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The Lady Jaguars Will Play In The Concacaf Inaugural 2023 Road to the W Gold Cup

Guyana’s Senior Women’s

National Team is on the list to play in the qualifiers for the Concacaf inaugural W Gold Cup which kicks off in the United States in March 2024.

The qualifiers are set to take place betweenSeptemberandNovemberthis year. Guyana is in Pot 1 of League B which features 12 teams ranked from 11th-21st in the region - Guyana, El Salvador, and Dominican Republic. Bermuda, Nicaragua, and Antigua and Barbuda are in Pot 2; Honduras, Suriname, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines make up Pot 3 and Martinique, Barbados, and Dominica are inPot4.

Concacafexplainedthatfollowinghomeand away group stage matches within each league, the respective winner of each League A section (three teams) will qualify for the 2024 W Gold Cup Group Stage. The second-place finishers in each of the League A groups (three teams) and the winner of each League B pool (three teams) will progress to the preliminary stage of the 2024WGoldCup(sixteamsintotal).

The tournament which features thirty-five women's national teams in the Concacaf region was made public on International Women's Day. The inaugural W Gold Cup will take place from February 17th – March 10th,2024intheUnitedStates.

Guyana Football Federation is proud of the Under-20 Women’s National Team's overall performance at the April Concacaf Under-20 Women’s Championship Qualifiers in the Dominican Republic in April. Guyana and host nation Dominican Republic both concluded the tournament on seven points. The Guyanese squad recorded two wins and one draw, but in the end the Dominican Republic girls advanced to the Concacaf Under-20 Women’s Championship on goal difference. ThejuniorLadyJagsscored16goals,while DominicanRepublicscored18.

GFF President Wayne Forde said the federationisproudoftheteam’soverall performance and that the focus now is to continuetobuildontheestablished foundationforwomen’sfootballinGuyana. "I am deeply proud of the outstanding performances our girls were able to deliver in each game that they played. The final gameagainsttheDominicanRepublicwasa true test of will and spirit and our girls fought and defended as though their lives dependedonapositiveoutcome,whichthey achievedwithadraw.

I know that I speak for the players and coaching staff when I say we are all a bit heartbroken over this result, but I am equally confident we all share in the collective pride we feel as a GFF family and as a nation,” Fordesaid.

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