2021 CONCACAF Futsal Championship

2021 CONCACAF Futsal Championship

Campeonato de Futsal de CONCACAF 2021
Tournament details
Host country	Guatemala
City	Guatemala City
Dates	3–9 May
Teams	13 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Costa Rica (4th title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Guatemala
Fourth place	Panama
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	140 (6.09 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Carlos Pérez (8 goals)
Best player(s)	Milinton Tijerino
Best young player	Tomas Pondeca
Best goalkeeper	Cesar Vargas
Fair play award	Costa Rica

The 2021 CONCACAF Futsal Championship was the 7th edition of the CONCACAF Futsal Championship, the quadrennial international futsal championship organised by CONCACAF for the men's national teams of the North, Central American and Caribbean region. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in Guatemala City, Guatemala between 1–10 May 2020. However, on 19 March 2020, CONCACAF announced the decision to postpone the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 11 February 2021, CONCACAF confirmed Guatemala as host and that the dates are going to be May 3–9, 2021.

Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CONCACAF qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup. The top four teams of the tournament qualified for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup (originally 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic) in Lithuania as the CONCACAF representatives.

Costa Rica, the defending champions, won their third straight and fourth overall title. They, along with runners-up the United States, third-placed Guatemala, and fourth-placed Panama, qualified for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Teams

The 41 CONCACAF teams were ranked based on the CONCACAF Futsal Ranking as of February 2020. A total of 20 teams originally entered the tournament. The highest-ranked 12 entrants would have advanced directly to the group stage of the final tournament, while the lowest-ranked eight entrants would have had to participate in the qualifying stage, where winners of the four matchups (played as two-game series) would have advanced to the group stage of the final tournament.

On 11 February 2021, CONCACAF announced that a total of 16 teams were going to play in the tournament. On 12 April 2021, CONCACAF announced that only 13 teams were going to play in the tournament.

Round	Rank	Team	Points	Appearance	Previous best performance	Previous FIFA Futsal World Cup appearances
Group stage	1	Guatemala (hosts)	2,416	5th	Champions (2008)	2008, 2012, 2016
	2	Panama	2,315	5th	Second place (2016)	2012, 2016
	3	Costa Rica (title holders)	2,120	7th	Champions (2000, 2012, 2016)	1992, 2000, 2012, 2016
	4	Cuba	2,024	7th	Second place (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)	1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016
	5	Mexico	1,143	7th	Third place (1996)	2012
	6	United States	1,046	6th	Champions (1996, 2004)	1989, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008
	7	Trinidad and Tobago	980	3rd	Group Stage (2004, 2008)
	9	Canada	655	3rd	Group Stage (2012, 2016)	1989
	10	Curaçao (withdrew)	574	3rd	Group Stage (1996, 2016)
	11	El Salvador	389	2nd	Group Stage (1996)
	13	Guadeloupe(withdrew)	360	1st	Debut
	14	Haiti	260	2nd	Group Stage (2008)
Qualifying stage	15	Sint Maarten(withdrew)	245	1st	Debut
	16	Suriname	236	3rd	Group Stage (2000, 2004)
	19	Saint Kitts and Nevis (withdrew)	78	2nd	Group Stage (2012)
	20	Nicaragua	63	2nd	Group Stage (2000)
	22	Puerto Rico (withdrew)	36	2nd	Group Stage (2000)
	32	Dominican Republic	0	1st	Debut
	33	French Guiana(withdrew)	0	1st	Debut
	35	Martinique(withdrew)	0	1st	Debut

Championship years are in bold, hosting years are in italics

Did not enter tournament

Rank Team Points 8  Honduras 672 12  Guyana 377 17  Jamaica 101 18  Antigua and Barbuda 100 21  Belize 58 23  Anguilla 0 24  Aruba 0

Rank Team Points 25  Bahamas 0 26  Barbados 0 27  Bermuda 0 28  Bonaire 0 29  British Virgin Islands 0 30  Cayman Islands 0 31  Dominica 0

Rank Team Points 34  Grenada 0 36  Montserrat 0 37  Saint Lucia 0 38  Saint Martin 0 39  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 40  Turks and Caicos Islands 0 41  U.S. Virgin Islands 0

Notes

Venues

The matches were played at the Domo Polideportivo de la CDAG in Guatemala City. Before the postponement of the tournament, matches were originally also to be played at the Teodoro Palacios Flores Gymnasium.

