KINGSTON, Ja­maica – Ja­maica’s Reg­gae Girlz and Cos­ta Ri­ca will clash in the quar­ter­fi­nals of the Con­ca­caf Women’s Cham­pi­onship, with the win­ner book­ing their spot at next year’s FI­FA World Cup.

The all-im­por­tant clash be­tween the fourth-ranked Reg­gae Girlz and the fifth-ranked Cos­ta Ri­ca will take place on No­vem­ber 27 at the Texas Health Mans­field Sta­di­um in Mans­field, Texas.

Top-seed­ed Unit­ed States will face El Sal­vador, the eighth seed; sec­ond-seed­ed Cana­da take on Pana­ma who are ranked sev­enth and third-ranked Mex­i­co play sixth-ranked Haiti.

The four win­ners will ad­vance to the se­mi-fi­nal of the Cham­pi­onship and by ex­ten­sion the World Cup.

How­ev­er, all is not lost if the Reg­gae Girlz lose against Cos­ta Ri­ca, as the four los­ing quar­ter­fi­nal­ists will com­pete in two play-in match­es to de­ter­mine the two Con­ca­caf rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the FI­FA In­ter­con­ti­nen­tal Play­offs set for Feb­ru­ary 2027.

If the Unit­ed States beat El Sal­vador and Ja­maica beat Cos­ta Ri­ca, then Ja­maica will al­so se­cure au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the 2028 Olympic Games, which will be staged in the Unit­ed States.

The Reg­gae Girlz won bronze medals in the last two edi­tions of the Con­ca­caf W Cham­pi­onship, in 2018 and 2022, and will be hunt­ing their third con­sec­u­tive ap­pear­ance at the FI­FA World Cup, hav­ing first his­tor­i­cal­ly qual­i­fied in 2019.

CMC