T&T Women War­riors will fan­cy their chances of qual­i­fy­ing for a first-ever FI­FA Women's World Cup af­ter be­ing drawn in a favourable Pool B of the eight-team 2022 Con­ca­caf Women’s Cham­pi­onship card­ed for Mex­i­co from Ju­ly 4 to 18 in Mon­ter­rey.

The Ken­wyne Jones-coached T&T, ranked eighth in Con­ca­caf and 73rd in the world was drawn in Pool B along­side the re­gion's sec­ond-ranked Cana­da (#16 in the world), fourth-ranked Cos­ta Ri­ca (#36) and sixth-ranked Pana­ma (#58th) while the world and Con­ca­caf top-ranked USA, Mex­i­co (#3/#27), Ja­maica (#5/#51) and Haiti (#7/#61) will con­test Pool A fol­low­ing Tues­day night's of­fi­cial draw which was held in Mi­a­mi, Flori­da, USA.

In eight match­es against Cana­da, T&T Women War­riors are yet to win or draw a match con­ced­ing 39 goals and scor­ing once against the North Amer­i­cans, with the clos­est mar­gin twice be­ing 1-0 de­feats.

Against Pana­ma, T&T has man­aged two drawn re­sults which came in two friend­ly in­ter­na­tion­als host­ed in T&T back in 2021, 0-0 and 1-1 draws while they suf­fered 2-4 and 0-3 beat­ings in their oth­er two clash­es.

And against Cos­ta Ri­ca, T&T has drawn three of six match­es, 1-1, 2-2 and 2-2 with three loss­es as well 0-2 mar­gins twice and 1-3, in the oth­er en­counter.

Based on the FI­FA Women’s Rank­ing of June 2021, the eight par­tic­i­pat­ing na­tions were split in­to four pots of two teams each for the draw with Pot One com­pris­ing USA (#1) and Cana­da (#6); Pot Two fea­tur­ing Mex­i­co (#27) and Cos­ta Ri­ca (#36); Pot Three con­sist­ing of Ja­maica (#51) and Pana­ma ((#58), and the duo of Haiti (#61) and T&T (#73) in Pot Four.

The USA and Cana­da (two high­est-ranked na­tions) qual­i­fied au­to­mat­i­cal­ly for the draw af­ter the top-ranked USA won the 2019 World Cup and Cana­da won the gold medal at last year's Tokyo Olympics while the Karyn Forbes-cap­tained T&T (Group F), Mex­i­co (Group A), Cos­ta Ri­ca (Group B), Ja­maica (Group C), Pana­ma (Group D), and Haiti (Group E) qual­i­fied from their re­spec­tive Con­ca­caf W Qual­i­fiers round-round groups which on April 12.

The W Cham­pi­onship is a qual­i­fi­ca­tion tour­na­ment for the FI­FA Women’s World Cup 2023 to be played in Aus­tralia and New Zealand, and, as part of a new­ly cre­at­ed for­mat, the Sum­mer Olympic Games.

At the Con­ca­caf W Cham­pi­onship, the top two teams in each group will earn spots in the World Cup, to be played in Aus­tralia and New Zealand from Ju­ly 20 to Au­gust 20 next year.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the win­ner of the event will get an au­to­mat­ic berth for the 2024 Olympic Games in France.

The two third-place fin­ish­ers in each group ad­vance to a ten-na­tion in­ter­con­ti­nen­tal play­off that will de­ter­mine three World Cup berths.

The T&T Women War­riors sealed their pas­sage to the CWC af­ter twice com­ing from be­hind to draw with Ja­maica 2-2 in a vir­tu­al group de­cider be­fore a packed crowd at the Dwight Yorke Sta­di­um, in Ba­co­let, To­ba­go on April 12 thanks to a last gasp equalis­er from vet­er­an mid­field­er Lau­ryn Hutchin­son, who came on as a sec­ond-half sub­sti­tute.

Guyana had twice tak­en the lead against the run of play in the 45th minute and 82nd minute through de­fend­er Syd­ney Cum­mings.

How­ev­er, lift­ed by their vo­cif­er­ous home sup­port­ers the Karyn Forbes-led Women War­riors fought back, first via an Asha James penal­ty in the 48th, and then Hutchin­son’s 90th-minute ef­fort.

With the drawn re­sult, T&T topped the five-team pool with ten points, two ahead of Guyana while Nicaragua fin­ished third with sev­en, Do­mini­ca fifth with three and Turks & Caicos, bot­tom of the ta­ble with­out a point.

The 2022 CWC will be played in Mon­ter­rey, Mex­i­co with the tour­na­ment’s 16 match­es split across two sta­di­ums, Es­ta­dio Uni­ver­si­tario and Es­ta­dio BB­VA, from Ju­ly 4-18, 2022.

The 2022 CWC will kick off with a Group Stage. Af­ter round-robin play, the top two teams in each group will move on to the semi­fi­nals and in do­ing so, qual­i­fy di­rect­ly to the 2023 FWWC (four teams).

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

The run­ner-up and third-place teams 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 the 2024 Paris Olympics and the 2024 Con­ca­caf W Gold Cup.

The com­plete match sched­ule will be an­nounced by Con­ca­caf in the com­ing days.

As part of Tues­day's draw, Con­ca­caf un­veiled the com­pe­ti­tion's of­fi­cial song, "Li­ons" by Skip Mar­ley fea­tur­ing Cedel­la Mar­ley and the new tro­phy that will be award­ed to the 2022 CWC win­ners.

The core mes­sage of Skip Mar­ley's song "Li­ons" is one of a gen­er­a­tion us­ing its strengths to be­come a col­lec­tive voice of in­spi­ra­tion, change, and em­pow­er­ment in to­day's world.