Jamaica has been drawn in Group B of the CONCACAF U20 Championship Qualifiers alongside Puerto Rico, Bonaire, St Kitts and Nevis, Cayman Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Jamaica will need to top the group in order to advance to the final round of the qualifiers.

The first round of the qualifiers is set to run from February 23 to March 4, and the group winners will join the seeded teams United States, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Cuba and Guatemala in the championship final round set for July 2 to August 9, 2026.

That tournament will serve as the qualifying for both the 2027 FIFA Men’s Under-20 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic Games.

Jamaica are fancied to advance from Group B after round-robin play, the first-place team from each group will advance to the 2026 Concacaf U-20 Championship.

The Qualifiers matches will take place across venues in three nations: Costa Rica, Curaçao and Nicaragua.

The 32 national teams participating in the qualifiers are (in alphabetical order): Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bonaire, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, and US Virgin Islands.

The six national teams pre-seeded in the championship are (in ranking order): United States (1), Mexico (2), Honduras (3), Panama (4), Cuba (5), and the Guatemala (6).