The United States will host the 2018 edition of the CONCACAF Women’s Championship from October 4-17.

They will welcome the region’s top women’s national teams for the tournament, which will crown the Confederation champion, and also qualify three teams directly to the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019, plus the fourth-place finisher to an intercontinental playoff.

The tournament will include a field of eight teams. The United States, as host and defending champion, will participate alongside North American qualifiers Canada and Mexico.

The five remaining participants will qualify via the 2018 Concacaf Caribbean Women’s Qualifier and 2018 Concacaf Central America Women’s Qualifier.

The qualifier, set to kick off on May 5, will be disputed in two stages. For the first round of the regional qualifying tournament, the member associations will be sorted into three groups of five and two groups of four teams.

The final round of Caribbean qualifying will be disputed July 21-29, among the first-round group winners.

The top three finishers of the final round will qualify to the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship.

In Central America, the qualifying tournament will be disputed in Nicaragua from July 6-10. After round-robin play, the top two finishers will advance to the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship.