GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana — The path to the 2026 FI­FA U-17 World Cup be­came clear to­day, and it will be a chal­leng­ing one for Guyana’s young tal­ents.

The na­tion was drawn in­to a de­mand­ing Group A for the Con­ca­caf Qual­i­fiers, where they will face re­gion­al hosts Hon­duras, Bermu­da, and Suri­name.

The stakes for the tour­na­ment could not be high­er. With 34 na­tions com­pet­ing across eight groups, on­ly the win­ner of each group will earn a cov­et­ed tick­et to the glob­al spec­ta­cle, leav­ing ab­solute­ly no mar­gin for er­ror.

The Guyanese squad will be based in Hon­duras for the pre­lim­i­nary round, which runs from Feb­ru­ary 3 to 12, 2026.

Their cam­paign will be a rig­or­ous test of en­durance and skill, with three crit­i­cal match­es packed in­to a six-day win­dow.

Guyana’s Group A: Fix­tures: Feb­ru­ary 6: Guyana vs Bermu­da, Feb­ru­ary 8: Guyana vs Hon­duras, Feb­ru­ary 11: Guyana vs Suri­name.

The clash with the host na­tion, Hon­duras, on Feb­ru­ary 8 is poised to be the group’s mar­quee match. In the pre­vi­ous qual­i­fy­ing cy­cle, Hon­duras suc­cess­ful­ly nav­i­gat­ed this stage to reach the World Cup, along­side tra­di­tion­al pow­er­hous­es like the Unit­ed States, Mex­i­co, Cana­da, Cos­ta Ri­ca, and Pana­ma.

The qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment will be host­ed across six Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean na­tions: Hon­duras, Saint Vin­cent and the Grenadines, Pana­ma, Trinidad & To­ba­go, Cos­ta Ri­ca, and Guatemala.

All groups will be played in a sin­gle-round-robin for­mat, mean­ing every match is a must-win en­counter. (CMC)