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Tournament details | |
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Dates | 15 June 2011 – 15 October 2013 |
Teams | 35 (from 1 confederation) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 142 |
Goals scored | 435 (3.06 per match) |
Attendance | 2,070,607 (14,582 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | ![]() (11 goals) |
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The CONCACAF qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup consisted of four rounds of competition, in which the 35 member nations competed for three automatic berths at the finals in Brazil.
CONCACAF Qualifiers |
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The United States, Costa Rica, and Honduras qualified. The fourth-place finisher, Mexico, played a two-game series against New Zealand, the first-placed team from Oceania and qualified to the Finals.
Format
In March 2011, following news that CONCACAF would not receive four spots in the 2014 World Cup, officials within CONCACAF indicated that the first format proposed would be revised.[1] Several days later, officials within CONCACAF announced the qualifying format they would present to FIFA. The proposed format, which was subsequently accepted by FIFA, consists of 4 stages.[2]
- Round One. Teams ranked 26–35 will play-off to reduce the number of entrants to 30.
- Round Two. 6 groups of 4 teams. This round includes the 5 qualifiers from the preliminary round plus teams ranked 7–25. The top team in each group advances to the next stage.
- Round Three (Semifinal round). 3 groups of 4. Teams ranked 1–6 face off against the 6 group winners from the previous round. The top two in each group advance.
- Round Four (Hexagonal). The top two teams in each group from the semifinal round compete in one group of 6. The top three teams advance to the World Cup finals, while the 4th place team advances to an intercontinental play-off.
Entrants
All 35 FIFA-affiliated national teams from CONCACAF entered qualification. The seeding – used to draw the first three rounds of the qualifiers – was based on the FIFA World Rankings of March 2011.[3] (World rankings shown in parentheses)[4]
Bye to third round (ranked 1st to 6th) |
Bye to second round (ranked 7th to 25th) |
Competing in first round (ranked 26th to 35th) |
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Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows.[3][5]
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The inter-confederation play-off between the fourth-placed team from CONCACAF (Mexico) and the winning team from OFC (New Zealand) was played between 13 and 20 November 2013.[5]
First round
The first round of the CONCACAF qualifiers saw the bottom 10 teams being paired up into five home-and-away series, with the highest ranked team facing the lowest ranked team and so on. The winners of these series proceeded to the second round.
The matchups were announced by FIFA on 26 April 2011.[6] Early indications were that the matches would be played on 3 and 7 June 2011; However, the matches were postponed to scattered days in June and July, between 15 June and 17 July.[7] The 5 winners (in bold, below) advanced to the second round of the CONCACAF qualifiers: Belize, Dominican Republic, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Lucia, and the Bahamas.[8]
The two wins for the U.S. Virgin Islands were their first two ever in World Cup play, with their only other win prior to this coming in 1998.
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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Montserrat ![]() |
3–8 | ![]() |
2–5 | 1–3 |
Anguilla ![]() |
0–6 | ![]() |
0–2 | 0–4 |
U.S. Virgin Islands ![]() |
4–1 | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–1 |
Aruba ![]() |
6–6 (4–5 p) | ![]() |
4–2 | 2–4 (a.e.t.) |
Turks and Caicos Islands ![]() |
0–101 | ![]() |
0–4 | 0–6 |
- Note 1: Order of legs reversed from originally published draw.
Second round
In the second round, the teams ranked 7–25 were joined by the 5 winners from the first round. These teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. The matches were played from 2 September to 15 November 2011.[2]
The top team from each group advanced to the third round.
Seeding
Teams were seeded into four pots – designated Pots 4 to 7 in the draw.[2] Pot 4 included teams ranked 7–12, Pot 5 teams ranked 13–18, Pot 6 teams ranked 19–24, and Pot 7 the team ranked 25 along with the 5 first round winners.
† First round winners
Groups
Group A
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | ![]() |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 5 | +15 | 18 | Advance to third round | — | 3–2 | 4–0 | 4–0 | |
2 | ![]() |
6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | +4 | 8 | 1–2 | — | 1–1 | 4–0 | ||
3 | ![]() |
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 7 | 1–3 | 1–3 | — | 1–0 | ||
4 | ![]() |
6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 15 | −13 | 1 | 1–4 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — |
Group B