qualification.

Main article: 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship

Caribbean zone

First round

The first round consisted of five groups of four teams. The five group winners and top four group runners-up from each group advanced to the second qualification round.

Group A

All Group A matches were hosted by Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba, the governing by for association football in Cuba. All matches were played at Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Haiti330090+99
 Dominican Republic311182+64
 Cuba311164+24
 Bahamas3003017−170
Haiti 1 – 0 Dominican Republic
Ultegun  68'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Rudolph Angela (Aruba)
Cuba 5 – 0 Bahamas
Adrila  7'
Hernandez  15'
Palmero  31'
Garcia  54'
Cordoves  69'
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Kevin Morrison (Jamaica)
Bahamas 0 – 5 Haiti
Fritznel  6'
Ultegun  7', 11'
Herold  20', 28'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Kevin Morrison (Jamaica)
Cuba 1 – 1 Dominican Republic
Hernandez  34' Leonardo  5'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Kevin Thomas (Jamaica)
Dominican Republic 7 – 0 Bahamas
Rodriguez  26', 56'
Frechilla  36'
Berroa  44'
Garcia  55'
Jimenez  67'
Sierra  77'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Kevin Morrison (Jamaica)
Cuba 0 – 3 Haiti
Herold  25'
Valdo  40'
Ultegun  48'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Rudolph Angela (Aruba)

Group B

All Group B matches were hosted by the Cayman Islands Football Association, the governing body for association football in the Cayman Islands, and were played at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex in George Town.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Jamaica330080+89
 Bermuda311125−34
 Puerto Rico310245−13
 Cayman Islands301226−41
Jamaica 1 – 0 Puerto Rico
Palmer  34'
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Sandy Vásquez (Dominican Republic)
Cayman Islands 0 – 0 Bermuda
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Edouard Guidner (Haiti)
Bermuda 0 – 4 Jamaica
Adlam  22', 44'
Williams  49', 62'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Edouard Guidner (Haiti)
Cayman Islands 2 – 3 Puerto Rico
Godet  28'
Tatum  70'		 Cabrero  13'
Luna  29'
Pacheco  35'
Attendance: 2,000
Puerto Rico 1 – 2 Bermuda
Cabrero  5' Hollis  46'
Coke  86'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Edouard Guidner (Haiti)
Cayman Islands 0 – 3 Jamaica
Clennon  12', 24'
Adlam  76'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Sandy Vásquez (Dominican Republic)

Group C

All Group C matches were hosted by Arubaanse Voetbal Bond, the governing body for association football in Aruba. All matches were played at Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Saint Kitts and Nevis321084+47
 Aruba31115504
 Suriname30304403
 Dominica301226−41
Suriname 1 – 1 Dominica
Drenthe  12' (Report) Glenworth  90'
Attendance: 500
Referee: Bryan Willet (Antigua and Barbuda)
Aruba 2 – 3 Saint Kitts and Nevis
De L'Isle  19'
Grovell  70'		 (Report) Benjamin  3', 38'
Somersall  8'
Attendance: 500
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 1 – 1 Suriname
Somersall  63' (Report) Loswijk  26'
Attendance: 700
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)
Aruba 1 – 0 Dominica
Abdul  71' (Report)
Attendance: 700
Referee: Bryan Willet (Antigua and Barbuda)
Dominica 1 – 4 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Kennedy  17' (Report) Somersall  10'
Benjamin  37', 42'
Hanley  90'
Attendance: 800
Aruba 2 – 2 Suriname
Nuñez Jr.  66'
Abdul  75'		 (Report) Odang  21'
Loswijk  54'
Attendance: 800
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)

