T&T “So­ca War­riors” will open their Group B CON­CA­CAF World Cup Sec­ond Round of qual­i­fiers at home to neigh­bour Grena­da on June 5 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain.

This was con­firmed by Con­ca­caf fol­low­ing the re­lease of fix­tures for the Con­ca­caf World Cup qual­i­fiers tak­ing place in June on Fri­day.

The An­gus Eve-coached T&T squad will then play away to Ba­hamas three days lat­er at the St Kitts & Nevis Foot­ball As­so­cia Tech­ni­cal Cen­ter in Bas­seterre, St Kitts & Nevis for their sec­ond match in the five-team round-robin se­ries to­wards the FI­FA World Cup 2026 joint­ly host­ed by the USA, Cana­da and Mex­i­co.

The So­ca War­riors un­der the su­per­vi­sion of 51-year-old coach An­gus Eve, T&T’s most capped play­er with 117 na­tion­al se­nior team ap­pear­ances, will then com­plete their four-match sched­ule in 2025 with a home en­counter against St Kitts & Nevis on June 6, fol­lowed by an away out­ing to group favourite Cos­ta Ri­ca.

The oth­er Sec­ond Round qual­i­fy­ing groups are Group A: Hon­duras, An­tigua & Bar­bu­da, Cu­ba, Bermu­da, and Cay­man Is­lands; Group C: Haiti, Cu­ra­cao, St Lu­cia, Bar­ba­dos, Aru­ba; Group D: Pana­ma, Nicaragua, Guyana, Montser­rat, Be­lize; Group E: Ja­maica, Guatemala, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Do­mini­ca, British Vir­gin Is­lands; and Group F: El Sal­vador, Suri­name, Puer­to Ri­co, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines, and An­guil­la.

At the end of the Sec­ond Round of CON­CA­CAF qual­i­fiers in June 2025, the group win­ners and run­ners-up (12 teams in to­tal) will progress to the fi­nal round.

For the CON­CA­CAF Fi­nal qual­i­fiers, which take place in Sep­tem­ber, Oc­to­ber, and No­vem­ber 2025 among the 12 mem­ber as­so­ci­a­tions (six match dates), a sep­a­rate draw will be con­duct­ed for the Fi­nal Round fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the Sec­ond Round.

The 12 teams will be di­vid­ed in­to three groups of four teams with each team play­ing every oth­er team in their group at home and away, for a to­tal of six match­es (three at home and three away), at the end of which, the three group win­ners will qual­i­fy di­rect­ly for the FI­FA World Cup 2026, join­ing hosts Cana­da, Mex­i­co, and the USA.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the two best run­ners-up will rep­re­sent CON­CA­CAF in the FI­FA play­off tour­na­ment, which in to­tal could pro­vide the CON­CA­CAF re­gion with up to eight teams at the FI­FA World Cup for the first time.

Fol­low­ing the start of the Con­ca­caf World Cup Qual­i­fiers, the So­ca War­riors will al­so com­pete in the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League LEAGUE A group stages in Sep­tem­ber hav­ing been drawn in Group B with Ja­maica, Hon­duras, Cu­ba, Nicaragua and French Guiana while Group A com­pris­es Cos­ta Ri­ca, Guatemala, Mar­tinique, Guade­loupe, Suri­name, and Guyana

The two groups of six teams each will play in a “Swiss style” league sys­tem, with each team play­ing a to­tal of four games (two at home and two away.

Af­ter the group stage play in Sep­tem­ber and Oc­to­ber 2024, the first and sec­ond-place fin­ish­ers of each group will ad­vance to the quar­ter­fi­nals, where they will join the four top-ranked League A teams (Mex­i­co, USA, Pana­ma, and Cana­da).

