Concacaf announced the preliminary rosters for the 2026 Concacaf W Championship, which will be played from November 27 to December 5 at Texas Health Mansfield Stadium in Mansfield, Texas, and Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas. The eight participating national teams — Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and the United States — submitted their preliminary squads ahead of the kickoff.
Canada named a 41-player preliminary roster under head coach Casey Stoney, to be cut to a final 23 before the competition. The United States, under head coach Emma Hayes, named a 50-player preliminary roster, also to be trimmed to 23. The final 23-player rosters for all eight teams will be confirmed ahead of the start of the tournament, and all replacements must come from the respective team’s preliminary roster.
The tournament will crown a regional champion and determine Concacaf’s representatives for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027 and the Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympics. The four quarterfinal winners advance to the semifinals on December 1 and automatically qualify for the 2027 World Cup, while the two finalists and the third-place finisher earn Olympic berths — the fourth-place team takes the final Olympic spot if the United States, already qualified as Olympic host, finishes in the top three. The quarterfinals open November 27–28 in Mansfield: Jamaica vs. Costa Rica and the United States vs. El Salvador on Friday, Canada vs. Panama and Mexico vs. Haiti on Saturday. The semifinals are December 1, with the third-place match and final in Houston on December 5.
Source: Concacaf, November 2, 2026; Canadian Soccer Daily; SBI Soccer.
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