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The 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship qualifying stage took place between 13–21 July 2019. The teams competed for four of the 20 berths in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship final tournament.
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete.
Teams
The qualifying format changed from the 2018 edition, and the teams were no longer divided into regional zones.
The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Women’s Under-20 Ranking as of 2018. A total of 26 teams entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 16 entrants were exempt from qualifying and advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked 10 entrants participated in the qualifying stage, where the two group winners and the two group runners-up advanced to the round of 16 of the knockout stage of the final tournament.
^ Non-FIFA members and thus ineligible to play in World Cup.
Draw
The draw for the qualifying stage took place on 19 April 2019, 11:00 EDT (UTC−4), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 10 teams which entered the qualifying stage were drawn into two groups of five teams. Based on the CONCACAF Women's Under-20 Ranking, the 10 teams were distributed into five pots, as follows:
The third-placed teams of the two qualifying groups qualified for the final tournament as replacements of Costa Rica and Panama, which had automatically qualified for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, and thus would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.
The third-placed teams of the two qualifying groups qualified for the final tournament as replacements of Costa Rica and Panama, which had automatically qualified for the 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup as hosts, and thus would no longer participate in the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship.