T&T will again tan­gle with re­gion­al ri­val Ja­maica, Cu­ra­cao and Bermu­da in the fi­nal play-off round for the World Cup Qual­i­fiers dur­ing the FI­FA Match Win­dow of Sep­tem­ber, Oc­to­ber and No­vem­ber 2025.

At the draw for po­si­tions Thurs­day night, the So­ca War­riors, fol­low­ing their sec­ond-place fin­ish be­hind Cos­ta Ri­ca in Group B with sev­en points, will now play home-and-away match­es against the teams, with the win­ner of the group earn­ing au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion to the World Cup.

Teams (12 qual­i­fy­ing teams from round two of the qual­i­fiers) will play every oth­er in their re­spec­tive group home and away, play­ing a to­tal of six match­es (three at home and three away).

The two oth­er groups are Group A, which fea­tures Pana­ma, El Sal­vador, Guatemala and Suri­name, and Group C which brings to­geth­er Cos­ta Ri­ca, Hon­duras, Haiti and Nicaragua. The win­ners of the groups will earn a World Cup berth, while the two best sec­ond-placed teams will con­test an In­ter Con­fed­er­a­tion play-off.

T&T's first and on­ly World Cup berth came cour­tesy of a play-off with Bahrain in 2005 when Den­nis Lawrence's head­er pro­pelled the War­riors to the 2006 World Cup 2006 in Ger­many.

The Dwight Yorke-coached T&T went three match­es with­out a win against Ja­maica's Reg­gae Boyz, in­clud­ing a 3-2 loss at the Uni­ty Cup Tour­na­ment a week ago in West Lon­don, Eng­land, af­ter they crawled from two goals down. How­ev­er, the T&T se­nior men un­der the coach An­gus Eve lost to Cu­ra­cao 5-3 in the Con­ca­caf Na­tions League in Cu­ra­cao in 2023 and drew with them, 1-1 at home.

For­mer de­fend­er Brent San­cho said the draw was per­fect, not­ing it is the group he's sure both Yorke and as­sis­tant coach Rus­sell Lat­apy would want.

"Based on the teams there, you would want to play against Cu­ra­cao and Ja­maica rather than Hon­duras and Pana­ma. It's the best chance of us qual­i­fy­ing for the World Cup, so I'm urg­ing cor­po­rate cit­i­zens who watched the draw to take out their cheque­books and sup­port the team," San­cho said.

How­ev­er, the for­mer Cen­tral FC boss called on play­ers to take per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to­ward the up­grade of the team, say­ing Yorke can­not teach men to track and mark when they do not have the ball.

"In the St Kitts & Nevis game last week, we al­lowed the op­po­nents to ma­noeu­vre in the de­fence and that's not what you want to do," said the for­mer So­ca War­rior.

Draw

Group A: Pana­ma, El Sal­vador, Guatemala, Suri­name

Group B: Ja­maica, Cu­ra­cao, T&T, Bermu­da

Group C: Cos­ta Ri­ca, Hon­duras, Haiti, Nicaragua