Group D

All Group D matches were hosted by the Grenada Football Association, the governing body for association football in Grenada. All matches were played at Tanteen Recreational Ground in St. George's.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines3300261+259
 Grenada3111193+164
 Guyana3111174+134
 British Virgin Islands3003154−530
Guyana 1 – 2 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Camacho  69' (Report) Stewart  51', 80'
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Referee: Goffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
Grenada 17 – 0 British Virgin Islands
D. Daniel  2', 11', 39', 42', 45'
R. Daniel  5', 19', 37', 65', 85', 88', 90+', 90+'
C. Murray  24', 45', 81'
Q. Murray  33'		 (Report)
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Referee: Martin Charles (Dominica)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 23 – 1 British Virgin Islands
Douglas  17'
Stewart  21', 26', 37', 41', 45'
Hamlet  29'
Samuel  45', 77', 85', 87'
Browne  46', 73', 66'
Richardson  48', 75', 89'
William  53', 68', 70', 72'
Balcombe  69', 83'		 (Report) Evans  89'
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Attendance: 100
Referee: Martin Charles (Dominica)
Grenada 2 – 2 Guyana
C. Murray  22'
R. Daniel  83'		 (Report) Beaton  48'
McLennon  69'
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Attendance: 100
Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)
British Virgin Islands 0 – 14 Guyana
(Report) Camacho  11'
Murray  14', 34', 69', 78', 88'
McKinnon  27'
Crandson  36', 52', 84'
McLennon  44', 51'
Primo  64'
 78' (o.g.)
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Referee: Goffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
Grenada 0 – 1 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(Report) Stewart  44'
Tanteen Recreational Ground, St. George's
Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)

Group E

All Group E matches were hosted by Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie, the governing by for association football in the Netherlands Antilles. All matches were played at Stadion Ergilio Hato in Willemstad.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Antigua and Barbuda3300240+249
 Netherlands Antilles3201112+96
 Saint Martin310286+23
 Anguilla3003030−300
Antigua and Barbuda 3 – 0 Saint Martin
Constant  27', 59'
Challenger  33'		 (Report)
Attendance: 200
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (Guyana)
Netherlands Antilles 8 – 0 Anguilla
Bacuna  6', 76'
Jantji  12'
Rijna  30'
Constancia  32', 39'
Torbed  46'
Poppen  83'		 (Report)
Attendance: 200
Referee: Henry Kia (Suriname)
Anguilla 0 – 7 Saint Martin
(Report) Fleming  31'
Bellechasse  42'
Merabli  45', 68'
Daniel  62'
Galvani  64', 76'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Caswell Cambridge (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
Netherlands Antilles 0 – 1 Antigua and Barbuda
(Report) Thomas  6'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (Guyana)
Antigua and Barbuda 15 – 0 Anguilla
Hazlewood  2', 61', 64'
Challenger  17', 27', 46', 70', 82'
Constant  24', 37', 44'
Martin  83'
Thomas  87'
Gregory  89'
Roach  90+'		 (Report)
Attendance: 450
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (Guyana)
Netherlands Antilles 3 – 1 Saint Martin
Bacuna  41'
Carmelita  75'
Trenidad  90'		 (Report) Fleming  46'
Attendance: 450
Referee: Caswell Cambridge (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)

Second round

The second round consists of three groups of three. The three group winners from each group as well as the best-performing runner-up will move on to the third and final round of the CFU region's qualification tournament.[1]

Group F

All Group F matches were hosted by Federación Dominicana de Fútbol, the governing by for association football in the Dominican Republic. All matches were played at Estadio Félix Sánchez in Santo Domingo.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Haiti220040+46
 Dominican Republic210152+33
 Grenada200207−70
 Dominican Republic0 – 2 Haiti
(Report) Vorbe  11'
Exantus  88'
Attendance: 1000
Referee: Martin Charles (Dominica)
 Grenada0 – 2 Haiti
(Report) Vorbe  6', 50'
Attendance: 1400
Referee: Ignatius Baptiste (Dominica)
 Dominican Republic5 – 0 Grenada
Frechilla  1'
Rodriguez  30', 32', 54'
Berroa  38'		 (Report)
Attendance: 300
Referee: Martin Charles (Dominica)

