2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship

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2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship
Campeonato Sub-20 Femenino de la CONCACAF 2012
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Natalia Gómez-Junco (6 goals)
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The 2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship was the sixth edition of the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. The final tournament was hosted by Panama from 1 to 11 March 2012.[1] All matches were played at the Estadio Rommel Fernández. The top three teams of the 2012 tournament earned qualification to the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup. The tournament was won by the United States, who defeated Canada in the final, 2–1. Mexico secured the final qualification position by defeating Panama in the third place match, 5–0.

Qualification

Main article:
2012 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying
Team Qualification Appearances Previous best performances
North American zone
 Canada Automatic 6th Champion (2004, 2008)
 Mexico Automatic 6th Runner-up (
2010
)
 
TH
) 		Automatic 6th Champion (
2010
)
Central America qualifying
 Guatemala Group 1 Winner 2nd First round (
2010
)
 Panama Group 2 Winner 4th First round (2002, 2004, 2006)
Caribbean qualifying
 Haiti Group E Winner 2nd First round (2002)
 Cuba Group F Winner 3rd First round (
2010
)
 Jamaica Best Group Runner-up 6th Fourth place (2006)

Bold indicates that the corresponding team was hosting the event.
Note: Panama qualified to the tournament, only later was announced as host.[2]

Venue

 Panama City
Estadio Rommel Fernández
Capacity: 32,000

Match officials

The match officials were announced the 14 February 2012.[3]

Squads

Main article:
2012 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship squads

Group stage

The draw for the tournament took place on the 15 January 2012 in the CONCACAF offices in Miami Beach, Florida.[4] The schedule was announced on the 25 January 2012.[5]
All matches up to 9 March 2012 (group stage and semi-finals) are

EDT (UTC−04:00
).

Key to colors in group tables
Advanced to Semi-finals

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Canada 3 3 0 0 8 0 +8 9
 Mexico 3 2 0 1 13 2 +11 6
 Jamaica 3 0 1 2 1 5 −4 1
 Haiti 3 0 1 2 0 15 −15 1
Canada 5–0 Haiti
Ezurike 47', 53'
Charron-Delage 51', 62'
Richardson
59'		 Report
Attendance: 150
Mexico 3–1 Jamaica
Samarzich 6'
Gómez Junco 39'
C. Martinez 44'		 Report Spence 15'
Attendance: 250
Mexico 10–0 Haiti
A. Martínez 29', 48'
Jiménez 32'
Gómez Junco 59', 60', 77'
Franco 64'
Solís
76', 77'		 Report
Attendance: 101
Jamaica 0–2 Canada
Report Richardson 75'
Charron-Delage 82'
Attendance: 101
Haiti 0–0 Jamaica
Report
Attendance: 100
Canada 1–0 Mexico
Legault-Cordisco 25' Report
Attendance: 153

Group B

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 United States 3 3 0 0 18 0 +18 9
 Panama 3 2 0 1 5 8 −3 6
 Guatemala 3 1 0 2 6 11 −5 3
 Cuba 3 0 0 3 3 13 −10 0
United States 6–0 Guatemala
Johnston 29'
Stengel 54'
Roccaro
60'		 Report
Attendance: 250
Panama 2–1 Cuba
Evans 16'
Cox
54'		 Report
Pelaez
27'
Attendance: 935
Cuba 0–6 United States
Report Stengel 4', 37'
Hayes 25', 29'
DiBernardo 53'
Ubogagu 84'
Alondra Arellano (Mexico
)
Panama 3–1 Guatemala
Mills 39'
Zorrilla 48'
Jordan 82'		 Report
Monterroso
40'
Attendance: 1,170
Guatemala 5–2 Cuba
Monterroso 27'
Argueta 31'
Pérez 32'
López 67' (pen.)
Bayeux 68' (o.g.
)		 Report Pérez 53'
Peláez 80'
Attendance: 80
Panama 0–6 United States
Report
Mewis
69'
Alondra Arellano (Mexico
)

Knockout rounds

The winners of the two semifinals and the third place match qualify for the 2012 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Japan.

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
March 9 – Panama City
 
 
 United States4
 
March 11 – Panama City
 
 Mexico0
 
 United States2
 
March 9 – Panama City
 
 Canada1
 
 Canada6
 
 
 Panama0
 
Third place
 
 
March 11 – Panama City
 
 
 Mexico5
 
 
 Panama0

Semi-finals

United States 4–0 Mexico
Ohai
81'		 Report
Attendance: 2,071
Canada 6–0 Panama
Pietrangelo 69'
Sawicki
88'		 Report
Attendance: 2,071

Third place match

Mexico 5–0 Panama
Gómez-Junco 25', 90+1' (pen.)
Samarzich
44'		 Report
Attendance: 200

Final

United States 2–1 Canada
Hayes 79'
Ubogagu 88'		 Report Richardson 5'
Attendance: 200

Awards

 2012 CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Championship winners 

United States
Third title

Goalscorers

6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal

See also

References

  1. ^ "Panama to host U-20 & Guatemala U-17 Women's Championships". 17 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-12-21. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  2. ^ "Panama reaches CONCACAF U-20 women's finals". CONCACAF. Archived from the original (28 April 2011) on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  3. ^ "U-20 women's championship refs selected". 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  4. ^ "Host Panama, U.S. drawn for U-20 women". 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  5. ^ "U.S. to open U-20 women against Guatemala". 5 March 2012. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.

External links

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