CONCACAF has confirmed today, with the participating six National Associations, the fixtures for the
CONCACAF Final Round of World Cup Qualification Match Dates 4 through 8.
The fixtures (below) will run from 4 June – 7 September 2005, while Match Dates 2 and 3 will take place during the final week of this month.
Match Day 2 will have Costa Rica (0-1-0, 0 Points) greeting Panama (0-0-1, 1 Point) at San José’s Estadio Ricardo Saprissa on 26 March, and then Trinidad & Tobago (0-1-0, 0 Points) visits Guatemala (0-0-1, 1 Point) at the Estadio Mateo Flores in Ciudad de Guatemala. The Match Day 2 encounters conclude on 27 March when Mexico (1-0-0, 3 Points) host the USA (1-0-0, 3 Points) at the Estadio Azteca in Ciudad de México.
Match Day 3 on 30 March has Costa Rica visiting Trinidad & Tobago at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Port of Spain, while the USA greets Guatemala at Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, and then Panama host Mexico at the Estadio Rommel Fernández.
Details on the final fixtures, Match Dates 9 & 10 that are scheduled for 8 & 12 October 2005, respectively, in which all games have to be played simultaneously, will be announced later this year.
The top three finishers from the CONCACAF Final Round will advance directly to the 2006 FIFA World Cup™ in Germany, while the fourth-place finisher will compete in a home-and-away playoff against fifth-place finisher of the Asian Football Confederation, for one of the last berths into the FIFA event. These games will take place in November 2005.
2006 CONCACAF WORLD CUP QUALIFYING – FINAL ROUNDMatch Day 226.03.2005: San José, COSTA RICA; Estadio Ricardo Saprissa (18:00)
COSTA RICA – PANAMA26.03.2005: Ciudad de Guatemala, GUATEMALA; Estadio Mateo Flores (20:00)
GUATEMALA – TRINIDAD & TOBAGO27.03.2005: Ciudad de México, MEXICO; Estadio Azteca (12:00)
MEXICO – USAMatch Day 330.03.2005: Port of Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO; Hasely Crawford Stadium (16:30)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO – COSTA RICA30.03.2005: Birmingham, Alabama USA; Legion Field (19:00)
USA – GUATEMALA30.03.2005: Ciudad de Panamá, PANAMA; Estadio Rommel Fernández (20:30)
PANAMA – MEXICOMatch Day 404.06.2005: Port of Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO; Hasely Crawford Stadium (16:30)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO – PANAMA04.06.2005: Ciudad de Guatemala, GUATEMALA; Estadio Mateo Flores (19:00)
GUATEMALA – MEXICO04.06.2005: Salt Lake City, Utah USA; Rice-Eccles Stadium (17:30)
USA – COSTA RICAMatch Day 508.06.2005: Ciudad de Panama, PANAMA; Estadio Rommel Fernández (20:30)
PANAMA – USA08.06.2005: San José, COSTA RICA; Estadio Ricardo Saprissa (20:00)
COSTA RICA – GUATEMALA08.06.2005: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon MEXICO; Estadio Universitario (19:00)
MEXICO – TRINIDAD & TOBAGOMatch Day 617.08.2005: Ciudad de Guatemala, GUATEMALA; Estadio Mateo Flores (20:00)
GUATEMALA – PANAMA17.08.2005: Ciudad de México, MEXICO; Estadio Azteca (21:00)
MEXICO – COSTA RICA17.08.2005: Hartford, Connecticut USA; Rentschler Field (20:00)
USA – TRINIDAD & TOBAGOMatch Day 703.09.2005: Ciudad de Panamá, PANAMA; Estadio Rommel Fernández (20:00)
PANAMA – COSTA RICA03.09.2005: Port of Spain, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO; Hasely Crawford Stadium (16:30)
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO – GUATEMALA03.09.2005: Columbus, Ohio USA; Crew Stadium (19:30)
USA – MEXICOMatch Day 807.09.2005: Ciudad de México, MEXICO; Estadio Azteca (21:00)
MEXICO – PANAMA07.09.2005: Ciudad de Guatemala, GUATEMALA; Estadio Mateo Flores (20:00)
GUATEMALA – USA07.09.2005: San José, COSTA RICA; Estadio Ricardo Saprissa (20:00)
COSTA RICA – TRINIDAD & TOBAGOFor more information on the 2006 FIFA World Cup Qualifying:
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