Group G

All Group G matches were hosted by Nederlands Antilliaanse Voetbal Unie, the governing by for association football in the Netherlands Antilles. All matches were played at Stadion Ergilio Hato in Willemstad.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines211010+14
 Netherlands Antilles20204402
 Saint Kitts and Nevis201145−11
 Netherlands Antilles4 – 4 Saint Kitts and Nevis
Thorbed  46'
Victoria  84'
Constancia  86', 90'		 (Report) Blanchette  5', 33'
Benjamin  25', 75'
Attendance: 200
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)
 Saint Kitts and Nevis0 – 1 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(Report) Stewart  56'
Attendance: 75
Referee: Otis James (Guyana)
 Netherlands Antilles0 – 0 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
(Report)
Attendance: 200
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)

Group H

All Group H matches were hosted by Arubaanse Voetbal Bond, the governing by for association football in the Aruba. All matches were played at Trinidad Stadium in Oranjestad.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Jamaica220081+76
 Aruba210136−33
 Antigua and Barbuda200237−40
 Aruba3 – 2 Antigua and Barbuda
Santos de Gouveia  25'
Ignacio  35'
Nuñez Jr  38'		 (Report) Luke  36'
Constant  46'
Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Jamaica4 – 1 Antigua and Barbuda
Orgill  29'
Philogene  33' (o.g.)
Campbell  42'
Thorpe  42'		 (Report) Constant  52'
Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)
 Aruba0 – 4 Jamaica
(Report) Orgill  15', 25', 50', 57'
Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)

Third round

The final round of CFU qualification were hosted by, the governing body for association football in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[1][2] The matches were played at Victoria Park in Kingstown, the capital of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.[3] The group winner, Jamaica, qualified for the tournament proper, and the runner up from the Caribbean region, St Vincent and the Grenadines, as group runner-up, earned the right to a one-game playoff with the 3rd-place finisher from the Central American region, Honduras, to determine the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.[2][4][5][6]

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
 Jamaica321072+57
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines320132+16
 Haiti311173+44
 Dominican Republic3003212−100
Jamaica 1 – 1 Haiti
Orgill  55' (Report) Fritznel  88'
Attendance: 800
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2 – 0 Dominican Republic
Cuffy  16'
Hamlet  56'		 (Report)
Attendance: 3,500
Dominican Republic 1 – 4 Jamaica
Ledesma  86' (pen.) (Report) Adlam  11', 18', 42' (pen.)
Campbell  42'
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: George Phillip (Grenada)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1 – 0 Haiti
Stewart  47' (Report)
Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Stanley Lancaster (Guyana)
Haiti 6 – 1 Dominican Republic
Jérôme  22'
Gregory  31'
Fritznel  37'
Exantus  55'
Vaniel  78'
Ultegun  89'		 (Report) Frechilla  11'
Attendance: 2,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 – 2 Jamaica
(Report) Stapleton  13' (o.g.)
Williams  60'
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Geoffrey Hospedales (Trinidad and Tobago)

Central American zone

The Central American zone comprises two groups. One group has three teams and the other has four teams. The two group winners will move on to the tournament. The runner-up from each group will play a two-legged playoff to determine the third place team from the region. The third place team will play the runner-up from the Caribbean region for the final spot in the tournament proper.[4]

Group 1

The matches played in Group 1 were hosted by Federación Nacional Autónoma de Fútbol de Honduras, the governing body for association football in Honduras. All matches were played at Estadio Tiburcio Carías Andino in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPTS
 Costa Rica220061+56
 Honduras210182+63
 Nicaragua2002011−110
Costa Rica 4 – 0 Nicaragua
Estrada  2'
Castro  34'
Guzman  65'
Ureña  74'		 (Report)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Gerald Henry (Belize)
Honduras 7 – 0 Nicaragua
Rojas  39', 57', 90+1'
Mejia  44'
Sosa  45', 52'
Martínez  88'		 (Report)
Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Jose Rivera (El Salvador)
Honduras 1 – 2 Costa Rica
Martínez  60' (Report) Martínez  29'
Estrada  43'
Attendance: 4,200

Group 2

All of the matches in Group 2 were hosted by Federación Nacional de Fútbol de Guatemala, the governing body for association football in Guatemala. All matches were played at Estadio Mateo Flores in Guatemala City.

