Jamaica will be selected from pot 1 at the draw for the 2018 Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Championship.
The official draw set to take place on September 13 will sort the 35 participating teams into six groups for the first round of the competition that’s scheduled to be played from November 1- 21 at the iMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
It will be conducted using a single-blind system, involving five pots.
Based on the Concacaf Men’s Under-20 Ranking the top six teams, United States (A1), Mexico (B1), Honduras (C1), Panama (D1) Costa Rica (E1) and El Salvador (F1), will be seeded into position one in each group, while the remaining 29 teams will be distributed in five pots.
As well as Jamaica pot 1 also includes Cuba, Guatemala, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti and Canada.
Pot 2: Antigua and Barbuda, Bermuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Curacao, Aruba and Suriname
Pot 3: Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Guyana
Pot 4: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Belize and Dominica
Pot 5: US Virgin Islands, Martinique, Saint Maarten, Saint Martin and Montserrat
The draw will begin by placing the seeded teams in their respective groups. Once they have been confirmed, the first team will be drawn from Pot 1 and placed in position A2. The same will be done for the remaining five teams of Pot 1, placing them in positions B2, C2, D2, E2 and F2 according to the order in which they are drawn. The procedure will be repeated for Pots 2, 3, 4 and 5, using group positions 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively.
The 35 teams will be sorted into six groups, five groups of six teams and one group of five teams, for the first-round group phase. After round robin play, the six group winners will advance to the qualification stage, where they will be divided into two groups of three teams.
After a second-round robin play, the two group winners plus the second-place finishers will qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Additionally, the two group winners will advance to the tournament’s final to determine the regional champion.