Trinidad and To­ba­go un­der-17 men’s foot­ball team will look to keep their faint hopes of top­ping Group A of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 World Cup Qual­i­fiers alive when they tack­le cel­lar-placed Sint Maarten in the open­ing match of a dou­ble-head­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Mon­day, from 4 pm.

The Ronald Boyce-coached T&T squad will en­ter the match in third place in the five-team round-robin pool with three points af­ter two match­es, af­ter ek­ing out a 1-0 win over Saint Mar­tin on Thurs­day night at the same venue fol­low­ing a shock 1-0 loss to Bar­ba­dos two days ear­li­er.

With on­ly one goal to their cred­it in two match­es, Boyce’s charges will be keen to find their scor­ing touch against Saint Maarten, which is with­out a win af­ter three straight de­feats and has con­ced­ed heav­i­ly as well, against Sint Mar­tin (3-0), Mex­i­co (10-0) and Bar­ba­dos (7-1).

In the night’s sec­ond en­counter, Mex­i­co, who blanked Saint Mar­tin 4-0 for their sec­ond win on Sat­ur­day night to go top of the stand­ings above Bar­ba­dos on six points and with a su­pe­ri­or goal dif­fer­ence, faces an un­beat­en Bar­ba­dos out­fit, which is lev­el on points with T&T but fourth due to an in­fe­ri­or goal dif­fer­ence.

Group A con­cludes on Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 12, with Saint Mar­tin play­ing Bar­ba­dos from 4 pm, fol­lowed by Mex­i­co against T&T three hours lat­er.

At the end of the round-robin group se­ries, on­ly the group win­ner will ad­vance to the FI­FA Un­der-17 World Cup to be held in Qatar in No­vem­ber.

Over­all, 33 Con­ca­caf Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions are com­pet­ing in the 2026 edi­tion of the com­pe­ti­tion from across six venues, with the eight group win­ners qual­i­fy­ing for the 2026 FI­FA U-17 World Cup.

In ad­di­tion to T&T, the oth­er host na­tions in­clude Hon­duras, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Pana­ma, Cos­ta Ri­ca, and Guatemala.

In the pre­vi­ous edi­tion of the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Qual­i­fiers, played un­der the same for­mat, Cana­da, Cos­ta Ri­ca, El Sal­vador, Haiti, Hon­duras, Mex­i­co, Pana­ma, and the USA topped their re­spec­tive groups to se­cure qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the FI­FA Un­der-17 World Cup Qatar 2025.