2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

Country qualified

Country failed to qualify

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.

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)
United States (19) Mexico (27) Honduras (38) Jamaica (48) Costa Rica (53) Cuba (64)	Panama (68) Canada (84) El Salvador (92) Grenada (94) Trinidad and Tobago (95) Haiti (99) Antigua and Barbuda (101) Guyana (109) Suriname (114) Saint Kitts and Nevis (119) Guatemala (125) Dominica (130) Puerto Rico (131) Barbados (137) Curaçao (146) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (148) Cayman Islands (158) Nicaragua (164) Bermuda (165)	Belize (166) Dominican Republic (166) British Virgin Islands (177) Saint Lucia (182) Turks and Caicos Islands (193) Bahamas (193) Aruba (199) U.S. Virgin Islands (200) Anguilla (202) Montserrat (202)

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.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Montserrat	3–8	Belize	2–5	1–3
Anguilla	0–6	Dominican Republic	0–2	0–4
U.S. Virgin Islands	4–1	British Virgin Islands	2–0	2–1
Aruba	6–6 (4–5 p)	Saint Lucia	4–2	2–4 (a.e.t.)
Turks and Caicos Islands	0–10¹	Bahamas	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.

Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6	Pot 7
Panama Canada El Salvador Grenada Trinidad and Tobago Haiti	Antigua and Barbuda Guyana Suriname Saint Kitts and Nevis Guatemala Dominica	Puerto Rico Barbados Curaçao Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Cayman Islands Nicaragua	Bermuda Belize^† Dominican Republic^† Saint Lucia^† Bahamas^† U.S. Virgin Islands^†

^† First round winners

Groups

Note: Scores marked by ^* are results awarded by FIFA.

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
El Salvador	6	6	0	0	20	5	+15	18
Dominican Republic	6	2	2	2	12	8	+4	8
Suriname	6	2	1	3	5	11	−6	7
Cayman Islands	6	0	1	5	2	15	−13	1


Cayman Islands	—	1–1	1–4	0–1
Dominican Republic	4–0	—	1–2	1–1
El Salvador	4–0	3–2	—	4–0
Suriname	1–0	1–3	1–3	—

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Guyana	6	4	1	1	9	6	+3	13
Trinidad and Tobago	6	4	0	2	12	4	+8	12
Bermuda	6	3	1	2	8	7	+1	10
Barbados	6	0	0	6	2	14	−12	0


Barbados	—	1–2	0–2	0–2
Bermuda	2–1	—	1–1	2–1
Guyana	2–0	2–1	—	2–1
Trinidad and Tobago	4–0	1–0	3–0^*	—

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Panama	4	4	0	15	2	+13	12
Nicaragua	4	2	2	5	7	−2	6
Dominica	4	0	4	0	11	−11	0


Dominica	—	0–2	0–5
Nicaragua	1–0	—	1–2
Panama	3–0	5–1	—

Bahamas withdrew from the tournament on 19 August 2011 and were not replaced.^[8]^[9]

Group D

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Canada	6	4	2	0	18	1	+17	14
Puerto Rico	6	2	3	1	8	4	+4	9
Saint Kitts and Nevis	6	1	4	1	6	8	−2	7
Saint Lucia	6	0	1	5	4	23	−19	1


Canada	—	0–0	4–0	4–1
Puerto Rico	0–3	—	1–1	3–0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0–0	0–0	—	1–1
Saint Lucia	0–7^*	0–4^*	2–4	—

Group E

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Guatemala	6	6	0	0	19	3	+16	18
Belize	6	2	1	3	9	10	−1	7
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	6	1	2	3	4	12	−8	5
Grenada	6	1	1	4	7	14	−7	4


Belize	—	1–4	1–2	1–1
Grenada	0–3	—	1–4	1–1
Guatemala	3–1	3–0	—	4–0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0–2	2–1	0–3	—

Group F

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Antigua and Barbuda	6	5	0	1	28	5	+23	15
Haiti	6	4	1	1	21	6	+15	13
Curaçao	6	2	1	3	15	15	0	7
U.S. Virgin Islands	6	0	0	6	2	40	−38	0


Antigua and Barbuda	—	5–2	1–0	10–0
Curaçao	0–3^*	—	2–4	6–1
Haiti	2–1	2–2	—	6–0
U.S. Virgin Islands	1–8	0–3	0–7	—

Third round

The third round saw the top 6 seeds joined by the 6 group winners from the second round. These teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, at the World Cup Preliminary Draw at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 30 July 2011. These matches were played from 8 June to 16 October 2012.^[2]

The top two teams from each group advanced to the fourth round.