The pair­ings for the quar­ter­fi­nals which will be played on a home-and-away ba­sis will be de­ter­mined as fol­lows:

QF1: Fourth-ranked seed­ed team (Cana­da) vs Best first place (1A/1B)

QF2: Third-ranked seed­ed team (Pana­ma) vs Next first place (1A/1B)

QF3: Sec­ond-ranked seed­ed team (Unit­ed States) vs Best sec­ond place (2A/2B)

QF4: Best-ranked seed­ed team (Mex­i­co) vs Next sec­ond place (2A/2B)

Con­ca­caf 2026 FI­FA World Cup Qual­i­fiers June match­es:

*Home team list­ed first and in East­ern time (lo­cal time)

June 5:

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da vs Bermu­da - AB­FA Tech­ni­cal Cen­ter, St. John’s, 3 pm

Suri­name vs St Vin­cent and The Grenadines - Dr. Essed Sta­di­um, Para­mari­bo, 6 pm

T&T vs Grena­da - Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Port of Spain, 7.30 pm

Cu­ra­cao vs Bar­ba­dos - Ergilio Ha­to Sta­di­um, Willem­stad, 7.30 pm

Nicaragua vs Montser­rat - Es­ta­dio Na­cional de Fut­bol, Man­agua, 10 pm

Guatemala vs Do­mini­ca - Es­ta­dio Doro­teo Gua­much Flo­res, Guatemala City, 10 pm

June 6:

Haiti vs St Lu­cia - Wildey Turf, Bridgetown, 5 pm

Ja­maica vs Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic - Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Kingston, 7.30 pm

Hon­duras vs Cu­ba - Es­ta­dio Na­cional Chela­to Ucles, Tegu­ci­gal­pa, 8.30 pm

Pana­ma vs Guyana - Es­ta­dio Rom­mel Fer­nan­dez, Pana­ma City, 8.30 pm

Cos­ta Ri­ca vs St Kitts & Nevis - Es­ta­dio Na­cional, San Jose, 10.30 pm

El Sal­vador vs Puer­to Ri­co - Es­ta­dio Cus­cat­lan, San Sal­vador, 10.30 pm

June 8:

British Vir­gin Is­lands vs Guatemala - A.O Shirley Recre­ation Ground, Road Town, 3 pm

An­guil­la vs Suri­name - Ray­mond E. Guishard Tech­ni­cal Cen­ter, The Val­ley, 3.30 pm

Cay­man Is­lands vs An­tigua and Bar­bu­da - Tru­man Bod­den Sports Com­plex, George Town, 4.30 pm

Ba­hamas vs T&T - St Kitts & Nevis Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Tech­ni­cal Cen­ter, Bas­seterre, 5.30 pm

Aru­ba vs Cu­ra­cao - Com­ple­ho De­porti­vo Guiller­mo Trinidad, Oran­jes­tad, 8 pm

Be­lize vs Nicaragua - FFB Sta­di­um, Bel­mopan, 8 pm

June 9:

Do­mini­ca vs Ja­maica - Wind­sor Park Sports Sta­di­um, Roseau, 3 pm

St Vin­cent and The Grenadines vs El Sal­vador - Dr. Ir. Franklin Essed Sta­di­um, Para­mari­bo, 3 pm

Grena­da vs Cos­ta Ri­ca - Ki­rani James Ath­let­ics Sta­di­um, St. George's, 5 pm

Bar­ba­dos vs Haiti - Wildey As­tro Turf, Bridgetown, 5 pm

Bermu­da vs Hon­duras - Bermu­da Na­tion­al Sports Cen­tre, De­von­shire, 7 pm

Montser­rat vs Pana­ma - Es­ta­dio Na­cional de Fut­bol, Man­agua, 9 pm

June 11:

St Lu­cia vs Aru­ba - Wildey As­tro Turf, Bridgetown, 3 pm

Cu­ba vs Cay­man Is­lands - Es­ta­dio An­to­nio Maceo, San­ti­a­go, 3.30 pm

St Kitts & Nevis vs Ba­hamas - Warn­er Park Foot­ball Sta­di­um, Bas­seterre, 4 pm

Guyana vs Be­lize - Wildey As­tro Turf, Bridgetown, 6 pm

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic vs British Vir­gin Is­lands - Es­ta­dio Panamer­i­cano, San Cristo­bal, 8 pm

Puer­to Ri­co vs An­guil­la - Es­ta­dio Juan Ramón Loubriel, Baya­mon, 8 pm