- Official draw is scheduled for April 19 at 7:00 pm ET
- Former players Christina Murillo and Alicia Wilson-Lopez will serve as draw assistants
Miami, FL – Concacaf has confirmed the procedures and pots for the 2022 Concacaf W Championship (CWC) draw. The live TV event, which will divide the eight participating teams into two groups, will take place on April 19 at 7:00 pm ET.
Fans will be able to follow and enjoy the event through the Confederation’s TV partner networks, including CBS | Paramount + (USA), One Soccer (CAN), ESPN | Star+ (Mexico, Caribbean, and Central America), and multiple partners around the world. For other territories, the event will be available on the Official Concacaf App (Apple and Google Play stores), and Concacaf’s Facebook and YouTube pages (all subject to territory restrictions).
The 2022 CWC will be played in Monterrey, Mexico, between July 4-18, 2022, and will determine the region’s representatives at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 and the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.
Six teams punched their tickets to the 2022 CWC thanks to first-place finishes in their respective groups during 2022 CWC Qualifying: Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama, Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago. Those six teams join 2020 Tokyo Olympics Gold Medal winners Canada and reigning FIFA Women’s World Cup Champions United States in the 2022 CWC.
Tuesday’s draw in Miami will be co-hosted by sports anchors Pilar Perez (ESPN) and Nicolas Cantor (CBS) and will include the participation of current and former players and coaches, including Jamaica’s Alicia Wilson-Lopez and Mexico’s Christina Murillo.
Wilson-Lopez represented the Jamaican Women’s National Team from 1999-2014, playing as defender and captaining the side during her career. Overall, she played in 60 games with the Reggae Girlz, scoring six goals. Her last appearance in Women’s World Cup Qualifying was the 2014 Concacaf Women’s Championship in qualifying for Canada 2015 when she played every minute of Jamaica’s three matches.
At the club level, Wilson-Lopez starred in Icelandic football from 2006-10 and also won the 2005 W-League as a member of the New Jersey Wildcats.
Murillo played in the last two editions of the Concacaf Women’s Championship in 2014 and 2018, appearing in seven matches total with the Mexican Women’s National Team. Overall, Murillo played in 26 matches with Mexico, including two in the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.
The former defender also starred at the Youth National Team level with El Tricolor, playing in the 2010 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship (5 games, 1 goal) and the 2012 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship (5 games) before going on to represent her country at the 2010 FIFA Women’s Under-17 World Cup (3 games, 1 goal) and the 2012 FIFA Women’s Under-20 World Cup (4 games).
The distribution of the pots for the draw has been done based on the FIFA Women's Ranking of June 2021, with the highest ranked teams in Pot 1 (seeded teams) and the lowest ranked teams in Pot 4. The pots are as follows:
Pot 1: USA and Canada
Pot 2: Mexico and Costa Rica
Pot 3: Jamaica and Panama
Pot 4: Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago
The draw will start by placing the Pot 1 teams in their pre-assigned groups and positions. The United States (highest ranked team) will be placed in Group A, position A1, followed by Canada (second highest ranked team) in Group B, position B1.
The draw will continue by randomly selecting a sphere from Pot 2 and placing that team in Group A, position A2. The second sphere from Pot 2 will then be drawn and positioned in Group B, position B2. The same process will be used for Pots 3 and 4, always placing the first nation drawn in Group A and the second one in Group B.
At the conclusion of the draw, each group will feature one nation from each Pot.