Seeding

As the draw for the third round was held before the previous matches were held, only the six teams with byes to the round were known at the time of the draw. Teams were seeded into three pots, with Pot 1 containing the top 3 seeds, Pot 2 seeds 4 to 6, and Pot 3 the 6 group winners from the second round. Each third round group contains one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3.^[2]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
United States Mexico Honduras	Jamaica Costa Rica Cuba	El Salvador^† Guyana^† Panama^† Canada^† Guatemala^† Antigua and Barbuda^†

^† Second round winners whose identity was not known at the time of the draw

Groups

Group A

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	6	4	1	1	11	6	+5	13
Jamaica	6	3	1	2	9	6	+3	10
Guatemala	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10
Antigua and Barbuda	6	0	1	5	4	13	−9	1


United States	—	1–0	3–1	3–1
Jamaica	2–1	—	2–1	4–1
Guatemala	1–1	2–1	—	3–1
Antigua and Barbuda	1–2	0–0	0–1	—

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Mexico	6	6	0	0	15	2	+13	18
Costa Rica	6	3	1	2	14	5	+9	10
El Salvador	6	1	2	3	8	11	−3	5
Guyana	6	0	1	5	5	24	−19	1


Mexico	—	1–0	2–0	3–1
Costa Rica	0–2	—	2–2	7–0
El Salvador	1–2	0–1	—	2–2
Guyana	0–5	0–4	2–3	—

Group C

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Honduras	6	3	2	1	12	3	+9	11
Panama	6	3	2	1	6	2	+4	11
Canada	6	3	1	2	6	10	−4	10
Cuba	6	0	1	5	1	10	−9	1


Honduras	—	0–2	8–1	1–0
Panama	0–0	—	2–0	1–0
Canada	0–0	1–0	—	3–0
Cuba	0–3	1–1	0–1	—

Fourth round

In the fourth round, the three group winners and three runners-up from the third round competed in a double round robin, including a home and away match against the other five teams between 6 February and 15 October 2013. The round is informally referred to as the 'Hexagonal' or just 'The Hex'.^[10] The draw for 'The Hex' was conducted by FIFA on 7 November 2012.^[11]

The top three teams qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals, while the fourth-placed team will play a home-away series against New Zealand, the winner of Oceania. Teams are ranked first by total points in all games, then, if tied, by best goal differential in all games, then by total goals in all games. If still tied, the same criteria are applied to games among the tied teams.

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	10	7	1	2	15	8	+7	22
Costa Rica	10	5	3	2	13	7	+6	18
Honduras	10	4	3	3	13	12	+1	15
Mexico	10	2	5	3	7	9	−2	11
Panama	10	1	5	4	10	14	−4	8
Jamaica	10	0	5	5	5	13	−8	5


Costa Rica	—	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–1
Honduras	1–0	—	2–0	2–2	2–2	2–1
Jamaica	1–1	2–2	—	0–1	1–1	1–2
Mexico	0–0	1–2	0–0	—	2–1	0–0
Panama	2–2	2–0	0–0	0–0	—	2–3
United States	1–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	—

Top three teams qualified directly for the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Fourth-placed team advanced to the CONCACAF v OFC play-off

Intercontinental play-off

The winner of the OFC qualification tournament, New Zealand, played against CONCACAF's fourth-placed team, Mexico, in a home-and-away play-off. Mexico, the winner of this play-off, qualified for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The first leg was played on 13 November 2013 in Mexico, and the second leg was played on 20 November 2013.^[12]

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Mexico	9–3	New Zealand	5–1	4–2

Goalscorers

There were 441 goals scored over 144 games, for an average of 3.06 goals per game.

11 goals

Deon McCaulay

10 goals

9 goals

Jerry Bengtson

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

Angelo Zimmerman (playing against Haiti)
Lyndon Joseph (playing against Guatemala)
Nicko Williams (playing against Guatemala)
Charles Pollard (playing against Mexico)
J. P. Rodrigues (playing against Mexico)
Jorge Claros (playing against Jamaica)
Héctor Moreno (playing against Guyana)
Román Torres (playing against Nicaragua)
Woody Gibson (playing against Bahamas)

References

↑ CONCACAF to seek change in World Cup qualifying^{[dead link]}
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External links

[1] CONCACAF to seek change in World Cup qualifying^{[dead link]}

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2014 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)

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Seeding

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Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Third round

Seeding

Groups

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