The T&T se­nior men’s na­tion­al team will con­tin­ue its in­ter­na­tion­al cal­en­dar with a se­ries of in­ter­na­tion­al match­es this March, be­gin­ning with an away friend­ly against Bo­livia.

T&T will face Bo­livia on March 15, at the Ra­mon Tahuichi Aguil­era Sta­di­um in San­ta Cruz. Kick-off is sched­uled for 6.30 pm

Na­tion­al coach Dwight Yorke was ex­pect­ed to be in Trinidad over the Car­ni­val week­end to meet for­mer Eng­land de­fend­er Sol Camp­bell be­fore his re­turn.

Yorke, an ex-strik­er for Man­ches­ter Unit­ed and As­ton Vil­la in the Eng­lish Pre­mier League (EPL), where he earned the name ‘The Smil­ing As­sas­sin’ due to his goalscor­ing prowess, failed to lead the T&T team to a World Cup qual­i­fy­ing berth. T&T con­test­ed a group with Cu­ra­cao, Bermu­da, and Ja­maica and fin­ished third.

It is un­clear when he will re­sume train­ing ahead of the Bo­livia clash, as both TTFA of­fi­cials and mem­bers of his coach­ing staff.

Bo­livia will be us­ing the en­counter as part of their prepa­ra­tions for the up­com­ing In­ter-Con­fed­er­a­tion 2026 World Cup qual­i­fy­ing play­offs. Fol­low­ing the re­cent draw, Bo­livia are set to face Suri­name in Path B, and if suc­cess­ful, will meet Iraq for a place at next year’s FI­FA World Cup. The play­off match­es will take place dur­ing the March 2026 in­ter­na­tion­al win­dow in Mex­i­co.

T&T will then com­pete in the FI­FA Se­ries, where they are sched­uled to face Venezuela on 27 March 2026 and Gabon on 30 March 2026 in Uzbek­istan, pro­vid­ing valu­able in­ter­na­tion­al ex­po­sure and com­pet­i­tive prepa­ra­tion for the na­tion­al team pro­gramme.

Forty-eight na­tion­al teams from all six FI­FA con­fed­er­a­tions are set to com­pete in the FI­FA Se­ries, rep­re­sent­ing al­most a quar­ter of the glob­al foot­ball com­mu­ni­ty. Eleven FI­FA Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions are set to host 12 groups, en­gag­ing both men’s and women’s na­tion­al teams.

All match­es are to be broad­cast glob­al­ly, im­prov­ing ac­cess for fans and boost­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty for na­tion­al teams. FI­FA has con­firmed the full line-up of hosts and the com­po­si­tion of the groups for the FI­FA Se­ries 2026, mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in the con­tin­ued ex­pan­sion of the ini­tia­tive for men’s and women’s na­tion­al teams.

The con­firmed hosts for the men’s groups are Aus­tralia, Azer­bai­jan, In­done­sia, Kaza­khstan, New Zealand, Puer­to Ri­co, Rwan­da and Uzbek­istan. The women’s con­tests will take place in Brazil, Côte d’Ivoire and Thai­land.

All FI­FA Se­ries 2026 en­coun­ters will be broad­cast and made avail­able to a glob­al au­di­ence, en­sur­ing world­wide vis­i­bil­i­ty for par­tic­i­pat­ing na­tion­al teams and in­creas­ing ac­cess for fans across all re­gions.

The FI­FA Se­ries 2026 brings to­geth­er na­tion­al teams with a wide range of com­pet­i­tive pro­files, re­in­forc­ing its de­vel­op­ment-dri­ven de­sign. On the men’s side, par­tic­i­pat­ing teams span the full breadth of the FI­FA/Co­ca-Co­la World Rank­ing, from es­tab­lished teams such as Aus­tralia (men’s side, ranked 26th) to emerg­ing foot­ball na­tions like the US Vir­gin Is­lands (ranked 207th). For the women’s, the se­ries will in­volve teams ranked as high as Brazil (ranked 7th) all the way to Turks and Caicos (ranked 194th). This di­ver­si­ty re­flects FI­FA’s com­mit­ment to cre­at­ing mean­ing­ful in­ter­na­tion­al bouts for rep­re­sen­ta­tive teams of Mem­ber As­so­ci­a­tions at all stages of de­vel­op­ment.

Five men’s na­tion­al teams par­tic­i­pat­ing in the FI­FA Se­ries 2026 – Aus­tralia, Cabo Verde, Cu­raçao, New Zealand and Uzbek­istan – have al­so qual­i­fied for the FI­FA World Cup 2026™, fur­ther high­light­ing the com­pet­i­tive rel­e­vance of the ini­tia­tive along­side its de­vel­op­ment ob­jec­tives.

The FI­FA Se­ries al­so con­tin­ues to sup­port holis­tic foot­ball de­vel­op­ment off the pitch. Host­ing and par­tic­i­pat­ing mem­ber as­so­ci­a­tions ben­e­fit from hands-on ex­pe­ri­ence in event de­liv­ery, op­er­a­tional plan­ning, ref­er­ee de­vel­op­ment and com­pe­ti­tion or­gan­i­sa­tion, mir­ror­ing the con­di­tions of ma­jor in­ter­na­tion­al tour­na­ments and strength­en­ing ca­pac­i­ty across mul­ti­ple func­tion­al ar­eas.

The FI­FA Se­ries 2026 re­mains ful­ly aligned with FI­FA’s Strate­gic Ob­jec­tives for the Glob­al Game: 2023-2027, pro­vid­ing na­tion­al teams with op­por­tu­ni­ties for cross-con­fed­er­a­tion com­pe­ti­tion with­out adding fix­tures to the in­ter­na­tion­al match cal­en­dar, while pro­mot­ing tech­ni­cal growth, or­gan­i­sa­tion­al de­vel­op­ment and glob­al ex­change.