The venues for the 2016 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament being hosted in the USA were announced on August 12, and both are in the Lone Star State!
CONCACAF announced that BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston and Toyota Stadium in Frisco, TX will be the venues hosting the eight team tournament February 10-21 that determines which two teams from CONCACAF will be playing in the Rio Olympics in a few months.
Toyota Stadium will host the Group A matches from February 10-15, and BBVA Compass Stadium will host the Group B matches from February 11-16, the semifinal match on February 19 and final match on February 21.
The USA as the host nation has already qualified, and the world champs will be in Group A. Canada and Mexico have also qualified, but their groups and which end of I-45 they will be playing on will be determined when the tournament draw happensThe other five nations competing will be determined by the results in the Central American and Caribbean Zone tournaments Two will come from the Central American Zone tournament that runs September 30-October 4 and three from the Caribbean Zone.
The Caribbean Zone tournament started August 21 and will be completed October 4. Puerto Rico, Guyana and Jamaica are three of the four finalists in the knockout round as of this writing with the fourth finalist to be determined from a group that is composed of Antigua and Barbuda, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and host Saint Lucia.
Only two CONCACAF teams will be left at BBVA Compass Stadium when it is over and it will be interesting to see which two teams will be punching their tickets to go to Brazil.
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