Guatemala City	Guatemala City
	Domo Polideportivo
	Capacity: 7,500

Draw

The draw for the group stage took place on 20 February 2020, 14:00 EST (UTC−5), at the CONCACAF Headquarters in Miami. The 16 teams, which included the 12 which entered the group stage and the four qualifying stage matchups winners, were drawn into four groups of four teams. Based on the CONCACAF Futsal Ranking, the 12 teams which entered the group stage were distributed into three pots, with teams in Pot 1 assigned to each group prior to the draw, as follows:

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Guatemala (Group A/Host)  Panama (Group B)  Costa Rica (Group C)  Cuba (Group D)	Mexico  United States  Trinidad and Tobago  Canada	Curaçao  El Salvador  Guadeloupe  Haiti

The qualifying stage matchups were determined based on the CONCACAF Futsal Ranking, with the highest-ranked team playing the lowest-ranked team, etc. The qualifying stage winners 1, 2, 3 and 4 were then placed in groups A, B, C and D respectively.

Original draw

The original draw results involving the 20 teams were as follows:

Group	Pot 1 team	Pot 2 team	Pot 3 team	Winner from qualifying stage
A	Guatemala	Trinidad and Tobago	Guadeloupe	Sint Maarten	Martinique
B	Panama	Mexico	Curaçao	Suriname	French Guiana
C	Costa Rica	Canada	Haiti	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Dominican Republic
D	Cuba	United States	El Salvador	Nicaragua	Puerto Rico

Following the withdrawals of Sint Maarten, Curaçao, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Puerto Rico, only 16 teams were left, so the qualifying stage was no longer necessary, and the 16 remaining teams were placed in the four groups as before as there were four teams in each group. Following the withdrawals of Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana, only 13 teams were left, and as there were only two teams left in Group A, to ensure that each group had a minimum of three teams, Dominican Republic were moved from Group C to Group A.

Match officials

The list of match officials were announced on 20 April 2021.

Squads

Each team must register a squad of 14 players, two of whom must be goalkeepers.

Group stage

The top two teams in each group advance to the quarter-finals.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in each group is determined as follows (Regulations Article 12.7):

1. Points obtained in all group matches (three points for a win, one for a draw, zero for a loss);
2. Goal difference in all group matches;
3. Number of goals scored in all group matches;
4. Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
5. Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
6. Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
7. Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
   • Yellow card: −1 points;
   • Indirect red card (second yellow card): −3 points;
   • Direct red card: −4 points;
   • Yellow card and direct red card: −5 points;
8. Drawing of lots.

All times are local, CST (UTC−6).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Guatemala	2	2	0	0	8	5	+3	6	Knockout stage
2	Dominican Republic	2	1	0	1	8	6	+2	3
3	Trinidad and Tobago	2	0	0	2	5	10	−5	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Panama	2	2	0	0	16	5	+11	6	Knockout stage
2	Suriname	2	1	0	1	6	15	−9	3
3	Mexico	2	0	0	2	8	10	−2	0

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Costa Rica	2	2	0	0	12	1	+11	6	Knockout stage
2	Canada	2	1	0	1	5	7	−2	3
3	Haiti	2	0	0	2	2	11	−9	0

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Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	2	1	0	9	5	+4	7	Knockout stage
2	El Salvador	3	2	1	0	8	4	+4	7
3	Nicaragua	3	1	0	2	8	10	−2	3
4	Cuba	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6	0

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	7 May – Domo Polideportivo
	Panama (p)	1 (4)
					8 May – Domo Polideportivo
	Canada	1 (3)
					Panama	1
	7 May – Domo Polideportivo
					Costa Rica	3
	Costa Rica	12
									9 May – Domo Polideportivo
	Suriname	1
									Costa Rica	3
	7 May – Domo Polideportivo
									United States	2
	United States	2
					8 May – Domo Polideportivo
	Dominican Republic	0
					United States (p)	2 (5)
	7 May – Domo Polideportivo
					Guatemala	2 (4)			Third place match
	Guatemala (p)	3 (4)
									9 May – Domo Polideportivo
	El Salvador	3 (3)
									Panama	2
									Guatemala (a.e.t.)	3

Quarter-finals

Winners qualify for 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

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Semi-finals

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Third place match

Final

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following four teams from CONCACAF qualified for the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA Futsal World Cup1
United States	7 May 2021	5 (1989, 1992, 1996, 2004, 2008)
Panama	7 May 2021	2 (2012, 2016)
Costa Rica	7 May 2021	4 (1992, 2000, 2012, 2016)
Guatemala	7 May 2021	4 (2000, 2008, 2012, 2016)

¹Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament:

• Best Player Award: Milinton Tijerino
• Young Player Award: Tomas Pondeca
• Top Scorer Award: Carlos Pérez (8 goals)
• Best Goalkeeper Award: Cesar Vargas
• Fair Play Award:  Costa Rica

External links

• Futsal, CONCACAF.com