Angus Eve, the former senior national men’s coach, has been chosen as the country’s senior women’s coach ahead of the World Cup Qualifiers. His appointment is only for the Women's World Cup campaign.
He will have as his assistant Densill Theobald, who has had much success with the Defence Force in Tier I of the T&T Premier Football League by steering the army/coast guard/civilian combination team to the title, before being replaced.
Eve has enjoyed many high points during his coaching career for the T&T senior team, which saw 23 internationals, 11 wins, five draws, and seven losses, under which his charges scored 45 goals and conceded 36, before he was sacked in July last year. And for the earlier rounds of the Concacaf World Cup qualifying campaign, which kicked off in March 2024, Eve’s men drew 2-2 with Grenada before drubbing the Bahamas 7-1.
Eve appeared an unlikely choice for the women’s coaching job, having coached mainly at the senior men’s and junior levels, and when asked, Kieron Edwards, the president of the T&T Football Association, said, “Eve is the winning head coach of our first-ever six-month-long Women’s Football League (WoLF). He is the champion coach of women’s football in T&T.”
Under Eve, Club Sando clinched the Women’s Football League (WoLF) title with a 2-0 victory over Defence Force in the final at the Ato Boldon Stadium, courtesy of goals from Ahkeela Mollon and Anika Paul. The goals from Mollon and Paul were among a total of 117 scored in 15 games, which comprised 13 wins and two losses.
Eve later steered her team to a third-place finish in the 3Ws Women’s Warriors Wellness Cup, which the Defence Force women achieved with a 3-0 triumph over the Grenadian national team at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo, Port-of-Spain. He takes over his job with immediate effect and is expected to begin training soon.
Next year’s World Championships will serve as the Confederation’s qualifier for both the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027 and the 2028 LA Summer Olympics and will be the first of three major centralised tournaments in the Confederation’s revamped women’s national team calendar, unveiled last month. The draw will be held in Miami, Florida.
The Qualifiers will feature 29 Member Associations, excluding the region’s two highest-ranked nations, and will be played during the FIFA Women’s International Match Windows in November 2025, February 2026, and April 2026.
T&T has been drawn in Group F alongside El Salvador, Honduras, and Barbados. And at the end of the group stage, the six group winners will join the United States and Canada, who are the two highest-ranked teams, in the eight-team Concacaf Women’s Championships. Apart from Group F, which is the only group with four teams, the other groups comprise five teams. Group A features Mexico, Puerto Rico, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, United States Virgin Islands; Group B- Jamaica, Guyana, Nicaragua, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda; Group C- Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bermuda, Grenada, Cayman Islands; Group D- Haiti, Dominican Republic, Suriname, Belize, Anguilla; and Group E- Panama, Cuba, St Kitts & Nevis, Curacao and Aruba.
Eve, contacted, refused to offer a comment.
The competition will begin with the Quarterfinals, followed by the Semifinals, Third Place Match, and the Finals. To determine the quarterfinal pairings and each team’s path to the finals, Concacaf will rank teams 1-8 based on the FIFA Women’s Rankings, with the highest-ranked team facing the lowest-ranked team.
At the conclusion of the quarterfinals, the four matchup winners will qualify for the semifinals and guarantee their place in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027, while the four losers will progress to a Play-In, from where the two winning teams will each battle for a spot in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Intercontinental Play-Off.
