T&T's women's se­nior na­tion­al team head coach Ken­wyne Jones named four new play­ers to his 22-play­er squad for the up­com­ing Con­ca­caf Women’s World Cup qual­i­fiers to the 2023 FI­FA Women’s World Cup in Aus­tralia and New Zealand.

The T&T women play away to Turks & Caicos on Sat­ur­day, April 9 in Group F be­fore host­ing Guyana at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, Ba­co­let on Tues­day, April 12 while Guyana hosts Nicaragua on April 8.

The Women War­riors have won both their match­es, first a 2-1 vic­to­ry over Nicaragua in a match played in Guyana be­fore blank­ing Do­mini­ca at home 2-0.

De­spite the two wins, the T&T still sit sec­ond on the five-team ta­ble based on goal dif­fer­ence from Guyana who has scored 11 goals with­out con­ced­ing.

With on­ly the top team ad­vanc­ing from the pool, T&T will need to win big in Turks and Caicos to set up a vir­tu­al group de­cider with Guyana in a po­ten­tial win­ner-take-all de­cider in pool play.

The new faces in the squad named by Jones who is Jones is cur­rent­ly con­duct­ing train­ing ses­sions with the home-based play­ers in prepa­ra­tions for the two crit­i­cal match­es in­cludes the de­fen­sive trio of Chel­si Jadoo of Por­tuguese club Val­adares Ga­ia FC, Sha­di Ce­ci­ly Stoute of the The Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia, USA, Al­liyah Trim of lo­cal club FC Gin­ga and mid­field­er Sarah De Gannes of Brew­ton-Park­er Col­lege in the USA.

Among the play­ers left out from the pre­vi­ous for teh first two qual­i­fiers are Abishai Guy (Point Fortin), Meyah Romeo (De­troit City/USA) and Kay­deen Jack (Gam­bling State Uni­ver­si­ty).

A to­tal of six teams in the qual­i­fy­ing com­pe­ti­tion will ad­vance to the fi­nal tour­na­ment, join­ing Cana­da and the Unit­ed States, who re­ceived byes as the top ranked teams.

The 2022 Con­ca­caf Women's Cham­pi­onship al­so serves as a qual­i­fi­er to the women's foot­ball tour­na­ment at the 2024 Sum­mer Olympics in France.

The two third-place teams will ad­vance to a FI­FA In­ter­con­ti­nen­tal Play­off.

The semi­fi­nals, fi­nal and third-place match of the Con­ca­caf W Cham­pi­onship will be played in a sin­gle elim­i­na­tion for­mat, with the win­ner of the tour­na­ment qual­i­fy­ing for both the 2024 Paris Olympics and the in­au­gur­al Con­ca­caf W Gold Cup, to be held in 2024.

The Con­ca­caf Women's Cham­pi­onship run­ner-up and third-place team will al­so square off in a Con­ca­caf Olympic play-in se­ries, sched­uled for Sep­tem­ber 2023. The win­ner of the play-in will al­so qual­i­fy for 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 Con­ca­caf W Gold Cup.

Ac­cord­ing to the T&TFA me­dia re­lease fur­ther de­tails on tick­et­ing for the April 12 clash with Guyana in To­ba­go will be re­leased in due course.

T&T women's team for up­com­ing qual­i­fiers

Goal­keep­ers

Kimi­ka Forbes (un­at­tached), Tene­sha Palmer (Po­lice FC/T&T), Klil Kesh­war (St Fran­cis Col­lege/U.S.A).

De­fend­ers

Chel­si Jadoo (Val­adares Ga­ia FC/Por­tu­gal), Rhea Bel­grave (Po­lice FC/T&T), Shau­nalee Govia (un­at­tached), Sha­di Ce­ci­ly Stoute (Uni­ver­si­ty of Geor­gia/USA), Vic­to­ria Swift (Club Leon/Mex­i­co), Lau­ryn Hutchin­son (un­at­tached), Al­liyah Trim (FC Gin­ga/TnT).

Mid­field­ers

Shani Nakhid-Schus­ter (un­at­tached), Liana Hinds (Hi­bern­ian/Scot­land), Amaya El­lis (Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­si­ty/USA), Asha James (West Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty/USA), Chel­cy Ralph (Ball State Uni­ver­si­ty/USA), Karyn Forbes (Po­lice FC/T&T), Kedie John­son (Flori­da In­ter­na­tion­al Uni­ver­si­ty/USA), Sarah De Gannes (Brew­ton-Park­er Col­lege/USA).

For­wards

Rae­nah Camp­bell (Avantes Chadlki­da FC/Greece), Den­necia Prince (Point Fortin/T&T), Cay­la Mc Far­lane (Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty/USA), Maya Ma­touk (Po­lice FC/T&T), Maria-Frances Ser­rant (Cor­ban Uni­ver­si­ty/USA).