The football tournament at the 2017 Central American Games is scheduled to take place in December 2017.
The tournament will act as a qualifying tournament for the Central American nations for the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games. Three teams will qualify from the men's tournament, two teams will qualify from the women's tournament.[1]
The men's tournament will be restricted to those born after 1 January 1997 and the women's tournament will have no age restrictions.[2][3]
Teams
In October 2017, CONCACAF wrote to ORDECA to confirm that teams from Guatemala would not be eligible for the competitions due to suspension of the National Football Federation of Guatemala from FIFA.[4]Honduras and Belize did not enter a team into the women's competition.
The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order:[5]
First match(es) will be played: 6 December 2017. Source: [citation needed] Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Number of goals scored;
^"SISTEMAS DE CLASIFICACIÓN" (PDF). Baq2018.com. 6 October 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 November 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
^"UNCAF, FENIFUT y COL de los Juegos Centroamericanos Managua 2017 tuvieron primer acercamiento - Uncaf". uncafut.com (in European Spanish). 23 February 2016. Archived from the original on 14 February 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2017.