TeamPldWDLGFGAGDPTS
 El Salvador320163+36
 Panama320163+36
 Guatemala31114404
 Belize301217−61
Panama 3 – 0 Belize
Beltran  44'
de la Rosa  57', 81'		 (Report)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Rene Guerrero (Nicaragua)
Guatemala 2 – 1 El Salvador
Herrarte  1'
Gomez  26'		 (Report) Morán  75'
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Hugo Cruz (Costa Rica)
 El Salvador2 – 1 Panama
Blanco  28'
Maldonado  90'		 (Report) Rob. Blackburn  48'
Attendance: 100
Referee: Ricardo Cerdas (Costa Rica)
Guatemala 1 – 1 Belize
Morales  9' (Report) Maldonado  45'
Attendance: 800
Referee: Óscar Moncada (Honduras)
Belize 0 – 3 El Salvador
(Report) Blanco  6', 30'
Orellana  32'
Attendance: 300
Referee: Óscar Moncada (Honduras)
Guatemala 1 – 2 Panama
Cayax  73' (Report) Mena  39'
Rol. Blackburn  90'
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Hugo Cruz (Costa Rica)

Playoff

The two group runners-up faced off in a two-legged playoff for third place rights in the region. Honduras, as winners of the 3rd place playoff, advanced to face the runner up from the Caribbean qualification, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, to become the 8th and final qualifier for the tournament proper.[4][5]

Honduras 5 – 2 Panama
Padilla  10'
Valladares  14'
Rojas  37'
Martínez  51'
Andino  75'		 (Report) de la Rosa  31',  86'
Attendance: 1267
Referee: Edgar Rodriguez (Costa Rica)
Panama 1 – 2 Honduras
Rol. Blackburn  26' (Report) Rojas  57', 73'
Attendance: 1267

Caribbean/Central American playoff

Honduras, as winner of the 3rd place playoff in Central American qualification, faced Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the runner-up from the Caribbean zone tournament, for the final place in the tournament proper.[2][4][5] The match was a one-game playoff on 2 March in Macoya, Trinidad four days prior to the opening of the tournament proper.[6]

Honduras 3 – 1 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Rojas  74'
Martínez  80'
Andino  89'		 (Report) Stewart  23' (pen.)
Attendance: 100
Referee: Neal Brizan (Trinidad and Tobago)

References
  1. Jamaica advances to final round of Caribbean qualifying for CONCACAF U20 Championship, Oranjestad, Aruba: CONCACAF, 24 November 2008, archived from the original on 1 January 2009, retrieved 25 November 2008
  2. St. Vincent and Grenadines to stage final round of Caribbean U-20 qualifying, Port Of Spain, Trinidad: CONCACAF, 17 December 2008, archived from the original on 1 January 2009, retrieved 23 December 2008
  3. Four Caribbean Countries to Vie for Caribbean U-20 Supremacy in St. Vincent, Caribbean Football Union, 6 January 2009, retrieved 8 January 2009
  4. Trinidad & Tobago to stage CONCACAF U-20 Championship in March, New York City: CONCACAF, 11 November 2008, archived from the original on 1 January 2009, retrieved 17 November 2008
  5. Honduras beats Panama 2:1 to earn playoff berth for chance at CONCACAF U20 Championship, Panama City: CONCACAF, 5 October 2008, archived from the original on 9 December 2008, retrieved 28 November 2008
  6. Under-20 playoff between Honduras and St. Vincent set for 2 March in Trinidad, New York City: CONCACAF, 10 February 2009, archived from the original on 16 February 2009, retrieved 11 February 2009
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